Executive Office of the President
subagencies: DOGE, OMB
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). DOGE itself is also hard to define, since it can be used interchangably to mean: - The DOGE Temporary Organization/USDS entity within the White House - Staff that have been detailed to other agencies from DOGE specifically - Staff that are detailed from other agencies besides DOGE (see The Wreckers for what this means) who are taking direction from DOGE leadership - Staff hired at other agencies who are following DOGE’s aims. DOGE has attempted to use this ambiguity in legal cases (for instance, not reporting the activities Gavin Kliger and Jeremy Lewin on behalf of DOGE at the CFPB, because technically they worked for the GSA), and media can sometimes be very imprecise as well. So, when an article reports a new person at an agency is from DOGE, does that mean they report to the White House or were detailed from there? It can be hard to figure out. As a result, this page has a large amount of ambiguity within. Not only does it include people working for DOGE who might not be. It 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.
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Events
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11/15/24
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Sighting
Elon Musk and Russell Vought meet each other for the first time at Mar-a-Lago. They reportedly got along very well, with “both on the same wavelength in terms of taking the most extreme action possible.”
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11/26/24
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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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| December 2024 | |
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12/05/24
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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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12/05/24
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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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12/06/24
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Directory
An article in the NYT identifies Brad Smith as the person effectively running DOGE at Mar-a-Lago during the project’s formation and speculates that DOGE may have an early focus on healthcare for this reason. It also names Steve Davis as a close collaborator.
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12/06/24
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Directory
A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump’s transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago.
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1/02/25
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Action
Baris Akis introduces Nate Cavanaugh to Steve Davis, so that he can recruit Nate Cavanaugh to work for DOGE. Vinay Hiremath introduced Mr. Akis to Mr. Cavanagh
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1/06/25
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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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1/12/25
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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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1/16/25
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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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1/17/25
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Sighting
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 included on the invitation. SGE stands for Special Government Employee.
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1/20/25
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Official
An Inauguration Day executive order EO 14158 renames the US Digital Services and establishes the DOGE Temporary Organization within it, staffed with 4-person teams in agencies for “implementing the president’s DOGE agenda”
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1/20/25
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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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1/20/25
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Official
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
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c.1/21/25
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Interagency
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)
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1/21/25
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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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1/24/25
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Directory
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.
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c.1/25/25
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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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1/27/25
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Onboard
Greg Barbaccia is named as the new Federal Chief Information Officer, a role which places him in charge of the CIO Council at OMB that coordinates the activities of federal CIOs.
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1/30/25
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Interagency
Leland Dudek reaches out to Tiffany Flick, the Associate Director of Budget, Facilities and Security to inform her that Mike Russo and Scott Coulter would be onboarding for DOGE. He was a mid-level employee at the time who would not normally be coordinating inter-agency details like this.
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1/30/25
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Interagency
Elon Musk reportedly visits GSA to meet with staff, several of whom are identified from their appearances in the internal directory for the agency. These include Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Luke Farritor.
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| February 2025 | |
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2/01/25
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Report
Stephanie Holmes, the new head of HR at DOGE/USDS, is unable to answer questions from USDS staff about if the “Fork in the Road” retirement offer is legitimate.
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2/XX/25
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Interagency
A whistleblower reports attending a meeting with USDS Administrator Amy Gleason, the SSA CIO Scott Coulter and several other DOGE staffers at the agency. The whistleblower reports that Gleason did not contribute to the meeting and was clearly not directing DOGE activities at the agency.
(fuzz: time is just given as February)
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2/04/25
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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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2/05/25
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Official
According to later sworn testimony from Kendall Lindemann, this is the date that Steve Davis was designated as 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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2/06/25
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Onboard
Russell Vought is confirmed by Congress as the Director of the powerful Office of Management and Budget.
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2/11/25
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Report
Online security researchers post evidence that the DOGE website was developed and is hosted by Outburst Data, a company run and operated by Kyle Schutt.
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2/11/25
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Official
Trump issues EO 14210 which grants DOGE teams in every agency final approval over any hiring decisions. It also creates a rule that an agency can hire 1 new person only if 4 people have left.
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2/12/25
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Disruption
In a meeting at the OMB, Russell Vought reportedly asks OMB staffers what options would allow them to dismantle the USIP. When he was told it was independent and funded by Congress, he replied “we’ll see what we can do.”
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2/12/25
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Disruption
In a meeting on foreign aid at OMB, Russell Vought stuns staffers by asking them to cut foreign aid to the greatest extent possible. When told that the cuts will lead to more people dying, he reportedly nonchalantly replied “you could say that about any of these cuts.”
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2/13/25
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Website
DOGE announces that its website is now live. The site is launched with an organizational chart and tweets from the DOGE X account. It is presented as white text on a black background.
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2/14/25
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Disruption
Approximately 50 USDS staff are fired, with most of terminations focused on project managers and designers (removing approximately 1/3 of the USDS staff that predated DOGE).
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2/17/25
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Interagency
Joshua Fox emails a few NASA administrators to introduce himself as “one of the attorneys at DOGE” and to also inform them “I just spoke to Scott Coulter about this, but I wanted to let you know that he is planning to go over to SSA tomorrow.” He includes several other DOGE leadership personnel in the email chain. It’s unclear from the message who actually made the decision that Scott Coulter would be detailed to the Social Security Administration.
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2/17/25
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Legal
In a filing in “State of New Mexico v. Elon Musk,” DOJ lawyers declare on the record that Elon Musk is not the USDS Administrator, but just a mere advisor.
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2/18/25
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Interagency
Kendall Lindemann contacts the FCC on behalf of DOGE and Amy Gleason to start the process of detailing several DOGE staffers to the agency.
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2/18/25
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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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2/19/25
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Interagency
A staffer at the EOP emails DOGE staff to take part in a webinar about the National Environmental Policy Act.
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2/19/25
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Official
Trump issues an executive order EO 14218 “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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2/19/25
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Official
Trump issues an executive order EO 14219 “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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2/21/25
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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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2/24/25
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Legal
In a hearing for “Alliance for Retired Americans v. Bessent,” Judge Kollar-Kotelly repeatedly grills DOJ lawyers to identify who the USDS Administrator is.
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2/25/25
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Disruption
21 of the remaining USDS staff who predated DOGE’s arrival publicly resign in protest of DOGE’s actions and publish an open letter on their resignation.
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2/25/25
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Official
DOGE announces via their X account that they have launched a new feature on their website showing the wall of savings from contract cancellations (many of these savings are later shown to be wildly erroneous, an issue that persists to this day).
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2/26/25
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Official
Trump issues an executive order EO 14222 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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2/26/25
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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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2/27/25
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Legal
U.S. District Judge John Bates orders that some DOGE officials should be required to testify under oath in the case of AFL-CIO v. Dep’t of Labor (D.D.C.)
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| March 2025 | |
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3/05/25
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Interagency
Complying with the demands in EO 14217, USIP leadership submits a letter to OMB asserting that USIP is an independent nonprofit organization, not a federal agency and that the measures in the executive order do not apply.
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3/05/25
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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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3/05/25
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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 became an employee of the CFPB instead of DOGE.
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3/06/25
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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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3/10/25
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Legal
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper demands that DOGE should reponse to discovery order in a court case with a rolling release of documents to commence within weeks.
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3/10/25
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Directory
Elon Musk claims there are about 100 DOGE staffers and shares that he has plans to double to 200. He also claims they are working in every federal agency within the government.
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3/12/25
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Interagency
Steve Davis sends an email to the FCC general counsel Adam Candeub introducing him to Tarak Makecha (whom he identifies as the Biz Lead) and Jordan Wick (software engineer). He follows up with Tarak and suggests chatting with him on his personal phone number (instead of an official government phone number).
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3/12/25
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Interagency
Elon Musk visits the National Security Agency (NSA) to meet with its top administrator, General Timothy Haugh
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3/12/25
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Legal
US District Judge Tanya Chutkan issues an order giving DOGE and Elon Musk three weeks to comply with document discovery requests about its staffing and downsizing plans for agencies
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3/13/25
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Interagency
Tarak Makecha, Joshua Fox, and Jacob Altik communicate with FCC staff about detailing arrangements from the OPM to the FCC (presumably for Tarak and Jacob)
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3/17/25
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Source
Interagency
In a redacted email about onboarding Jordan Wick, Joshua Fox sends an email to other FCC staff introducing Kendall Lindemann as DOGE’s “onboarding/HR/personnel expert.”
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3/18/25
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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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3/18/25
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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 thus not subject to FOIA.
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3/18/25
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Legal
In a ruling in J. Doe 1-26 v. Musk (D. Md), Judge Theodore D. Chuang declares that evidence shows that Elon Musk was effectively running DOGE without being formally appointed to the role.
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3/19/25
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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 later 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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3/19/25
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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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3/20/25
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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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3/20/25
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Source
Legal
In a response to the court order by Judge Cooper in CREW v. DOGE, the government estimates it would need to produce 105,403 documents in response to the CREW FOIA requests
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3/25/25
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Official
Within a large executive order (EO 14248) about voting, Trump orders DOGE “to review each State’s publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities.”
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c.3/26/25
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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. Baris Akis is notably not an employee of DOGE, since he is a foreign national and Musk was not granted a waiver to hire him.
(fuzz: date is given as “late March,” assuming a Wednesday bc others reported DOGE meetings during that time)
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3/26/25
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Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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3/27/25
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Source
Interagency
The EPA administrator’s public calendar includes a “Meeting w/ Elon Musk West Wing 221” at 6:30pm. Musk reportedly did not attend.
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3/27/25
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Legal
In response to litigation about records keeping, DOGE submits a new records retention policy
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3/27/25
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Legal
DOGE provides an updated estimate of documents that would be subject to CREW’s FOIA requests as 58,000 in total.
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3/31/25
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Interagency
Elon Musk visits the CIA at the invitation of its director, John Ratcliffe.
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| April 2025 | |
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4/01/25
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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. She asserts “the number is 40 percent.”
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4/03/25
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Interagency
A human resources division chief at the Peace Corps reports receiving two phone calls in quick succession. The first was from a Senior Advisor at OPM who also claimed to be a liasion for the White House, reporting that a DOGE representative would be detailed from USAID. The second was from a woman detailed to DOGE from GSA, who stated she was originally going to be detailed to USAID but will now be in a leadership position short term. She is not identified but is likely Bridget Youngs.
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4/07/25
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Legal
Kendall Lindemann testifies in a sworn deposition for AFL-CIO v. Dep’t of Labor (D.D.C.) as a representative of DOGE after saying she had conducted extensive conversations with Amy Gleason.
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4/08/25
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Source
Interagency
Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle meet in the FCC headquarters with the Chief of Staff Greg Watson to discuss the FCC’s progress on removing regulations.
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4/10/25
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Interagency
AmeriCorps’ acting director submits a plan to the OPM and OMB proposing a 50% cut in the agency workforce.
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4/13/25
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Source
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 staffers (Ashley Boizelle and Steve Davis as well as Gavin Kliger and Jeremy Lewin) are also cc’ed on the message
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4/16/25
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Directory
Three DOGE staffers – Marko Elez, Edward Coristine and Joe Gebbia – are reported to be working with staff from DHS, the State Department and USCIS on implementing an application process for a $5 Million “Gold Card” visa. It is unclear what agencies they are working for and how this partnership has been structured.
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4/18/25
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Source
Legal
DOGE is granted an administrative stay on replying to CREW’s FOIA requests while its appeal is being considered by an appeals court.
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c.4/20/25
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Interagency
In a meeting between HUD and DOGE, Jacob Altik says they are planning to use Christopher Sweet’s AI model analyzing regulations at HUD to review the entire Code of Federal regulations for regulations to review.
(fuzz: Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April)
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4/21/25
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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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4/29/25
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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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| May 2025 | |
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5/01/25
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Interagency
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a “connect” with OMB about the National Science Foundation
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5/XX/25
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Interagency
In May, Clark Milner, a senior advisor for policy in the White House, organized a meeting between USPS staff, the DOGE representatives at the agency, other DOGE staffers and members of the Domestic Policy Council.
(fuzz: No other specific date information is given)
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5/05/25
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Interagency
Ashley Boizelle mails the Chief of Staff (and head of the DOGE team) at FCC to ask how the agency handles outside comments on high-profile rulemakings and if they contract with an outside service.
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5/14/25
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Legal
An appeals court rules that DOGE must resume complying with FOIA requests filed by CREW about the organization’s internal operations. That work had been on hold since an administrative stay on April 18
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5/19/25
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Interagency
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a quick sync with a finance department deputy at the agency and a DOGE liasion.
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5/20/25
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Disruption
In a post on its X account, DOGE reports that it is working to review surveys conducted by the Census Bureau and claims to have already eliminated 5 surveys that include questions about alcohol consumption and internet usage.
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5/22/25
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Interagency
Elon Musk joins a late-night meeting with senior members of the DOGE leadership team. Katie Miller delivered a blunt message that DOGE was on thin ice with the White House. She also reportedly advised that DOGE should strive to collaborate with Cabinet secretaries more instead of pushiing cuts or projects on them that they didn’t want to do.
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5/23/25
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Legal
The Supreme Court issues a stay on the shadow docket for an order from an appeals court that DOGE must start producing documents for CREW, meaning that DOGE is once again able to delay producing documents.
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5/28/25
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Offboard
Elon Musk claims on his X.com account that he has ended his time as a Special Government Employee but that he remains on good terms with the team.
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5/29/25
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Offboard
In the wake of Elon Musk’s departure, Steve Davis, Katie Miller and James Burnham reportedly also left DOGE. Davis had been widely described as running the day-to-day operations of DOGE, and it’s unclear who will take that over.
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5/31/25
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Offboard
After smiling with Trump at a press conference at the White House, Elon Musk convened DOGE staff for a private farewell at his office in the Old Executive Office Building. He reportedly urged DOGE to rethink its methods and that the next iteration of DOGE should be decentralized and work more collaboratively with agency leadership. Steve Davis joined in by telephone and stated that he did not intend to go anywhere, which many interpreted to mean that he would be hired into a new role.
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| June 2025 | |
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6/XX/25
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Official
The White House Presidential Personnel Office contacts DOGE leads across the government to inform them that Steve Davis is no longer an employee of DOGE and they should cease all contact with him.
(fuzz: Not named, but linking to Trent Morse, since this is his office.)
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6/XX/25
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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 reportedly pushes for their firing, calling it an attempted coup. Sam Corcos is named as one DOGE staffer who was given the silent treatment by Davis and allies.
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6/02/25
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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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6/03/25
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Interagency
Steve Davis walked into DOGE’s weekly meeting at the GSA, asserting he was still in charge even though he was no longer a government employee. The acting director of the GSA, Stephen Ehikian, reportedly responded “Steve Davis remains in charge until he says he’s not” to DOGE members confused by this turn of events.
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6/04/25
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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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6/04/25
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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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c.6/05/25
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Disruption
Concerned by people questioning his continued authority, Steve Davis reportedly taps Anthony Armstrong, Josh Gruenbaum and Stephen Ehikian to assess the loyalty of DOGE staffers and assert they are the leadership of DOGE now, acting under the authority of JD Vance and Susie Wiles in the White House. This is a bluff, and staffers in the White House counter that their authority is only within GSA itself.
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c.6/05/25
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Disruption
Concerned by Steve Davis’ attempts to stay involved with DOGE despite no longer being employed by the agency and instructions to not interact with him, DOGE staffers Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos, Ryan Shea, and Adam Blake privately questioned Davis about his involvement. They also reportedly contacted DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor about the legality of his continued involvement.
(fuzz: date is not given in article, unclear if at meeting or afterwards)
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6/05/25
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Action
Despite having left DOGE a week prior, Steve Davis reportedly holds a meeting with DOGE staff hosted on the sixth floor of the GSA headquarters. At the meeting, he reportedly proposes a “DOGE 2.0” which would be more collaborative with agency heads.
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6/06/25
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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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6/06/25
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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.
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6/06/25
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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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6/07/25
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Disruption
Steve Davis removed DOGE staffers that he considered disloyal from shared Signal chats that DOGE had continued to use for coordination. He also used his influence at GSA to have Ryan Shea removed from his position. Other Davis targets – Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos and Adam Blake – were able to remain at their posts but were shut out from DOGE communications
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6/10/25
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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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6/13/25
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Website
DOGE staffers working with the Department of Commerce launch an informational site for the new proposed “Trump Card” gold visa, which would let people skip the lines for immigration visas by paying $5 million in fees. It is a single-page site with bold text and an email sign-up form for people who might be interested.
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6/30/25
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Interagency
Ashley Boizelle mails the Chief of Staff (and head of the DOGE team) at FCC for information about their deregulation work at the agency.
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7/01/25
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Action
DOGE gives a presentation of a “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool” that will use AI to target roughly 50% of federal regulations for elimination, on the argument that they aren’t meeting statutory requirements. The goal is to slash these regulations by January 20, 2026. In their presentation, DOGE claims the tool has already made determinations on 1083 decisions at HUD (using Christopher Sweet’s work) and has also been used for 100% of deregulatory actions at the CFPB. It also states that DOGE lawyers James Burnham, Austin Raynor, Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle have vetted and endorsed the tool.
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7/08/25
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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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7/15/25
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Legal
In a setback for the Trump administration, an appeals court rules in CREW v. DOGE that the agency must comply with records requests being made by CREW and that the official DOGE administrator Amy Gleason must be made available to testify. This came after CREW modified its initial request to exclude certain communications that the Supreme Court had ruled should be exempted. Those changes were enough to satisfy the appeals court.
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7/23/25
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Interagency
Citing safety concerns, the head of the CFPB (Russell Vought) signs an agreement with the head of the OMB (Russell Vought) to spend $4.7 milliion of the CFPB’s budget from now through December to provide a security detail for Russell Vought. This is the same time as the agency is facing its budget being slashed in half.
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7/30/25
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Oversight
Three Democratic senators introduce the “Pick Up After Your DOGE Act”, which would task the GAO with auditing what systems DOGE has accessed across the government. The bill will not pass, but it could be a preview of oversight measures that could happen with a change of control in Congress.
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8/12/25
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Report
In an analysis of DOGE’s continued exaggeration about its savings, Politico notes that updates to the site’s Wall of Receipts have become more infrequent. There were barely any updates in June, followed by a four-week gap in July and another 17 days for a few items in August. This suggests that the cost-cutting mission (or at least, bragging about it) has slowed or faltered within DOGE.
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8/13/25
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Interagency
In a call hosted by the US CIO, DOGE team lead Scott Langmack shares info on an AI tool named SweetREX Deregulation AI Plan Builder developed by Christoper Sweet to review agency regulations for elimination. This is the same tool highlighted by DOGE in a presentation to the White House earlier in the month. Agency representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of State, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are on the call. Steve Davis also was on the call despite having left DOGE and asked if the tool could be open-sourced.
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| September 2025 | |
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9/25/25
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Oversight
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
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| October 2025 | |
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10/03/25
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Disruption
In a memo released by OMB detailing operations during the government shutdown, OMB reveals that there are 45 people in the DOGE office who will continue to work during the shutdown because it is not funded through a normal appropriations process.
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10/10/25
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Website
Working with the White House and HHS, the National Design Studio launches the TrumpRX to promote a forthcoming initiative from the White House to cap certain drug prices for private payers. This is the fourth website to bear the National Design Studio credit, and like the others it is a single-page site with expandable accordion elements of text and an email signup form.
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11/22/25
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Report
Many current and former members of DOGE reportedly hold a reunion in Austin, Texas where Elon Musk and Steve Davis are expected to attend and it’s likely there will be discussions on the future of DOGE.
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11/23/25
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Report
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.
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12/15/25
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Legal
Citing “events subsequent to its filing,” the plaintiffs in State of New Mexico v. Elon Musk move to voluntarily dismiss the case, since DOGE has formally wound down (although DOGE staffers do remain in government) and Elon Musk has left his role
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1/03/26
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Official
The US DOGE Service posts that it is looking for new people to fill two-year terms as part of the regular digital service organization (not the temporary one). The posting states that approximately 70 people work for USDS now, a steep reduction from the 230 people who were in USDS in 2024.
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1/30/26
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Report
Speaking at the ACT-IAC Summit, Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia touted the work of the National Design Studio and reported that OMB is working closely with NDS to “coalesce” the administration’s website design, comparing it to how certain hotel brands will all look and smell the same. He reports there are internal sandboxes running for new designs and a redesigned site for CIO.gov will soon illustrate the new look. The NDS is also reportedly leaning heavily into using AI for its work. In addition, 35,000 people have applied to the administration’s Tech Force initiative and they are reviewing 6,000 applicants.
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2/05/26
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Legal
A federal judge ruled that Elon Musk and senior State Department officials must sit for depositions about their roles in dismantling USAID. The judge cited the lack of documentation and no cooperation from other State Department staff as the reason there was “no alternative” to ordering the depositions.
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2/11/26
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Website
The CIO Council launches a new version of its website cio.gov which has been redesigned by the National Design Studio. This site also includes a new design system, which outlines a new style for websites but it lacks instructions, standardized CSS tags or web components found in other design systems like the US Web Design System and it has poor scores for accessibility. Nevertheless, with this launch, the National Design Studio has rebuilt a site with dozens of pages and has also implemented a site search for the first time.
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2/19/26
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Onboard
Federal CIO Chief Greg Barbaccia is named as the new Acting Director for the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) at GSA, replacing Thomas Shedd in the role. Shedd has seemingly been demoted to a new role of Senior Advisor for Fraud Prevention. Greg Barbaccia is still serving in the role of CIO for USAID as well.
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2/24/26
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Report
In a tweet on his personal X account, National Design Studio member Tyler Kim confirms that the content on cio.gov was “almost entirely generated by our internal ai agent system [end-to-end].”
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