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 2025-07-13
+1304 -414
- Major cleanup of the partial logic for rendering pages
- Reformatting of table for systems, positions and events
- [View All Changes]
Names Added
Positions Added
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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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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» The Hill |
Events Added
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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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c.5/23
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Action:
In a meeting shortly after Trump signed executive orders relating to the NRC, 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 tested by the Department of Energy or the Department of Defense.
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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 as ordered by EO 14300.
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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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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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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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6/27
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Legal:
A federal appeals court issued a stay on a lower-court ruling that blocked DOGE from taking over the USIP. In their ruling, they 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.
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7/12
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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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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
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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) court doc | |
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DOT
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appointed «Reportedly reviewing DOT grants to cancel» ProPublica | |
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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.» Wired | |
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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» Wired | |
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GSA DOL
6/XX
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likely detailed «Only info I have is Wired confirmed he was detailed to Labor» Wired | |
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OPM
7/09
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appointed Director Fed. News Network |
Events Added
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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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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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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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7/10
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7/10
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Report:
A USDA staffer (and USDA spokesperson later confirms) that the DOGE team in the agency is now referred to as the USDA Efficiency Team or “E Team.” The spokesperson then went on to say that the team has an “unmatched skillset in protecting our data and ensuring those that use their positions to access systems to defraud American taxpayers, will be held accountable.”
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6/04
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Oversight:
Testifying before the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, Russell Vought shares that he expects DOGE staff to be internalized into the agencies they are currently based at and leadership to become more decentralized.
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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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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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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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4/09
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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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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 and posts 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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7/10
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Disruption:
As predicted by experts, the newly created process that mandates that all contracts abot $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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7/07
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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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7/10
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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 listing authorized access only.
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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. 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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7/09
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Disruption:
At least 2,145 senior (GS-13 to GS-15) employees at NASA are leaving the agency under deferrered resignations and other offers to reduce staff, largely due to DOGE’s 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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c.6/05
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Report:
Frank Bisignano is granted permission to remove DOGE staff at his agency that he wants to. “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, and in early June.
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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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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 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.
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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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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 has reportedly pushed for their firing and calling it an attempted coup. He urged firing and the silent treatment for Sam Corcos and other DOGE staffers when they suggested he no longer had any authority.
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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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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
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GSA
2/XX
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appointed Wired | |
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DOGE
3/XX
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appointed «Appears in a leaked list of DOGE email addresses» Bluesky | |
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SSA
c.6/23
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appointed (SGE) Wired | |
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SSA
6/XX
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promoted to Chief Information Officer (supervisory) FedScoop |
Events Added
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6/27
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2/14
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6/27
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Disruption:
The head of acquisition for the Department of Defense orders that all new contract and task orders for IT consulting, management services, and advisory and assistance support must be approved by the DOGE team embedded within the DOD before they will be granted.
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5/12
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Access:
The Department of Homeland Security issues a subpoena to the state of California and Los Angeles County to demand records from a cash assistance program for immigrants (CAPI)
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6/25
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Disruption:
Jerome Powell, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, expresses public concerns that DOGE-directed staffing cuts at the Bureau of Labor Statistics have started to affect the quality of economic data used for forecasting and decisions. In a recent survey on prices, the rate of imputed (or guessed) prices jumped from 10% to 30% due to staffing shortfalls.
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6/23
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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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4/11
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Disruption:
Luke Farritor uses his admin access to lock out all government officials at multiple agencies from using grants.gov to issue new grants. Instead, all grants must not be sent to a new email address which will be reviewed by DOGE before grants can be posted.
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6/26
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Official:
In an email to agency partners, the operators of grants.gov declare that the revised mechanism added in April that routed all Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) through a DOGE email address has been reversed. Instead, agencies are to return to using the tool like that did previously. This doesn’t necessarily mean that DOGE or political appointees will not be reviewing grants, but they have no longer locked other users out of the system.
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2/13
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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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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 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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7/01
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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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6/28
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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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7/02
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Disruption:
An analysis by a news organization finds that wait times on calls to Social Security routinely exceed 3 hours, with the system also hanging up on people after 2 hours many times and promising a callback that never arrives. The Social Security website reports the average wait time as 18 minutes.
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7/01
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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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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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6/25
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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 there. There are no details provided on where NSF is expected to relocate to.
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6/26
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Disruption:
The Department of Defense announced that it would immediately stop ingesting and sharing data from 3 microwave-imaging satellites with NOAA and the National Hurricane Center. This imaging is used to prevent “sunrise surprises” by allowing forecasters to monitor hurricanes at night. This is expected to degrade the quality of hurricane forecasts.
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6/27
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Week of 2025-06-22
+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
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State
1/20-4/13
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appointed Director of Foreign Assistance Reuters | |
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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» Wash. Post | |
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USAID
2/01-3/19
resigned |
appointed NYT | |
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USADF
2/28
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appointed Acting Chair of the Board court doc | |
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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
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1/20
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1/24
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Report:
Senior USAID staff meet to explain to unnamed admininstration officials that the slow way in which USAID payments are processed through other agencies led to the appearance that funds allocated before the Trump executive order took effect were directly subverting it. The administration officials seem confident they can explain to Peter Marocco.
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1/27
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Onboard:
Still convinced that USAID is deliberately committing insubordination against the executive order, Peter Marocco arrives at USAID with DOGE staffers Luke Farritor, Edward Coristine and Clayton Cromer to audit USAID’s accounts.
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1/30
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Report:
DOGE presents their evidence that the employees should be placed on leave based on a single email analysis made by Luke Farritor and sent to other DOGE members. “I could be wrong. My numbers could be off.” he writes, but the conclusions are not questioned or checked.
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1/30
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Disruption:
After USAID’s director of labor relations pushed back against the evidence presented to suspend and fire the employees, he threatens to report it to the Office of Special Counsel and emails the employees saying he has no grounds to keep them on leave. This leads to Clayton Cromer forcibly removing him from the building by security.
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1/30
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Disruption:
Jeremy Lewin and Elon Musk order the acting head of USAID to consent to locking every USAID employee worldwide out of all email and systems. He refuses, stating a sudden loss of access could get aid workers killed.
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2/01
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Disruption:
The acting head of the USAID, Jason Gray, is removed and replaced by Marco Rubio who then names Peter Marocco the Acting Deputy Administrator for the agency, giving him absolute power to force his demands.
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2/01
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4/08
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Disruption:
After Rubio and the Trump administration promised to keep many lifesaving humanitarian grant programs active, almost all of them are slashed over a weekend, only for some to be restored later. In one example, Peter Marocco ordered staff to comply with White House orders to stop all funds to Afghanistan. In other cases, Jeremy Lewin appears to have been involved with the alterations. USAID staff are not informed directly but find out from aid organizations whose funds have been cut.
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1/23
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Interagency:
An unnamed USAID official receives an angry late-night phone call from Peter Marocco, the newly appointed Director of Foreign Assistance at the US State Department, accusing employees of trying to subvert the President’s executive order imposing a 90-day pause on all foreign aid.
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1/24
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Official:
The State Department issues a memo written by Peter Marocco and signed by Marco Rubio that not only puts a halt to future foreign aid but also insists on stop-work orders for ~6200 current grants and contracts at USAID.
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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
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DHS TSA
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internal xfer «NYT links him to TSA, but no other info public» NYT | |
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DHS USCIS
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internal xfer NYT | |
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DOL
3/18
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promoted to Deputy Secretary (supervisory) ArtNet | |
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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» NPR | |
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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» official letter | |
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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.» official letter | |
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GSA MBDA
c.4/09
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likely detailed «inferred from disruptions at MBDA starting» court doc |
Events Added
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2/10
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Disruption:
In an email sent to all staff, Russell Vought orders the CFPB’s headquarters to be indefinitely closed. He also orders: “Please do not perform any work tasks. If there are any urgent matters, please alert me through Mark Paoletta, Chief Legal Officer, to get approval in writing before performing any work task. Otherwise, employees should stand down from performing any work task.”
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2/11
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2/13
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2/14
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Legal:
The judge, Amy Berman-Jackson grants a temporary restraining order against CFPB leadership until a hearing for a preliminary injunction to prevent them from shuttering the agency by eliminating staff and canceling all contracts. DOGE and CFPB leadership had been racing to eliminate 1175 positions before the restraining order was announced.
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2/20
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Disruption:
At an internal planning meeting for the temporarily paused Reduction In Force, CFPB COO Adam Martinez confirms the White House plan was to completely end the CFPB within 30 days. The plan was to reduce the CFPB to “five guys and a phone,” ie to the minimum number of positions that were mandated by the text of Dodd-Frank (the bill that created the CFPB). Staff were informed there was no need to abide by federal data retention regulations because there would be nothing left of the agency to maintain.
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2/20
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Disruption:
Jordan Wick emails Russell Vought asking for approval to cut an additional $8.4 million of contracts at the CFPB
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3/02
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Official:
The night before the hearing for a preliminary injunction in NTEU v. Vought, Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta sends out an email to all staff telling them that they should have known all along that the stop work order wasn’t meant to cover statutorily mandated work. This is clearly a blatant attempt to spin the narrative and claim the agency has not been stopped from performing its statutory duties. The judge later describes this as “[insulting] the reader’s intelligence when he feigns surprise that few employees were working.”
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3/03
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Legal:
In a hearing for a preliminary injunction, Judge Amy Berman Jackson expresses fears that CFPB will be “choked out of its very existence” while the litigation progresses. Concerned with misleading answers from the admininistration’s lawyers, she orders a evidentiary hearing in a week and continues the restraining order against layoffs.
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3/28
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Legal:
In a sweeping ruling, judge Amy Berman Jackson grants a preliminary injunction for the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) against Russell Vought, the acting CFPB director. In her ruling, she declares that it is plain that the administration intended to destroy the agency and she found significant parts of its testimony unreliable. In her injunction, she orders the admininistration must refrain from any firing any employee of the CFPB, restore any contracts that were in place before February 11th, reinstate all probationary employees that were fired, ensure that no agency data is deleted and rescind the stop-work order. It is immediately appealed by the administration.
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4/11
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Legal:
A three-judge appeal panel for the DC Circuit issues a ruling on the appeal for Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s preliminary injunction in NTEU v. Vought. The appeals court stays a measure that prevent CFPB leadership from enforcing work stoppages for non-statutory work. It also allows CFPB leadership to conduct a reduction in force, provided that they conduct a “particularized assessment” for the process.
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4/18
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5/01
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Legal:
The D.C. Circuit appeals panel modifies its initial stay of the preliminary injunction that had allowed RIFs after a particularized assessment. In light of the recent attempted RIF, they decide to disallow any RIFs while the appeal of the injunction is being considered. CFPB staff remain at work, but lacking direction from leadership and still barred from many work actions.
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2/10
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Sighting:
Adam Ramada shows up in the Department of Energy’s online directory, along with Luke Farritor. There also is reportedly a third DOGE staff at the agency.
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6/06
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Offboard:
Tom Krause resigns his position at Treasury and exits government service, according to an email that he sent to employees at the Cloud Software Group, which he was simultaneously running. He departed Treasury a month before his SGE status would have required him to leave.
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4/30
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Disruption:
FEC staffers receive an email stating they will be required to send daily updates of their location as part of a new Daily Occupancy Tool that will possibly be rolled out across the government by the GSA
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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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1/20
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1/20
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1/24
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Onboard:
Thomas Shedd is named as the new head of the Technology Transformation Service (TTS), the parent organization of 18F as well as shared services like Login.gov. He reports to Josh Gruenbaum, who is also appointed today as the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner.
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4/10
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Report:
Ethan Shaotran is converted to a regular position at the GSA at the GS-14 level, which would mean an annual salary of $142,488 - $185,234 in Washington, DC. This is a relatively senior position for any government worker.
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5/13
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5/31
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Report:
Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor are both converted into regular positions at the GSA at the GS-15 level, which would mean an annual salary of $167,603 - $195,200 in Washington, DC. This is the maximum level possible for a general government worker, and it often takes years or decades to reach.
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c.4/07
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Sighting:
Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox begin holding a series of meetings with MCC leadership, this eventually culminates in termination of all grants and mass layoffs
(fuzz: exact date not given, just in “last two weeks”)
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4/30
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Oversight:
Democratic members of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation send a letter to Keith Sonderling requesting details on his appointment as acting undersecretary of the MBDA and other information about DOGE’s takeover and destruction of the agency.
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5/02
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6/16
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Oversight:
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sends a letter to Microsoft requesting access and information about Jordan Wick’s now-private Github account, specifically to see details about the NxGenBdoorExtract program.
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5/20
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Official:
A memo directed to NRC from the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) declares that OIRA should have oversight over regulations made at the independent agency and NRC staff “may not know or be privy to the bases for OMB decisions for why an action is significant.”
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5/23
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Official:
President Trump issues EO 14300, which orders the NRC to relax its regulatory oversight over the nuclear industry. It also demands that the agency must plan for a reduction in force and realign its priorities. Following the model used for other independent agencies, this is probably the prelude for DOGE to arrive at the agency.
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6/16
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Disruption:
Trent Morse sends a letter firing one of the five members of the board (and the only Biden appointee) for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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1/29
|
Disruption:
The Smithsonian Institution announces it is closing a diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. It is not a federal agency, but most of its funding comes from appropriaions and two-thirds of staff are federal workers.
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c.12/15
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Interagency:
A contractor for SSA arranges an introduction for Leland Dudek to meet Steve Davis
(fuzz: Date is just given as “mid-December”)
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2/03
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Onboard:
Unidentified employee SSA-01 (Akash Bobba) starts working at the SSA with the title of Expert and an annual salary of $90,025.
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2/09
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2/10
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Report:
Mike Russo summons Leland Dudek to his office and asks him to explain discrepancies cited by Musk. Leland convened a team of dozens of SSA engineers who reviewed data from the Treasury department. They carefully documented fallacies in DOGE’s reasoning in a memo presented to Russo. Mike Russo reportedly declared that DOGE would not trust career civil servants and demanded that Akash Bobba do his own analysis.
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2/18
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Onboard:
Multiple unidentified DOGE staffers start working at SSA on the same day. SSA-02 (Scott Coulter) is detailed from NASA. SSA-07 (Marko Elez) is detailed from the DOL. SSA-10 (Ethan Shaotran) arrives from the GSA, and SSA-05 (Cole Killian) is detailed from DOGE itself.
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2/22
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2/23
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Onboard:
Social Security Administration onboards 3 unidentified staffers – SSA-06 (Jon Koval), SSA-04 (Antonio Gracias), and SSA-09 (Payton Rehling) – as volunteers with the title of Expert
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2/26
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2/27
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Disruption:
Ethan Shaotran contacts Leland Dudek to inform him that DOGE had identified roughly 3 dozen federal contracts in Maine as “nonessential” and that “we should cancel them” in response to the Maine governor publicly countering abuse from the President over transgender athletes. Two of those contracts are for Social Security services in the State.
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3/07
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Official:
After political blowback causes SSA to reverse its decision to cancel some contracts for the state of Maine, Leland Dudek posts an offical apology claiming it was his direction to cancel the contracts to obscure that the direction had come from DOGE.
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6/06
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3/24
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Sighting:
Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino met with the DOGE team embedded there (Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour), reportedly to discuss ethics.
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4/XX
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Sighting:
Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour meet again with the acting Postmaster General as well as other senior staff. This includes a meeting discussing an as some other senior staff in USPS to discuss price increases, a topic outside the scope of their MOUs to work at USPS.
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2/07
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Report:
After gaining access to the PAM DB system, DOGE members at the Treasury department see what appear to be payments flowing to recipients without Social Security numbers. Other recipients appear to be dead. This triggered Musk accusing SSA of massive fraud. It was later reveled to be DOGE not understanding the data.
(fuzz: article just reports this as early Feb; but Musk tweets said he was informed on 2/7)
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c.2/26
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Interagency:
During a call of human capital officers led by OPM, a representative for the GSA announces they are working on a “new federal daily check-in tool.” A test email was sent out on the same day. They announce plans to debut the tool by the first week in March.
(fuzz: Date is just given as “Late February”)
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4/01
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Disruption:
Alarmed at the viral spread of DOGE’s false claim that 40% of all calls to Social Security are fraud, agency staff at SSA draft a public statement to correct the errors in the claim. They are specifically ordered by Katie Miller not to release it. “The number is 40 percent.”
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4/21
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Official:
OMB issues a new memo mandating that agencies must collect daily occupancy data on all workers by May 4th. To support this effort, GSA unveils a website outlining methods to track federal workers, including mandatory daily surveys, monitoring badge usage or even video surveillance.
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5/XX
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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
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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
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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» ProPublica | |
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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» ProPublica | |
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GSA IAF
2/28-4/04
removed |
detail «agency contact was earlier, but assuming MOU signed when Marocco seized power» court doc | |
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GSA IAF
2/28-4/04
removed |
detail «agency contact was earlier, but assuming MOU signed when Marocco seized power» court doc | |
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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» court doc | |
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OPM? Global Media
c.3/01
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likely detailed «Date unknown, but assuming with Kliger who was at USAGM in early March» ProPublica | |
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GSA
3/03
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appointed Senior Advisor (excepted) ProPublica | |
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GSA? MCC
3/22
|
likely detailed «Linked to MCC by NPR, start date guessed from disruption there» NPR | |
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GSA? Wilson Ctr.
3/31
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likely detailed «Linked to WWICS by NPR, date is first DOGE sighting at agency» NPR | |
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EOP
4/XX
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appointed Senior Advisor to the US Federal CIO, Office of Management and Budget «LinkedIn says he started there in April» LinkedIn | |
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OPM DHS
4/XX
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likely detailed «Based on reports talked to TSA and CISA, assuming detail to DHS» | |
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DHS CISA
4/XX
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internal xfer «Reportedly met with CISA» ProPublica | |
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DHS TSA
4/XX
|
internal xfer «Reportedly met with TSA» ProPublica | |
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GSA VA
c.4/25
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likely detailed ProPublica | |
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ED? DOI
5/01
|
likely detailed «Guessed because created a spreadsheet at DOI on grant cancellations around 5/07» NYT | |
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EPA
c.5/08
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appointed Chief Information Officer Fed News Network | |
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DOI
5/05
|
appointed Chief Information Officer (supervisory) NextGov | |
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GSA
5/XX
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appointed «Date guessed based on reporting from ProPublica and 404 Media on ai.gov» ProPublica | |
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GSA
5/XX
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appointed «Date guessed based on reporting from ProPublica and 404 Media on ai.gov» ProPublica | |
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GSA
5/XX
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appointed «Named in ProPublica roundup, start date guessed» ProPublica | |
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GSA
5/XX
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appointed «Start date guessed» ProPublica | |
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GSA? HHS
5/XX
|
likely detailed «ProPublica reports he was working on HHS projects, assuming detail from GSA» ProPublica |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
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6/06
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Report:
Several senior staff write a memo to agency leadership reporting that California, Washington and Illinois had cooperated with an executive order requesting info on immigrants enrolled in their state’s Medicaid programs. They strenously object to a plan to share this data with DHS, noting that it would violate the privacy act and other laws as well as agency practices.
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5/07
|
Disruption:
A spreadsheet created by Conor Fennessy outlines a reported $26 million in grant reductions for programs in the National Parks, including those identified as “DEI” or studying climate change. It also axes a popular Scientists in Parks program, that provides educational opportunities for early-career scientists and students. A $400K project to make a park accessible for children with disabilities was targeted because it was “DEI.”
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2/11
|
Report:
Online security researchers find evidence that the DOGE website was developed and hosted by Outburst Data, a company run and operated by Kyle Schutt.
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6/02
|
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.
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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 represent they are from the GSA. They showed little interest in efficiency initiatives at the agency and just wanted access to systems.
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2/24
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2/24
|
Disruption:
The IAF President Sara Aviel reports her findings on a call with Nate Cavanaugh and Jacob Altik, who claim that all but one of the board members have been terminated. They demand that Aviel approves DOGE’s plan for the agency, which she declines to do, and that she sign a MOU assigning a DOGE member to the agency and granting them access to systems. After the call, she confirms that no board members had received a termination notice.
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2/26
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2/26
|
Disruption:
Sara Aviel receives an email from Trent Morse informing her that Trump has now terminated her position.
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2/28
|
Disruption:
Trent Morse sends an email to the office director at the IAF that states that Peter Marocco has been appointed the acting Chairman
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2/28
|
Disruption:
Peter Marocco declares an emergency board meeting (where the emergency is Trump issued an executive order), claiming that means he does not need to inform the board with a 1-week notice as required. In attendance at the meeting are Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh. This is where he declares himself the new President and Acting CIO.
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2/28
|
Disruption:
Peter Marocco declares an emergency board meeting (where the emergency is Trump issued an executive order), claiming that means he does not need to inform the board with a 1-week notice as required. In attendance at the meeting are Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh. This is where he declares himself the new President and Acting CIO.
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3/04
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3/04
|
Disruption:
Peter Marocco sends emails terminating all of IAF’s existing grants except one (which was mostly over)
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c.3/05
|
Disruption:
Peter Marocco names the remaining employee, the Chief Information Security Officer, as the new President of the IAF
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4/04
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4/04
|
Legal:
Sara Aviel discovers that a team@iaf.gov created for the use of Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh had deactivated the admin access for the remaining IAF employee that day before Aviel’s return
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1/20
|
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1/20
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1/27
|
Access:
Charles Ezell sends an email stating that OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-04 (Edward Coristine), and OPM-06 (Nikhil Rajpal) “urgently” needed access to several sensitive systems within the agency.
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1/28
|
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 Greg Hogan
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|
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6/09
|
||
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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”
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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.
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c.3/01
|
||
|
3/15
|
Disruption:
In response to Trump’s second executive order against independent agencies, virtually the entire staff of Voice of America (more than 1300 people) are placed on indefinite admininstrative leave.
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|
3/15
|
Disruption:
In response to Trump’s executive order targeting independent agencies, Trump’s senior advisor at the agency, Kari Lake, sends out termination notices for all grants to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. It is unclear if she has the authority to issue such terminations.
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5/02
|
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|
6/06
|
Disruption:
Analysis by a USAGM grantee based on public data reveals that China has expanded its own propaganda and programming to counter the void left by the closure of Radio Free Asia
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6/14
|
Report:
Surprised by Israel’s strikes on Iran and unable to counter Iranian programming, the Voice of America orders all of its Farsi-speaking members of the Voice of America’s Persian wing immediately back to work after being on administrative leave for several months.
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3/31
|
||
|
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.
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|
|
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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6/06
|
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) court doc | |
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OPM
1/31
|
[as OPM-07] converted to permanent position Expert, Office of the Director (ED-00) «permanent position approved» court doc | |
|
DOGE
2/XX
|
appointed «His linkedin reports Feb 2026 as start» LinkedIn | |
|
DOGE
2/XX
|
appointed «identified as dual appointee at HHS and DOGE / detailed from USDS» court doc | |
|
DOGE HHS
2/XX-3/04
Left DOGE |
likely detailed «detail started before 2/13» | |
|
HHS
2/XX
|
likely detailed «assuming a detail from DOGE to HHS» court doc | |
|
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) | |
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DOGE? EPA
2/XX
|
likely detailed «Carl Coe, who currently leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at DOE» press release | |
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HHS FDA
c.2/25
|
internal xfer «mentioned as meeting with FDA staff in late Feb/early March» court doc | |
|
OPM Global Media
c.3/01
|
[as OPM-05] detail «detail in court doc, date from Kliger spotted at VOA around start of March» court doc | |
|
HHS CMS
3/03
|
internal xfer «date inferred from access to CMS CALM system» | |
|
HHS
3/04-5/23
Left DOGE |
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» court doc | |
|
OPM
3/28
|
promoted to Chief of Staff, Office of the Director (55-Noncareer (Senior Exec Perm), ES-00) court doc | |
|
GSA
4/10
|
converted to permanent position Senior Advisor (GS-14, $142,488 - $185,234) «Salary range for GS-14 in DC» Wired | |
|
EPA
5/02
|
converted to permanent position Chief of Staff (supervisory) NYT | |
|
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» Wired | |
|
GSA
5/31
|
converted to permanent position Senior Advisor (GS-15, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC» Wired | |
|
DHS TSA
|
internal xfer NYT | |
|
OPM GSA
|
[as OPM-05] detail «detail in court doc» court doc |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
|
4/08
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||
|
6/04
|
Disruption:
Field representatives for the Census surveys share that the public is growing increasingly distrustful of participating in government surveys due to concerns that their data might be used against them, due to DOGE’s efforts to combine data from multiple agencies. This is especially true for minority and vulnerable populations, increasing the real risk of skewed statistics.
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|
|
6/06
|
Directory:
An article in the New York Times reports that both Tyler Hassen and Stephanie Holmes are still active at the DOI
|
|
|
2/01
|
Report:
Stephanie Holmes, the new head of HR at DOGE, is unable to answer staff questions about if the “Fork in the Road” retirement offer is legitimate.
|
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|
6/02
|
Official:
In the budget for next year, the White House requests $45 million total for DOGE, forecasting 150 employees would work for the agency. From this amount, it allocates $10 million for a “software modernization initiative,” with $35 million being provided to DOGE through reimbursement from agencies where DOGE staff will be embedded.
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6/04
|
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
|
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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6/06
|
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
|
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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2/11
|
Disruption:
Kathryn Armstrong Loving sends the EPA administrator a list of contracts DOGE wants to cut and cc’s Cole Killian
|
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5/02
|
||
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c.2/25
|
Sighting:
FDA staff give a high-level overview of FDA structures and functions to Clark Minor
(fuzz: date is just given as late February and early March for meetings)
|
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3/31
|
||
|
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.
|
|
|
3/XX
|
Access:
In a response to a Trump EO on tracking grant, the DOGE team is granted approval by HHS CIO Clark Minor to build an API to retrieved data from the PMS system
|
|
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5/14
|
||
|
6/04
|
||
|
c.3/10
|
||
|
3/21
|
Disruption:
Dorn Carranza, a HHS liasion for DOGE, sends an email at 11am asking for information ASAP on mission-critical systems at the FDA, demanding updates until complete. Because the FDA CIO was absent at the time, her CISO hastily submitted a response with his own views within 24 hours. This seems to have been what guided RIF selection at FDA, without anybody at DOGE reviewing the information for accuracy.
|
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|
6/02
|
Disruption:
NIH staff are forced to send all grant proposals through an AI tool that looks for topics banned by the Trump administration, such as “DEI, transgender, China, or vaccine hesitancy.” Staff are also required to check that medical research grants aren’t being awarded to certain schools like Harvard or Columbia seen as enemies of Trump.
|
|
|
2/27
|
Official:
Joe Gebbia announces on his social media account that he will be working on a project at the OPM to modernize retirement processing and move it away from paper records
|
|
|
3/28
|
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.
|
|
|
5/30
|
Legal:
The judge in AFL-CIO vs. OPM examined Greg Hogan on the stand and asked if he had followed the principle of least privilege in awarding access to DOGE. She seemed to be leaning towards a issuing a preliminary injunction against DOGE’s “chaotic” access to systems at OPM.
|
|
|
6/06
|
Sighting:
A report in the Times suggests that Mike Russo and Aram Moghaddassi have essentially been acting as joint CIOs at the agency.
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5/21
|
||
|
6/03
|
||
|
6/06
|
Legal:
In a 6-3 ruling on an emergency application, the Supreme Court rejected an injunction that prevented DOGE from accessing Social Security data. In a setback for privacy advocates, this will allow for SSA to share data with DOGE and other agencies, while the case about the legality of that proceeds.
|
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
|
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» court doc | |
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DOI
c.1/27-3/07
|
appointed «AP reports in DOI in January, inferring before water pump stunt» AP | |
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GSA
2/XX
|
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» Military News | |
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DOGE EPA
2/04
|
likely detailed as Federal Detailee «assuming detail from DOGE» E&E News | |
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DOL
2/XX
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unknown «assuming start at DOL because listed later as detailee from there» | |
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OPM
2/11
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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» court doc | |
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SSA
2/23
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[as SSA-09] appointed Expert, Office of the CIO (NTE 2026-02-22, ED-00, volunteer) | |
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OPM SSA
2/26
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[as SSA-08] likely detailed (NTE 2026-02-26) | |
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GSA
3/XX
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appointed «he was detailed to USPS from GSA, so assuming appointed at GSA but info unknown» | |
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HHS CMS
3/03
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internal xfer | |
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DOI
3/07-4/XX
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promoted to Acting Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget (supervisory) «ended with title change to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary» E&E News | |
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DOI
4/XX
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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» AP |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
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5/14
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Disruption:
After rescinding 300 layoffs, the head of human resources at CDC emails Rachel Riley to share a plan to fire one person for every singer person who returns to the agency.
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5/XX
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Disruption:
An internal survey reveals that over a fifth of Census Bureau leadership roles are vacant in the wake of DOGE’s efforts to reduce federal staffing.
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5/27
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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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c.1/30
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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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5/02
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Disruption:
Stephanie Holmes, in her role as acting chief human capital officers, sends an email ordering DOI staff to stop doing any detail work by May 18 to cover for a steep loss in available staff due to DOGE’s directed cuts
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5/05
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5/26
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Disruption:
After Politico published a report that included an email from a 30-year veteran of the Bureau of Land Management telling staff to ignore instructions from Stephanie Holmes about filling in for empty roles, he is escorted out of the building by security.
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c.1/25
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Report:
Elon Musk makes a request for Baris Akis to be allowed to work for DOGE, even though he is a noncitizen and it wouldn’t normally be allowed. His request is denied.
(fuzz: date not given, but source published Feb 4th)
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c.3/26
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Directory:
In a later interview, Sahil Lavingia describes attending an “E-meeting” for DOGE that included Elon Musk but was essentially run by Steve Davis as well as two other Musk loyalists, Anthony Armstrong and Baris Akis.
(fuzz: date is given as “late March,” assuming a Wednesday bc others reported DOGE meetings during that time)
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5/23
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5/28
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5/29
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Offboard:
In the wake of Elon Musk’s departure, Steve Davis, Katie Miller and James Burnham have reportedly also left DOGE. Davis had reportedly been running the day-to-day operations of DOGE, and it’s unclear who will take that over.
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3/XX
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Disruption:
Kyle Schutt and Edward Coristine reportedly have pressured staff at DHS to use Grok, a chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI, despite the fact it had not been approved for use in the agency. A DHS spokesperson denied the allegations.
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5/23
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5/26
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5/23
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Disruption:
Ethan Shaotran sends a Survey of Surveys email to federal agencies asking them to report information on data-collection surveys. This is redundant to the existing survey oversight already conducted by OMB.
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5/28
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5/29
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Offboard:
Steve Davis and Nicole Hollander have reportedly departed from the GSA and government service in the wake of Elon Musk leaving DOGE
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2/13
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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 and explicitly names Scott Coulter, Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour.
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2/XX
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5/22
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5/08
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Report:
Fast Company runs an interview with Sahil Lavingia, who is promptly fired by DOGE the following day.
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5/20
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Disruption:
In a post on X, DOGE reports that it is working to review surveys conducted by the Census Bureau and claims to have eliminated 5 already about alcohol consumption and internet usage
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5/23
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Interagency:
In a podcast appearance, Antonio Gracias reported that the DOJ had requested for DOGE to find “10-20 cases” of alleged noncitizen voting in every state
|
Week of 2025-05-18
+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» WSJ | |
|
DOGE
c.1/23-5/29
Left DOGE |
appointed General Counsel «NYT reported in DOGE in January, ProPublica provided title» NYT | |
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GSA USAID
1/27
|
likely detailed Wash. Post | |
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DOGE
c.2/01
|
appointed «First reported today, likely onboarded earlier in January» 404 Media | |
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GSA
2/XX
|
appointed «assuming hired at GSA» | |
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GSA? Energy
c.2/04
|
likely detailed | |
|
DOGE
c.2/07
|
appointed ProPublica | |
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DOL
c.2/14
|
appointed «no public info, but I assume this is a paid position because his detail to SSA is reimbursed» | |
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SSA
2/16-5/06
|
promoted to Acting Commissioner (supervisory) Wash. Post | |
|
GSA
c.2/18
|
appointed (GS-15/10, $195,200) Wired | |
|
OPM
3/XX
|
appointed Senior Advisor Techcrunch | |
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GSA
4/09
|
appointed NPR | |
|
GSA
4/15
|
appointed NPR | |
|
GSA? NLRB
4/16
|
likely detailed «Spotted by media» Bloomberg | |
|
GSA? NLRB
4/16
|
likely detailed Bloomberg | |
|
GSA
4/21
|
appointed NPR | |
|
GSA? DFC
4/28
|
likely detailed «Spotted by media» Politico | |
|
GSA? DFC
4/28
|
likely detailed Politico | |
|
GSA? DFC
4/28
|
likely detailed Politico | |
|
GSA DFC
4/28
|
detail Politico | |
|
GSA? SEC
c.5/02
|
likely detailed as Senior Advisor, Chairman of the SEC «title sourced from ProPublica» Reuters | |
|
SSA
5/06
|
demoted «Replaced by Bisignano as confirmed commissioner» AP |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
|
4/17
|
||
|
4/23
|
Sighting:
After an initial video call, DOGE arrives at the agency offices for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
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1/29
|
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|
5/13
|
Sighting:
Justin Fox emails GAO (cc’ing Nate Cavanaugh) to schedule a call to get a DOGE team assigned to the GAO. This is despite the GAO being located in the legislative branch and thus not answerable to the President.
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5/13
|
||
|
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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|
5/21
|
||
|
5/09
|
Sighting:
DOGE staff reportedly met with Peace Corps leadership to discuss staffing cuts and resignations
|
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c.4/30
|
Disruption:
Social Security introduces a new AI-based agent for phone calls from 350 field offices in the Southeast and Northeast regions. It frustrates many users attempting to reach an actual person for assistance.
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|
5/06
|
Official:
Frank Bisignano is confirmed by the Senate as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
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5/14
|
Disruption:
Many of the Social Security offices are in disarray, unable to buy paper for printers or shred documents because DOGE’s $1 limit on expense cards means that fewer than a dozen staff in SSA are able to authorize office expenses for all 1300 field offices.
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4/22
|
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5/19
|
Legal:
The judge presiding over the USIP’s lawsuit against the Trump administration found ruled that the firing of the agency’s board was illegal, rendering all subsequent actions taken by Nate Cavanaugh for DOGE as null and void.
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5/21
|
Official:
The US Institute of Peace retook control of its headquarters and re-entered the premises for the first time since being escorted out in DOGE’s takeover
|
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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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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 |
|---|---|---|
|
OPM
1/20
|
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) | |
|
OPM? USAID
1/27
|
likely detailed «NYT links to USAID, but need to find public reports of this» NYT | |
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OPM? FBI
1/29
|
likely detailed NBC News | |
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GSA? SBA
2/03
|
likely detailed «assuming detail from GSA» | |
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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) CNN | |
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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» court doc | |
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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 $71,000 per quarter) «Unclear if this ended bc named to CIO» | |
|
OPM
2/28
|
appointed Senior Advisor POGO | |
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Treasury
3/06
|
appointed Senior Advisor (Schedule C, GS-15, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC, disclosure» court doc | |
|
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» Wash. Post | |
|
SSA
5/06
|
appointed Commissioner (supervisory) AP | |
|
GSA? EXIM
5/14
|
likely detailed «Reported by media» The Handbasket | |
|
EXIM
5/14
|
likely detailed The Handbasket | |
|
GSA? MSPB
5/21
|
likely detailed «Email cited mentioned he was from DOGE, but assuming detail from GSA» The Handbasket |
Events Added
| Agency | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
|
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
|
|
|
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 because their award “no longer effectuates agency priorities.”
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|
|
1/30
|
Access:
Luke Farritor is granted access to the CDC’s Integrated Contract Expert (ICE) system for contracts
|
|
|
2/04
|
Access:
Luke Farritor is granted access to the CDC’s Acquisition Performance and Execution (APEX) system that tracks procurements at the CDC
|
|
|
1/31
|
Access:
Luke Farritor is granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) which centralizes payments for CMS medical claims
|
|
|
2/03
|
||
|
2/05
|
||
|
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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|
3/05
|
Access:
Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims
|
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3/05
|
||
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3/05
|
Access:
Aram Moghaddassi and Marko Elez are granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims
|
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|
3/05
|
Access:
Edward Coristine and Zach Terrell are granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims
|
|
|
2/01
|
Disruption:
Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the independent director of the CFPB
|
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|
2/03
|
||
|
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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|
3/04
|
Offboard:
Luke Farritor officially offboards from the CFPB and all his system access is revoked. The reason given is that his detail had ended.
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
3/21
|
Offboard:
Nikhil Rajpal officially offboards from the CFPB, because his detail is concluded. It is later revealed that he was not granted any system access nor did he perform any actions during his time at the CFPB.
|
|
|
5/08
|
Offboard:
Gavin Kliger leaves the CFPB, officially because his detail had ended but it is coincidentally also the day he would be in ethics violation for having not sold stock holdings prohibited to CFBP staff.
|
|
|
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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|
|
5/08
|
||
|
5/08
|
||
|
5/09
|
Sighting:
With the board now fired, DOGE staff are granted access to the Consumer Product Safety Commission
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
5/12
|
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.
|
|
|
4/18
|
||
|
5/14
|
||
|
3/11
|
Disruption:
US Representative and former whistleblower against Trump, Eugene Vindman, reports being repeatedly contacted by Clayton Cromer identifying himself as Executive Assistant US Attorney
|
|
|
5/16
|
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
|
|
|
5/14
|
Sighting:
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park reportedly have email addresses and reserved office space at the Export-Import Bank of the US
|
|
|
3/31
|
Access:
DOGE gains admin access to IMLS systems for monitoring grants and sending emails. This is likely Nate Cavanaugh.
|
|
|
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”
|
|
|
5/16
|
Sighting:
Staff at the MSPB receive an email informing them that Nate Cavanaugh will be onboarded on May 21 as a detailee “from DOGE” and that he is expected to spend several weeks reviewing contracts and spending. He will be working remotely.
|
|
|
5/15
|
||
|
1/20
|
||
|
1/24
|
||
|
1/28
|
||
|
1/30
|
||
|
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.
|
|
|
2/18
|
||
|
5/16
|
Disruption:
An internal report at Social Security analyzes new fraud detection mechanisms that were mandated for phone claims. Reportedly, only 2 out of 110,000 claims made were possible to be fraudulent, but the system has slowed claims processing by 25% and degraded service.
|
|
|
2/23
|
Disruption:
Employees at USAID receive emails with a “Specific Notice of a RIF” effective in 60 days and signed by Peter Marocco. Employees were also placed on administrative leave.
|
|
|
5/15
|
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
|
|
|
5/13
|