General Services Administration

Once a relatively obscure agency that provided shared services and procurement services for the government, GSA became an integral part of DOGE’s early-phase plans for taking over parts of the federal bureaucracy precisely for those reasons. From the very first day of the Trump presidency, DOGE established a sizable team at GSA. Some of these were focused on drastic cost-reduction efforts like cancelling government leases or unilaterally dropping the purchasing limit of government purchase cards to curtail micro-purchases by government staff. GSA was also the base for many of DOGE’s wrecking crews that were detailed to other agencies, with agency leadership quickly creating a walled-off enclave protected by security guards exclusively for the use of DOGE staff with “A-level access.”