All The Events

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."

A person who is likely Anthony Jancso posts recruitment messages for DOGE to a chat group for employees who had worked at Palantir

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

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

Future DOGE recruit Riley Sennott's public calendar lists a 15-minute DOGE recruiting meeting on this day

The leader of the Trump transition team for the Treasury Department sends an email requesting that Thomas Krause be incuded on the "day 1 team, to lead on Fiscal Services modernization efforts."

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

A report on conservative nonprofit groups doing research for DOGE notes that interviews are being conducted by Marc Andreessen and Shaun Maguire

Noah Peters outlines with Keenan Kmiec the plan on how to use administrative leave to sideline federal employees  [Date is approximate in deposition]

Noah Peters receives a job offer to work at the OPM. He describes it as very general and vague.  [Date is approximate in deposition]

Noah Peters starts working on two memos around temporary authorities for Schedule C and another on probationary employees and admininstrative leave. These are to be issued on January 20th.  [Date is approximate in deposition]

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.

Noah Peters recalls that he met with Amanda Scales and Brian Bjelde to plan for their upcoming first day at OPM.

An Inauguration Day executive order 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"

In another executive order, 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

USDS is transferred out of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and established a standalone office in the Executive Office of the President

Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell replaces existing CIO Melvin Brown with Greg Hogan in an acting capacity

Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM within the Director's office

The DOGE team moves into a secure office within OPM, installing sofa beds and armed security

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.

OPM sends out a first test email from its new government-wide email system

A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities

Treasury Chief of Staff Dan Katz sends an email stating that DOGE staff need to be given access to pause USAID payments

Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at the OPM

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]

Spurred by rumors there would be a funding freeze, HUD grantees drew their funds early at 5x normal rate for $1.5 billion in grants total.

OPM sends a second test email from its new government-wide email system to all government employees

President Trump illegally fires NLRB Chair Gwynne Wilcox and NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. This leaves the agency without quorum to act.

A member of the OPM union posts a Reddit message reportedly from an OPM employee stating that the email server is a piece of outside equipment and the goal is to generate lists of all govt employees to send massive firing notices later.

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

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

CDC managers receive a directive from OPM to rank probationary hires as "mission critical", working on "strategic priorities" or neither. When one of the CDC's ten centres responded that all their staff were "mission critical", higher-ups told them that wasn't good enough, and set explicit target percentages for each category.

Two DOGE staffers attempted to force water pumps to be turned on in a large reservoir in California for a photo op

Marko Elez is provided with a laptop from Treasury with with copies of the source code for PAM, SPS, and ASAP in a separate, secure coding environment known as a "secure code repository" or "sandbox."

OPM sends out the "Fork in the Road" email to all federal employees offering them a chance to resign

Wired Magazine provides an early listing of which Musk-affiliated DOGE staff now have positions at OPM  [didn’t name Coristine or Bobba bc of their ages, but later confirmed as them]

Justin Monroe and Christopher Stanley start working at OPM as a volunteer Expert

An unidentified former SpaceX employee [later confirmed to be Justin Monroe] is reported to be working as an advisor to the Director of the FBI

A team of high-ranking GSA employees meets to discuss building special "resting rooms" for DOGE and other A-suite staff

GSA regional managers receive instructions from HQ that "lease terminations are the clear priority at this time"

Luke Farritor is granted access to the CDC's Integrated Contract Expert (ICE) system for contracts

Tyler Hassen conducts a review of every single contract and grant from DOI and sends action items for review directly to Secretary Burgum

Elon Musk reportedly visits GSA to meet with staff, several of whom are identified from their appearances in the internal directory for the agency

Austin Raynor and Chris Young start working at the OPM

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.

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.

Luke Farritor is granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) which centralizes payments for CMS medical claims

Wired reports that DOGE staff are attempting to get elevated access to GSA systems and making changes to office arrangements to create a special reserved floor for their staff.

Federal employees at OPM are locked out of access to key systems by DOGE and OPM leadership

Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the independent director of the CFPB

Engineers working for DOGE within OPM used Meta's LLama AI model locally to analyze responses to the Fork in the Road resignation offer

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"

Multiple DOGE staff detailed and appointed at HHS are granted read-only access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is named the acting director of the CFPB and orders staff to halt all work pending review

Twenty DOGE staff are reportedly within the Department of Education and "have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset that contains the personal information for millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program."

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.

Email to SBA staff announces that Edward Coristine and Donald Park were granted access to all systems including HR, contract, and payment systems.

Mike Russo officially joins the agency as its new CIO, requests Akash Bobba to join the agency (but he has issues with his background check)

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"

Luke Farritor is granted access to the CDC's Acquisition Performance and Execution (APEX) system that tracks procurements at the CDC

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.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent writes a letter to Congress about Scott Krause having read-only access but doesn't mention Marko Elez

Cole Killian appears in an EPA internal directory as a "Federal Detailee" with his name Gautier Killian.

DOGE staffer Nikhil Rajpal reportedly enters NOAA facilities in Silver Spring, MD

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

A representative from DOGE was given access to contracting systems as well as information on VA operations and information technology systems.

DOGE staff arrive at CMS HQ and are reportedly granted access to the CALM system, but sources at CMS deny they have access to HIGLAS

Despite reports to the contrary, multiple DOGE staff are granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) after arriving at CMS headquarters

CMS releases a press release stating that two agency veterans have been assigned to work with DOGE

DOGE staff enter the Commerce Department headquarters

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.

Thomas Flagg, the CIO of the Dept. of Education, sends a memo to the heads of IT that orders them to give DOGE staff prompt access to all systems

DOGE staff are given access to several Department of Labor IT systems

Elon Musk promises that DOGE will make rapid upgrades to airline systems after outage of NOTAM alerting system

OPM attests the government-wide email system runs on agency systems

OPM issues a Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) that states responses are voluntary, brief and do not include identifying information

DOGE staff reportedly arrive at CDC HQ in Atlanta to gain access to health payment systems

DOGE staff enter CFPB facilities and are given equipment and onboarded

The Washington Post reports that DOGE is feeding Department of Education data into an AI system hosted in Microsoft Azure

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rules that DOGE should only be granted read access to government systems

DOGE member and lawyer Jacob Altik joins the case for the defense in Jane Does 1-2 v. Office of Personnel Management (D.D.C.) without revealing he is an OPM employee working for DOGE

The court dismisses the motion for a temporary restraining order against the OPM email system since there is now a PIA available for it

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

Elon Musk posts a tweet "CFPB RIP" with a tombstone emoji

OMB director Russell Vought is named the new acting head of the CFPB

DOGE staff are given full privileged access to CFPB systems without completing training or agreeing to CFPB's acceptable use policy for IT systems

The CFPB homepage is deleted and returns a 404 error. The CFPB social media account on X is also deleted.

According to Dept. of Energy spokesperson, DOGE staff departed the agency within a few days of arrival  [Date is approximate and unknown. Report is unconfirmed]

168 employees who worked on environmental justice are placed on indefinite administrative leave

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

All USAID staff are placed on indefinite administrative leave

DOGE social media account on X boasts about deleting a DHS page of LGBTQI+ resources

NBC News reports that Akash Bobba and Ethan Shaotran have admin access to email and had also accessed the backend admin for the Department of Education website.

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

Edward Coristine appears in a DHS directory as a "senior advisor"

In an overview of DHS programs, Kyle Schutt stuns federal staff in the office of civil right by declaring one of their programs (CRCL) looks like money laundering

A legal affadavit states a BFS payment was presented to State Department to not process after it was reviewed by DOGE

NOTAM has its name changed from Notice to Air Missions back to its original name of Notice to Airmen

Unnamed DOGE staff using non-government accounts conduct dozens of "touch-base" interviews with dozens of US Digital Corps fellows, under the direction of Thomas Shedd

Employees at HUD receive an email from new DOGE staffer Scott Langmack asking them to list every contract at HUD and whether it is critical and/or has DEI components

Mike Russo, DOGE chief of staff Steve Davis both demand that Akash Bobba be onboarded before midnight.

CIO Mike Russo convenes his own internal informational group in SSA, has conversations with other agencies about data sharing, does not inform acting SSA Director, Michelle King

The incoming SSA head directs for Mark Steffensen to be onboarded to SSA as an attorney, according to the testimony of a whistleblower

Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor are posted to the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Technology

A day after a conservative activist flagged it on X, DOGE posts it has removed gender identity options from a VA form

CFPB Contracting Officers (COs) are ordered to terminate the vast majority of CFPB's contracts over the weekend

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.

In a court filing, the Department of Education agreed to block DOGE from access to financial aid systems.

A legal affadavit from a Treausry employee states Marko Elez was accidentally given edit access to BFS systems but did not use it

Kathryn Armstrong Loving sends the EPA administrator a list of contracts DOGE wants to cut and cc's Cole Killian

The CFO of FEMA, Mary Comans, was abruptly fired and her departure was announced in a FEMA press release

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

Adam Martinez, CFPB COO, includes DOGE representatives in emails hiring OPM for consulting on Reduction-in-Force planning for the CFPB

DOGE staff will reportedly be hired directly to the Department of Defense and not be detailed from elsewhere

Other GSA staff describe being subjected to 15-minute interviews where they felt they were asked to justify their jobs

Dozens of probationary workers within the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) are fired, with many of the cuts focused on the US Digital Corps and Presidential Innovation Fellows programs

In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time in their list of officials to FOIA communications for

Jordan Wick demands that mass termination notices are to be sent to CFPB employees by February 14

DOGE announces that its website is now live with an organizational chart and tweets

A story on a proposal to use AI at the Department of Education lists several DOGE staffers identified there within the last few weeks.

DOGE is granted authorization to use file transfer software at Department of Labor, alarming cybersecurity staff

NASA leadership replies to a congressional inquiry to report that DOGE had identified a single individual who would be employed at the agency.

The CFPB's videos are removed from its YouTube channel

In a speech, the Secretary of Agriculture says DOGE has been at the agency for "a few weeks"

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)

After a conservative account complained to Musk on Twitter about gender options on the FAFSA form, it was changed the same day (a change was already on the roadmap, but multiple contractors were called in to rush it)

388 probationary employees are fired at the EPA

The NASA administrator emails all staff to report that "DOGE has arrived"

NIST workers witness a handful people that they suspect of being DOGE at NIST IT facilities in Gaithersburg, MD

Leland Dudek is placed on administrative leave while under investigation that he committed inappropriate actions to help DOGE

Bloomberg publishes some background information on Justin Fulcher, the DOGE staffer working quietly at the VA

Roughly 750 probationary workers receive termination notices directly from the OPM

SSA Staff express concern to Acting Commissioner King that Bobba is accessing information remotely and in an insecure location (the OPM)

Frustrated with the questions and concerns about technical issues with the sandbox NUMIDENT data, Mike Russo goes to complain to the chief CIO in the office of the OMB

White House pressures the IRS to sign a MOU granting DOGE expanded access to internal systems

The acting director of the Social Security Administration, Michelle King, receives an email from the White House that Dudek is now the Acting Commissioner.

A senior manager at CDC comes back from a meeting to find two men in Tesla shirts leaving her office who said they "fixed" her computer

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.

Four SpaceX engineers at FAA are granted ethics waivers and designated as Special Government Employees, but must recuse from decisions affecting SpaceX

The head of the medical device safety division at the FDA is fired amid mass layoffs

The head of the FDA's food safety division resigns because of 89 employees being indiscriminately fired

White House official confirms one DOGE staffer will be working with an IRS employee to access IRS systems

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

An employee requests to repair the CFPB homepage deleted by DOGE, but that action is refused by order of Vought

Unidentified DOGE team has a kickoff meeting with DoD staff at the Pentagon

DoD agencies are ordered to provide lists of probationary employees to DOGE

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.

A federal judge denied an attempt to block DOGE from accessing Department of Education systems related to financial aid

DOGE staffer Ted Malaska declares that SpaceX is the only company able to complete a communications network contract already awarded to Verizon, threatens to report anybody blocking his work to Musk

A GSA employee reportedly resigned rather than give unrestricted admin access for the SMS emergency notification service Notify.gov to Thomas Shedd

ProPublica reports that Frank Schuler has appeared in the GSA directory  [Exact date is not provided in the article]

Frank Schuler is introduced on a video call meeting at the GSA by Nate Cavanaugh  [Exact date is not provided in the article]

Privacy advocates sue to stop DOGE acess to IRS systems

Former AirBnb executive Joe Gebbia starts working as an Expert at OPM

CNN reporter shares that a FOIA request about DOGE was replied to with "they just fired the whole privacy team"

Senate Democrats send letter to VA Secretary demanding information about DOGE's activities there

Staff at the CIO office at the CDC claim to not have been contacted by DOGE yet

Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt are reportedly given elevated access to CISA systems, including documents and staff emails.

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

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.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says only one person from DOGE is "looking at an outdated IT system, that's all they're doing."

Thomas Shedd has allegedly requested admin access to 19 different systems within TTS at GSA

According to one agency employee, DOGE workers have been granted access access to contracts, partnerships, performance reviews, classified national-security information, and satellite data, among other materials.

SSA CIO Mike Russo emails Leland Dudek request access to EDW for several "members of [his] team" for Numident, Master Beneficiary Record (MBR) and Supplemental Security Record (SSR) master records, as well as copies of SSA payment files that SSA transmits to the Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) for payment

USADF board member Ward Brehm becomes aware that his agency is going to be targeted by DOGE for elimination

Trump issues an Executive Order "Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy" targeting the Presidio Trust, the Inter-American Foundation, the United States African Development Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace for reductions.

In emails with USDA staff to identify climate-related terms to look for and cancel in grants, Gavin Kliger also alludes to DOGE developing LLM models for analyzing grant descriptions for specific language.

Defense Secretary Hegseth releases a video stating that he met with DOGE about cuts to the agency and many of them are veterans

John York, a senior counselor to Bessent, wrote in a sworn statement that Ryan Wunderly would take over Marko Elez's work at the BFS

DOGE staff arrived at IAF HQ and were granted immediate access to IT systems, as reported by IAF CEO Sara Aviel the following day

The White House and Treasury Department come to an agreement about how DOGE access to IRS systems will be structured

In a court filing, Treasury says it is adding two more DOGE staffers exclusively focused on the IRS

Treasury agrees to block Gavin Kliger from the IDRS system and provide him only with anonymized data

Employees at the NLRB are alarmed to see that DOGE has claiming it has cancelled the lease for their office in Buffalo, NY

Several DOGE staffers at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group) as also working at SSA

Chris Young meets with USADF leadership at their HQ to "introduce DOGE to the agency" and that 2 engineers would be assigned there

USDA Secretary Rollins posts a photo of a grant-cancellation session on the @DOGE_USDA account

IAF CEO Sara Aviel confirms to a friend at USADF that DOGE plans to dismantle the agency

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the IRS and DOGE is signed. It reportedly will not let DOGE access individual tax returns

Ethan Shaotran, Jacob Altik, and Nate Cavanaugh arrive at the agency and demand that a MOU must be signed for their detail assignment

Once MOU is signed, DOGE staff reveal their real purpose is to conduct a massive reduction in agency staff and scope and demand to file a RIF plan by 2/24

Nate Cavanaugh and Jacob Altik then demanded immediate access to USADF systems including financial records and payment and human resources systems. They were told they had to go through standard clearance process.

Jacob Altik demands waivers to exempt DOGE staff from background checks, threatens to fire USADF board if demands are not materials.

USADF general cousel revokes their participation in the MOU based on it being under false pretenses

Sara Aviel is dismissed as the CEO of the Inter-American Foundation

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.

Amy Gleason is granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts

Stephanie Holmes requests full admin access to the FPPS system to process actions for herself as well as DOGE members Katrine Trampe and Tyler Hassen

In a hearing for "Alliance for Retired Americans v. Bessent," Judge Kollar-Kotelly repeatedly grills DOJ lawyers on who the USDS Administrator is

In a ruling, a judge declared "DOGE affiliates have been granted access to systems of record that contain some of the plaintiffs' most sensitive data - Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, income and assets, citizenship status, and disability status - and their access to this trove of personal information is ongoing"

Staffers at the NLRB are told that DOGE will be arriving at the agency the following week and that they have questions about the agency's network architecture  [The testimony only mentions that this communication happened sometime during that week]

Four DOGE staffers are indentified with email addresses linked to NIH

Three DOGE staffers are placed within the NIH Business System Department for access to NIH's central electronic business system, which includes finance, budget, procurement, a property-management system, and a grant-tracking system

After Elon Musk threatens on X that employees must complete a list of 5 accomplishments and send it to OPM or risk termination, OPM sends out an email requesting that list (without the threat) to every government employee. Widespread confusion occurs at many agenices.

USADF president/CEO Ward Brehm receives an email from Trent Morse in the White House Personnel Office notifying him that he is removed from tbe board.

USIP leadership meets with DOGE staff to explain history and legal status of the agency

DOGE counters to USIP with their belief that minimum statutory size of agency is "a Board of Directors and a president, reports to Congress and the Executive branch, and expenses incident to the Board of Directors" and says they will regroup

The Chief Human Capital Office of the Department of Agriculture testifies to Congress that OPM ordered the firing of all probationary federal employees

21 of the remaining USDS staff who predated DOGE's arrival publicly resign in protest of DOGE's actions

DOGE announces they have launched the feature on their website showing contract cancellations (many of these savings are later shown to be wildly erroneous)

FDA staff give a high-level overview of FDA structures and functions to Clark Minor  [date is just given as late February and early March for meetings]

GSA reportedly spending $25,000 to install a washer and dryer near a makeshift sleeping area occupied by DOGE

The Post reports that DOGE is being granted access to only anonymized data from IDRS

DOGE engineer Ricardo Biasini is reported to be working on updating software to automate Reduction-in-Force (RIF) processes

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.

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.

Republican lawmakers on the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security unanimously opposed a resolution of inquiry into DOGE activities at DHS

Without issuaing any warning, GSA puts a $1 spending limit on all government purchase cards following an executive order by Trump. This predictably creates a large amount of chaos by destroying the ability of agencies to do micro-purchases allowed by law.

Wired reports that DOGE staff were given read-only access to some systems and read-write access to payment systems within HUD as well as the centralized authorization system that grants access to other systems (date unknown)

There is reportedly a 6-person DOGE team working at HUD, with 4 of the staff being existing HUD employees and Michael Mirski and Scott Langmack from DOGE

Stephanie Holmes' request for admin access to the FPPS system is approved by an Jarrod Agen, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior

U.S. District Judge John Bates orders that some DOGE officials should be required to testify under oath

After a federal judge overrules the mass firing of probationary workers, only 180 workers (out of 750) return to work at the CDC

Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos, DOGE representatives embedded at the IRS, on Friday asked IRS lawyers to assist in creating an "omnibus" agreement with other federal agencies that would allow a broad swath of federal officials to cross-reference benefits rolls with taxpayer data

After a journalist posts info that Jordan Wick's github profile is public, a staffer an NLRB notices a project named NxGenBdoorExtract which seemed to indicate a tool for exfiltrating data via a hidden back door from an NLRB system named NxGen.

OPM amends the Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) to remove declarations that responses are voluntary.

Judge Alsup ruling in AFL-CIO vs. OPM (N.D. Cal.), issues a temporary restraining order that termination of probationary workers at 6 agencies were unlawful

Via email, "Employee 5" of the DOGE team at SSA requests and receives approval from Leland Dudek to run a program to identify unrealistically old people in the SSA database

USADF Managing Director of Finance Mathieu Zahui receives an email from Trent Morse informing him the USADF is "boardless" and naming Peter Marocco as acting chair. Zahui informs them appointment would require senate confirmation first.

Kyle Schutt and Edward Coristine reportedly have pressured staff at DHS to use Grok, a chatbot from Elon Musk's xAI, despite the fact it had not been approved for use in the agency. A DHS spokesperson denied the allegations.

TTS administrator Thomas Shedd eliminates 90 members of 18F with a 1am firing email and locks them out of their machines

Hours after the staff is hit with the RIF email, the DNS entry for 18F.gsa.gov is removed

In a response to a Trump EO on tracking grant, the DOGE team is granted approval by HHS CIO Clark Minor to build an API to retrieved data from the PMS system

All government employees receive a second email telling them they must list their accomplishments every Monday by 11:59pm

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) starts an audit of how DOGE handled data at several agencies

Jeremy Lewin is granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts

DOGE staff attempt to access "a system within a broader government database created to help enforce child support payments, which pulls a vast trove of information, including income data linked to nearly all workers." This is initially refused.

The head of HR, Traci DiMartini, for the IRS is placed on administrative leave for refusing to bring in employees over the weekend to officially onboard Sam Corcos

A black SUV and police escort bring DOGE staff to the NLRB. They weren't introduced and didn't interact with IT staff directly.

The NLRB Assistant CIO conveys instructions that there are to be no logs or records made of account creation for DOGE staff and they are to be given "tenant"-level accounts with read/write/admin for all systems. These exceed existing permissions that would normally be used by auditors.

Joshua Hanley's name appeared in PDF metadata for grant cancellations sent out by the NIH to two researchers working on LGBTQ+-related scientific work

USADF board member Ward Brehm is elected by the board as President/CEO of USADF

Luke Farritor officially offboards from the CFPB

Jordan Wick is converted from a detailee to a full employee of the CFPB

A Forbes article identifies Justin Fulcher as one of the DOGE staff at the Pentagon and questions details about his background

DOGE boasts in a tweet that 27% more water was released in February compared to January (unclear if this adjusts for different lengths of months)

Wired reports that some DOGE staff (Kyle Schutt, Nate Cavanaugh) are being paid as full-time GSA employees, but other staff are listed as volunteers for that agency

Peter Marocco announces himself to staff as President/CEO, begins dismantling all contracts, places all staff on administrative leave for 30 days

DOGE brags on its X account that the IAF has been reduced to a single employee

NLRB network staff notice the existence of an anomalous container on their network and expired storage tokens to deter analysis of what resources were accessed

In response to recent rulings, the OPM quietly revises its initial memo requiring federal agencies to send lists of probationary employees to the agency and downplays suggestions that the lists should be used for deciding staffing levels

In a meeting, Dudek stresses again that DOGE will make mistakes and also admits "I am receiving decisions that are made without my input. I have to effectuate those decisions," suggesting DOGE is in charge.

USADF CFO Mathieu Zahui receives an email from Nate Cavanaugh informing him that Peter Marocco would be coming to the office the following day as Chairman of the Board

Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims

A second wave of DOGE members detailed to HHS are granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts

Aram Moghaddassi and Marko Elez are granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims

Edward Coristine and Zach Terrell are granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims

The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed

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.

Business Insider reports Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles B. Collins are new DOGE arrivals at Department of Labor

NLRB network staff discover that a network watcher within their cloud environment was in the off state and not logging the creation of new network nodes

NLRB network staff see a large spike in outgoing network traffic from their network with no corresponding incoming traffic (as might be the case for web traffic). He also sees a surge in DNS requests which might be used to hide tunnels for stealing data.

Nate Cavanaugh sends Ward Brehm an email demanding to know by what authority he is the President/CFO of USADF

Jacob Altik and Ethan Shaotran are rebuffed by agency leadership when attempting to enter the agency

Complying with the Executive Order from 2/19, USIP submits a letter to OMB asserting that USIP is an independent nonprofit organization, not a federal agency

The Engineering Director of USDS publicly resigns in protest, stating "this is not the mission I joined"

Thomas Shedd says in a statement that he expects TTS will be 50% smaller within weeks

NLRB network staff discover a recently created and deleted account with a DOGE-specific name DogeSA_2d5c3e0446f9@nlrb.microsoft.com that has seemingly been configured to support automated scripts accessing NLRB's cloud

After various users reported login problems to the service desk, networking staff at NLRB discover that certain conditional access policies had been updated. This was confirmed to not be any scheduled work.

DOGE staff Jacob Altik and Ethan Shaotran return joined by Nate Cavanaugh with US marshals to force entry to the agency

DOGE rolls out a custom GSAi custom chatbot to 1500 workers

Networking staff at NLRB discovered that 3 Github libraries were downloaded in the prior 30 days that could be used for scraping high volumes of data and obscuring the source requests.

Networking staff at NLRB determines that 10GB of data was exfiltrated from the NxGen case management system and then from NLRB. It's possible this is the compressed size and represents many more records

The federal staff who objected to DOGE getting access to NDNH are "no longer with the agency"

USIP President George Moose becomes aware that DOGE is conducting some sort of reconnaisance with respect to USIP's security operations and contractor

After receiving inquiries from the DOGE staff, the head of USIP security emailed them information about the private security firm and the HQ building

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper demands a rolling production of DOGE to produce documents in discovery within weeks

Elon Musk claims there are about 100 DOGE staffers and he has plans to double to 200. He also claims they are working in every federal Department.

The Trump Administration nominates Kenneth Jackson and Russell Vought to be on the board of the IAF

DOGE staff meet with career officials at NIH and are adamant that 3000 positions should be terminated. The number does not appear to be derived from any analysis or consultation with NIH senior leadership.

The OPM Inspector General responds to questions from Democrats in Congress by stating his office will start investigating DOGE's servers and practices

Trump admin nominates Laken Rapier and Russell Vought to be on the board of the USADF

US Representative and former whistleblower against Trump, Eugene Vindman, reports being repeatedly contacted by Clayton Cromer identifying himself as Executive Assistant US Attorney

There is further increase system utilization of the NxGen system and multiple attempts to connect to the system from an IP address in Russia using an account that was created only 15 minutes earlier by DOGE engineers at the agency.

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

Several DOGE representatives are reportedly spotted working at DOJ

Shelly C. Lowe, the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is forced out of her position by President Trump

DOGE staffers Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox contact NEH IT for access immediately after the removal of the agency's chair

Elon Musk visits the NSA to meet with its top administrator, General Timothy Haugh

In a sworn declaration, Florence Felix-Lawson notes "the SSA DOGE Team currently consists of ten SSA employees: four SSA special government employees (Employees 1, 4, 6, and 9) and six detailees to SSA from other government agencies and offices (Employees 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10)"

Multiple SSA employees told ProPublica, their tech systems seem to be crashing nearly every day, leading to more delays in serving beneficiaries.

Attorney General Pam Bondi announces she is forming a "JUST DOGE" team to look at restructuring

46 former GSA executives write an open letter decrying the damage that DOGE has done to the agency

As later reported in a declaration in AFL-CIO et al. vs. Department of Labor, HHS employee Mark Samburg finds DOGE staff at the agency listed in an online directory as Executive Engineers (and Rachel Riley as a Senior Advisor)

The acting chief counsel of the IRS, William Paul, is removed from his role and replaced by Andrew De Mello, who is seen as more supportive of DOGE's work at the agency

NLRB networking staff detect another transfer of data to an external endpoint

Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy sends a letter to Congress informing he has signed an agreement with GSA and DOGE to eliminate 10,000 jobs

ProPublica reports that DOGE detailee at NASA Scott Coulter has "wide access to internal databases at NASA"

A Business Insider article reports that Alexander Simonpour has shown up at NASA and also has a GSA address (meaning he was likely detailed from the GSA). Riley Sennott and Scott Coulter also are listed

Leland Dudek approves for "Employee 5" to run the proposed tool for death data improvement

Various members of the USIP board report receiving emails from the White House saying they are terminated from their positions.

DOGE members Kenneth Jackson, Jacob Altik and Nate Cavanaugh show up at USIP building with 2 other people claiming to be FBI agents and are refused entry. They attempted to present a document firing the USIP president.

Trump issues a new executive order proclaiming that the IMLS among other agencies must be reduced to statutory functions only

Two FBI agents visited a senior USIP security official at his home unannounced to ask about gaining entry to the building, possibly through pressuring the the Institute's security contractor

Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Johnathan Hornok, and two FBI special agents called USIP's outside counsel, Mr. Foote, stating that they had suspicion of criminal behavior at USIP,

Concerned they might be coerced by DOGE, the Chief Security Officer suspends the contract for building security contractor Inter-Con after being contacted by FBI agents interested in questioning him

At 6pm, all Inter-Con staff are removed from the building, all keycard access is revoked and all physical keys accounted for except for one held by the Inter-Con account manager for USIP

At 2:30pm, the Inter-Con account manager and employees attempt to enter the building with key cards and are denied. They use the physical key to enter once the account manager arrives with it.

At 2:59pm, USIP Security Chief calls DC police and institutes a high-level lockdown for the building. He observes with the security cameras that DOGE staff attempting entry on various doors.

Asked why they are attempting to gain control of the building, the Vice President of Inter-Con reports that DOGE threatened to cancel every single one of their federal contracts if they didn't comply

USIP President George Moose reports being present when four Inter-Con employees entered the USIP building without permission

USIP President George Moose is escorted out of the building by DC police who entered with DOGE at 5:30pm

DOGE members Kenneth Jackson, Jacob Altik and Nate Cavanaugh remove staff and president of the USIP with the help of Office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and D.C. police

Various USIP staff report receiving messages from DOGE staff asking for employee lists and access to computer systems

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

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 appointed to the role

Notes from a meeting at DOL about DOGE access state "they do not have write access. They have asked; we've held them at bay. We've tried to get them to tell us what they want & then we do it. They only have read access"

A lawyer for the plaintiffs accuses the DOJ of misrepresenting Altik's participation "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."

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

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.

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.

Marko Elez affirms he has completed his mandatory privacy training at the Department of Labor. This would be required before any system access.

GSA hosts a deep-background media briefing to demo its GSAi tool with invitations sent to reporters from Bloomberg, The Atlantic, and Fox among others.

IMLS staff learn that DOGE is planning to visit the following day; most make plans to attend

NLRB networking observes a spike in billing records related to nonexistent systems, likely indicating resources that were short-lived or deleted to cover up tracks

Leland Dudek approves access of "Employee 9" of the DOGE team at SSA for some additional schemas in PSSNAP

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

DOGE-affiliated staff start removing interior signage from the USIP building

Judge Beryl Howell presides over an emergency hearing on granting USIP's request for a temporary restraining order against DOGE, but doesn't grant a temporary restraining order

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

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."

Trump issues an executive order which explicitly includes an instruction that "the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary's designees shall receive, to the maximum extent consistent with law, unfettered access to all unemployment data and related payment records, including all such data and records currently available to the Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General."

Stephen Ehikian claims there is nobody from DOGE working at the agency

Wired Magazine list DOGE staff stationed within GSA, all of whom were listed on GSA payroll on March 20

DOGE arrives at IMLS HQ and are startled to find staff there. They quickly swear in Keith Sonderling as acting director of IMLS and then leave.

Access to purchase cards are restored at NIH for nonemergency purchases, but scientists face a huge backlog in processing orders for supplies.

President Trump issues an executive order that requests OPM to redefine regulations to give them more power to terminate employees at other agencies

In a ruling for AFL-CIO vs. SSA, Judge Hollander grants a temporary restraining order enjoining DOGE from having any access to SSA systems or installing any software as well as ordering them to delete any data

Leland Dudek threatens to shut down the entire Social Security Administration instead of complying with the order

USIP website is taken offline

Nikhil Rajpal officially offboards from the CFPB

Elon Musk arrives at the Pentagon for a meeting with leadership, reportedly to discuss DOGE

Trump administration eliminates the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and two ombudsman offices responsible for investigating allegations of abuse from immigrants. This also includes the CRCL program that was characterized as "money laundering" by DOGE staffer Kyle Schutt.

DOGE expands the GSAi chatbot rollout to more than 13,000 GSA employees

Dorn Carranza, a HHS liasion for DOGE, sends an email at 11am asking for information ASAP on mission-critical systems at the FDA, demanding updates until complete. Because the FDA CIO was absent at the time, her CISO hastily submitted a response with his own views within 24 hours. This seems to have been what guided RIF selection at FDA, without anybody at DOGE reviewing the information for accuracy.

Ruling in American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against to internal systems at the Departoment of Education by DOGE staff and the Acting Secretary where the justification for access was "the DOGE agenda" (i.e., all of them)

Ruling in American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against DOGE access to internal systems at the Departoment of the Treasury where the justification for access was "the DOGE agenda" (i.e., all of them)

Ruling in American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against access to internal systems at OPM by DOGE staff, but still allows it for OPM leadership including Ezell, Scales and Hogan

Mike Russo is removed from his CIO position by the Trump administration, reportedly for complying quickly with the judicial ruling to remove DOGE access

Postmaster General DeJoy resigns

NLRB networking staff make a formal report of the suspicious activity to US-CERT at CISA  [Source mentions it was on or about this date]

CDC claws back $11.4 billion in funds allocated to various state and community health departments for COVID response

Within a large executive order about voting, Trump orders DOGE "to review each State's publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities."

President Trump issues an executive order mandating that all payments flow through Treasury that agencies must modify SORNs to share data with Treasury as "routine use"

Nate Cavanaugh contacts the administrator of the GSA to propose transferring the USIP building to them, arguing that USIP won't need a building because the statute doesn't mandate it has one or staffing

Tech staffers and contractors noticed a new DOGE staffer, Sahil Lavingia, was pushing code to a repo in the VA's Github instance. He also appeared to be using an AI tool to write code.

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]

Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.

During his confirmation hearing, Frank Bisignano, the nominee to run the agency, confirms that he had coordinated with Michael Russo but denied a whistleblower report that he had ordered the appointment of DOGE staff there

After being provided with access to FPPS, Stephanie Holmes raises concerns she has not yet been granted full admin access to FPPS. The CIO said he would do it once the Secretary accepted the risk. Holmes did not convey the report to the Secretary.

In response to litigation about records keeping, DOGE submits a new records retention policy

DOGE provides an updated estimate of documents that would be subject to CREW's FOIA requests as 58,000

The EPA administrator's public calendar includes a "Meeting w/ Elon Musk West Wing 221" at 6:30pm (Musk reportedly did not attend)

HHS announces a large reorganization reducing HHS from 28 to 15 divisions and elimination 20,000 jobs (or 25% of total). The URL slug of the press release includes "DOGE" in it.

The Social Security Administration ends a Biden-era rule that limited clawbacks for overpayments to 10% per check (to prior policy of taking entire checks)

In a sworn declaration, Leland Dudek justifies access to PII in SSA records for Employee 1, Employee 5, Employee 8 and Employee 9 on the DOGE team. This access is through the SSA's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He claims DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.

Michael Grimes conducts DOGE-style interviews with each member of the staff in the Chips Program Office

Expressing concerns about DOGE requesting access to FPPS, the CIO and CISO of the Department of the Interior present a memo to the Interior Secretary about the risks for him to acknowledge and sign. He doesn't sign it

Tyler Hassen places the CIO and CISO at the Department of the Interior on admininstrative leave under investigation for raising alarm about DOGE access

Julie Bednar, a senior advisor in human resources at DOI, is pulled into a call with Katrine Trampe and Gavin Kliger calling from IRS who asked to speak to the system owner for FPPS directly

During an interview, the head of HHS reports that DOGE created the new organizational chart for the agency ahead of mass firings. He also claims "we're not cutting scientists"

DOGE abruptly places 50 technologists working at the IRS on administrative leave

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.

SEC employees receive an email that the agency is beginning to onboard DOGE staff

The SBA CIO, Marcus Alzona, who had been in the position for about a month, is abruptly removed

Reports emerge that DOGE is planning to rewrite the entire COBOL codebase for Social Security to Java in months using generative AI

The Deputy CIO for Infrastructure/IT at SSA acknowledges network crashes due to a newly-introduced fraud checking system created by DOGE

As part of an interview on Fox News, Aram Moghaddassi spreads the debunked statistic that 40% of call to SSA are from fraudsters

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

USCIS CIO William McElhaney sends a message to DHS Deputy Secretary asking them to review access that was granted to DOGE staff

Almost all USIP HQ staff (200-300 people) receive termination notices late on a Friday night

In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.

Federal staff at the DOD are sent an email offering them another chance for a deferred resignation if they enroll within the next week or so

In response to a discovery request in AFL-CIO vs. DOL, the government provides an incomplete list of DOGE staff who have worked at HHS

In a court declaration in AFL-CIO vs. DOL, counsel for the plaintiffs Alexa Milton provides the names of two DOGE staffers at HHS who were not provided in the government's list of staffers there

DOGE announces on X that it has made some changes to the loan application process at SBA to require a date of birth and to pause applications for certain age ranges

At a town hall event in Wisconsin, Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias claim to have found fraud in the number of immigrants being granted social security numbers

Elon Musk visits the CIA at the invitation of its director, John Ratcliffe

A group of DOGE representatives visit the FDA offices in Maryland. As one employee was leaving, a car pulled up with its window down and a young man in a suit shouted at her “This is DOGE and this is your Last Supper!” She received a RIF termination letter the next day.

DOGE arrives at the agency and notifies the entire staff of IMLS that they are being put on administrative leave up to 90 days and effective immediately

DOGE gains admin access to IMLS systems for monitoring grants and sending emails. This is likely Nate Cavanaugh.

DOGE starts cancelling all 900 open awards from IMLS to museums across the country

Politico reports that Brad Smith, who crafted the plan to layoff 10,000 staffers within HHS, is facing criticism from other DOGE staffers for attempting to shield CMS from the brunt of the layoffs. His aide, Rachel Riley is accused of being extraordinarily secretive with the plan.

HHS terminates a large number of staff at CDC in the name of cost savings and realignment, with the HHS director, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reportedly wanting to focus only on infectious diseases

Federal staff at the USDA are sent an email offering them another chance to do a deferred resignation if they enroll within the next week or so

The manager of the DOI's labor relations branch initiates an investigation of the DOI's CIO, Deputy CIO, Associate Solicitor and a Special Advisor over attempts to prevent DOGE access to DOI systems

DOGE member Christopher Stanley is listed as a Senior Advisor in Deputy Attorney General's Office and holds a security clearance

Employees at the Department of Energy are sent an email offering for them to enroll in a new separate deferred resignation plan.

HHS terminates a large number of staff at FDA in the name of cost savings and realignment, as the new head of FDA is sworn in

In a group chat within HHS, Amy Gleason attempts to distance herself from the mass layoffs caused by DOGE by claiming she is just the USDS administrator only and has nothing to do with how the DOGE teams operate.

HUD staff receive an email from HUD HR offering a new "Fork in the Road" offer for deferred resignation, open until April 11

NEH staff members are informed that DOGE sought a 70-80% reduction in staff and a cancellation of any grants made under the Biden administration that were not fully disbursed

DOGE detailees to the NEH push for an elimination of 80% of the staff and a cancellation of all grants that haven't been paid out

HHS terminates a large number of staff at NIH in the name of cost savings and realignment, as the new head of NIH is sworn in

Defendants in the USIP lawsuit learn that GSA will be leasing the building to the Department of Labor

HHS terminates 10,000 employees across many divisions (FDA, CDC, NIH, HHS) in the name of "bureaucratic realignment." Despite RFK's promises, the layoffs do include many scientists

DOGE terminates 15 IMLS grants listed under its "Grants to States" program

Approximately 1500 grantees receive grant cancellation emails sent from a nonstandard email address and bypassing the normal grant review process. The email address Grant_Notifications@nehemail.onmicrosoft.com suggests it was sent from a global admin account for Microsoft Entra at the agency. The Acting Director of the NEH seems unaware of the messages. Content of the message cites an incorrect executive order, suggesting it was copied from an earlier email sent to IAF or USADF grantees.

A group of 22 house members send a letter to Commerce Secretary Lutnick expressing concern about the firing of 70 staffers at NIST

The head and deputy leader of the NSA are both relieved of their command

In an interview on Fox, Antonio Gracias makes misleading claims that DOGE had discovered widespread voting fraud through joining social security data and state voter rolls

Tarak Makecha, a DOGE representative at DOJ is forwarded a list at 6pm of DOJ contracts to terminate for the Acacia Center, a nonprofit in DOGE's crosshairs that day and a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the DOJ

Tarak Makecha begins demanding at 6:25pm the Acacia contracts must be terminated immediately despite it being after business hours

Tarak Makecha finds a DOJ Contracting Officer after hours at 7:25pm to send the termination despite concerns it violates the terms of a court order to not provide 3 days notice

Senior technological positions are terminated including director of cybersecurity architecture and implementation, deputy chief information security officer, and acting director of security risk management. Only the CTO was spared.

145 NEH staff members (approximately 80% of workforce) are abruptly placed on administrative leave. The remaining employees are pressured by Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox to formally conduct a Reduction-in-Force (RIF) as quickly as possible

Scott Kupor, the nominee to lead OPM, assured senators that he believes strong in data privacy and respecting the humanity and dignity of the workforce

Social Security employees received an offer from the human resources department for voluntary reassignments to "mission-critical" front-line roles in call services and hearing offices to replace staff that were eliminated.

Tarak Makecha, Jordan Wick and Jacob Altik are listed in the public directory of FCC staff and listed as associated with the Office of the Chairman at the FCC

Axios reports that Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant have started work at the FTC, looking at grants and contracts

DOGE staffer Bridget Youngs reportedly visits the Peace Corps, planning to work over the weeked to review records and access IT systems

DOGE staffers at SSA declare the need for widespread RIFs at the agency, despite a reduction in staffing of 7000 people already and notable degradations in service. Among others, they are looking to cut 800 people from the IT department of 4000.