Executive Office of the President
subagencies: DOGE
One of the challenging thing about tracking reporting about DOGE is that DOGE itself is purposefully vague by design. When it’s time for them to threaten an agency or demand control over their systems, then it’s a firmly defined entity backed by the authority of Elon Musk and also the President. When it’s time to handle pesky reporters or legal discovery demands, it’s just a vague concept located somewhere within the Executive Office of the President (EOP). As a result, this page is also a muddled mix of various White House-affiliated staff, including people assigned directly to DOGE and people who work elsewhere in the White House.
Positions
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12/30-2/18
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Amy Gleason | appointed [this is Amy’s role in USDS until she was named the administrator of DOGE] court doc (replaced with new role) |
c.1/20
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Jordan Wick | appointed [guessed from govt declaration detailed from DOGE to CFPB] |
1/20-5/28
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Elon Musk | appointed Left Govt (Resigned) 5/28 |
1/20-5/29
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Katie Miller | appointed [no public details on when she started with DOGE, but date inferred] Left Govt (Resigned) 5/29 |
1/20
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Cole Killian | appointed [reported as interviewing USDS staff about jobs, not found in GSA or OPM lists] Wired |
1/20-5/29
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Steve Davis | appointed [assuming he started on 2025-01-20] WSJ Left Govt (Resigned) 5/29 |
c.1/23-5/29
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James Burnham | appointed General Counsel [NYT reported in DOGE in January, ProPublica provided title] NYT Left Govt (Resigned) 5/29 |
1/23
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Trent Morse | appointed Deputy Assistant to the President / Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel (supervisory) |
1/23
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Adam Ramada | appointed court doc |
2/XX
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Brad Smith | appointed [identified as dual appointee at HHS and DOGE / detailed from USDS] court doc |
c.2/04
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Alexandra Beynon | appointed [date guessed, reported as detailing from DOGE to Education] ProPublica |
c.2/05
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Stephanie Holmes | appointed ProPublica |
c.2/07
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Keenan Kmiec | appointed ProPublica |
2/07
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Russell Vought | appointed Director (Office of Management and Budget) (supervisory) |
c.2/10
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Kendall Lindemann | appointed Consulting |
2/18
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Amy Gleason | promoted Acting Administrator, US DOGE Service and the DOGE Temporary Organization court doc |
2/XX
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Ashley Boizelle | appointed [reported by media as started in February] The Intercept |
2/XX
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Justin Aimonetti | appointed [start date reported as “some point in February”] The Intercept |
2/XX
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Joshua Hanley | appointed The Intercept |
2/XX
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Joshua Fox | appointed The Intercept |
Events
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11/26
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Sighting:
A person who is likely Anthony Jancso posted a message in an AI challenge's Discord saying "Helping the Dept. of Government Efficiency team find hardcore engineers. Send your GitHub/LinkedIn to @DOGE on X and your X handle to me in DM if you're interested or know someone who is, could help get them into the pipeline."
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12/05
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Sighting:
A person who is likely Anthony Jancso posts recruitment messages for DOGE to a chat group for employees who had worked at Palantir
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12/05
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Sighting:
Luke Farritor posts a recruitment message for DOGE in a Discord server for SpaceX interns stating that he is looking for volunteers to work at DOGE for 6 months
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12/06
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1/06
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Directory:
Future DOGE recruit Riley Sennott's public calendar lists a 15-minute DOGE recruiting meeting on this day
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1/12
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Directory:
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
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1/16
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Report:
A report on conservative nonprofit groups doing research for DOGE notes that interviews are being conducted by Marc Andreessen and Shaun Maguire
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1/17
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Action:
The public calendar of Riley Sennott mentions a 30-minute "SGE Ethics Discussion" meeting with other new DOGE members Derek Geissler, Brooks Morgan and Conor Fennessy. SGE stands for Special Government Employee.
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1/20
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1/20
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1/20
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Official:
USDS is transferred out of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and established a standalone office in the Executive Office of the President
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1/21
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Disruption:
Nikhil Rajpal and Cole Killian start screening all preexisting USDS staff with short interviews, asking them their views of DOGE and to name who they think are underperformers that should be fired.
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1/24
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Directory:
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities
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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.
[date not given, but source published Feb 4th]
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1/30
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1/30
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Interagency:
Leland Dudek reaches out to Tiffany Flick, the Associate Director of Budget, Facilities and Security to inform her two DOGE staff would be onboarding. He was a mid-level employee at the time.
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2/04
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Interagency:
One of AFGE's members who works in the headquarters of the Department received an instruction from Department leadership that Elon Musk and his DOGE team would be accessing Department of Labor headquarters beginning around 4 p.m. on February 5, 2025. This member and other employees were told by Department leadership that when Mr. Musk and his team visit, they are to do whatever they ask, not to push back, not to ask questions. They were told to provide access to any DOL system they requested access to and not to worry about any security protocols; just do it.
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2/05
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Official:
According to later sworn testimony by Kendall Lindemann, from this date Steve Davis is the decision-maker for DOGE as the senior-most political appointee until Amy Gleason is appointed as acting administratior of DOGE on 2025-02-18. Later news reports suggest Steve Davis continued to remain in charge.
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2/11
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Official:
Trump issues an executive order giving DOGE teams in every agency final approval on any hiring decisions. It also expresses a rule that an agency can only hire 1 new person if 4 people have left.
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2/13
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2/14
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2/17
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2/18
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Report:
A custom AI chatbot based on xAI's Grok model was discovered hosted on subdomain on the doge.gov site. It is linked to Christopher Stanley.
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2/19
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Official:
Trump issues an executive order "Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders" that instructs USDS to work with agencies to identify federal funding for immigrants and build up eligibility verification systems
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2/19
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Official:
Trump issues an executive order "Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Deregulatory Initiative" which requires agency heads to consult with DOGE teams on deregulatory efforts.
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2/24
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2/25
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2/25
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2/26
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Official:
Trump issues an executive order mandating that DOGE teams will have veto power over the award of new contracts at any agency. This order also freezes purchase cards for 90 days, which causes a huge number of unexepected problems across the federal government.
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2/26
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Official:
After days of sustained questioning about who the USDS Administrator is, the White House gives the name of Amy Gleason. It is unclear how long she had been in the role. She also conveniently is on a trip to Mexico during the announcement and is thus unreachable.
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2/27
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3/05
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Directory:
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
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3/05
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Legal:
From this date, detailing arrangements for DOGE staff are between the target agency and other agencies that have now hired DOGE staff, according to a declaration made by DOGE in AFL-CIO et al vs. Department of Labor. For instance, Jordan Wick becomes an employee of the CFPB instead of DOGE.
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3/06
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Disruption:
The Engineering Director of USDS publicly resigns in protest, stating "this is not the mission I joined"
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3/10
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3/10
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3/12
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3/12
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3/18
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Official:
In an unsigned email response to the Intercept Media, DOGE claims it is within the Executive Office of the President and not subject to FOIA
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3/18
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3/19
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Directory:
In another sworn statement, Amy Gleason declares "every member of an agency's DOGE Team is an employee of the agency or a detailee to the agency." She does clarify that some are detailed from USDS but also claims they report to agency heads. She also reports that USDS has approximately 79 directly appointed employees and 10 employees detailed from other agencies.
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3/19
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Onboard:
DOGE has reportedly hired Adam Hoffman to work on national security related projects. It is unclear if he is working directly for DOGE or is formally hired at another agency.
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3/20
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3/20
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Official:
President Trump issues an executive order demaning that agency heads must share all access to any unclassified datasets "related to the identification and elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse." This is potentially in violation of the Privacy Act, so the order leaves it to individual agency staff to determine what sharing is allowed "to the maximum extent consistent with law."
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3/25
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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.
[date is given as “late March,” assuming a Wednesday bc others reported DOGE meetings during that time]
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3/26
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Directory:
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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3/27
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3/27
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3/27
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3/31
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4/07
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Legal:
Kendall Lindemann testifies in a sworn deposition as a representative of DOGE after saying she had conducted extensive conversations with Amy Gleason.
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4/13
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Interagency:
Adam Martinez responds in the affirmative to an email (contents redacted in court filings) requesting items/access for unspecified people to conduct the RIF. Several DOGE staff are also cc'ed on the message
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4/16
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4/18
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c.4/20
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Interagency:
In a meeting between HUD and DOGE, Jacob Altik says they are planning to use an AI model analyzing regulations at DOGE to review the Code of Federal regulations
[Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April]
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4/29
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Interagency:
Nate Cavanaugh sends an email to the two remaining members of the CPB board requesting a meeting. He describes a DOGE team at GSA and cc's several other members of DOGE
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5/14
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5/20
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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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6/02
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Official:
In the budget for next year, the White House requests $45 million total for DOGE, forecasting 150 employees would work for the agency. From this amount, it allocates $10 million for a "software modernization initiative," with $35 million being provided to DOGE through reimbursement from agencies where DOGE staff will be embedded.
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6/04
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Official:
In an appendix for next year's budget request, the White Houre reports that approximately 89 staffers have worked for DOGE this fiscal year, and this number includes direct employees as well as staff on reimburable details. It's unclear if this count includes remaining members of the USDS, but that seems likely.
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6/04
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Official:
Testifying to Congress, Russell Vought says the White House is in "the midst of … establishing the leadership on an ongoing basis." But he also says more DOGE staff will be embedded directly in agencies to report to leadership there. Amy Gleason is not mentioned.
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