What’s Changed?
This is not a definitive list (for that you can always do diffs on the GitHub repo), but it’s automatically generated by looking at the git log for this project to see when there are new IDs added. This is not necessarily definitive, and for clarity, it does not include records that have been edited or deleted. For each week, I also provide the total of lines added and removed just in the source data and pages, so you can get a rough idea of how much data was changed in that week. Finally, since this project is built on information from news sources and court documents, “new” events for a given week may include events that occurred weeks or even months earlier. That is not a bug.
Week of 2025-06-29
+4364 -557
- Added code and a page for important changes
- Reworked some of the content for DOGE’s “God View” and Viral Waste projects
- Updated position information for Amanda Scales and Anthony Armstrong
- Fixed linking bug for boosters and leaders
- Switched agency blurbs to be in source data files instead of pages
- [View All Changes]
Positions Added
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c.6/23
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Edward Coristine | appointed (SGE) Wired |
6/XX
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Aram Moghaddassi | promoted to Chief Information Officer (supervisory) FedScoop |
Events Added
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2/13
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7/02
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Disruption:
An analysis by a news organization finds that wait times on calls to Social Security routinely exceed 3 hours, with the system also hanging up on people after 2 hours many times and promising a callback that never arrives. The Social Security website reports the average wait time as 18 minutes.
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7/01
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4/11
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Disruption:
Luke Farritor uses his admin access to lock out all government officials at multiple agencies from using grants.gov to issue new grants. Instead, all grants must not be sent to a new email address which will be reviewed by DOGE before grants can be posted.
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6/26
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Official:
In an email to agency partners, the operators of grants.gov declare that the revised mechanism added in April that routed all Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) through a DOGE email address has been reversed. Instead, agencies are to return to using the tool like that did previously. This doesn’t necessarily mean that DOGE or political appointees will not be reviewing grants, but they have no longer locked other users out of the system.
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6/30
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7/01
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Disruption:
Under the direction of Marco Rubio, USAID officially ceases all operations for foreign aid. A study in the medical journal Lancet suggests that the end of USAID will lead to 14 million deaths worldwide by 2030, with 4.5 million of those being children under that age of 5.
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6/27
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6/27
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Disruption:
The head of acquisition for the Department of Defense orders that all new contract and task orders for IT consulting, management services, and advisory and assistance support must be approved by the DOGE team embedded within the DOD before they will be granted.
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5/12
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Access:
The Department of Homeland Security issues a subpoena to the state of California and Los Angeles County to demand records from a cash assistance program for immigrants (CAPI)
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6/25
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Disruption:
Jerome Powell, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, expresses public concerns that DOGE-directed staffing cuts at the Bureau of Labor Statistics have started to affect the quality of economic data used for forecasting and decisions. In a recent survey on prices, the rate of imputed (or guessed) prices jumped from 10% to 30% due to staffing shortfalls.
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6/28
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Disruption:
According to a page update on the Federal CIO site, Aram Moghaddassi is named the new CIO of the Social Security Administration, making him the third DOGE-affiliated CIO in a row at the agency. This follows on reports that he had been acting in a co-CIO role with former CIO Mike Russo. He replaces Scott Coulter who was the CIO as recently as late May.
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6/25
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Oversight:
Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency.
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6/23
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Offboard:
Less than a month after he was officially hired at GSA, Edward Coristine reportedly resigns his position and is removed from the building directory.
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6/23
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Sighting:
Edward Coristine is reportedly sighted at the Woodlawn, MD location of the Social Security Administration alongside Aram Moghaddassi. It is later confirmed that he is now working as a Special Government Employee (SGE) for the agency after he had resigned his position at GSA.
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6/25
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Disruption:
In a surprise move, the Republican governor of Virginia, the head of public buildings service at GSA and the Commissioner for HUD announce that they will be kicking out the National Science Foundation (NSF) from its Virginia headquarters and moving HUD there. There are no details provided on where NSF is expected to relocate to.
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6/26
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Disruption:
The Department of Defense announced that it would immediately stop ingesting and sharing data from 3 microwave-imaging satellites with NOAA and the National Hurricane Center. This imaging is used to prevent “sunrise surprises” by allowing forecasters to monitor hurricanes at night. This is expected to degrade the quality of hurricane forecasts.
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6/27
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Week of 2025-06-22
+2962 -1189
- Added documents with details from Education to Treasury
- Spent most of week on vacation and added a vacation indicator to site
- [View All Changes]
Positions Added
| Position | Person | Notes |
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1/20-4/13
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Peter Marocco | appointed Director of Foreign Assistance (Fired) Reuters |
1/27
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Edward Coristine | likely detailed as Senior Advisor, Office of the CIO «Date at USAID reported by NYT» Wash. Post |
2/01-3/19
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Peter Marocco | appointed (Resigned) NYT |
2/28
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Peter Marocco | appointed Acting Chair of the Board court doc |
4/09
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Brooks Morgan | detail to Senior Treasury Advisor docs: MOU |
4/09
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Adam Ramada | detail to Senior Treasury Advisor «Was he detailed from Education after detailed from DOGE? Or has he been hired by Education since?» docs: MOU |
Events Added
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1/20
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Official:
President Trump signs an executive order Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid that places a 90-day halt on foreign aid, but it’s unclear to USAID staff if that applies to just new disbursements or existing grants.
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1/24
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Report:
Senior USAID staff meet to explain to unnamed admininstration officials that the slow way in which USAID payments are processed through other agencies led to the appearance that funds allocated before the Trump executive order took effect were directly subverting it. The administration officials seem confident they can explain to Peter Marocco.
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1/27
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Onboard:
Still convinced that USAID is deliberately committing insubordination against the executive order, Peter Marocco arrives at USAID with DOGE staffers Luke Farritor, Edward Coristine and Clayton Cromer to audit USAID’s accounts.
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1/30
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Report:
DOGE presents their evidence that the employees should be placed on leave based on a single email analysis made by Luke Farritor and sent to other DOGE members. “I could be wrong. My numbers could be off.” he writes, but the conclusions are not questioned or checked.
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1/30
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Disruption:
After USAID’s director of labor relations pushed back against the evidence presented to suspend and fire the employees, he threatens to report it to the Office of Special Counsel and emails the employees saying he has no grounds to keep them on leave. This leads to Clayton Cromer forcibly removing him from the building by security.
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1/30
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Disruption:
Jeremy Lewin and Elon Musk order the acting head of USAID to consent to locking every USAID employee worldwide out of all email and systems. He refuses, stating a sudden loss of access could get aid workers killed.
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2/01
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Disruption:
The acting head of the USAID, Jason Gray, is removed and replaced by Marco Rubio who then names Peter Marocco the Acting Deputy Administrator for the agency, giving him absolute power to force his demands.
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2/01
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4/08
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Disruption:
After Rubio and the Trump administration promised to keep many lifesaving humanitarian grant programs active, almost all of them are slashed over a weekend, only for some to be restored later. In one example, Peter Marocco ordered staff to comply with White House orders to stop all funds to Afghanistan. In other cases, Jeremy Lewin appears to have been involved with the alterations. USAID staff are not informed directly but find out from aid organizations whose funds have been cut.
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6/06
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3/24
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Sighting:
Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino met with the DOGE team embedded there (Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour), reportedly to discuss ethics.
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4/XX
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Sighting:
Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour meet again with the acting Postmaster General as well as other senior staff. This includes a meeting discussing an as some other senior staff in USPS to discuss price increases, a topic outside the scope of their MOUs to work at USPS.
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1/23
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Interagency:
An unnamed USAID official receives an angry late-night phone call from Peter Marocco, the newly appointed Director of Foreign Assistance at the US State Department, accusing employees of trying to subvert the President’s executive order imposing a 90-day pause on all foreign aid.
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1/24
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Official:
The State Department issues a memo written by Peter Marocco and signed by Marco Rubio that not only puts a halt to future foreign aid but also insists on stop-work orders for ~6200 current grants and contracts at USAID.
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5/XX
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Week of 2025-06-15
+5212 -1259
- Added a page on relevant executive orders
- Revising how blocks of text are styled
- Filling in some backstory events for a few agencies
- [View All Changes]
Positions Added
| Position | Person | Notes |
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| Edward Coristine | internal xfer «NYT links him to TSA, but no other info public» NYT | |
| Edward Coristine | internal xfer NYT | |
3/18
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Keith Sonderling | promoted to Deputy Secretary (supervisory) ArtNet |
3/22
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Nate Cavanaugh | likely detailed «Linked to MCC by NPR, start date guessed from disruption there» NPR |
3/22
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Justin Fox | likely detailed «Linked to MCC by NPR, start date guessed from disruption there» NPR |
3/31
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Justin Fox | likely detailed «Linked to WWICS by NPR, date is first DOGE sighting at agency» NPR |
c.4/17
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Keith Sonderling | appointed Acting Undersecretary (supervisory) «Nate Cavanaugh sent out grant rejections under the authority of Sonderling as Acting Undersecretary» official letter |
c.4/09
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Nate Cavanaugh | likely detailed «Senate Democrats note that Cavanaugh has a commerce email address. Guessing date is around detail to MBDA.» official letter |
c.4/09
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Nate Cavanaugh | likely detailed «inferred from disruptions at MBDA starting» court doc |
Events Added
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2/10
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Sighting:
Adam Ramada shows up in the Department of Energy’s online directory, along with Luke Farritor. There also is reportedly a third DOGE staff at the agency.
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2/10
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Disruption:
In an email sent to all staff, Russell Vought orders the CFPB’s headquarters to be indefinitely closed. He also orders: “Please do not perform any work tasks. If there are any urgent matters, please alert me through Mark Paoletta, Chief Legal Officer, to get approval in writing before performing any work task. Otherwise, employees should stand down from performing any work task.”
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2/11
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2/13
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2/14
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Legal:
The judge, Amy Berman-Jackson grants a temporary restraining order against CFPB leadership until a hearing for a preliminary injunction to prevent them from shuttering the agency by eliminating staff and canceling all contracts. DOGE and CFPB leadership had been racing to eliminate 1175 positions before the restraining order was announced.
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2/20
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Disruption:
At an internal planning meeting for the temporarily paused Reduction In Force, CFPB COO Adam Martinez confirms the White House plan was to completely end the CFPB within 30 days. The plan was to reduce the CFPB to “five guys and a phone,” ie to the minimum number of positions that were mandated by the text of Dodd-Frank (the bill that created the CFPB). Staff were informed there was no need to abide by federal data retention regulations because there would be nothing left of the agency to maintain.
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2/20
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Disruption:
Jordan Wick emails Russell Vought asking for approval to cut an additional $8.4 million of contracts at the CFPB
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3/02
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Official:
The night before the hearing for a preliminary injunction in NTEU v. Vought, Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta sends out an email to all staff telling them that they should have known all along that the stop work order wasn’t meant to cover statutorily mandated work. This is clearly a blatant attempt to spin the narrative and claim the agency has not been stopped from performing its statutory duties. The judge later describes this as “[insulting] the reader’s intelligence when he feigns surprise that few employees were working.”
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3/03
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Legal:
In a hearing for a preliminary injunction, Judge Amy Berman Jackson expresses fears that CFPB will be “choked out of its very existence” while the litigation progresses. Concerned with misleading answers from the admininistration’s lawyers, she orders a evidentiary hearing in a week and continues the restraining order against layoffs.
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3/28
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Legal:
In a sweeping ruling, judge Amy Berman Jackson grants a preliminary injunction for the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) against Russell Vought, the acting CFPB director. In her ruling, she declares that it is plain that the administration intended to destroy the agency and she found significant parts of its testimony unreliable. In her injunction, she orders the admininistration must refrain from any firing any employee of the CFPB, restore any contracts that were in place before February 11th, reinstate all probationary employees that were fired, ensure that no agency data is deleted and rescind the stop-work order. It is immediately appealed by the administration.
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4/11
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Legal:
A three-judge appeal panel for the DC Circuit issues a ruling on the appeal for Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s preliminary injunction in NTEU v. Vought. The appeals court stays a measure that prevent CFPB leadership from enforcing work stoppages for non-statutory work. It also allows CFPB leadership to conduct a reduction in force, provided that they conduct a “particularized assessment” for the process.
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4/18
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5/01
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Legal:
The D.C. Circuit appeals panel modifies its initial stay of the preliminary injunction that had allowed RIFs after a particularized assessment. In light of the recent attempted RIF, they decide to disallow any RIFs while the appeal of the injunction is being considered. CFPB staff remain at work, but lacking direction from leadership and still barred from many work actions.
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4/30
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Oversight:
Democratic members of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation send a letter to Keith Sonderling requesting details on his appointment as acting undersecretary of the MBDA and other information about DOGE’s takeover and destruction of the agency.
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6/06
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Offboard:
Tom Krause resigns his position at Treasury and exits government service, according to an email that he sent to employees at the Cloud Software Group, which he was simultaneously running. He departed Treasury a month before his SGE status would have required him to leave.
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4/30
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Disruption:
FEC staffers receive an email stating they will be required to send daily updates of their location as part of a new Daily Occupancy Tool that will possibly be rolled out across the government by the GSA
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1/20
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1/20
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1/24
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Onboard:
Thomas Shedd is named as the new head of the Technology Transformation Service (TTS), the parent organization of 18F as well as shared services like Login.gov. He reports to Josh Gruenbaum, who is also appointed today as the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner.
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4/10
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Report:
Ethan Shaotran is converted to a regular position at the GSA at the GS-14 level, which would mean an annual salary of $142,488 - $185,234 in Washington, DC. This is a relatively senior position for any government worker.
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5/31
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Report:
Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor are both converted into regular positions at the GSA at the GS-15 level, which would mean an annual salary of $167,603 - $195,200 in Washington, DC. This is the maximum level possible for a general government worker, and it often takes years or decades to reach.
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5/02
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5/20
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Official:
A memo directed to NRC from the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) declares that OIRA should have oversight over regulations made at the independent agency and NRC staff “may not know or be privy to the bases for OMB decisions for why an action is significant.”
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5/31
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Official:
President Trump issues EO 14300, which orders the NRC to relax its regulatory oversight over the nuclear industry. It also demands that the agency must plan for a reduction in force and realign its priorities. Following the model used for other independent agencies, this is probably the prelude for DOGE to arrive at the agency.
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6/16
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Disruption:
Trent Morse sends a letter firing one of the five members of the board (and the only Biden appointee) for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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1/29
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Disruption:
The Smithsonian Institution announces it is closing a diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. It is not a federal agency, but most of its funding comes from appropriaions and two-thirds of staff are federal workers.
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2/03
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Onboard:
Unidentified employee SSA-01 (Akash Bobba) starts working at the SSA with the title of Expert and an annual salary of $90,025.
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2/18
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Onboard:
Multiple unidentified DOGE staffers start working at SSA on the same day. SSA-02 (Scott Coulter) is detailed from NASA. SSA-07 (Marko Elez) is detailed from the DOL. SSA-10 (Ethan Shaotran) arrives from the GSA, and SSA-05 (Cole Killian) is detailed from DOGE itself.
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2/22
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2/23
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Onboard:
Social Security Administration onboards 3 unidentified staffers – SSA-06 (Jon Koval), SSA-04 (Antonio Gracias), and SSA-09 (Payton Rehling) – as volunteers with the title of Expert
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2/26
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6/16
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Disruption:
Citing “heavy workload and limited resources,” the FDA informs a drug manufacturer that it will be unable to meet a deadline to approve a new drug to treat a life-threatening hereditary condition. This is a first-time event for the agency, and some suggest it’s a direct result of DOGE-directed staff reductions at the FDA.
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6/16
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Oversight:
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sends a letter to Microsoft requesting access and information about Jordan Wick’s now-private Github account, specifically to see details about the NxGenBdoorExtract program.
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c.12/15
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Interagency:
A contractor for SSA arranges an introduction for Leland Dudek to meet Steve Davis
(fuzz: Date is just given as “mid-December”)
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2/09
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2/10
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Report:
Mike Russo summons Leland Dudek to his office and asks him to explain discrepancies cited by Musk. Leland convened a team of dozens of SSA engineers who reviewed data from the Treasury department. They carefully documented fallacies in DOGE’s reasoning in a memo presented to Russo. Mike Russo reportedly declared that DOGE would not trust career civil servants and demanded that Akash Bobba do his own analysis.
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2/27
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Disruption:
Ethan Shaotran contacts Leland Dudek to inform him that DOGE had identified roughly 3 dozen federal contracts in Maine as “nonessential” and that “we should cancel them” in response to the Maine governor publicly countering abuse from the President over transgender athletes. Two of those contracts are for Social Security services in the State.
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3/07
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Official:
After political blowback causes SSA to reverse its decision to cancel some contracts for the state of Maine, Leland Dudek posts an offical apology claiming it was his direction to cancel the contracts to obscure that the direction had come from DOGE.
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5/13
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c.4/07
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Sighting:
Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox begin holding a series of meetings with MCC leadership, this eventually culminates in termination of all grants and mass layoffs
(fuzz: exact date not given, just in “last two weeks”)
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3/31
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4/01
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Disruption:
Mark Green, a Republican who once worked for Trump, is forced out as the head of the Wilson Center. Several members of the board were also reportedly fired earlier.
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c.2/26
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Interagency:
During a call of human capital officers led by OPM, a representative for the GSA announces they are working on a “new federal daily check-in tool.” A test email was sent out on the same day. They announce plans to debut the tool by the first week in March.
(fuzz: Date is just given as “Late February”)
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4/21
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Official:
OMB issues a new memo mandating that agencies must collect daily occupancy data on all workers by May 4th. To support this effort, GSA unveils a website outlining methods to track federal workers, including mandatory daily surveys, monitoring badge usage or even video surveillance.
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2/07
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Report:
After gaining access to the PAM DB system, DOGE members at the Treasury department see what appear to be payments flowing to recipients without Social Security numbers. Other recipients appear to be dead. This triggered Musk accusing SSA of massive fraud. It was later reveled to be DOGE not understanding the data.
(fuzz: article just reports this as early Feb; but Musk tweets said he was informed on 2/7)
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4/01
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Disruption:
Alarmed at the viral spread of DOGE’s false claim that 40% of all calls to Social Security are fraud, agency staff at SSA draft a public statement to correct the errors in the claim. They are specifically ordered by Katie Miller not to release it. “The number is 40 percent.”
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Week of 2025-06-08
+7442 -2440
- Tracking more departures in wake of Musk exit
- Better grouping for system access
- Big data dumps from ProPublica and court cases
- Revamping the skills fields for people
- Fixing the alias card presentation
- Adding more info on independent agencies
- Added search and a side drawer
- Added a page tracking who has left
- [View All Changes]
Names Added
Carter Farmer, Paul McInery, Mike Slagh, Yinon Weiss, Ankur Bansai, Alison Childs, Bee Elvy, Nicholas Gallagher, Patrick George, Jim Hickey, Allan Mangaser, Matthew Parkhurst-Session, Ryan Shea
Positions Added
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2/XX
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Erica Jehling | appointed «Assuming GSA start because linked there by ProPublica and at time, people were detailed from there» |
2/18
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Mike Slagh | appointed «Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans» ProPublica |
2/18
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Yinon Weiss | appointed «Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans» ProPublica |
2/18
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Patrick George | appointed «Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans» |
2/18
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Jim Hickey | appointed Senior Advisor, Undersecretary of Defense «Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans. LinkedIn says Feb.» |
2/28-4/04
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Nate Cavanaugh | detail «agency contact was earlier, but assuming MOU signed when Marocco seized power» (Removed) court doc |
2/28-4/04
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Ethan Shaotran | detail «agency contact was earlier, but assuming MOU signed when Marocco seized power» (Removed) court doc |
c.3/01
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Gavin Kliger | [as OPM-05] detail «detail in court doc, date from Kliger spotted at VOA around start of March» court doc |
c.3/01
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Tarak Makecha | likely detailed «Date unknown, but assuming with Kliger who was at USAGM in early March» ProPublica |
3/03
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Matthew Parkhurst-Session | appointed Senior Advisor (excepted) ProPublica |
4/XX
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Allan Mangaser | appointed Senior Advisor to the US Federal CIO, Office of Management and Budget «LinkedIn says he started there in April» LinkedIn |
4/XX
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Allan Mangaser | likely detailed «Based on reports talked to TSA and CISA, assuming detail to DHS» |
4/XX
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Allan Mangaser | internal xfer «Reportedly met with CISA» ProPublica |
4/XX
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Allan Mangaser | internal xfer «Reportedly met with TSA» ProPublica |
c.4/25
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Dave Malcher | likely detailed ProPublica |
5/01
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Conor Fennessy | likely detailed «Guessed because created a spreadsheet at DOI on grant cancellations around 5/07» NYT |
c.5/08
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Carter Farmer | appointed Chief Information Officer Fed News Network |
5/05
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Paul McInery | appointed Chief Information Officer (supervisory) NextGov |
| Ankur Bansai | appointed «Reportedly reviewing DOT grants to cancel» ProPublica | |
5/XX
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Alison Childs | appointed «Date guessed based on reporting from ProPublica and 404 Media on ai.gov» ProPublica |
5/XX
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Bee Elvy | appointed «Date guessed based on reporting from ProPublica and 404 Media on ai.gov» ProPublica |
5/XX
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Nicholas Gallagher | appointed «Named in ProPublica roundup, start date guessed» ProPublica |
5/XX
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Ryan Shea | appointed «Start date guessed» ProPublica |
5/XX
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Ryan Shea | likely detailed «ProPublica reports he was working on HHS projects, assuming detail from GSA» ProPublica |
Events Added
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3/15
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Disruption:
In response to Trump’s second executive order against independent agencies, virtually the entire staff of Voice of America (more than 1300 people) are placed on indefinite admininstrative leave.
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3/15
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Disruption:
In response to Trump’s executive order targeting independent agencies, Trump’s senior advisor at the agency, Kari Lake, sends out termination notices for all grants to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. It is unclear if she has the authority to issue such terminations.
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5/02
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6/06
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Disruption:
Analysis by a USAGM grantee based on public data reveals that China has expanded its own propaganda and programming to counter the void left by the closure of Radio Free Asia
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6/14
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Report:
Surprised by Israel’s strikes on Iran and unable to counter Iranian programming, the Voice of America orders all of its Farsi-speaking members of the Voice of America’s Persian wing immediately back to work after being on administrative leave for several months.
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6/06
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Report:
Several senior staff write a memo to agency leadership reporting that California, Washington and Illinois had cooperated with an executive order requesting info on immigrants enrolled in their state’s Medicaid programs. They strenously object to a plan to share this data with DHS, noting that it would violate the privacy act and other laws as well as agency practices.
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5/07
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Disruption:
A spreadsheet created by Conor Fennessy outlines a reported $26 million in grant reductions for programs in the National Parks, including those identified as “DEI” or studying climate change. It also axes a popular Scientists in Parks program, that provides educational opportunities for early-career scientists and students. A $400K project to make a park accessible for children with disabilities was targeted because it was “DEI.”
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2/11
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Report:
Online security researchers find evidence that the DOGE website was developed and hosted by Outburst Data, a company run and operated by Kyle Schutt.
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6/09
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Report:
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, the new head of SSA, Frank Bisignano, states that “DOGE personnel, including eight engineers, are integral to getting the job done”
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6/06
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Report:
ProPublica analyzes public code by Sahil Lavingia for an AI-powered tool to evaluate contracts at the VA and determine which ones are “munchable” (meaning they should be canceled). The analysis finds the AI was given poor instructions and lacks context to correctly make these decisions.
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1/20
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1/20
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1/27
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Access:
Charles Ezell sends an email stating that OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-04 (Edward Coristine), and OPM-06 (Nikhil Rajpal) “urgently” needed access to several sensitive systems within the agency.
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1/28
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Access:
OPM grants OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-04 (Edward Coristine), and OPM-06 (Nikhil Rajpal) full administrative access to the systems USAJOBS, USA Staffing, USA Performance, eOPF, and EHRI. This access included “[c]ode read and write permissions.”
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2/06
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Access:
Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM have their database access restored by order of Greg Hogan
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6/09
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6/02
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Offboard:
In the wake of Elon Musk’s exit from DOGE, the four SpaceX engineers that have been working secretly in the FAA – Ted Malaska, Sam Smeal, Thomas Kiernan and Brady Glantz – are all immediately removed from the agency. The Post reports that some agency staff went for post-work drinks to celebrate the banishment of the DOGE team.
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2/20
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Sighting:
IAF President Sara Aviel learns that DOGE will be visiting her agency. That afternoon, she meets Nate Cavanaugh and Ethan Shaotran who both represent they are from the GSA. They showed little interest in efficiency initiatives at the agency and just wanted access to systems.
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2/24
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2/24
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Disruption:
The IAF President Sara Aviel reports her findings on a call with Nate Cavanaugh and Jacob Altik, who claim that all but one of the board members have been terminated. They demand that Aviel approves DOGE’s plan for the agency, which she declines to do, and that she sign a MOU assigning a DOGE member to the agency and granting them access to systems. After the call, she confirms that no board members had received a termination notice.
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2/26
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2/26
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Disruption:
Sara Aviel receives an email from Trent Morse informing her that Trump has now terminated her position.
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2/28
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Disruption:
Trent Morse sends an email to the office director at the IAF that states that Peter Marocco has been appointed the acting Chairman
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2/28
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Disruption:
Peter Marocco declares an emergency board meeting (where the emergency is Trump issued an executive order), claiming that means he does not need to inform the board with a 1-week notice as required. In attendance at the meeting are Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh. This is where he declares himself the new President and Acting CIO.
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2/28
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Disruption:
Peter Marocco declares an emergency board meeting (where the emergency is Trump issued an executive order), claiming that means he does not need to inform the board with a 1-week notice as required. In attendance at the meeting are Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh. This is where he declares himself the new President and Acting CIO.
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3/04
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3/04
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Disruption:
Peter Marocco sends emails terminating all of IAF’s existing grants except one (which was mostly over)
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c.3/05
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Disruption:
Peter Marocco names the remaining employee, the Chief Information Security Officer, as the new President of the IAF
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4/04
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4/04
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Legal:
Sara Aviel discovers that a team@iaf.gov created for the use of Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh had deactivated the admin access for the remaining IAF employee that day before Aviel’s return
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6/06
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2/21
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Interagency:
Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh return to the IAF with Jacob Altik, who presented himself as representing the EOP. Altik confirms that DOGE plans to reduce IAF to what he considers the statutory minimum (a board and president, a location in DC, some grants) and DOGE will be conducting a Reduction in Force of all employees and terminating all grants. The demand approval from the board and threaten the board will be fired otherwise.
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Week of 2025-06-01
+68056 -58700
- Added tables to display system access
- Added an all systems page
- More styling fixes and adjustments
- Improving the look of the navbar and timeline
- Text for the independent agencies page
- Major content update including for the biggest wreckers
- [View All Changes]
Names Added
Positions Added
| Position | Person | Notes |
|---|---|---|
1/20
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James Sullivan | [as OPM-08] appointed Senior Advisor to the Director (SES Noncareer, ES-00, $195,200) docs: onboard court doc |
1/20-2/18
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Gavin Kliger | [as OPM-05] appointed Senior Advisor to the Director for Information Technology, Office of the Director (Schedule C, NTE 2025-05-20, GS-15, supervisory, excepted, $195,200) «hired at maximum salary for GS federal employee in DC» docs: directory, onboard (replaced with new role) |
1/20-2/11
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Greg Hogan | promoted to Acting Chief Information Officer (ES-00, supervisory, $195,200) «testified he started as Senior Advisor but was made Acting CIO same day. Made permanent CIO on 2/11» (replaced with new role) court doc |
1/31
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Brian Bjelde | [as OPM-07] converted to permanent position Expert, Office of the Director (ED-00) «permanent position approved» court doc |
2/XX
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Carl Coe | appointed «His linkedin reports Feb 2026 as start» LinkedIn |
2/XX
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Brad Smith | appointed «identified as dual appointee at HHS and DOGE / detailed from USDS» court doc |
2/XX
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Derek Geissler | appointed «Assuming early Feb start from appear at DOL, being in Riley Sennott’s calendar» |
2/XX-3/04
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Brad Smith | likely detailed «detail started before 2/13» Left Govt (replaced with new role) 5/23 |
2/11
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Greg Hogan | promoted to Chief Information Officer, Office of the Director (SES Noncareer, ES-00, supervisory, $195,200) docs: directory, onboard |
2/XX
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Amy Gleason | likely detailed «assuming a detail from DOGE to HHS» court doc |
2/18
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Gavin Kliger | [as OPM-05] converted to permanent position Senior Advisor to the Director for Information Technology, Office of the Director (Schedule C, GS-15, supervisory, excepted, $195,200) docs: directory, onboard |
2/XX
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Carl Coe | likely detailed «Carl Coe, who currently leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at DOE» press release |
c.2/25
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Clark Minor | internal xfer «mentioned as meeting with FDA staff in late Feb/early March» court doc |
c.3/01
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Gavin Kliger | [as OPM-05] detail «detail in court doc, date from Kliger spotted at VOA around start of March» court doc |
3/03
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Jeremy Lewin | internal xfer «date inferred from access to CMS CALM system» |
3/03
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Conor Fennessy | internal xfer |
3/04-5/23
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Brad Smith | converted to permanent position Senior Advisor docs: onboard Left Govt (Resigned) 5/23 |
3/28
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James Sullivan | promoted to Chief of Staff, Office of the Director (55-Noncareer (Senior Exec Perm), ES-00) court doc |
3/28-3/29
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Amanda Scales | demoted to Senior Advisor, Office of the Director (55-Noncareer (Senior Exec Perm), ES-00) «Her LinkedIn profile says she left OPM in March. Assuming it followed her demotion/replacement» Left Govt (Ended) 3/29 court doc |
4/10
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Ethan Shaotran | converted to permanent position Senior Advisor (GS-14, $142,488 - $185,234) «Salary range for GS-14 in DC» Wired |
5/02
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Carl Coe | converted to permanent position Chief of Staff (supervisory) NYT |
5/31-6/23
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Edward Coristine | converted to permanent position Senior Advisor (GS-15, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC» (Resigned) Wired |
5/31
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Luke Farritor | converted to permanent position Senior Advisor (GS-15, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC» Wired |
| Gavin Kliger | [as OPM-05] detail «detail in court doc» court doc |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
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2/01
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Report:
Stephanie Holmes, the new head of HR at DOGE, is unable to answer staff questions about if the “Fork in the Road” retirement offer is legitimate.
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6/06
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Directory:
An article in the New York Times reports that both Tyler Hassen and Stephanie Holmes are still active at the DOI
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5/02
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2/27
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Official:
Joe Gebbia announces on his social media account that he will be working on a project at the OPM to modernize retirement processing and move it away from paper records
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6/06
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Sighting:
A report in the Times suggests that Mike Russo and Aram Moghaddassi have essentially been acting as joint CIOs at the agency.
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6/06
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Report:
Despite the departure of Elon Musk and several key leaders below him, DOGE is actively recruiting for new hires, promising pay of up to $195,200 (the maximum for a GS-15) and a two year excepted term. DOGE is reportedly hiring for both the USDS and the DOGE Temporary Organizations that embed in other agencies.
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6/06
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Legal:
In a 6-3 ruling on an emergency application, the US Supreme Court overturned rulings from lower courts that DOGE would have to comply immediately with records requests from CREW in their lawsuit. This rejection does not terminate the case, but it allows for an indefinite pause as cases are being considered.
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6/06
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Report:
Wired reports that Thomas Shedd is in need of in-house developers and is looking to revamp and restart the Presidential Innovation Fellows program months after it was eliminated due to the hiring freeze and mass layoffs initiated by Thomas Shedd.
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6/04
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Disruption:
Field representatives for the Census surveys share that the public is growing increasingly distrustful of participating in government surveys due to concerns that their data might be used against them, due to DOGE’s efforts to combine data from multiple agencies. This is especially true for minority and vulnerable populations, increasing the real risk of skewed statistics.
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6/02
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Official:
In the budget for next year, the White House requests $45 million total for DOGE, forecasting 150 employees would work for the agency. From this amount, it allocates $10 million for a “software modernization initiative,” with $35 million being provided to DOGE through reimbursement from agencies where DOGE staff will be embedded.
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6/04
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Official:
In an appendix for next year’s budget request, the White Houre reports that approximately 89 staffers have worked for DOGE this fiscal year, and this number includes direct employees as well as staff on reimburable details. It’s unclear if this count includes remaining members of the USDS, but that seems likely.
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6/04
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Official:
Testifying to Congress, Russell Vought says the White House is in “the midst of … establishing the leadership on an ongoing basis.” But he also says more DOGE staff will be embedded directly in agencies to report to leadership there. Amy Gleason is not mentioned.
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6/04
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3/28
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Action:
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, Amanda Scales is replaced as the Chief of Staff at OPM by James Sullivan. Amanda changes to a Senior Advisor position at the agency.
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4/08
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c.2/25
|
Sighting:
FDA staff give a high-level overview of FDA structures and functions to Clark Minor
(fuzz: date is just given as late February and early March for meetings)
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3/31
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5/14
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c.3/10
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3/21
|
Disruption:
Dorn Carranza, a HHS liasion for DOGE, sends an email at 11am asking for information ASAP on mission-critical systems at the FDA, demanding updates until complete. Because the FDA CIO was absent at the time, her CISO hastily submitted a response with his own views within 24 hours. This seems to have been what guided RIF selection at FDA, without anybody at DOGE reviewing the information for accuracy.
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2/11
|
Disruption:
Kathryn Armstrong Loving sends the EPA administrator a list of contracts DOGE wants to cut and cc’s Cole Killian
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3/XX
|
Access:
In a response to a Trump EO on tracking grant, the DOGE team is granted approval by HHS CIO Clark Minor to build an API to retrieved data from the PMS system
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5/21
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6/02
|
Disruption:
NIH staff are forced to send all grant proposals through an AI tool that looks for topics banned by the Trump administration, such as “DEI, transgender, China, or vaccine hesitancy.” Staff are also required to check that medical research grants aren’t being awarded to certain schools like Harvard or Columbia seen as enemies of Trump.
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5/30
|
Legal:
The judge in AFL-CIO vs. OPM examined Greg Hogan on the stand and asked if he had followed the principle of least privilege in awarding access to DOGE. She seemed to be leaning towards a issuing a preliminary injunction against DOGE’s “chaotic” access to systems at OPM.
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6/06
|
Legal:
In a 6-3 ruling on an emergency application, the Supreme Court rejected an injunction that prevented DOGE from accessing Social Security data. In a setback for privacy advocates, this will allow for SSA to share data with DOGE and other agencies, while the case about the legality of that proceeds.
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6/03
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Week of 2025-05-25
+35402 -133383
- Cleaned up the size of the
_datafiles by “hydrating” links at build time instead - Some major edits to text and site structure
- Add a time separator to the compact event timeline
- Improving the presentation of the position tables
- Tightening up tables to align columns across different types of tables
- Added a page tracking who’s being paid
- [View All Changes]
Positions Added
| Position | Person | Notes |
|---|---|---|
1/20
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Riccardo Biasini | [as OPM-02] appointed Expert, Office of the Director (NTE 2025-07-18, ED-00, excepted, volunteer) «info for alias SSA-2, who I’ve identified as him» docs: directory, onboard |
c.1/27-3/07
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Tyler Hassen | appointed «AP reports in DOI in January, inferring before water pump stunt» (replaced with new role) AP |
c.2/04
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Justin Fulcher | appointed «reported in early Feb but named later» Military News |
2/04
|
Cole Killian | likely detailed as Federal Detailee «assuming detail from DOGE» E&E News |
2/XX
|
Aram Moghaddassi | unknown «assuming start at DOL because listed later as detailee from there» |
2/18
|
Cole Killian | [as SSA-05] detail (NTE 2026-07-04) «limited onboarding docs, court docs about them» docs: onboard court doc |
2/23
|
Payton Rehling | [as SSA-09] appointed Expert, Office of the CIO (NTE 2026-02-22, ED-00, volunteer) docs: onboard |
2/26
|
Nikhil Rajpal | [as SSA-08] likely detailed (NTE 2026-02-26) docs: MOU, onboard |
3/XX
|
Alexander Simonpour | appointed «he was detailed to USPS from GSA, so assuming appointed at GSA but info unknown» |
3/07-4/XX
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Tyler Hassen | promoted to Acting Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget (supervisory) «ended with title change to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary» (replaced with new role) E&E News |
4/XX
|
Tyler Hassen | promoted to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (supervisory) «title change allows him to avoid Senate approval/ethics rules; date of change unclear» AP |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
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c.1/30
|
Disruption:
Tyler Hassen conducts a review of every single contract and grant from DOI and sends action items for review directly to Secretary Burgum
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c.1/25
|
Report:
Elon Musk makes a request for Baris Akis to be allowed to work for DOGE, even though he is a noncitizen and it wouldn’t normally be allowed. His request is denied.
(fuzz: date not given, but source published Feb 4th)
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c.3/26
|
Directory:
In a later interview, Sahil Lavingia describes attending an “E-meeting” for DOGE that included Elon Musk but was essentially run by Steve Davis as well as two other Musk loyalists, Anthony Armstrong and Baris Akis.
(fuzz: date is given as “late March,” assuming a Wednesday bc others reported DOGE meetings during that time)
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5/29
|
Offboard:
Steve Davis and Nicole Hollander have reportedly departed from the GSA and government service in the wake of Elon Musk leaving DOGE
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5/29
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Offboard:
In the wake of Elon Musk’s departure, Steve Davis, Katie Miller and James Burnham have reportedly also left DOGE. Davis had reportedly been running the day-to-day operations of DOGE, and it’s unclear who will take that over.
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5/28
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5/28
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4/08
|
Oversight:
A letter from Democrats on the House Committee of Science, Space, and Technology expresses specific concern about the lack of qualifications of DOGE staff at the agency and explicitly names Scott Coulter, Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour.
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2/13
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5/08
|
Report:
Fast Company runs an interview with Sahil Lavingia, who is promptly fired by DOGE the following day.
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5/14
|
Disruption:
After rescinding 300 layoffs, the head of human resources at CDC emails Rachel Riley to share a plan to fire one person for every singer person who returns to the agency.
|
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5/27
|
Disruption:
Pentagon staff are told they now no longer have to submit the Five Things email, but they are now tasked with a mandatory exercise to submit one thing that improves efficiency or reduces waste
|
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5/26
|
Disruption:
After Politico published a report that included an email from a 30-year veteran of the Bureau of Land Management telling staff to ignore instructions from Stephanie Holmes about filling in for empty roles, he is escorted out of the building by security.
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5/26
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5/22
|
||
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5/05
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5/XX
|
Disruption:
An internal survey reveals that over a fifth of Census Bureau leadership roles are vacant in the wake of DOGE’s efforts to reduce federal staffing.
|
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5/02
|
Disruption:
Stephanie Holmes, in her role as acting chief human capital officers, sends an email ordering DOI staff to stop doing any detail work by May 18 to cover for a steep loss in available staff due to DOGE’s directed cuts
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5/23
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3/XX
|
Disruption:
Kyle Schutt and Edward Coristine reportedly have pressured staff at DHS to use Grok, a chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI, despite the fact it had not been approved for use in the agency. A DHS spokesperson denied the allegations.
|
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5/23
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5/23
|
Disruption:
Ethan Shaotran sends a Survey of Surveys email to federal agencies asking them to report information on data-collection surveys. This is redundant to the existing survey oversight already conducted by OMB.
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2/XX
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5/20
|
Disruption:
In a post on X, DOGE reports that it is working to review surveys conducted by the Census Bureau and claims to have eliminated 5 already about alcohol consumption and internet usage
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5/23
|
Interagency:
In a podcast appearance, Antonio Gracias reported that the DOJ had requested for DOGE to find “10-20 cases” of alleged noncitizen voting in every state
|
Week of 2025-05-18
+47566 -24266
- Changed the CSS to use Tailwind instead
- First versions of the agency pages
- Site is published to a public-facing location for the first time
- Stylistic tweaking for small screens
- [View All Changes]
Names Added
Positions Added
| Position | Person | Notes |
|---|---|---|
1/20-5/29
|
Steve Davis | appointed «assuming he started on 2025-01-20» Left Govt (Resigned) 5/29 WSJ |
c.1/23-5/29
|
James Burnham | appointed General Counsel «NYT reported in DOGE in January, ProPublica provided title» Left Govt (Resigned) 5/29 NYT |
1/27
|
Luke Farritor | likely detailed Wash. Post |
c.2/01
|
Stephanie Holmes | appointed «First reported today, likely onboarded earlier in January» 404 Media |
2/XX
|
Donald Park | appointed «assuming hired at GSA» |
c.2/04
|
Luke Farritor | likely detailed |
c.2/07
|
Keenan Kmiec | appointed ProPublica |
c.2/14
|
Marko Elez | appointed «no public info, but I assume this is a paid position because his detail to SSA is reimbursed» |
2/16-5/06
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Leland Dudek | promoted to Acting Commissioner (supervisory) (replaced with new role) Wash. Post |
c.2/18
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Kyle Schutt | appointed (GS-15/10, $195,200) Wired |
3/XX
|
Justin Fox | appointed «No idea on GSA start but before 3/13» |
3/XX
|
Mike Gonzalez | appointed Senior Advisor Techcrunch |
3/XX
|
Emily Bryant | appointed «linked to GSA by NYT, start date guessed» |
4/09
|
Jonathan Mendelson | appointed NPR |
4/15
|
Jack Stein | appointed NPR |
4/16
|
Nate Cavanaugh | likely detailed «Spotted by media» Bloomberg |
4/16
|
Justin Fox | likely detailed Bloomberg |
4/21
|
Marshall Wood | appointed NPR |
4/28
|
Nate Cavanaugh | likely detailed «Spotted by media» Politico |
4/28
|
Jonathan Mendelson | likely detailed Politico |
4/28
|
Ethan Shaotran | likely detailed Politico |
4/28
|
Marshall Wood | detail Politico |
c.5/02
|
Jonathan Mendelson | likely detailed as Senior Advisor, Chairman of the SEC «title sourced from ProPublica» Reuters |
5/06
|
Leland Dudek | demoted «Replaced by Bisignano as confirmed commissioner» AP |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
|
5/21
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||
|
5/19
|
Legal:
The judge presiding over the USIP’s lawsuit against the Trump administration found ruled that the firing of the agency’s board was illegal, rendering all subsequent actions taken by Nate Cavanaugh for DOGE as null and void.
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5/21
|
Official:
The US Institute of Peace retook control of its headquarters and re-entered the premises for the first time since being escorted out in DOGE’s takeover
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1/29
|
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|
5/16
|
Disruption:
Because of DOGE-directed cuts, a National Weather Service office in Jackson, KY did not have an overnight forecaster who is able to track and forecast tornado watches for a storm sweeping across the state
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4/17
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4/23
|
Sighting:
After an initial video call, DOGE arrives at the agency offices for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
|
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5/13
|
Sighting:
Justin Fox emails GAO (cc’ing Nate Cavanaugh) to schedule a call to get a DOGE team assigned to the GAO. This is despite the GAO being located in the legislative branch and thus not answerable to the President.
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5/13
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5/16
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5/09
|
Sighting:
DOGE staff reportedly met with Peace Corps leadership to discuss staffing cuts and resignations
|
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c.4/30
|
Disruption:
Social Security introduces a new AI-based agent for phone calls from 350 field offices in the Southeast and Northeast regions. It frustrates many users attempting to reach an actual person for assistance.
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5/06
|
Official:
Frank Bisignano is confirmed by the Senate as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
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5/14
|
Disruption:
Many of the Social Security offices are in disarray, unable to buy paper for printers or shred documents because DOGE’s $1 limit on expense cards means that fewer than a dozen staff in SSA are able to authorize office expenses for all 1300 field offices.
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4/22
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4/28
|
Sighting:
A team of 4 DOGE personnel – Nate Cavanaugh, Jonathan Mendelson, Ethan Shaotran and Marshall Wood – arrive at the headquarters of the US International Development Finance Corporation
|
Week of 2025-05-11
+118335 -1051
- First week of tracking changes, since repo was ported from trump_data on May 7th
- Added a README to the repo
- First version of the site pages
- [View All Changes]
Names Added
Frank Bisignano, Clayton Cromer, Trent Morse, Russell Vought, Donald Park
Positions Added
| Position | Person | Notes |
|---|---|---|
1/20
|
Clayton Cromer | appointed Deputy General Counsel, Office of the Director (Senior Exec Perm, ES-00, supervisory) docs: directory |
1/20-5/29
|
Katie Miller | appointed «no public details on when she started with DOGE, but date inferred» Left Govt (Resigned) 5/29 |
c.1/20
|
Jordan Wick | appointed «guessed from govt declaration detailed from DOGE to CFPB» |
1/23
|
Trent Morse | appointed Deputy Assistant to the President / Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel (supervisory) |
1/27
|
Clayton Cromer | likely detailed «NYT links to USAID, but need to find public reports of this» NYT |
1/29
|
Justin Monroe | likely detailed NBC News |
2/03
|
Donald Park | likely detailed «assuming detail from GSA» |
2/07
|
Russell Vought | appointed Director, Office of Management and Budget (supervisory) |
2/08
|
Russell Vought | appointed Acting Director (supervisory) CNN |
2/09
|
Akash Bobba | [as SSA-01] appointed Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer (NTE 2026-02-08, ED-00, $90,025) docs: onboard |
2/10
|
Michael Cole | appointed Senior Team Leader on Government Efficiency ProPublica |
2/13-6/06
|
Tom Krause | converted to permanent position (SGE, Schedule C, NTE 2025-07-03, GS-15, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC» docs: directory Left Govt (Resigned) 6/06 court doc |
2/22
|
Aram Moghaddassi | [as SSA-03] detail (reimbursed $71,000 per quarter) «Unclear if this ended bc named to CIO» docs: MOU, onboard |
2/28
|
Tarak Makecha | appointed Senior Advisor POGO |
3/06
|
Todd Newnam | appointed Senior Advisor (Schedule C, GS-15, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC, disclosure» docs: directory court doc |
3/XX
|
Clayton Cromer | likely detailed «Rep. Vindman reported in early March being contacted by Cromer at the DOJ» |
5/06
|
Frank Bisignano | appointed Commissioner (supervisory) AP |
5/14
|
Nate Cavanaugh | likely detailed «Reported by media» The Handbasket |
5/14
|
Donald Park | likely detailed The Handbasket |
5/21
|
Nate Cavanaugh | likely detailed «Email cited mentioned he was from DOGE, but assuming detail from GSA» The Handbasket |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
|
5/16
|
Sighting:
Staff at the MSPB receive an email informing them that Nate Cavanaugh will be onboarded on May 21 as a detailee “from DOGE” and that he is expected to spend several weeks reviewing contracts and spending. He will be working remotely.
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3/11
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Disruption:
US Representative and former whistleblower against Trump, Eugene Vindman, reports being repeatedly contacted by Clayton Cromer identifying himself as Executive Assistant US Attorney
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2/23
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Disruption:
Employees at USAID receive emails with a “Specific Notice of a RIF” effective in 60 days and signed by Peter Marocco. Employees were also placed on administrative leave.
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5/13
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Disruption:
The CFPB, still under the acting leadership of Russell Vought, withdraws a rule proposed in December that would limit the ability of data brokers to sell sensitive information by placing them under the oversight of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
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5/08
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5/08
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5/09
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Sighting:
With the board now fired, DOGE staff are granted access to the Consumer Product Safety Commission
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4/18
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5/14
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5/16
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Disruption:
GOP proposals that would cut student loans and increase debt collection would require new technical capacity and policy that the Department of Education is unlikely to accomplish after many recent cuts and the elimination of technical staff by DOGE
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3/31
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Access:
DOGE gains admin access to IMLS systems for monitoring grants and sending emails. This is likely Nate Cavanaugh.
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5/15
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Oversight:
The ranking Democratic member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sends a letter requesting that the IRS Inspector General investigate the circumstances of the “hackathon”
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5/15
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5/16
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Disruption:
An internal report at Social Security analyzes new fraud detection mechanisms that were mandated for phone claims. Reportedly, only 2 out of 110,000 claims made were possible to be fraudulent, but the system has slowed claims processing by 25% and degraded service.
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5/15
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Disruption:
The US Agency for Global Media starts sending termination notices to contractors, some of whom are on J1 visas and would be forced to leave the country within 30 days
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4/28
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Disruption:
Three members of the board for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting receive an email from Trent Morse at the White House informing them that they have been fired. This renders the board inert without quorum.
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4/29
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Interagency:
Nate Cavanaugh sends an email to the two remaining members of the CPB board requesting a meeting. He describes a DOGE team at GSA and cc’s several other members of DOGE
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4/29
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Legal:
Citing as evidence the harm inflicted by DOGE against the USIP, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting receives a temporary restraining order from a judge until its case can be heard in May.
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5/01
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Official:
Trump issues an executive order commanding that Corporation for Public Broadcasting should cease any financial support for PBS and NPR, despite CPB being an independent agency.
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5/14
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Sighting:
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park reportedly have email addresses and reserved office space at the Export-Import Bank of the US
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4/10
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Disruption:
AmeriCorps’ acting director submits a plan to the OPM and OMB proposing a 50% cut in the agency workforce
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4/16
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Disruption:
Agency staff at AmeriCorps are placed on immediate administrative leave and banned from accessing agency systems
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4/25
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Disruption:
DOGE staff within AmeriCorps start terminating roughly $400 million in grants (roughly 41% of the total grant funding) to 1,031 organizations across America because their award “no longer effectuates agency priorities.”
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1/30
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Access:
Luke Farritor is granted access to the CDC’s Integrated Contract Expert (ICE) system for contracts
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2/04
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Access:
Luke Farritor is granted access to the CDC’s Acquisition Performance and Execution (APEX) system that tracks procurements at the CDC
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1/31
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Access:
Luke Farritor is granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) which centralizes payments for CMS medical claims
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2/03
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2/05
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2/24
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Access:
Amy Gleason is granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts
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3/03
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Access:
Jeremy Lewin is granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts
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3/05
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Access:
Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims
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3/05
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3/05
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Access:
Aram Moghaddassi and Marko Elez are granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims
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3/05
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Access:
Edward Coristine and Zach Terrell are granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims
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2/01
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Disruption:
Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the independent director of the CFPB
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2/03
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2/07
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Official:
OMB director Russell Vought is named the new acting head of the CFPB. The CFPB Chief Legal Counsel is also replaced by Mark Paoletta, a close associate of Russell Vought.
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3/04
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Offboard:
Luke Farritor officially offboards from the CFPB and all his system access is revoked. The reason given is that his detail had ended.
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3/04
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Onboard:
Jordan Wick is converted from a detailee to a full employee of the CFPB. This is in accordance with a DOGE strategy to avoid disclosure in CREW v. DOGE by moving DOGE staff into other agencies.
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3/21
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Offboard:
Nikhil Rajpal officially offboards from the CFPB, because his detail is concluded. It is later revealed that he was not granted any system access nor did he perform any actions during his time at the CFPB.
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5/08
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Offboard:
Gavin Kliger leaves the CFPB, officially because his detail had ended but it is coincidentally also the day he would be in ethics violation for having not sold stock holdings prohibited to CFBP staff.
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5/12
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Disruption:
CISA announces that it will cease posting many cybersecurity alerts on its website and instead only send them to email or X. After a public outcry, it reverses this decision.
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1/20
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1/24
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1/28
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1/30
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2/03
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Onboard:
Several more DOGE staffers (Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski) start working at OPM. All of them come from HR backgrounds in Musk-affiliated companies.
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2/18
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5/13
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