US Agency for International Development

A DOGE official first arrives at USAID. Later, senior staff are summoned to a meeting with Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor.

DOGE discovers that some USAID grants had been paid automatically through HHS despite a declared freeze

Farritor and Kliger demanded that all senior managers at USAID be stripped of their power to authorize payments - and that they alone become the authorizers.

USAID Director of Security and deputy placed on administrative leave for trying to prevent DOGE from accessing personnel files and classified data

USAID website and 6 other related websites are taken offline by DOGE

Approximately 2000 USAID email accounts are deactivated

Elon Musk posts a series of tweets calling USAID evil and saying it is "time for it to die"

An email informing USAID staff that the building was indefinitely closed included Gavin Kliger's email address

Elon Musk tweets that he and President Trump are shutting down USAID, bragging he had fed the agency "into the wood chipper"

All USAID staff are informed by email they will soon be placed on indefinite administrative leave with an email sent by "gkliger@usaid.gov"

DOGE staff attempt to use their access to Treasury systems to stop payment to USAID programs

DOGE posts a tweet boasting about the removal of signage for USAID

All USAID staff are placed on indefinite administrative leave

Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor completely remove all access to the payments system for all other USAID staff

USAID Inspector General is illegally fired after releasing a report critical of DOGE's actions

A USAID official under Trump testifies that "changes in the process by which payments can be made and approved by the Agency over the past weeks." in the payment system were causing certain allowance statements to be delayed

Employees at USAID receive emails with a "Specific Notice of a RIF" effective in 60 days and signed by Pete Marocco. Employees were also placed on administrative leave.

In a ruling in J. Doe 1-26 v. Musk (D. Md), Judge Theodore D. Chuang finds that the decision to shut down USAID violated the Constitution in multiple ways and orders the agency must be reopened

Peter Marocco says that he will be succeeded at the agency by Jeremy Lewin and Kenneth Jackson

Almost all of the remaining 900 USAID employees are terminated by email from Jeremy Lewin with RIFs that will go into effect either in July or September

Emailing from his USAID email account, Jeremy Lewin provides Gavin Kliger and Adam Martinez with a letter to use for RIFs at the CFPB

Gavin Kliger begins working with Adam Martinez of CFPB and Jeremy Lewin at USAID on the infrastructure for a massive RIF at the CFPB

Jeremy Lewin has a followup Teams call with CFPB chief legal counsel Mark Paoletta to plan for the upcoming massive RIF at the CFPB

Noah Peters at OPM denies the CFPB request for an "emergency" 30-day notice for a RIF at the CFPB