What’s Changed?
This is not a definitive list of all changes to the project (completists can always do diffs on the GitHub repo), but this page is a list of new records about people, positions and events with notes on other significant changes. Each week is listed with the total number of lines added and removed just in the source data and pages; click on it to expand into more details about the new records. Since this project is built on information from news sources and court documents, “new” records in a given week may include events that occurred weeks or even months earlier. That is not a bug, but a reflection on how slowly details can trickle out about DOGE’s operations.
Week of 2025-08-17
+237 -32
- Back from vacation
- Still figuring out next big steps for this
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Positions Added
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DOI
4/XX-8/01
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promoted to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (supervisory) «title change allows him to avoid Senate approval/ethics rules; date of change unclear» | |
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DOI
8/02
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unknown «Reportedly still at agency, but unclear in what role» | |
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State
c.8/12
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appointed (supervisory) «some sort of leadership over global health division» |
Events Added
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2/16
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Disruption:
Donald Park sets up the @DOGE_SBA account on X as a communications channel for DOGE and a place for the general public to snitch on agency activities. He does not involve agency communications staff that would normally handle social media accounts.
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8/05
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Disruption:
The National Weather Center announces it has approval to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians back to the department. This includes 126 new positions beyond what was cut by DOGE. Despite being a step towards restoration, this action will likely not put people in place until after the current dangerous hurricane season is over and it might be a pretext to hire more politically-aligned staff in positions with flimsier job security.
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8/07
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Official:
The Press Secretary for the Pentagon affirms to reporters that DOGE is going to continue its work at the agency for the forseeable future.
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8/08
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Disruption:
The IRS Commissioner, Billy Long, is reportedly ousted by the Trump Administration after refusing to fully comply with a DHS request for confidential taxpayer information on 40,000 names of suspected undocumented immigrants. This request was for addresses as well as if they had claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income filers. Long announced he will be nominated to be the US Ambassador to Iceland, making him the sixth IRS commissioner to leave or be removed from the agency this year. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will run the agency in an acting capacity.
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8/08
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Access:
The IRS begins sharing more sensitive data on taxpayers. Under the agreement with DHS, IRS had promised to share information on taxpayers under active criminal investigation, but DHS then requested information on 1.23 million individuals. The IRS was only able to return information on less than 5% of this request, angering the Trump White House and reportedly leading to Long’s dismissal.
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8/12
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Report:
In an analysis of DOGE’s continued exaggeration about its savings, Politico notes that updates to the site’s Wall of Receipts have become more infrequent. There were barely any updates in June, followed by a four-week gap in July and another 17 days for a few items in August. This suggests that the cost-cutting mission (or at least, bragging about it) has slowed or faltered within DOGE.
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8/12
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Onboard:
Threes after departing from DOGE and government service, Brad Smith is hired in a leadership position at the Department of State focused on global health initiatives.
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8/12
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Legal:
Citing a Supreme Court shadow docket ruling as precedent, a DC Appeals Court overturned a stay from February and ordered that DOGE should be allowed to access sensitive data at the Treasury Department, OPM and Department of Education.
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8/13
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Interagency:
In a call hosted by the US CIO, DOGE team lead Scott Langmack shares info on an AI tool named SweetREX Deregulation AI Plan Builder developed by Christoper Sweet to review agency regulations for elimination. This is the same tool highlighted by DOGE in a presentation to the White House earlier in the month. Agency representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of State, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are on the call. Steve Davis also was on the call despite having left DOGE and asked if the tool could be open-sourced.
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8/18
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Report:
Despite announcing that he would be leaving the agency on August 1st, Tyler Hassen is still reportedly working at the Department of the Interior. It is unclear what his title is and where his work is focused, but he is still there.
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Week of 2025-08-10
+0 -0
- Out on vacation
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Week of 2025-08-03
+185 -32
- On an extended vacation!
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Names Added
Positions Added
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OPM
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appointed «Named as working alongside Airbnb alumni at OPM.» |
Events Added
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7/30
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Oversight:
Three Democratic senators introduce the “Pick Up After Your DOGE Act”, which would task the GAO with auditing what systems DOGE has accessed across the government. The bill will not pass, but it could be a preview of oversight measures that could happen with a change of control in Congress.
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8/01
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8/03
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Disruption:
At least 19 states confirm that the Department of Justice has requested their voter registration lists and records from the 2024 and 2020 elections. At least seven states have reported that DOJ proposed an information-sharing agreement related to election fraud. States have not traditionally shared such information in the past, and there are concerns that this will be used in a fishing expedition for crimes or that the data will not be properly protected. This effort echoes an assertion in May by Antion Gracias that DOJ had asked DOGE to find “10-20 cases of alleged noncitizen voting in every state.”
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8/04
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Directory:
In a report about DOGE’s continued work on OPM’s Online Retirement Application (ORA) continuing to move ahead, Politico identifies DOGE staff that are working on the project under Joe Gebbia.
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8/06
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Disruption:
OPM announces the end of the requirement that all federal workers must send in a weekly “Five Things” email describing their work the prior work. OPM director Scott Kupor announced the change in a meeting with all human capital officials across the government.
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Week of 2025-07-27
+1431 -71216
- Going to explore using DB instead of data YAML files
- Documenting the new API and CSV downloads
- Correction: typo on HIGLAS access for Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi
- Reworking the site to just use the Sequel DB to make repo more clear
- Adding the Downloading the Data page
- Built out more endpoints for the API
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Positions Added
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GSA OPM
1/24
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likely detailed «no MOU to confirm and SF-50 is for GSA, but I think he was detailed from GSA to OPM on this date based on appointment affadavit» | |
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GSA? SBA
2/03
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likely detailed as DOGE Advisor «guessing detail date from system access request» | |
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GSA DOL
c.5/09
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likely detailed «Wired Magazine reported in June was detailed to DOL, but calendar reports meeting about DOL grants on 5/09, so guessing detailed around then.» |
Events Added
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2/03
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Action:
Stephen Kucharski, director of the SBA’s Office of Performance Systems Management, emailed 19 colleagues with an urgent request: “Please help me and my OCIO colleagues as we mobilize to provide Edward Coristine and Donald Park Admin access to all SBA systems. This action has been cleared and we are on a very short time frame.” They were to be granted access to HR and procurement systems. He then follows up with the agency CIO.
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2/03
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Access:
Within three hours of the request, Edward Coristine and Donald Park are granted “admin authority” to the mainframe and read-only access to the NFC Insight and Reporting Center applications. This gives them the ability to see sensitive information like salary, banking information and even debt for employees at the SBA (and possibly other agencies)
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2/03
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Action:
After being granted access to the National Finance Center for information about staff at SBA, Edward Coristine writes to an associate administrator and chief human capital officer at SBA to ask for the phone number of the CIO for the National Finance Center at USDA.
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2/03
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Access:
Edward Corisitine and Donald Park are granted access to the SBA’s core financial and loan systems within five hours of the CIO authorizing the request.
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2/03
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Action:
Elias Hernandez, the associate administrator for the Office of Veterans Business Development at SBA, emails the director of the National Finance Center (NFC) asking for immediate admin access to the mainframe for “all SBA Personnel Office Identifiers (POIs)”. NFC is a shared service from USDA that handles payroll for roughly 150,000 federal employees across 170 agencies including the SBA.
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3/05
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Access:
Multiple DOGE staff (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS). This system tracks all payments made by Medicare, among other expenditures.
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4/15
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Disruption:
Claiming that he knew of warrantless wiretapping from the NSA, Justin Fulcher pressured Defense Secretary Hegseth’s Chief of Staff and personal legal counsel to let him run an investigation into leaking at the Pentagon. Once he was included, it was clear there was no such evidence, but it had led to several key roles being fired. Justin Fulcher denied this account when reached for comment.
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5/01
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Interagency:
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a “connect” with OMB about the National Science Foundation
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5/09
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Action:
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a Microsoft Teams meeting with Thomas Shedd (the acting CIO and fellow GSA employee) as well as another DOL staffer to discuss grants to the agency.
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5/19
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Interagency:
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a quick sync with a finance department deputy at the agency and a DOGE liasion.
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5/27
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Interagency:
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a meeting with a representative from the Department of Justice and another from the FBI.
(fuzz: It’s unclear what agency Farritor is representing here, but assuming it’s DOL since other events were there.)
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6/24
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Disruption:
Jeremy Lewin overrides many objections by staffers reviewing the grant and rushes a grant of $30 million for the month of June to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation only five days after its funding request was submitted. The request was also handled by Kenneth Jackson and accumulated over 58 objections from USAID staffers that GHF failed both technical and financial requirements for aid recipients. GHF was hastily formed in February 2025 and has been faulted for forcing Palestinians to navigate crowded militarized zones to receive aid. This has resulted in multiple mass killings near GHF sites.
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7/01
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Action:
DOGE gives a presentation of a “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool” that will use AI to target roughly 50% of federal regulations for elimination, on the argument that they aren’t meeting statutory requirements. The goal is to slash these regulations by January 20, 2026. In their presentation, DOGE claims the tool has already made determinations on 1083 decisions at HUD (using Christopher Sweet’s work) and has also been used for 100% of deregulatory actions at the CFPB. It also states that DOGE lawyers James Burnham, Austin Raynor, Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle have vetted and endorsed the tool.
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7/29
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Disruption:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics announces that it will have to significantly curtail its data collection for the Consumer Price Index due to staffing and resource reductions. This will result in the CPI no longer including certain products or surveying several metro areas. This triggers concerns among some economists, since the CPI is one of the factors that determines how the Federal Reserve sets interest rates or how Social Security determines cost-of-living increases.
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7/31
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Report:
After removing Stephen Ehikian as the acting director of GSA, the White House has reportedly detailed nine other staffers to the agency to speed a “de-Muskification” of the agency. This is possibly also related to the GSA supporting Steve Davis over the White House in his attempt to keep running DOGE even after he had left. Josh Gruenbaum is named as being in their good graces still.
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8/01
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Disruption:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting issues a press release announcing that it has commenced an orderly wind-down due to the elimination of funding from both the recissions package as well as the budget for next year. A majority of staff will be let go on the September 30, 2026 with a small team retained for final closedown in January 2026. This is frankly a heartbreaking outcome for an agency that has served America for almost 60 years.
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8/01
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Disruption:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases a monthly jobs report for June that radically revises down the previously released estimates for May and June by roughly 80-90% compared to prior estimates, shocking economists and Wall Street. This downward revision could reflect issues in data collection or that the economy is entering a recession. Angry at what he calls “rigged” numbers, Trump fires the head of the BLS.
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Week of 2025-07-20
+4012 -1222
- Trying to find more details on some new names
- Restyling tables to be 2-column on small displays
- Added an API and CSV files (still need to document)
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Positions Added
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State
7/11
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promoted to Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Affairs and Religious Freedom (supervisory) | |
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GSA
7/21
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demoted to Deputy Administrator (supervisory) «Had been in the Deputy Administrator role since 1/20 but serving as Acting Administrator» |
Events Added
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c.2/11
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Disruption:
In a meeting, Kyle Schutt asks FEMA staff about the viability of deobligating appropriated funds for the agency, in essence returning the money to Treasury rather than using it for its appropriated purpose.
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2/10
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Access:
Kyle Schutt is granted access to the FEMA Grant Outcomes (FEMA GO) system that is used by FEMA for tracking disaster and other grants across America. He is also given access to the source code for FEMA’s Integrated Financial Management and Information System (IFMIS) which processes payments.
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2/13
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Interagency:
Representing DOGE and OPM, Noah Peters finalizes mass layoffs at the USDA just before Secretary Rollins is to be sworn in that evening. When asked later by Congress about the layoffs, she deflects and says it happened before she started.
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2/19
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3/XX
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Disruption:
Several days after meeting with lobbyists from the tax software prep industry’s Free File Inc. coalition led by Intuit, Sam Corcos abruptly reverses his prior course and makes the case to Treasury Secretart Scott Bessent that the IRS’ Direct File program for free tax filing should be shut down.
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4/17
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5/13
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Legal:
Ruling in Rhode Island v. Trump et al, Judge John McConnell Jr. ordered a preliminary injunction declaring that IMLS grants must be processed and staff brought back.
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5/19
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Disruption:
Although IMLS staff are returned to their positions by court order, employees complain that the email “reinforced attempts to eliminate staff through trauma, force, and malicious compliance.”
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6/06
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Legal:
Ruling in ALA v. Sonderling, Judge Richard Leon declines to grant the preliminary injunction sought by plaintiffs, suggesting that the US Court of Federal Claims might be the more appropriate venue for the case, since it involves federal contracts.
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6/09
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6/10
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6/10
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Legal:
Ruling in Brehm v. Marocco, Judge Leon denies the plaintiff’s request for a temporary restraining order, finding that Trump was likely within the bounds of the law when he removed board members of the USADF.
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6/12
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Legal:
The plaintiffs in Rhode Island v. Trump et al file an amended complaint asking the court to rule that the IMLS closure was unconstitutional and violated the Administrative Procedures Act. As part of this filing, they issued summons to Keith Sonderling, Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick and Russell Vought. They have 60 days to respond, pushing the nest phase of the trial to August.
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6/16
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Oversight:
The GAO determines that the executive branch violated The Impoundment Act of 1974 when it prevented agency functions, including withholding funds that were not eligible for cancellation under any circumstances. The GAO general counsel Edda Emmanuelli Perez noted that GAO had reached out to IMLS for information, requesting responses on May 5 and May 12 but were not replied to.
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6/27
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Disruption:
The government of Kosovo announces that it has not received any notification about the shuttering of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, despite reports of its closure in April.
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6/30
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7/01
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Offboard:
In response to a letter from the American Federation of Teachers union to nine public pension funds who are investors, Valor Equity Partners confirms that Antonio Gracias was working for Valor the entire time he was in DOGE and also reports that he left DOGE on July 1st. It’s unclear what the status of other Valor employees embedded in DOGE, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling, are.
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7/01
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Legal:
A federal judge grants a preliminary injunction ruling that Trump violated federal laws when he appointed Peter Marocco as the head of the USADF, meaning that all of his subsequent actions to dismantle the agency should be considered null and void.
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7/02
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Legal:
A judge grants a request for a temporary restraining order by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and orders the USAGM to immediately disburse the appropriated funds for the month of June that it had withheld.
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7/03
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Disruption:
The Environmental Protection Agency places 144 employees on administrative leave and threatens to open an investigation over them signing an open letter criticizing the agency’s actions.
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7/04
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Disruption:
Trump signs the Big Beautiful Bill into law. Among other regressive measures, it slashes the cap on the that the CFPB can pull from by 46% to a maximum of 6.5% of the Federal Reserve operating budget.
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7/08
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Disruption:
Funds for FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program (SSP) normally used for disaster relief are redirected to instead provide $608.4 million to ICE for the construction of an immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades. This anount is only slightly smaller than the entire 2025 budget for the program, which has only $83.5 million in reserve for this fiscal year. Possibly, DOGE aide Kyle Schutt might have assisted in finding money by deobligating other grants.
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7/11
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Report:
Jeremy Lewin is promoted to Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Affairs and Religious Freedom in the State Department. This is the third highest rank in the agency and he is possibly the youngest person to ever hold it.
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7/14
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7/17
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Disruption:
Despite claims by USDA leadership that they had met 99% of their hiring goals, more than 4500 (approximately 27%) firefighting jobs in the US Forest Service are unfulled, according to an internal staffing tool at the agency. This rough assessment is supported by anecdotal accounts of firefighting offices in states facing a challenging year for forest fires.
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7/18
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Report:
In an interview with the Financial Times about his reported squeeze of government contractors, Josh Gruenbaum denies he has made unreasonable demands of many companies while going easy on Trump allies during his reviews of all government contracts overseen by the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA.
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7/21
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Offboard:
In a move that is seen as reprisal for GSA leadership’s support of Steve Davis attempt to continue running DOGE after he left, the Trump White House names Mike Rigas as the new acting administrator of GSA. This demotes Stephen Ehikian to his role as Deputy Administrator of GSA only.
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7/21
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Directory:
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
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7/21
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Disruption:
Scott Kupor states that he expects to eliminate roughly 1000 positions at OPM (or about a third of its staff) by the end of the year.
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7/21
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Report:
The head of security for the US Institute of Peace sits for an interview discussing how he was betrayed by the security contractor for the agency and taking back custody of the building after the May 21st court ruling.
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7/22
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Disruption:
After losing its grant on May 28, Oregon’s Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) is forced to end many of its programs that served rural communities in the state.
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7/22
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7/22
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7/23
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Disruption:
Citing safety concerns, the head of the CFPB (Russell Vought) signs an agreement with the head of the OMB (Russell Vought) to spend $4.7 milliion of the CFPB’s budget from now through December to provide a security detail for Russell Vought. This is the same time as the agency is facing its budget being slashed in half.
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Week of 2025-07-13
+9670 -4398
- Major cleanup of the partial logic for rendering pages
- Reformatting of table for systems, positions and events
- Major editorial review of all events in the system
- Processing some amazing FOIA dumps from American Oversight for USDA, SBA and DOL!
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Names Added
Micaela Lopez Ballefin, Samuel Berry, Adam Blake, Joshua Carter, Ethan Damiano, Patricia Gibson, Jeremy Lichtman, Timothy Ronan, Owen West
Positions Added
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USDA
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appointed Senior Advisor on Government Efficiency «Not listed as a detailee, so suggests appointed» | |
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USDA
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appointed Special Advisor | |
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SBA
c.1/20
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unknown Special Advisor | |
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State
1/XX
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appointed «I know Kenneth Jackson started at State, but I haven’t found more info of when and where» | |
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USDA
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appointed Advisor on Government Efficiency | |
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USDA
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appointed Special Advisor | |
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GSA? SBA
2/03
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likely detailed as DOGE Advisor «guessing detail date from system access request» | |
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DOL
2/12
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appointed Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary (NTE 2025-06-11, GS-11/01, $84,601) | |
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SBA
2/XX
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unknown Senior Advisor «Start month sourced from her LinkedIn» | |
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SBA
3/XX
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appointed Senior Advisor «Start month sourced from his LinkedIn» | |
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DOL
3/23
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promoted to Deputy Secretary of Labor, Office of the Secretary (Exec Appt, supervisory, $183,100) | |
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USDA
5/19
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converted to permanent position Senior Advisor on Government Efficiency, Office of the Chief Information Officer | |
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Energy
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unknown «I have no info on this yet, but he was detailed from Energy to NRC» | |
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Energy NRC
7/11
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likely detailed «In charge of implementing EO 14300» | |
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Defense
7/XX
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appointed | |
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SBA
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unknown Senior Advisor | |
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OPM? SBA
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likely detailed as Senior Advisor «identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed» | |
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ED? SBA
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likely detailed as Senior Advisor «identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed» | |
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OPM? SBA
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likely detailed as Special Advisor «identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed» | |
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GSA? SBA
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likely detailed as Senior Advisor «identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed» | |
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DOGE? SBA
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likely detailed as Special Advisor «identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed» |
Events Added
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2/06
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Offboard:
After the Wall Street Journal reported on a series of racist tweets from his account, Marko Elez resigned from his position at DOGE.
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2/25
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2/26
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Disruption:
A day after posting it had found contracts to cancel, a top V.A. contracting official sends an agency-wide email “PLEASE HALT ALL CONTRACT TERMINATIONS THAT ARE IN PROGRESS” as leadership was re-considering the scope of its contract cancellations.
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c.3/25
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Interagency:
At a meeting on data sharing, an official from ICE requests that the IRS should create a service where DHS staff could simply provide the names and states of potential targets and get a list of all applicable addresses. IRS lawyers are stunned by the possible illegality and continued pressure leads to a series of resignations among staff in legal, privacy and IT offices within the IRS.
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3/21
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Disruption:
Dorn Carranza, a HHS liasion for DOGE, sends an email at 11am asking for information ASAP on mission-critical systems at the FDA as well as regular status updates on the data collection. Because the FDA CIO was out of office at the time, her CISO hastily submitted a response with his own opinions. This seems to have been what guided RIF selection at FDA, without anybody at DOGE reviewing the information for accuracy.
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3/29
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Access:
Stephanie Holmes and Katrine Trampe are given full admin access to the Federal Personnel Payroll System (FPPS) which handles the payroll processing for approximately half of the federal government.
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4/04
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Disruption:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly lashed out at Yinon Weiss for seeming to overstep his authority. The altercation was apparently triggered by Justin Fulcher storming out of a meeting with Weiss because he thought that Weiss has reported him to the Pentagon’s police service.
(fuzz: date given as just early April)
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4/10
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4/10
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Disruption:
A leaked OMB budget proposal memorandum propose major changes to the discretionary budget for the Department of Health and Human Services. Specifically, it includes cutting that budget by a third and also consolidating various health and safety-related agencies into a new Administration for a Healthy America (AHA) overseen by the HHS Secretary.
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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 now be sent to a new email address which will be reviewed by DOGE staffers before grants can be posted.
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4/18
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Disruption:
In retribution against Harvard University for rejecting demands from the Trump Administration on April 14th, the National Science Foundation begins rejecting scientific grants, stating they weren’t in alignment with current NSF priorities.
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4/22
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Disruption:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces plans for a major reorganization of the State Department that would eliminate 132 offices and terminate roughly 700 positions in DC. It also would reduce monitoring of war crimes and global conflicts.
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4/30
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Interagency:
As part of a DOGE-driven effort to find ways to punish Harvard by pulling its grants from the federal govenment, Josh Gruenbaum emails Alexander Simonpour to ask if there are grants that can be revoked by NASA. The next day, Simonpour relayed the request to other NASA staffers and then followed up on May 8th stating that the White House had imposed a 5pm deadline for the information.
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c.5/23
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Action:
In a meeting shortly after Trump signed executive orders relating to the NRC, DOGE staffer Adam Blake reportedly told the chair and top staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that they would be expected to “rubber stamp” any reactor designs which might be tested by the Department of Energy or the Department of Defense.
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5/08
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5/08
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Interagency:
Jeremy Lichtman emails USDA officials to inform them that GSA (likely Josh Gruenbaum) had directed them to review several agency grants for termination. These terminations were reportedly “awaiting final greenlight from the White House.”
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5/12
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Disruption:
In a retaliation against the university coordinated by GSA, grants for Harvard University from DOD, HUD, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education are all terminated. There were 200 grants from DOD alone. The stated reasons varied but included that they no longer effectuated the administration’s priorities or directly accusing Harvard of fostering antisemitism on campus.
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5/16
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Directory:
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communication on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
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c.6/05
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Disruption:
Concerned by Steve Davis’ attempts to stay involved with DOGE despite no longer being employed by the agency and instructions to not interact with him, DOGE staffers Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos, Ryan Shea, and Adam Blake privately questioned Davis about his involvement. They also reportedly contacted DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor about the legality of his continued involvement.
(fuzz: date is not given in article, unclear if at meeting or afterwards)
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c.6/05
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Disruption:
Concerned by people questioning his continued authority, Steve Davis reportedly taps Anthony Armstrong, Josh Gruenbaum and Stephen Ehikian to assess the loyalty of DOGE staffers and assert they are the leadership of DOGE now, acting under the authority of JD Vance and Susie Wiles in the White House. This is a bluff, and staffers in the White House counter that their authority is only within GSA itself.
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6/05
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6/07
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Disruption:
Steve Davis removed DOGE staffers that he considered disloyal from shared Signal chats that DOGE had continued to use for coordination. He also used his influence at GSA to have Ryan Shea removed from his position. Other Davis targets – Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos and Adam Blake – were able to remain at their posts but were shut out from DOGE communications
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6/24
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Disruption:
Jeremy Lewin signs off on an award to a Trump-backed aid group in Gaza, despite objections that the group failed to meet “minimum technical or budgetary standards” and waived mandatory counter-terrorism and fraud safeguards. The funding request was made by Kenneth Jackson, who ignored 58 objections raised by former USAID staff.
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6/25
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Interagency:
Although he was considered more friendly to the Trump admininstration and DOGE, Andrew DeMello, the acting general counsel for the IRS refuses to turn over the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers that had been requested by ICE. He declares there are multiple legal “deficiencies” with the request that do not meet the legal safeguards that were listed in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for this process, which declared that such data could only be shared for open criminal investigations.
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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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6/27
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6/27
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Legal:
A federal appeals court issues a stay on a lower-court ruling that blocked DOGE from taking over the USIP. In their ruling, the appeals panel noted that President Trump would face “irreparable harm from not being able to fully exercise his executive powers,” should the injunction be allowed to stand. This restores Nate Cavanaugh as President of the USIP.
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6/XX
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Official:
The White House Presidential Personnel Office contacts DOGE leads across the government to inform them that Steve Davis is no longer an employee of DOGE and they should cease all contact with him.
(fuzz: Not named, but linking to Trent Morse, since this is his office.)
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6/XX
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Interagency:
A lawyer at ICE proposes expanding the original data sharing MOU between the agency to also support requesting data on US citizens and lawful permanent residents (it had been limited to undocumented immigrants previously). Anthony DeMello rejected this change at the IRS and insisted that senior leadership at Treasury would have to sign off on this due to possible legal risks.
(fuzz: meeting date not given)
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7/06
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Disruption:
The head of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sends a “DEI Whistle-blower Questionnaire” to all staff which is really just a thinly-veiled invitation for federal coworkers to snitch on their colleagues.
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7/10
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Official:
The Pentagon releases a memo calling for “drone dominance,” including increasing manufacturing, embedding drones within armed units and assuming more risk in developing new technologies. The memo is signed by Pete Hegseth, but it was disributed with a DOGE Controlled tag and revealed the appointment of Owen West as the chief point of contact. This is a marked departure from DOGE’s spending control and personnel reduction efforts at the agency.
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7/10
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Official:
HHS issues a press release announces that it is cracking down on ensuring that benefits are not being provided to undocumented immigrants, including Head Start among its list of programs that will be receiving greater scrutiny. This policy shift will also likely be used to justify increased information sharing between HHS and ICE.
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7/11
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Disruption:
After DOGE imposed its “Defend the Spend” restrictions on reviewing grants, HHS is struggling to review and approve a billion-dollar backlog of delayed grants by the end of the fiscal year in September. This issues have been compounded by mass layoffs, also led by DOGE. Applicants may be forced to apply only within a two-week window and some parts of the agency like the Administration for Children and Families have reportedly asked departed staff to come back or are hiring contractors to resolve the mess.
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7/11
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Sighting:
In a written response to questions from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the nominee to head the NRC reveals there is currently one DOGE staffer (reported as Adam Blake) detailed to the agency from the Department of Energy to reform the agency following the guidance in EO 14300.
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7/11
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Disruption:
The State Department lays off more than 1300 people – many specializing in violent extremism, refugee resettlement and women’s rights – as part of a sweeping reorganization announced by Marco Rubio on April 22. The terminated staff will be placed on a 120-day administrative leave period before formally losing their jobs.
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7/12
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7/14
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Disruption:
The Social Security Administration begins to warn approximately half a million Americans who still receive their benefits by paper check that they will need to call the Treasury Department themselves and request a waiver. Those who have not had their waivers processed by the end of September may experience a delay in receiving benefits even if their waiver application is pending. This action is being taken to comply with EO 14247.
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7/14
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Disruption:
Declaring that a Supreme Court shadown docket ruling on July 8th gave them the go-ahead, HHS declares a Reduction-in-Force that was initiated on April 1st is still in effect by sending affected employees a messages stating “You are hereby notified that you are officially separated from HHS at the close of business on July 14, 2025. Thank you for your service to the American people.” The number of affected employees is in the thousands, but some of the 10,000 fired in the original RIF are still protected by another case New York v. Kennedy.
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7/14
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Disruption:
Months after the destruction of USAID and folding in some of its staff and responsibilities into the US Department of State, the Trump administration incinerates 500 million tons of emergency food biscuits worth $800,000 rather than sending it to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where it could have fed 1.5 million children for a week because it was due to expire. Marco Rubio had promised the House Appropriations Committee that he would ensure food aid is distributed before expiration, but the government eliminated all aid to Afghanistan and refused to divert the food to other emergency crises. The cost of destroying the biscuits will be $130,000 making this nearly a $1 million dollar loss incurred by DOGE (not to mention lives that will be lost).
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7/15
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Legal:
In a setback for the Trump administration, an appeals court rules in CREW v. DOGE that the agency must comply with records requests being made by CREW and that the official DOGE administrator Amy Gleason must be made available to testify. This came after CREW modified its initial request to exclude certain communications that the Supreme Court had ruled should be exempted. Those changes were enough to satisfy the appeals court.
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7/15
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Report:
As an example of one of the many ways that DOGE’s simplistic cost-cutting can have downstream effects, IPOs for biotech startups have dramatically slowed this year with many companies expressing concern that the reduced capacity of a diminished FDA will significantly affect their businesses.
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7/15
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Report:
Reporting on DOGE’s efforts to import IRS data into immigration enforcement databases, ProPublica reports that 7.3 million addresses requested by ICE have still not yet been shared with the agency by the IRS. IRS staff do not believe that ICE has 7 million open investigations and are concerned that outdated or inaccurate information in the dataset could lead to false arrests and detentions. However, IRS is still building this system and is targeting a late July launch date.
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7/16
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Access:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Access (CMS) within HHS have reportedly signed a deal to deliver information on all 79 million enrollees in Medicaid to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This information, which includes the addresses and ethnicities of enrollees, will supercharge a surveillance machine assembled by DOGE that is being used by ICE to arrest undocumented immigrants (and others).
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7/17
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Disruption:
Congress passess a $9 billion recissions package that codifies DOGE cuts to foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, despite concerns from Democrats and two Senate Republicans that its cuts are purposefully vague and undermine Congress’ role in the budget process.
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7/18
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Official:
The Air Force contacts media to report that it has cut $10.4 billion in costs after DOGE reviewed over 500 contracts and 50 business systems. The bulk of this savings came from cancelling the Department Air Force Strategic Transformation Support (DAFSTS) Contract for $4.8 billion in avoided costs. This however was an umbrella contract for a wide variety of IT modernization and consulting services, for which money had not been allocated, meaning that this tally might be affected by the same fuzzy double-counting and hypothetical savings that were an issue on the DOGE’s own tally of cost recovery.
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Week of 2025-07-06
+3358 -622
- Working on more missing text content and social previews
- Adding more info on DOGE system modifications
- Fix some errors in how I tracked changes from week to week
- Linking some of the DOGE people to their likely LinkedIn pages
- Identified SSA-11 as John Solly
- Fixed support to link to specific Exec Orders, auto-linkifying references to them
- [View All Changes]
Names Added
Ankur Bansal, Brian Burroughs, Yat Choi, John Solly
Positions Added
| Position | Date | Person |
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NASA
1/XX
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appointed «Missing details, but Scott Coulter started at NASA and was detailed to SSA.» | |
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SSA
3/16
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[as SSA-11] appointed Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer (NTE 2026-03-15, ED-00, $162,672) | |
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GSA DOL
c.5/09
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likely detailed «Wired Magazine reported in June was detailed to DOL, but calendar reports meeting about DOL grants on 5/09, so guessing detailed around then.» | |
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DOT
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appointed «Reportedly reviewing DOT grants to cancel» | |
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GSA
6/XX
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unknown «Not many details besides start date “in June.” Because he is a former IT consultant, I’m not sure if he has been hired or is consulting.» | |
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OPM
6/XX
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appointed «reportedly a Canadian working on temp visa which would disqualify for federal role» | |
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OPM
7/09
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appointed Director |
Events Added
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3/03
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3/04
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Official:
Erica Jehling pushes for the cancellation of 21 grants at the EPA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in construction materials, so that she can post a tweet on the EPA X.com account to celebrate it. She cc’s Kathryn Armstrong Loving on her emails coordinating the cancellations.
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3/18
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Interagency:
A senior policy strategist at the White House relays a “Stephen request” (meaning Stephen Miller) that “POTUS wants to see more action against universities.” Included in the initial coordination is GSA Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum. He becomes involved with figuring out grants from multiple agencies to cut for both University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State University, because they had allowed trans athletes to participate in sports. This is very much not his area of responsibility at the GSA, but he is on the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism which stripped funding from Columbia Univesity.
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3/19
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Interagency:
During a discussion on how to strip grants from the University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State, GSA FAS Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum sends an email to coordinate grant freezes from DOD, DHS and the EPA. He includes DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt, Adam Hoffman and Kathryn Armstrong Loving as the recipients of these requests.
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3/25
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Interagency:
Kathryn Armstrong Loving and Erica Jehling continue to work directly with Josh Gruenbaum from the GSA on more grants to cancel at the EPA.
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4/09
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Onboard:
Adam Ramada and Brooks Morgan are part of a cohort of 9 staffers detailed from the Department of Education to the Treasury, under the aegis of supporting federal student aid functions at Treasury.
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4/17
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Disruption:
In his new role as CIO for the Department of Labor, Thomas Shedd announces goals to reduce the department by 30% through resignations and layoffs. He also claims that DOGE is not “tracking” staff at the agency, and that all changes will be determined by focusing on results.
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4/29
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Disruption:
A letter is sent to all USDA staff informing them that DOGE staffers would be reviewing all farm loans above $500,000 as well as loans of any size to “formal entities,” which could mean everything from small farms to large corporations. Loans are already reviewed by highly qualified and experienced loan officers at the USDA.
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4/XX
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Access:
Jordan Wick is granted high-level access to the National Payment Service (NPS) system, which would allow him to see and alter payments or even cancel loans to farmers and other agricultural producers. Concerningly, his activities are not logged or recorded.
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c.5/25
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Disruption:
Over 200 loan recipients have their birth date voided and their accounts closed in the National Payment Service (NPS) system. This action was likely taken by Jordan Wick in response to discovering that some number of loan recipients had “1900” as their birth years (DOGE presumed similar circumstances at SSA indicated fraud when it was really issues with data entry). It is possible that this action was a pretext for closing other accounts.
(fuzz: date just reported as late May)
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c.6/05
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Report:
Frank Bisignano is granted permission to remove any DOGE staff at his agency. According to the report, “Bisignano parted ways with one DOGE staffer from SSA, who in June moved to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.” The date and person isn’t named, but the CIO replacement at SSA and NASA connection suggest it’s Scott Coulter who was removed in early June.
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6/10
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Report:
Despite having left government service, Elon Musk, Steve Davis and Katie Miller reportedly tell top DOGE staff at a meeting that Musk continues to back their work and they should continue to stay the course.
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6/18
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Disruption:
Following the guidance in EO 14222, DHS head Kristi Noem demands that every contract and grant worth more than $100,000 must be explicitly reviewed and approved by her. This particularly alarms staff at FEMA who warn that it will destroy the agency’s ability to respond to disasters in a timely manner.
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6/XX
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Report:
After several DOGE staffers expressed concerns that he should not have access to government information or continue to direct DOGE staff, Steve Davis reportedly pushes for their firing, calling it an attempted coup. Sam Corcos is named as one DOGE staffer who was given the silent treatment by Davis and allies.
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c.7/01
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Action:
Christopher Sweet participates in a meeting at HUD to discuss more permanent hosting options for the AI deregulation tool which had been running internally. This could be the precursor to providing it as a service to other agencies.
(fuzz: Meeting reported as in week of 2025-06-30)
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7/06
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Disruption:
The head of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., sends a “DEI Whistle-blower Questionnaire” to all staff which is really just a thinly-veiled invitation for federal coworkers to snitch on their colleagues.
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7/07
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Action:
Thomas Shedd announces that after a review of 7200 websites in the federal government, GSA is recommending that 332 of those should be eliminated. These cuts are not evenly distributed (the SBA will eliminate half of its websites). This initiative dates back to 2023 OMB guidance for the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act, so this is not a DOGE-created project, but some of the websites and pages are for programs targeted by DOGE.
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7/07
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Disruption:
An unidentified DOGE team member used the official DOGE VA account on X.com to send a direct message ridiculing a Republican donor who had proposed the imaginary “DOGE Dividend Check” for turning against Musk and creating an anti-Musk SuperPAC. According to the administration, that person no longer works for the VA.
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7/08
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Report:
The Wall Street Journal reports that Steve Davis continues to exert control over DOGE via informal communications, despite having departed the agency after Musk left.
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7/09
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Disruption:
At least 2,145 senior (GS-13 to GS-15) employees at NASA are leaving the agency, due to DOGE’s anti-personnel efforts and a proposed budget that would cut the agency budget by 5000 people and 25% of its operating budget. It is unclear if NASA will be able to meet its promise to return astronauts to the moon in 2027 or later send people to Mars with such a reduction in expereinced high-level personnel.
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7/09
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Onboard:
Scott Kupor is confirmed by the Senate to be the new Director of OPM, replacing Charles Ezell who had been serving in an acting capacity since January 20th.
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7/10
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7/10
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7/10
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Disruption:
As predicted by experts, the newly created process that mandates that all contracts above $100,000 must be reviewed and approved by agency head Kristi Noem delayed the ability of FEMA to proactively respond to disastrous flash flooding in central Texas. For instance, FEMA could not get approval to stage Search and Rescue teams in the area before the disaster. The agency also was unable to approve additional staff for outreach and responding to calls from affected Americans.
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7/10
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Report:
In a sign of DOGE’s apparent waning influence at the agency, the guard who used to be posted outside of the sixth-floor A suite is gone as well as the signs in the elevator listing that only authorized access is allowed for that floor.
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Week of 2025-06-29
+5177 -503
- 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
- Started to add LinkedIn information for future use
- [View All Changes]
Positions Added
| Position | Date | Person |
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GSA
2/XX
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appointed | |
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DOGE
3/XX
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appointed «Appears in a leaked list of DOGE email addresses» | |
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SSA
c.6/23
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appointed (SGE) | |
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SSA
6/XX
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promoted to Chief Information Officer (supervisory) |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
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2/03
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Report:
Brian Bjelde holds a meeting with senior staff at OPM, directing them to prepare plans to eliminate 70% of the agency’s workforce at some unspecified point in the future. They are also told to identify 30% of staff that could be eliminated in the near term.
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2/13
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2/14
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3/20
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Official:
After being sworn in as the acting director of the IMLS, Keith Sonderling issues a statement that he “will revitalize IMLS and restore focus on patriotism, ensuring we preserve our country’s core values, promote American exceptionalism and cultivate love of country in future generations.”
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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 now be sent to a new email address which will be reviewed by DOGE staffers before grants can be posted.
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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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5/13
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Disruption:
A new memo from the acting principal director for acquisitions at the VA declares that all new contracts for information technology and professional services or any other contract for more than $10 million must be approved first by either Christopher Roussos or Cary Volpert. In addition, they are now required to send weekly reports to both of the DOGE representatives.
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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:
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 prices jumped from 10% to 30% due to staffing shortfalls.
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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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6/25
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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 to that location. 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’s National Hurricane Center. This imaging is used to prevent “sunrise surprises” by allowing forecasters to monitor hurricanes at night. The change is expected to degrade the quality of hurricane forecasts.
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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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6/27
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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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6/27
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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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6/30
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7/01
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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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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 frequently hanging up on people after 2 hours and promising a callback that never arrives. The Social Security website misleadingly reports the average wait time as 18 minutes.
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Week of 2025-06-22
+2508 -1071
- 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 | Date | Person |
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State
1/20-4/13
fired |
appointed Director of Foreign Assistance | |
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GSA? USAID
1/27
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likely detailed as Senior Advisor, Office of the CIO «Date at USAID reported by NYT» | |
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USAID
2/01-3/19
resigned |
appointed | |
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USADF
2/28
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appointed Acting Chair of the Board | |
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ED Treasury
4/09
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detail to Senior Treasury Advisor | |
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ED Treasury
4/09
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detail to Senior Treasury Advisor «Was he detailed from Education after detailed from DOGE? Or has he been hired by Education since?» |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
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1/20
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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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Report:
Senior USAID staff meet to explain to unnamed admininstration officials that the slow way in which USAID payments are processed through other agencies made it seem like funds allocated before the Trump executive order took effect were issued in defiance of the order. The administration officials seem confident they can explain to Peter Marocco.
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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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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 to be 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 push 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. As a result, Clayton Cromer commands security staff to forcibly remove him from the building.
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1/30
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Disruption:
Jeremy Lewin and Elon Musk order the acting head of USAID to comply with orders to lock every USAID employee worldwide out of all email and other communication systems. He refuses, stating that 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. Rubio then resigns and 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 the weekend. Some of the cut programs are then 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 of these changes but find out from aid organizations whose funds have been affected.
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Week of 2025-06-15
+4828 -820
- 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 | Date | Person |
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DHS TSA
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internal xfer «NYT links him to TSA, but no other info public» | |
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DHS USCIS
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internal xfer | |
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GSA? MCC
3/22
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likely detailed «Linked to MCC by NPR, start date guessed from disruption there» | |
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DOL
3/23
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promoted to Deputy Secretary of Labor, Office of the Secretary (Exec Appt, supervisory, $183,100) | |
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MBDA
c.4/17
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appointed Acting Undersecretary (supervisory) «Nate Cavanaugh sent out grant rejections under the authority of Sonderling as Acting Undersecretary» | |
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GSA Commerce
c.4/09
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likely detailed «Senate Democrats note that Cavanaugh has a commerce email address. Guessing date is around detail to MBDA.» | |
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GSA MBDA
c.4/09
|
likely detailed «inferred from disruptions at MBDA starting» |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
|
c.12/15
|
Interagency:
A contractor at the Social Security Administration arranges an introduction for Leland Dudek to meet Steve Davis.
(fuzz: Date is just given as “mid-December”)
|
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1/20
|
Onboard:
Stephen Ehikian is sworn in as the Acting Administrator of the GSA. This move allows the administration to avoid a confirmation process for the role.
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1/20
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1/24
|
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 on this day as the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner.
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1/29
|
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 Congressional appropriaions and two-thirds of its staff are federal workers.
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c.2/26
|
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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2/03
|
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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2/07
|
Report:
After gaining access to the PAM DB system for payments, DOGE members at the Treasury department discover what appear to be payments flowing to recipients without Social Security numbers. Other recipients appear to be dead. These discrepancies lead to Musk accusing SSA of massive fraud on his Twitter feed, but later analysis by SSA staff reveal these were cases of DOGE not understanding how the data was structured.
(fuzz: article just reports this as early Feb; but Musk tweets said he was informed on 2/7)
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2/09
|
Official:
Elon Musk posts more tweets claiming to have discovered sources of “massive fraud” within the SSA. These appear to be a misunderstanding of how erroneous records that exist in the SSA database are already filtered out from receiving benefits. Instead, he assumed that all erroneous records had received benefits and thus this was the massive fraud.
|
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2/10
|
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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2/10
|
Sighting:
Adam Ramada shows up in the Department of Energy’s online directory, along with Luke Farritor. There also is reportedly a third DOGE staffer at the agency.
|
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2/10
|
Report:
Mike Russo summons his new ally Leland Dudek to his office and asks him to explain data discrepancies identified by Elon Musk. Leland convenes a team of dozens of SSA engineers who review the data from the Treasury department and document fallacies of DOGE’s reasoning in a memo. Mike Russo rejects the memo’s conclusions by declaring that DOGE would not trust career civil servants and demanding that Akash Bobba must do his own analysis.
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2/11
|
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2/13
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2/14
|
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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2/18
|
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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2/20
|
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
|
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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2/22
|
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2/23
|
Onboard:
Social Security Administration onboards 3 more unidentified DOGE 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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2/27
|
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” as retribution for 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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3/02
|
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 seems like a blatant attempt to spin the narrative and claim the agency has not been stopped from performing its statutory duties. In her later ruling, Judge Amy Berman Jackson describes this move as “[insulting] the reader’s intelligence when he feigns surprise that few employees were working.”
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3/03
|
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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3/07
|
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 decision to cancel the contracts. This is a deliberate misdirection from DOGE’s role in the action.
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3/24
|
Sighting:
Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino met with the DOGE team embedded there (Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour), reportedly to discuss ethics rules.
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3/28
|
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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c.4/07
|
Sighting:
Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox begin holding a series of meetings with MCC leadership. Following the DOGE pattern for small independent agencies, this process eventually culminates in termination of all grants and mass layoffs.
(fuzz: exact date not given, just in “last two weeks”)
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4/01
|
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. She asserts “the number is 40 percent.”
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4/10
|
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 that would not normally be granted to someone with his limited work experience.
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4/11
|
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 perform a reduction-in-force, provided that they conduct a “particularized assessment” for the process.
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4/18
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4/21
|
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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4/30
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4/30
|
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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4/XX
|
Sighting:
Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour meet again with the acting Postmaster General as well as other senior staff. Reportedly, the topic of this meeting is potential price increases, which is outside the limitations on their work that had been set by former Postmaster DeJoy in the Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) he signed for their presence at the agency.
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5/01
|
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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5/02
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5/13
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5/20
|
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 that NRC staff “may not know or be privy to the bases for OMB decisions for why an action is significant.”
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5/23
|
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 (RIF) and realign its organizational priorities. Following the model used by the Trump Administration for other independent agencies, this is probably the prelude for DOGE to arrive at the agency.
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5/31
|
Report:
Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor’s roles 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. It would not normally be granted to staff with such limited work experience.
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5/XX
|
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6/06
|
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, the company which he was simultaneously running. He departed Treasury a month before his SGE status would have required him to leave.
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6/06
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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 requesting to see details about the NxGenBdoorExtract program.
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6/16
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Disruption:
White House Deputy Director 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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Week of 2025-06-08
+7865 -2679
- 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
Ankur Bansai, Alison Childs, Bee Elvy, Carter Farmer, Nicholas Gallagher, Patrick George, Jim Hickey, Allan Mangaser, Paul McInery, Matthew Parkhurst-Session, Ryan Shea, Mike Slagh, Yinon Weiss
Positions Added
| Position | Date | Person |
|---|---|---|
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GSA
2/XX
|
appointed «Assuming GSA start because linked there by ProPublica and at time, people were detailed from there» | |
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Defense
2/18
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appointed «Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans» | |
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Defense
2/18
|
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.» | |
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Defense
2/18
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appointed «Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans» | |
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Defense
2/18-7/XX
Left DOGE |
appointed «Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans. Reported as having left DOD in July by Wash. Post» | |
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GSA IAF
2/28-4/04
removed |
detail «agency contact was earlier, but assuming MOU signed when Marocco seized power» | |
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GSA IAF
2/28-4/04
removed |
detail «agency contact was earlier, but assuming MOU signed when Marocco seized power» | |
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OPM Global Media
c.3/01
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[as OPM-05] detail «detail in court doc, date from Kliger spotted at VOA around start of March» | |
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OPM? Global Media
c.3/01
|
likely detailed «Date unknown, but assuming with Kliger who was at USAGM in early March» | |
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GSA
3/03
|
appointed Senior Advisor (excepted) | |
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GSA? MCC
3/22
|
likely detailed «Linked to MCC by NPR, start date guessed from disruption there» | |
|
GSA? Wilson Ctr.
3/31
|
likely detailed «Linked to WWICS by NPR, date is first DOGE sighting at agency» | |
|
EOP
4/XX
|
appointed Senior Advisor to the US Federal CIO, Office of Management and Budget «LinkedIn says he started there in April» | |
|
OPM DHS
4/XX
|
likely detailed «Based on reports talked to TSA and CISA, assuming detail to DHS» | |
|
DHS CISA
4/XX
|
internal xfer «Reportedly met with CISA» | |
|
DHS TSA
4/XX
|
internal xfer «Reportedly met with TSA» | |
|
GSA VA
c.4/25
|
likely detailed | |
|
ED? DOI
5/01
|
likely detailed «Guessed because created a spreadsheet at DOI on grant cancellations around 5/07» | |
|
EPA
c.5/08
|
appointed Chief Information Officer | |
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DOI
5/05
|
appointed Chief Information Officer (supervisory) | |
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GSA
5/XX
|
appointed «Date guessed based on reporting from ProPublica and 404 Media on ai.gov» | |
|
GSA
5/XX
|
appointed «Date guessed based on reporting from ProPublica and 404 Media on ai.gov» | |
|
GSA
5/XX
|
appointed «Named in ProPublica roundup, start date guessed» | |
|
GSA
5/XX-6/07
Left DOGE |
appointed «Start date guessed» | |
|
GSA? HHS
5/XX
|
likely detailed «ProPublica reports he was working on HHS projects, assuming detail from GSA» |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
|
1/20
|
Access:
IT staff at OPM are pulled into a “911-esque call” requesting that “a political team” of 6 individuals must be given access to OPM systems. These include Charles Ezell, Greg Hogan, and Amanda Scales, as well as unidentified employees OPM-03 (Akash Bobba), OPM-05 (Gavin Kliger) and OPM-07 (Brian Bjelde). These DOGE staffers are granted administrative access to USAJOBS, USA Staffing, and USA Performance systems.
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1/20
|
||
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1/27
|
Access:
Charles Ezell sends an email to OPM IT staff stating that OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-04 (Edward Coristine), and OPM-06 (Nikhil Rajpal) “urgently” need access to several sensitive systems within the agency.
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1/28
|
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
|
Access:
Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM have their database access restored by order of the CIO Greg Hogan. It is unclear who ordered the original revocation of access and what changes have happened in the interim.
|
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|
2/11
|
Report:
Online security researchers post evidence that the DOGE website was developed and is hosted by Outburst Data, a company run and operated by Kyle Schutt.
|
|
|
2/20
|
Sighting:
IAF President Sara Aviel learns that DOGE will be visiting her agency. That afternoon, she meets Nate Cavanaugh and Ethan Shaotran who both introduce themselves as GSA employees. They showed little interest in a discussion on efficiency initiatives at the agency and stated they just wanted access to systems.
|
|
|
2/21
|
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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2/24
|
||
|
2/24
|
Disruption:
The IAF President Sara Aviel joins 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 Memorandum of Understanding (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
|
||
|
2/26
|
Disruption:
Sara Aviel receives an email from White House Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel Trent Morse informing her that President Trump has now terminated her position.
|
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2/28
|
Disruption:
White House Deputy Trent Morse sends an email to the office director at the IAF which states that Peter Marocco has been appointed the acting Chairman for the agency.
|
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|
2/28
|
Disruption:
Peter Marocco convenes an emergency board meeting (where the emergency is that Trump issued an executive order), asserting that means he can avoid the mandatory 1-week notification to the board of the agency. In attendance at the meeting are Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh. This is where he declares himself the new President and Acting CIO of the IAF.
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c.3/01
|
||
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c.3/05
|
Disruption:
Peter Marocco names the remaining single employee not on admininstrative leave at the agency, the Chief Information Security Officer, as the new President of the Inter-American Foundation.
|
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|
3/04
|
||
|
3/04
|
Disruption:
Peter Marocco sends emails to all grantees terminating all of IAF’s existing grants except for a single one that was almost completely disbursed by that point.
|
|
|
3/15
|
||
|
3/15
|
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.
|
|
|
3/31
|
Sighting:
DOGE staff reportedly visit the Wilson Center for Scholars headquarters. In other reporting, the New York Times had identified Justin Fox as part of this delegation.
|
|
|
4/01
|
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.
|
|
|
4/04
|
||
|
4/04
|
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 the day before Aviel’s return by orders of a court as President of the agency.
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|
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5/02
|
||
|
5/07
|
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 also targeted because it was “DEI.”
|
|
|
6/02
|
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.
|
|
|
6/06
|
Report:
Several senior staff write a memo to agency leadership reporting that California, Washington and Illinois had cooperated with EO 14243 requesting info on 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, and that it could be used to identify and target immigrant communities in those states.
|
|
|
6/06
|
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.
|
|
|
6/06
|
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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|
6/06
|
||
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6/09
|
||
|
6/09
|
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”
|
|
|
6/14
|
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 in the Voice of America’s Persian wing immediately back to work. All of them had been on enforced administrative leave for several months.
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Week of 2025-06-01
+14645 -5335
- 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 | Date | Person |
|---|---|---|
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OPM
1/20-2/18
|
[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» | |
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OPM
1/20
|
[as OPM-08] appointed Senior Advisor to the Director (SES Noncareer, ES-00, $195,200) | |
|
OPM
1/31
|
[as OPM-07] converted to permanent position Expert, Office of the Director (ED-00) «permanent position approved» | |
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DOGE
2/XX
|
appointed «His linkedin reports Feb 2026 as start» | |
|
DOGE
2/XX-5/23
resigned |
appointed «identified as dual appointee at HHS and DOGE / detailed from USDS» | |
|
DOGE HHS
2/XX-3/04
|
likely detailed «detail started before 2/13» | |
|
HHS
2/XX
|
likely detailed «assuming a detail from DOGE to HHS» | |
|
OPM
2/18
|
[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) | |
|
DOGE? EPA
2/XX
|
likely detailed «Carl Coe, who currently leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at DOE» | |
|
HHS FDA
c.2/25
|
internal xfer «mentioned as meeting with FDA staff in late Feb/early March» | |
|
OPM Global Media
c.3/01
|
[as OPM-05] detail «detail in court doc, date from Kliger spotted at VOA around start of March» | |
|
HHS CMS
3/03
|
internal xfer «date inferred from access to CMS CALM system» | |
|
HHS
3/04-5/23
resigned |
converted to permanent position Senior Advisor | |
|
OPM
3/28-3/29
|
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» | |
|
OPM
3/28
|
promoted to Chief of Staff, Office of the Director (55-Noncareer (Senior Exec Perm), ES-00) | |
|
GSA
4/10
|
converted to permanent position Senior Advisor (GS-14, $142,488 - $185,234) «Salary range for GS-14 in DC» | |
|
EPA
5/02
|
converted to permanent position Chief of Staff (supervisory) | |
|
GSA
5/31-6/23
resigned |
converted to permanent position Senior Advisor (GS-15, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC» | |
|
GSA
5/31
|
converted to permanent position Senior Advisor (GS-15, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC» | |
|
DHS TSA
|
internal xfer | |
|
OPM GSA
|
[as OPM-05] detail «detail in court doc» |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
|
c.2/25
|
Sighting:
FDA staff conduct a meeting to provide a high-level overview of FDA structures and functions to Clark Minor, the new CIO for HHS.
(fuzz: date is just given as late February and early March for meetings)
|
|
|
2/01
|
Report:
Stephanie Holmes, the new head of HR at DOGE/USDS, is unable to answer questions from USDS staff about if the “Fork in the Road” retirement offer is legitimate.
|
|
|
2/11
|
Disruption:
Kathryn Armstrong Loving sends the EPA administrator a list of contracts that DOGE wants to eliminate and she includes Cole Killian on her message.
|
|
|
2/27
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Official:
Joe Gebbia announces on his social media account that he will be working on a project at OPM to modernize retirement processing and move it away from paper records currently stored at a cave in Pennsylvania.
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c.3/10
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3/21
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Disruption:
Dorn Carranza, a HHS liasion for DOGE, sends an email at 11am asking for information ASAP on mission-critical systems at the FDA as well as regular status updates on the data collection. Because the FDA CIO was out of office at the time, her CISO hastily submitted a response with his own opinions. This seems to have been what guided RIF selection at FDA, without anybody at DOGE reviewing the information for accuracy.
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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.
(fuzz: Amanda Scales reports on her LinkedIn that she left DOGE in March, so this might have been the cause)
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3/31
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3/XX
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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 Payment Management System system.
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4/08
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Disruption:
Terminated employees at the CDC report enduring months of DOGE representatives walking around the building looking for nominal work violations (like going to the bathroom but leaving their secure PIV card on their desk) as a pretext to immediately fire people for “security violations.”
(fuzz: this might be rumors though)
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5/02
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5/14
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5/21
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5/30
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Legal:
The judge in AFL-CIO vs. OPM examines Greg Hogan on the stand and asks if he had followed the principle of least privilege in providing system access to DOGE. The judge’s questions indicated that she seemed to be leaning towards a issuing a preliminary injunction against DOGE’s “chaotic” access to systems at OPM.
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6/02
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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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6/02
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Disruption:
NIH staff are forced to send all grant proposals through an AI tool that looks for topics banned by the Trump administration. This includes topics like “DEI, transgender, China, or vaccine hesitancy.” Staff are also ordered to check that medical research grants aren’t being awarded to certain schools like Harvard or Columbia which are seen as enemies of Trump.
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6/03
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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 by DOGE. This is especially true for minority and vulnerable populations, increasing the real risk of skewed statistics.
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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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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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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
|
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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6/06
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Sighting:
A report in the New York 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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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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Week of 2025-05-25
+19166 -117669
- 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 | Date | Person |
|---|---|---|
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OPM
1/20-2/11
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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» | |
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DOI
c.1/27-3/07
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appointed «AP reports in DOI in January, inferring before water pump stunt» | |
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GSA
2/XX
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appointed «Assuming early Feb start from appear at DOL, being in Riley Sennott’s calendar» | |
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VA
c.2/04
|
appointed «reported in early Feb but named later» | |
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DOGE EPA
2/04
|
likely detailed as Federal Detailee «assuming detail from DOGE» | |
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OPM
2/11
|
promoted to Chief Information Officer, Office of the Director (SES Noncareer, ES-00, supervisory, $195,200) | |
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DOGE SSA
2/18
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[as SSA-05] detail (NTE 2026-07-04) «limited onboarding docs, court docs about them» | |
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DOL
2/18
|
appointed Policy Advisor, Office of the Secretary (Schedule C, NTE 2025-06-17, GS-11/01, $84,601) | |
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SSA
2/23
|
[as SSA-09] appointed Expert, Office of the CIO (NTE 2026-02-22, ED-00, volunteer) | |
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OPM SSA
2/26
|
[as SSA-08] likely detailed (NTE 2026-02-26) | |
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GSA
3/XX
|
appointed «he was detailed to USPS from GSA, so assuming appointed at GSA but info unknown» | |
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HHS CMS
3/03
|
internal xfer | |
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DOI
3/07-4/XX
|
promoted to Acting Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget (supervisory) «ended with title change to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary» |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
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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.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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2/13
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2/XX
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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. Baris Akis is notably not an employee of DOGE, since he is a foreign national and Musk was not granted a waiver to hire him.
(fuzz: date is given as “late March,” assuming a Wednesday bc others reported DOGE meetings during that time)
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3/XX
|
Disruption:
Kyle Schutt and Edward Coristine repeatedly pressure staff over the next two months 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 later denied the allegations.
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4/08
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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. It explicitly names Scott Coulter, Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour as the DOGE team at the agency.
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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 by May 28 from doing any detail work they were doing to cover for DOGE staffing cuts at the agency.
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5/05
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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 past layoffs, the head of human resources at CDC emails Rachel Riley to share that the plan going forward will be to fire one person for every singer person who returns to the agency.
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5/20
|
Disruption:
In a post on its X account, DOGE reports that it is working to review surveys conducted by the Census Bureau and claims to have already eliminated 5 surveys that include questions about alcohol consumption and internet usage.
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5/22
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5/23
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5/23
|
Disruption:
Reuters reports that DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt and Edward Coristine have attempted to gain access to DHS employee emails in recent months and ordered staff to train AI to identify communications suggesting an employee is not “loyal” to Trump’s political agenda. Given earlier reports, the AI in question is like xAi’s “Grok” AI system.
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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, and there are concerns about what the data will be used for.
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5/23
|
Interagency:
In a podcast appearance, Antonio Gracias reported that the Department of Justice had requested for DOGE to find “10-20 cases” of alleged noncitizen voting in every state.
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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 which told staff to ignore instructions from Stephanie Holmes that they weren’t allow to sub in for empty roles, he is escorted out of the building by security.
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5/26
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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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5/28
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5/28
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5/29
|
Offboard:
In the wake of Elon Musk’s departure, Steve Davis, Katie Miller and James Burnham reportedly also left DOGE. Davis had been widely described as running the day-to-day operations of DOGE, and it’s unclear who will take that over.
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5/29
|
Offboard:
Steve Davis and Nicole Hollander reportedly resign their positions and depart from the GSA and government service in the wake of Elon Musk leaving DOGE
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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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Week of 2025-05-18
+39578 -16782
- 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 | Date | Person |
|---|---|---|
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OPM
1/20
|
[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» | |
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DOGE
1/20-5/29
Left DOGE |
appointed «assuming he started on 2025-01-20» | |
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DOGE
c.1/23-5/29
Left DOGE |
appointed General Counsel «NYT reported in DOGE in January, ProPublica provided title» | |
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GSA USAID
1/27
|
likely detailed | |
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DOGE
c.2/01
|
appointed «First reported today, likely onboarded earlier in January» | |
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GSA
2/XX
|
appointed «assuming hired at GSA» | |
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GSA? Energy
c.2/04
|
likely detailed | |
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DOGE
c.2/07
|
appointed | |
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SSA
2/16-5/06
|
promoted to Acting Commissioner (supervisory) | |
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GSA
c.2/18
|
appointed (GS-15/10, $195,200) | |
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OPM
3/XX-6/XX
Left DOGE |
appointed Senior Advisor | |
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GSA
4/09
|
appointed | |
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GSA
4/15
|
appointed | |
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GSA? NLRB
4/16
|
likely detailed «Spotted by media» | |
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GSA? NLRB
4/16
|
likely detailed | |
|
GSA
4/21
|
appointed | |
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GSA? DFC
4/28
|
likely detailed «Spotted by media» | |
|
GSA? DFC
4/28
|
likely detailed | |
|
GSA? DFC
4/28
|
likely detailed | |
|
GSA DFC
4/28
|
detail | |
|
GSA? SEC
c.5/02
|
likely detailed as Senior Advisor, Chairman of the SEC «title sourced from ProPublica» | |
|
SSA
5/06
|
demoted «Replaced by Bisignano as confirmed commissioner» |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
|
1/29
|
||
|
c.4/30
|
Disruption:
Social Security introduces a new AI-based agent for handling phone calls to 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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4/17
|
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4/22
|
Sighting:
THe U.S. Access Board reports that the agency had a cordial meeting with DOGE and that additional meetings are expected in the future
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4/23
|
Sighting:
After an initial video call, DOGE representatives arrive at the agency offices of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
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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
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|
5/06
|
Official:
Frank Bisignano is confirmed by the Senate to be the new Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, replacing Leland Dudek who was serving as the acting commissioner.
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5/09
|
Sighting:
DOGE staff reportedly met with Peace Corps leadership to discuss staffing cuts and expected resignations.
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5/13
|
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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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5/14
|
Disruption:
Due to DOGE imposing a government-wide restriction on expense cards, many of the Social Security offices are in disarray, unable to do common office tasks like buying paper for printers or shredding documents. There are a few shared purchase cards for the agency, but fewer than a dozen staff in SSA are able to authorize office expenses for all 1300 field offices.
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5/16
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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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5/19
|
Legal:
The judge presiding over the USIP’s lawsuit against the Trump administration rules that the firing of the agency’s board was illegal, rendering all subsequent actions taken by Nate Cavanaugh as President null and void.
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5/21
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5/21
|
Official:
The US Institute of Peace reatakes control of its headquarters and leadership re-enters the premises for the first time since being escorted out in DOGE’s takeover.
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Week of 2025-05-11
+119170 -510
- 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, Donald Park, Russell Vought
Positions Added
| Position | Date | Person |
|---|---|---|
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OPM
1/20
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appointed Deputy General Counsel, Office of the Director (Senior Exec Perm, ES-00, supervisory) | |
|
DOGE
1/20-5/29
Left DOGE |
appointed «no public details on when she started with DOGE, but date inferred» | |
|
DOGE
c.1/20
|
appointed «guessed from govt declaration detailed from DOGE to CFPB» | |
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EOP
1/23
|
appointed Deputy Assistant to the President / Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel (supervisory) | |
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OPM? USAID
1/27
|
likely detailed «NYT links to USAID, but need to find public reports of this» | |
|
OPM? FBI
1/29
|
likely detailed | |
|
GSA? SBA
2/03
|
likely detailed as Senior Advisor, DOGE «guessing detail start from system access» | |
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EOP
2/07
|
appointed Director, Office of Management and Budget (supervisory) | |
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CFPB
2/08
|
appointed Acting Director (supervisory) | |
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SSA
2/09
|
[as SSA-01] appointed Expert, Office of the Chief Information Officer (NTE 2026-02-08, ED-00, $90,025) | |
|
Treasury
2/13-6/06
Left DOGE |
converted to permanent position (SGE, Schedule C, NTE 2025-07-03, GS-15, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC» | |
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GSA
3/XX
|
appointed «No idea on GSA start but before 3/13» | |
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DOL SSA
2/22
|
[as SSA-03] detail (reimbursed up to $71,000) «MOU signed by Mike Russo, was this followed by being hired at SSA» | |
|
OPM
2/28
|
appointed Senior Advisor | |
|
Treasury
3/06
|
appointed Senior Advisor (Schedule C, GS-15, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC, disclosure» | |
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GSA
3/XX
|
appointed «linked to GSA by NYT, start date guessed» | |
|
OPM? DOJ
3/XX
|
likely detailed «Rep. Vindman reported in early March being contacted by Cromer at the DOJ» | |
|
SSA
5/06
|
appointed Commissioner (supervisory) | |
|
GSA? EXIM
5/14
|
likely detailed «Reported by media» | |
|
EXIM
5/14
|
likely detailed | |
|
GSA? MSPB
5/21
|
likely detailed «Email cited mentioned he was from DOGE, but assuming detail from GSA» |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
|
1/20
|
||
|
1/24
|
||
|
1/28
|
Onboard:
Justin Monroe and Christopher Stanley start working at OPM as a volunteers with the job title of Expert.
|
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|
1/30
|
Access:
Luke Farritor is granted read-only access to the CDC’s Integrated Contract Expert (ICE) system for contracts.
|
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|
1/30
|
||
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1/31
|
Access:
Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) which centralizes payments for CMS medical claims
|
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2/01
|
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2/03
|
Access:
Multiple DOGE staff (Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Conor Fennessy and Jeremy Lewin) at CMS are granted read-only access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts.
|
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2/03
|
||
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2/03
|
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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2/04
|
Access:
Luke Farritor is given read access to the CDC’s Acquisition Performance and Execution (APEX) system that tracks procurements at the CDC.
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2/07
|
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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|
2/18
|
Onboard:
Former AirBnb executive Joe Gebbia starts working at OPM as a volunteer with the job title of Expert.
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|
2/23
|
Disruption:
Employees at USAID receive emails with a “Specific Notice of a RIF” effective in 60 days and signed by Peter Marocco. Many employees had already been placed on administrative leave.
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2/24
|
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
|
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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3/04
|
Offboard:
Luke Farritor officially offboards from the CFPB and all of his system access is revoked. The reason given is that his detail had ended.
|
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|
3/04
|
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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|
3/05
|
Access:
Multiple DOGE staff (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS). This system tracks all payments made by Medicare, among other expenditures.
|
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|
3/05
|
Access:
Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims.
|
|
|
3/05
|
Access:
A second wave of DOGE members detailed to HHS (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM), which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts
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3/05
|
Access:
Edward Coristine, Zach Terrell, Aram Moghaddassi and Marko Elez are also granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims.
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|
|
3/11
|
Disruption:
Eugene Vindman, a US Representative and former whistleblower against Trump, reports being repeatedly contacted by Clayton Cromer who identifies himself as an Executive Assistant US Attorney.
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|
|
3/21
|
Offboard:
Nikhil Rajpal officially offboards from the CFPB, reportedly because his detail has ended. In a later court filing, CFPB reveals that he was not granted any system access nor did he perform any actions during his time at the CFPB.
|
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|
3/31
|
Access:
DOGE gains admin access to IMLS systems for monitoring its grants and sending emails. The person is not named, but this is likely Nate Cavanaugh.
|
|
|
4/10
|
Disruption:
AmeriCorps’ acting director submits a plan to the OPM and OMB proposing a 50% cut in the agency workforce.
|
|
|
4/16
|
Disruption:
Agency staff at AmeriCorps are placed on immediate administrative leave and banned from accessing agency systems.
|
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|
4/18
|
||
|
4/25
|
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. The reason given is that the grant “no longer effectuates agency priorities.”
|
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|
4/28
|
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
|
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
|
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.
|
|
|
5/01
|
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.
|
|
|
5/08
|
Offboard:
Gavin Kliger leaves the CFPB, officially because his detail had ended but his departure date is also the day he would be in violation of ethics rules for having not sold stock holdings prohibited to CFBP staff.
|
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5/08
|
||
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5/08
|
||
|
5/09
|
Sighting:
With the board now fired, DOGE staff are granted access to the Consumer Product Safety Commission headquarters and onboarded into the agency.
|
|
|
5/12
|
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.
|
|
|
5/13
|
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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5/13
|
||
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5/14
|
||
|
5/14
|
Sighting:
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park reportedly are assigned email addresses and reserved office space at the Export-Import Bank of the US.
|
|
|
5/15
|
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
|
||
|
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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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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5/16
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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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5/16
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Disruption:
An internal report at Social Security analyzes new fraud detection mechanisms that were mandated by DOGE for all phone claims. According to analysis, only 2 out of 110,000 claims made were possibly but not certainly fraudultent, and adding the system has slowed claims processing by 25% and degraded service overall.
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