DOGE Track

Office of Personnel Management

One of the ways in which DOGE surprised everybody was how it turned a relatively sleepy agency into a weapon against the entire government bureaucracy. Created by law in 1978, OPM’s main role before now was to standardize government policies around personnel and to offer shared services for human capital like the federal health plans. It also tracks all the paperwork around hiring, promotions, changes and retirement. And so, for most federal staff, their main interactions with OPM were receiving paperwork they were hired, fired or retired; or picking a health plan; or looking at the rules around various practices. But, all the other aspects of human resources were handled by their own agencies. Federal staff are hired to their specific agencies, their performance rankings are defined by their agency, they’re promoted by their agencies, they’re paid by their agencies, they follow the HR policies of their agencies. OPM provides the guidance, but it’s the agencies that implement it.

This is why OPM’s turn towards the dark side has been so confounding. Very early on, DOGE concentrated a large number of staff within OPM to capture control of the centralized databases and install a new email server to send/receive messages from every federal worker. The acting director was forced out and replaced by Charles Ezell, who then let DOGE wall off an area and keep out permanent agency staff. DOGE also brought in a slew of HR executives from startups who seemingly expected the agency to work for the entire federal government in the same way that HR operates within a single company. And so, they started acting like OPM had more centralized authority: ordering workers to the “five things” email; blasting commands to human capital officers at other agencies; asking for lists of workers so they could command agencies to fire probationary workers and short-cut established procedures for reductions in force. OPM used to be deliberative and formal with its rulemaking - the new OPM was fond of sending out memos to all agencies on Wednesdays demanding a response by Friday. None of this was normal; some of it was probably illegal. And the breach in trust has been irrevocable.

Positions

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Name Positions
Anthony Armstrong
Sources
OPM 1/20/25-c.4/30/25 Expert (ED-00, excepted, volunteer) «reportedly left OPM in April, but as at FDIC on 4/10, so maybe end of month»
FDIC 4/10/25 likely detailed «reported by media»
DHS date unknown likely detailed «NYT reports he left OPM in April but stayed on a DHS. Unclear of timing, later appointed at DHS»
Left govt c.10/07/25 (reported)
Riccardo Biasini
Sources
OPM 1/20/25 [as OPM-02] Expert (NTE 7/18/25, ED-00, excepted, volunteer) «info for alias SSA-2, who I’ve identified as him»
DOGE 1/27/25 detailed
Brian Bjelde
Sources
OPM 1/20/25-1/31/25 [as OPM-07] Expert (NTE 7/18/25, ED-00, excepted, volunteer) «likely Schedule C»
OPM 1/31/25-5/16/25 [as OPM-07] converted to permanent position Expert (ED-00) «permanent position approved»
Left govt 5/16/25 (inferred)
Akash Bobba
Sources
OPM 1/20/25-7/18/25 [as OPM-03] Expert (NTE 7/18/25, ED-00, excepted, volunteer) «Testimony reports plan to convert position to permanent»
DOGE 1/27/25 detailed
SBA date unknown likely detailed Senior Advisor «identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed possibly at same time as other detailees»
Ed. 2/03/25 [as ED-01] detailed (NTE 2/12/26)
SSA 2/03/25 [as OPM-03] detailed
OPM 8/08/25 [as OPM-03] converted to permanent position (volunteer) «Court testimony reports conversion to permanent, restored access»
Clayton Cromer
Sources
OPM 1/20/25-3/XX/25 Deputy General Counsel (ES-00, $195,200)
USAID 1/27/25 likely detailed «NYT links to USAID, but need to find public reports of this»
Left govt 7/XX/25 (self-reported)
Charles Ezell
Sources
1/20/25-7/09/25 promoted to Acting Director «Replaced by Scott Kupor’s appointment»
7/09/25-10/XX/25 demoted to Senior Advisor
Left govt 10/XX/25 (self-reported)
Greg Hogan
Sources
OPM 1/20/25-1/20/25 Senior Advisor to the Director for Technology and Delivery (ES-00, $195,200) «ended by promotion to CIO»
1/20/25-2/11/25 promoted to Acting Chief Information Officer (ES-00, $195,200) «testified he started as Senior Advisor but was made Acting CIO same day. Made permanent CIO on 2/11»
2/11/25-9/02/25 promoted to Chief Information Officer (ES-00, $195,200)
resigned from agency 9/02/25
Gavin Kliger
Sources
OPM 1/20/25-2/18/25 [as OPM-05] Senior Advisor to the Director for Information Technology (NTE 5/20/25, GS-15, excepted, $195,200) «hired at maximum salary for GS federal employee in DC»
USAID 1/27/25 detailed
USDA 1/29/25 detailed
CFPB 2/07/25-5/08/25 detailed
OPM 2/18/25-12/XX/25 [as OPM-05] converted to permanent position Senior Advisor to the Director for Information Technology (GS-15, excepted, $195,200)
IRS 2/19/25-4/17/25 detailed (NTE 6/19/25)
USAGM c.3/01/25 [as OPM-05] detailed «detail in court doc, date from Kliger spotted at VOA around start of March»
FTC c.3/28/25 likely detailed
DHS date unknown likely detailed
GSA date unknown [as OPM-05] detailed «detail in court doc»
Noah Peters
Sources
OPM 1/20/25 Senior Advisor (GS-15, excepted, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC»
DOGE 1/24/25 detailed
Amanda Scales
Sources
OPM 1/20/25-3/28/25 Chief of Staff (ES-00, $195,200)
3/28/25-c.3/29/25 demoted to Senior Advisor (ES-00, $195,200) «Her LinkedIn profile says she left OPM in March. Assuming it followed her demotion/replacement, assuming pay stayed same»
OPM c.1/28/26 «Own LinkedIn reports back at OPM for Tech Force recruitment and staffing»
James Sullivan
Sources
OPM 1/20/25 [as OPM-08] Senior Advisor to the Director (ES-00, $195,200)
3/28/25 promoted to Chief of Staff (ES-00)
Joanna Wischer
Source
OPM 1/20/25 Senior Advisor to the Director (excepted, $167,603 - $195,200) «Salary range for GS-15 in DC; LinkedIn says she is working for OMB “Made in America” initiative since March 2025»
OPM-18
Source
OPM 1/20/25 Senior Advisor «Start date guessed from system access»
Jacob Altik
Sources
OPM 1/24/25-6/XX/25 [as OPM-16] Senior Advisor to the Director (excepted, $195,200) «Start date guessed from system access. No longer in govt on 6/27»
DOGE 1/27/25-6/27/25 detailed «End date might just be end of detail»
USADF 2/21/25 likely detailed «info in govt legal declation»
Left govt 6/27/25 (verified)
Edward Coristine
Source
GSA 1/24/25-5/14/25 [as OPM-04] detailed Senior Advisor (SGE, NTE 7/23/25, EF-00, excepted, volunteer) «no MOU to confirm and SF-50 is for GSA, but I think he was detailed from GSA to OPM on this date based on appointment affadavit»
detail ended 5/14/25
Nikhil Rajpal
Sources
OPM 1/24/25-7/02/25 [as OPM-06] Expert (ED-00, excepted, volunteer)
DOGE 1/27/25-6/09/25 detailed
NOAA 2/04/25 likely detailed
CFPB 2/07/25-3/21/25 detailed
SSA 2/26/25 [as SSA-08] detailed (NTE 2/26/26)
resigned from agency 7/02/25
Justin Monroe
Sources
OPM 1/28/25 Expert (ED-00, excepted, volunteer)
FBI 1/29/25 likely detailed
Christopher Stanley
Sources
OPM 1/28/25 Expert (ED-00, excepted, volunteer)
DOJ c.4/02/25 likely detailed Senior Advisor
Left govt 6/XX/25 (reported)
Austin Raynor
Sources
OPM 1/30/25 [as OPM-10] Senior Advisor (NTE 7/22/25, excepted, $195,200) «Start date guessed from system access»
DOGE 2/05/25-12/19/25 detailed
OPM-09
Sources
c.1/31/25-6/06/25 unknown start type «Start date guessed from system access.»
resigned from agency 6/06/25
OPM-13
Sources
OPM c.1/31/25-2/16/25 «Start date guessed from system access.»
resigned from agency 2/16/25
OPM-17
Sources
c.1/31/25-6/06/25 unknown start type «Start date guessed from system access. No longer in govt 6/06»
resigned from agency 6/06/25
Stephen Duarte
Sources
OPM 2/03/25-3/05/25 Expert (ED-00, excepted, volunteer) «Likely 1 of 3 unidentified OPM aliases who started in Feb and left in March 2025»
Left govt 3/05/25 (guessed)
Christina Hanna
Sources
OPM 2/03/25-3/05/25 Expert (ED-00, excepted, volunteer) «Likely 1 of 3 unidentified OPM aliases who started in Feb and left in March 2025»
Left govt 3/05/25 (guessed)
Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski
Sources
OPM 2/03/25-3/05/25 Expert (ED-00, excepted, volunteer) «Likely 1 of 3 unidentified OPM aliases who started in Feb and left in March 2025»
Left govt 3/05/25 (guessed)
Chris Young
Sources
DOGE 2/05/25-6/06/25 detailed «Detail is listed as ending on 6/13, but assumed ended on 6/6 when left OPM»
OPM 1/30/25-6/06/25 [as OPM-14] Expert (ED-00, excepted, volunteer) «Start date guessed from system access»
CFPB 2/07/25-6/06/25 detailed «Identified as OPM-14; govt testified on 6/27 no longer a govt employee, inferring date from end of OPM service»
Left govt 6/06/25 (verified)
OPM-11
Sources
c.2/07/25-3/05/25 unknown start type «Start date guessed from system access.»
resigned from agency 3/05/25
OPM-12
Sources
c.2/07/25-3/05/25 unknown start type «Start date guessed from system access.»
resigned from agency 3/05/25
OPM-15
Sources
c.2/07/25-3/05/25 unknown start type «Start date guessed from system access.»
resigned from agency 3/05/25
Joe Gebbia
Sources
OPM 2/18/25 Expert (ED-00, excepted, volunteer)
Tarak Makecha
Sources
OPM 2/28/25-7/XX/25 Senior Advisor
USAGM c.3/01/25 likely detailed «Date unknown, but assuming with Kliger who was at USAGM in early March»
FCC 3/18/25 detailed «listed self as detailing from OPM»
FBI c.3/30/25-7/XX/25 detailed Senior Advisor
Left govt 7/XX/25 (self-reported)
Mike Gonzalez
Source
OPM 3/XX/25-6/XX/25 Senior Advisor
Left govt 6/XX/25 (self-reported)
Yat Choi
Sources
OPM 4/XX/25 consultant Senior Technologist «a Canadian working on temp visa which would disqualify for federal role. LinkedIn reports he worked on the retirement processing modernization project. Wired reports still involved in OPM retirement work in December 2025»
Allan Mangaser
DHS 4/XX/25 likely detailed «Based on reports talked to TSA and CISA, assuming detail to DHS»
Brian Burroughs
Source
GSA date unknown likely detailed «Linked by ProPublica»
Dennis Li
Source
OPM 6/XX/25 «Left prior job in May, December blog post said working past 6 months on OPM project to digitize paper retirements. Although lists job as NDS, this should be an OPM role.»
Scott Kupor
Source
OPM 7/09/25 Director
Andrew Vilcsak
Source
OPM date unknown consultant «Named as working alongside Airbnb alumni at OPM.»

Systems

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System Access
website
Source
Agency Website
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using
Databricks
Source
Databricks
A hosted or self-hosted service that simplifies systems for processing big Data
EHRI
Sources
Enterprise Human Resources Integration
The Enterprise Human Resources Integration Data Warehouse (“EHRI”) collects human resources, payroll, and training data from several dozen sources outside of OPM, including other federal agencies.
github
Source
GitHub
A service owned by Microsoft for developers to run version control on their applications and back them up to shared repositories that can be used by other developers. Github is provided as both a hosted service (at github.com) or via versions that can be installed with agency data centers (aka GitHub Enterprise or GHE). Access to Github would be expected for developers, but doesn't necessarily mean the person is a coder.
GWES
Source
Government-Wide Email System (created by DOGE)
A new system developed by DOGE for sending out email to all federal employees and collecting responses. It was most famously used for the Fork in The Road email.
STAMP
Source
STAMP
This is a system at OPM that I do not have information about yet
USA Performance
Sources
USA Performance
System tracking job performance of federal employees
USA Staffing
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USA Staffing
A platform for federal agencies to recruit and onboard employees.

Events

Date Event
c.1/16/25
Source
Noah Peters starts drafting two memos for OPM. One concerns temporary authorities for Schedule C and the other is on how to handle both probationary employees and admininstrative leave. These are to be issued on January 20th. (fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition)
 Anti-Personnel
c.1/16/25
Source
According to his later sworn testimony, Noah Peters meets with Keenan Kmiec to outline his plan on how to use administrative leave to sideline federal employees from being able to do their work and counter or monitor DOGE’s activities at their agencies. (fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition)
 Impunity, Anti-Personnel
c.1/16/25
Source
Noah Peters receives a formal job offer to work at OPM. He describes it in a court disposition as being very general and vague. (fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition)
1/17/25
Source
Noah Peters recalls that he met with Amanda Scales and Brian Bjelde on this day to plan for their upcoming first day at OPM.
1/20/25
Source
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.
 Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Brian Bjelde, Gavin Kliger, Joanna Wischer, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini
 Anti-Personnel
1/20/25
Source
Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM report that their database access was completely revoked by DOGE staff working at the agency.
 Impunity
1/20/25
Source
The DOGE team moves into a secure office within OPM, installing sofa beds and armed security to prevent other staff from entry.
 Impunity
1/20/25
Source
IT staff at OPM are pulled into a “911-esque call” requesting that “a political team” of 6 individuals must be given access to OPM systems. These include Charles Ezell, Greg Hogan, and Amanda Scales, as well as unidentified employees OPM-03 (Akash Bobba), OPM-05 (Gavin Kliger) and OPM-07 (Brian Bjelde). These DOGE staffers are granted administrative access to USAJOBS, USA Staffing, and USA Performance systems.
 Impunity, Anti-Personnel
1/20/25
Source
Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell replaces existing CIO Melvin Brown with DOGE ally Greg Hogan, who will serve as the Acting CIO.
 Anti-Personnel
1/20/25
Source
In another executive order EO 14170, Trump declares a hiring freeze and that DOGE will work with OMB and OPM to submit a plan to reduce the size of the government within 90 days
 Anti-Personnel
c.1/21/25
Source
Justin Fox reports that connected with him before he started work at DOGE. Besides Armstrong, Justin Fox was also communicating with other DOGE members via Signal both in group chats and individually. This appears to be a violation of government records laws for those other staffers who were already working in the federal government. (fuzz: Exact date not given, but he testifies that Anthony Armstrong reached out just after inauguration)
 Anthony Armstrong, Ethan Shaotran, Josh Gruenbaum, Justin Aimonetti, Justin Fox, Nate Cavanaugh
1/23/25
Source
OPM sends out a first test email to all federal staff from its new Government-Wide Email System (GWES).
 Anti-Personnel
1/24/25
Source
Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at OPM
1/24/25
Source
Representing OPM, James Sullivan coordinates in an email to Department of Energy officials on several DOGE-led initiatives. One messages states “as discussed over the phone, when you compile the list of 69 DEI employees placed on admin leave, please share with Amanda and myself.” Energy officials also send a list of 1394 probationary employees to Amanda Scales, all of whom will be fired.
 Amanda Scales, James Sullivan
 Anti-DEI, Anti-Personnel
1/26/25
Source
OPM sends a second test email from its new Government-Wide Email System (GWES) to all government employees.
 Anti-Personnel
1/27/25
Source
Charles Ezell sends an email to OPM IT staff stating that OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-04 (Edward Coristine), and OPM-06 (Nikhil Rajpal) “urgently” need access to several sensitive systems within the agency.
 Impunity
1/27/25
Source
Two anonymous federal employees file a class action lawsuit against OPM for launching the new email system without conducting a Privacy Impact Assessment for the new system
1/27/25
Source
A member of the OPM union posts a Reddit message reportedly from an OPM employee which states that the email server is a piece of outside equipment and the its goal is to generate lists of all govt employees in order to send massive firing notices later.
 Anti-Personnel
1/28/25
Source
Justin Monroe and Christopher Stanley start working at OPM as a volunteers with the job title of Expert.
1/28/25
Source
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.”
1/28/25
Source
Wired Magazine provides an early listing of which Musk-affiliated DOGE staff now have positions at OPM. (fuzz: didn’t name Coristine or Bobba bc of their ages, but later confirmed as them)
 Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Edward Coristine, Joanna Wischer, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini
1/28/25
Source
OPM sends out the “Fork in the Road” email to all federal employees offering them a chance to resign, in exchange for six month of administrative leave and protection from termination.
 Anti-Personnel
1/30/25
Source
Austin Raynor and Chris Young start working at OPM.
1/31/25
Source
Federal employees at OPM report they are locked out of access to key systems by DOGE and OPM leadership.
 Impunity
1/31/25
Source
The Department of Energy consults with DOGE staff at OPM about return-to-office mandates. Clayton Cromer handles the exchange from OPM’s side.
 Clayton Cromer
 Anti-Personnel
February 2025
2/XX/25
Source
Unnamed engineers working for DOGE within OPM reportedly used Meta’s Llama AI model running locally on OPM servers to analyze responses to the “Fork in the Road” resignation offer.
 IT Modernization, Anti-Personnel
2/03/25
Source
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.
2/03/25
Source
Brian Bjelde holds a meeting with senior staff at OPM, directing them to prepare plans to eliminate 70% of the agency’s workforce at some unspecified point in the future. They are also told to identify 30% of staff that could be eliminated in the near term.
 Elimination, Anti-Personnel
2/05/25
Source
OPM attests the Government-Wide Email System runs only on agency systems (and is not hosted in an external provider, which would be a violation of federal IT policy).
2/05/25
Source
OPM issues a Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) which states responses to its messages are voluntary, brief and do not include identifying information from federal staffers.
2/06/25
Source
Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM have their database access restored by order of the CIO Greg Hogan. It is unclear who ordered the original revocation of access and what changes have happened in the interim.
 Impunity
2/06/25
Source
The judge in Jane Does 1-2 v. Office of Personnel Management (D.D.C.) dismisses the motion for a temporary restraining order against the OPM email system since there is now a Privacy Impact Assessment available for it.
2/06/25
Source
DOGE member and lawyer Jacob Altik joins the legal defense team for the administration in Jane Does 1-2 v. Office of Personnel Management (D.D.C.) without revealing he is an DOGE staffer who is working for OPM.
2/12/25
Source
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
 Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
2/13/25
Source
Representing DOGE and OPM, Noah Peters finalizes mass layoffs at the USDA just before Secretary Rollins is to be sworn in that evening. When asked later by Congress about the layoffs, she deflects and says it happened before she started.
 Noah Peters
 Anti-Personnel
2/18/25
Source
Former AirBnb executive Joe Gebbia starts working at OPM as a volunteer with the job title of Expert.
2/18/25
Source
A CNN reporter shares that his FOIA request to OPM was replied to with the message “they just fired the whole privacy team.”
 Impunity
2/24/25
Source
After Elon Musk threatens on X that employees must complete a list of 5 accomplishments every week and send it to OPM or risk termination, OPM hastily sends out an email to all federal staff requesting that list (without the threat) to every government employee. Widespread confusion occurs at many agencies about the legality and wisdom of this exercise.
 Anti-Personnel
2/25/25
Source
DOGE engineer Ricardo Biasini is reported to be working on updating an “AutoRIF” software package sourced from the Department of Defense that can be used to automate Reduction-in-Force (RIF) processes at federal agencies.
 Anti-Personnel
c.2/26/25
Source
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”)
 Anti-Personnel
2/27/25
Source
Joe Gebbia announces on his social media account that he will be working on a project at OPM to modernize retirement processing and move it away from paper records currently stored at a cave in Pennsylvania.
 IT Modernization
2/27/25
Source
DOGE staff at DOI invite several of their counterparts from OPM to a meeting to discuss DOI Tech Systems. (fuzz: A michealal@x.com is also invited. Is it meant to be Micaela Lopez Ballefin?)
 Greg Hogan, Katrine Trampe, Riccardo Biasini, Tyler Hassen
 Spending
2/28/25
Source
OPM quietly amends the Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) to remove declarations that responses are voluntary. This is after it had to concede that federal staff did not have to reply to the Five Things email because of the PIA.
 Anti-Personnel
2/28/25
Source
Judge Alsup ruling in AFL-CIO vs. OPM (N.D. Cal.) issues a temporary restraining order that termination of probationary workers at 6 agencies was unlawful and that they should be restored to work immediately.
 Anti-Personnel
March 2025
3/01/25
Source
All government employees receive a second email telling them they must list their accomplishments every Monday by 11:59pm. This does not contain a threat of termination, but it is also no longer reported as an optional exercise. Staff working on confidential or classified activities are supposed to reply to the email but redact their work.
 Anti-Personnel
3/01/25
Source
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) starts an audit of how DOGE has handled data at several agencies.
c.3/03/25
Source
DOE staff (mostly from DOGE) meet exclusively with DOGE staff from both OPM and GSA to discuss DOI’s data centers, cloud infrastructure and software licenses.
 Derek Geissler, Greg Hogan, Katrine Trampe, Riccardo Biasini, Tyler Hassen
 IT Modernization, Spending
3/04/25
Source
In response to recent court rulings that determined that OPM exceeded its authority, OPM quietly revises its initial memo that required all federal agencies to send lists of probationary employees to the agency. It also downplays suggestions that the lists should be used for deciding staffing levels.
 Anti-Personnel
3/05/25
Source
Three early DOGE staffers – OPM-11, OPM-12 and OPM-15 – leave their positions at OPM and presumably government service. (fuzz: I’m pretty sure this is Christina Hanna, Stephen Hanna and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, but not sure which is which alias)
3/10/25
Source
The OPM Inspector General responds to questions from Democrats in Congress by stating his office will start investigating DOGE’s email server and its IT practices at the agency.
 Impunity
3/18/25
Source
A lawyer for the plaintiffs accuses the Department of Justice of deliberately misrepresenting Jacob Altik’s participation in the defense “perhaps to preserve the illusion that OPM’s counsel were ignorant of what OPM was doing with the Government-Wide Email System, or perhaps to obscure the role of DOGE and the White House in this case.”
3/20/25
Source
President Trump issues an executive order that orders OPM to redefine regulations so that it would give them more power to directly terminate employees at other agencies.
 Anti-Personnel
3/24/25
Source
Ruling in American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against access by DOGE staff to internal systems at OPM by DOGE. However, he still allows access for DOGE-affiliated leadership at the agency including Charles Ezell, Amanda Scales and Greg Hogan.
3/28/25
Source
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, Amanda Scales is replaced as the Chief of Staff at OPM by James Sullivan. Amanda changes to a Senior Advisor position at the agency. (fuzz: Amanda Scales reports on her LinkedIn that she left DOGE in March, so this might have been the cause)
April 2025
4/03/25
Source
Scott Kupor, the nominee to lead OPM, assured senators in a confirmation hearing that he believes strongly in data privacy and respecting the humanity and dignity of the federal workforce.
4/07/25
Source
In a 2-1 vote, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay against DOGE data access at the Treasury, OPM and Department of Education imposed in the case American Federation of Teachers v. Bessent et al.
4/10/25
Source
AmeriCorps’ acting director submits a plan to the OPM and OMB proposing a 50% cut in the agency workforce.
 Anti-Personnel
4/11/25
Source
The plaintiffs in AFGE, AFL-CIO, et. al vs. OPM file a motion asking for the testimony of Noah Peters to be disregarded because they argue it is misleading and possibly fabricated in certain parts.
 Impunity
4/16/25
Source
Noah Peters at OPM denies the CFPB request made by Adam Martinez as well as Jeremy Lewin and Gavin Kliger to conduct an “emergency” RIF at the CFPB which would only give employees 30 days before their termination.
 Gavin Kliger, Jeremy Lewin, Noah Peters
 Elimination, Anti-Personnel
May 2025
5/06/25
Source
OPM-07 (Brian Bjelde) departs from working at the Office of Personnel Management.
5/09/25
Source
OPM is reportedly poised to launch a rebranded version of the formerly-named AutoRIF software for automating the process of designating staff for mass layoffs. It was modernized and given a web interface by DOGE engineer Riccardo Biasini.
 Anti-Personnel
5/09/25
Source
OPM reports it will rolling out a Online Retirement Application (ORA) system which replaces the paper-based system for federal departments served by the National Finance Center and Interior Business Center. This was a program originally started in the Biden Administration that is being accelerated without pilot programs.
 IT Modernization
5/30/25
Source
The judge in AFL-CIO vs. OPM examines Greg Hogan on the stand and asks if he had followed the principle of least privilege in providing system access to DOGE. The judge’s questions indicated that she seemed to be leaning towards a issuing a preliminary injunction against DOGE’s “chaotic” access to systems at OPM.
 Impunity
June 2025
6/06/25
Source
Unidentified employee OPM-17 resigns from their position at the OPM.
6/09/25
Source
Judge Cote, presiding over AFGE v. OPM, grants a preliminary injunction against DOGE having access to systems at OPM and orders them to destroy any information they have copied. She finds that OPM failed to follow proper procedures for granting access.
 Impunity
6/24/25
Source
In a status report for AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM, the government reports that multiple DOGE staff at OPM have left the government by this date. Of course, their actual departure dates might be earlier, but it’s a direct acknowledgment of multiple staff departures in the preceding months.
 Chris Young, Jacob Altik, OPM-09, OPM-11, OPM-12, OPM-13, OPM-15, OPM-17
July 2025
7/09/25
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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.
7/16/25
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OPM-03 (Akash Bobba) reaches the Not-To-Exceed (NTE) date for the special government employee status and is removed from access at the agency.
7/21/25
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Scott Kupor states that he expects to eliminate roughly 1000 positions at OPM (or about a third of its staff) by the end of the year.
 Anti-Personnel
August 2025
8/04/25
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In a report about DOGE’s continued work on OPM’s Online Retirement Application (ORA) continuing to move ahead, Politico identifies DOGE staff that are working on the project under Joe Gebbia.
 Akash Bobba, Andrew Vilcsak, James Sullivan, Joe Gebbia, Yat Choi
 IT Modernization
8/06/25
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OPM announces the end of the requirement that all federal workers must send in a weekly “Five Things” email describing their work the prior work. OPM director Scott Kupor announced the change in a meeting with all human capital officials across the government.
 Anti-Personnel
8/08/25
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Special government employee OPM-03 (Akash Bobba) is converted to a permanent position within the agency, still unpaid. (fuzz: Date from report on system access restoration)
8/12/25
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Citing a Supreme Court shadow docket ruling as precedent, a DC Appeals Court overturned a stay from February and ordered that DOGE should be allowed to access sensitive data at the Treasury Department, OPM and Department of Education.
 Fraud, Immigration, Anti-Personnel
September 2025
c.9/02/25
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Greg Hogan has reportedly departed from his role as Chief Information Officer at OPM. He had held it from the first day of the Trump Administration when the acting CIO was demoted by Charles Ezell.
9/03/25
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In an interview with Axios, Scott Kupor claims that he was not involved with any of DOGE’s actions at OPM before he was appointed (indeed, he says he was locked out of the agency until he was appointed). Despite being an employee of Andreesen Horowitz, he states only March Andreesen and Ben Horowitz were in communication with Elon Musk.
9/12/25
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Ruling in AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM, Judge William Alsup finds that OPM’s mass firing of probationary employees was illegal. However, he does not order that fired employees should be reinstated to their positions, since it has been months since the action and the Supreme Court would be likely to overrule. Instead, he has enjoined OPM from conducting similar actions in the future and ordered them to amend the records to note that employees were not terminated due to performance reasons (as the government falsely claimed in many dismissal letters).
 Anti-Personnel
9/25/25
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The ranking Democratic member of the Senate Comittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs releases a report “Unchecked and Unaccountable” detailing DOGE security transgressions at several agencies, including poor security for the NUMIDENT data at SSA and activities within GSA and OPM
 Fraud, Impunity
November 2025
11/23/25
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Reuters reports that DOGE has been disbanded, based on a comment made by Scott Kupor that the effort has become more decentralized and that many of its functions have now been taken over by regular agency staff. While this might be true for OPM, it’s unclear how many DOGE staff are still working across the government.
11/24/25
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Revising earlier dire estimates even higher, OPM head Scott Kupor reports that the US government will eliminate 317,000 jobs in 2025. He also reports that it will hire 68,000 new employees this year.
 Anti-Personnel
December 2025
12/05/25
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The government files a motion to dismiss the case in AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM arguing that the PII risk cited in the complaint is now no longer an issue because many DOGE staff have left and the few remaining have had access revoked or moderated. Although the bulk of the provided exhibits are under seal, it does provide a more detailed listing of when various DOGE staff have left OPM and who is still remaining.
 Impunity
12/05/25
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A legal filing from the government states that only 5 DOGE staffers – OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-03 (Akash Bobba), OPM-05 (Gavin Kliger), OPM-10 (Austin Raynor) and OPM-18 – are still working at the agency. OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini) is reporting directly to Scott Kupor.
 Akash Bobba, Austin Raynor, Gavin Kliger, Riccardo Biasini, OPM-18
12/10/25
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The head of OPM, Scott Kupor, reports that 317,000 federal workers have left their jobs this year as a result of DOGE’s actions and Trump administration policies. He asserts that the vast majority of departures were voluntary.
 Anti-Personnel
12/15/25
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The National Design Studio and OPM launch techforce.gov, a new site recruiting technical staff for a 2-year term to work on technical projects within agencies, a model that sounds similar to 18F and USDS, which were respectively completely destroyed and hollowed out by DOGE. The site features the typical design of NDS websites – a single page of large bold fonts on a black background with accordion elements to expand information. It also features AI images of a figure with a computer monitor head.
 IT Modernization
1/28/26
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In a post on LinkedIn, Amanda Scales announces she has returned to a role at OPM, overseeing the recruitment and hiring for the new Tech Force initiative to bring in technical staff from Silicon Valley companies into federal service for 2-year terms.
 IT Modernization, Anti-Personnel

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