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.

A contractor at the Social Security Administration arranges an introduction for Leland Dudek to meet Steve Davis. (fuzz: Date is just given as “mid-December”)

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.

According to his later sworn testimony, Noah Peters meets with Keenan Kmiec to outline his plan on how to use administrative leave to sideline federal employees from being able to do their work and counter or monitor DOGE’s activities at their agencies. (fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition)

Noah Peters receives a formal job offer to work at OPM. He describes it in a court disposition as being very general and vague. (fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition)

Noah Peters starts drafting two memos for OPM. One concerns temporary authorities for Schedule C and the other is on how to handle both probationary employees and admininstrative leave. These are to be issued on January 20th. (fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition)

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.

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

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”

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

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

Stephen Ehikian is sworn in as the Acting Administrator of the GSA. This move allows the administration to avoid a confirmation process for the role.

Multiple DOGE staffers start working within GSA in the office of the Administrator with the title Senior Advisor

Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell replaces existing CIO Melvin Brown with DOGE ally Greg Hogan, who will serve as the Acting CIO.

Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.

The DOGE team moves into a secure office within OPM, installing sofa beds and armed security to prevent other staff from entry.

IT staff at OPM are pulled into a “911-esque call” requesting that “a political team” of 6 individuals must be given access to OPM systems. These include Charles Ezell, Greg Hogan, and Amanda Scales, as well as unidentified employees OPM-03 (Akash Bobba), OPM-05 (Gavin Kliger) and OPM-07 (Brian Bjelde). These DOGE staffers are granted administrative access to USAJOBS, USA Staffing, and USA Performance systems.

Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM report that their database access was completely revoked by DOGE staff working at the agency.

President Trump signs executive order EO 14169 that places a 90-day halt on foreign aid, but it’s unclear to USAID staff if that applies to just new disbursements or existing grants.

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 to all federal staff from its new Government-Wide Email System (GWES).

An unnamed USAID official receives an angry late-night phone call from Peter Marocco, the newly appointed Director of Foreign Assistance at the US State Department, accusing employees of trying to subvert the President’s executive order imposing a 90-day pause on all foreign aid.

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.

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

Thomas Shedd is named as the new head of the Technology Transformation Service (TTS), the parent organization of 18F as well as shared services like Login.gov. He reports to Josh Gruenbaum, who is also appointed on this day as the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner.

Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at OPM

Senior USAID staff meet to explain to unnamed admininstration officials that the slow way in which USAID payments are processed through other agencies made it seem like funds allocated before the Trump executive order took effect were issued in defiance of the order. The administration officials seem confident they can explain to Peter Marocco.

The State Department issues a memo written by Peter Marocco and signed by Marco Rubio that not only puts a halt to future foreign aid but also insists on stop-work orders for ~6200 current grants and contracts at USAID.

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)

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

OPM sends a second test email from its new Government-Wide Email System (GWES) to all government employees.

President Trump illegally fires the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Chair Gwynne Wilcox and General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo from the agency’s board. This leaves the agency without quorum to act.

Charles Ezell sends an email to OPM IT staff stating that OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-04 (Edward Coristine), and OPM-06 (Nikhil Rajpal) “urgently” need access to several sensitive systems within the agency.

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

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

Still convinced that USAID is deliberately committing insubordination against the executive order, Peter Marocco arrives at USAID with DOGE staffers Luke Farritor, Edward Coristine and Clayton Cromer to audit USAID’s accounts.

After the arrival of DOGE in the agency, senior staff are summoned to a meeting with Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor. The DOGE team then presented agency leadership with a list of 57 employees involved with payments to be placed on immediate administrative leave and locked out of system access. The list reportedly made little sense and involved many staff not involved with payments.

CDC managers receive a directive from OPM to classify 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 set explicit target percentages for each category.

Two DOGE staffers – Tyler Hassen and Bryton Shang – show up an Army Corp of Engineers dam in California and attempt to turn on water pumps to drain more wate one of California’s reservoirs to help fight fires in LA. This dam fed water to central California, far away from the LA wildfires the water was supposed to help.

Marko Elez is provided with a laptop from Treasury with with copies of the source code for the PAM, SPS, and ASAP systems 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, in exchange for six month of administrative leave and protection from termination.

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

Justin Monroe and Christopher Stanley start working at OPM as a volunteers with the job title of Expert.

OPM grants OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-04 (Edward Coristine), and OPM-06 (Nikhil Rajpal) full administrative access to the systems USAJOBS, USA Staffing, USA Performance, eOPF, and EHRI. This access included “[c]ode read and write permissions.”

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 with Nicole Hollander 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.”

The Smithsonian Institution announces it is closing a diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. It is not a federal agency, but most of its funding comes from Congressional appropriaions and two-thirds of its staff are federal workers.

Luke Farritor is granted read-only 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. These include Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Luke Farritor.

Austin Raynor and Chris Young start working at OPM.

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.

DOGE presents their evidence that the employees should be placed on leave based on a single email analysis made by Luke Farritor and sent to other DOGE members. “I could be wrong. My numbers could be off.” he writes, but the conclusions are not to be questioned or checked.

After USAID’s director of labor relations pushed back against the push to suspend and fire the employees, he threatens to report it to the Office of Special Counsel and emails the employees saying he has no grounds to keep them on leave. As a result, Clayton Cromer commands security staff to forcibly remove him from the building.

Jeremy Lewin and Elon Musk order the acting head of USAID to comply with orders to lock every USAID employee worldwide out of all email and other communication systems. He refuses, stating that a sudden loss of access could get aid workers killed.

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

Luke Farritor is granted read 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 with a security guard checking names.

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

Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the independent director of the CFPB. The deputy director of the CFPB, Zixta Martinez, assumes the role of acting director.

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.

Unnamed engineers working for DOGE within OPM reportedly used Meta’s Llama AI model running locally on OPM servers to analyze responses to the “Fork in the Road” resignation offer.

The acting head of the USAID, Jason Gray, is removed and replaced by Marco Rubio. Rubio then resigns and names Peter Marocco the Acting Deputy Administrator for the agency, giving him absolute power to force his demands.

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

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

DOGE staff arrive at USAID HQ hoping to work within the administrator’s suite at USAID, but their badges were not properly coded to provide access. The DOGE staff reportedly concluded this meant agency staff were keeping them out and could not be trusted.

Approximately 2000 USAID email accounts are deactivated without warning.

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

Multiple DOGE staff (Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Conor Fennessy and Jeremy Lewin) at CMS 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 immediately halt all work pending review.

Twenty DOGE staff are reportedly sighted 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.” (fuzz: this number and scope is not verified by court filings, subsequent reporting)

Brian Bjelde holds a meeting with senior staff at OPM, directing them to prepare plans to eliminate 70% of the agency’s workforce at some unspecified point in the future. They are also told to identify 30% of staff that could be eliminated in the near term.

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. He then immediately requests that Akash Bobba should be rapidly onboarded into the agency (but there are issues with Bobba’s background check)

Unidentified employee SSA-01 (Akash Bobba) starts working at the SSA with the title of Expert and an annual salary of $90,025.

All USAID staff receive and email that the building is indefinitely closed. It included Gavin Kliger’s email address at USAID.

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 given read 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 Tom Krause having read-only access but doesn’t mention Marko Elez in his letter.

Cole Killian appears in an EPA internal directory as a “Federal Detailee” (under his legal name Gautier Killian).

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

All USAID staff are informed by email they will soon be placed on indefinite administrative leave. The message is sent from the USAID email address of Gavin Kliger.

A representative from DOGE was given access to contracting systems as well as information on VA operations and information technology systems. (fuzz: not named, but likely Justin Fulcher)

The WSJ reports that 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. (fuzz: DOGE staff first granted access to CALM on 2/3; Luke Farritor has HIGLAS access on 1/31, other staff on 2/5)

Despite claims by a CMS spokesperson to the contrary, multiple DOGE staff (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) after arriving at CMS headquarters. This system tracks all payments made by Medicare, among other expenditures.

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

DOGE staff are seen entering the headquarters of the Department of Commerce.

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.

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 that they request.

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

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

OPM attests the Government-Wide Email System runs only on agency systems (and is not hosted in an external provider, which would be a violation of federal IT policy).

OPM issues a Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) which states responses to its messages are voluntary, brief and do not include identifying information from federal staffers.

DOGE staff reportedly arrive at CDC HQ in Atlanta to request access to health payment systems used at the agency.

A DOGE team consisting of Luke Farritor, Jeremy Lewin, Nikhil Rajpal, Gavin Kliger and Chris Young enters the CFPB headquarters and is given equipment and onboarded with a quick session on privacy policies in force at the CFPB.

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

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issues a ruling stating that DOGE should be granted only read access to government systems at Treasury.

After the Wall Street Journal reported on a series of racist tweets from his account, Marko Elez resigned from his position at DOGE.

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

The judge in Jane Does 1-2 v. Office of Personnel Management (D.D.C.) dismisses the motion for a temporary restraining order against the OPM email system since there is now a Privacy Impact Assessment available for it.

Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM have their database access restored by order of the CIO Greg Hogan. It is unclear who ordered the original revocation of access and what changes have happened in the interim.

DOGE staff attempt to use their access to Treasury systems to stop payment for some 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. The CFPB Chief Legal Counsel is also replaced by Mark Paoletta, a close associate of Russell Vought.

DOGE staff are granted global admin access to various CFPB systems without completing all the mandated training or agreeing to CFPB’s acceptable use policy for IT systems. This includes a system that allows them to grant or revoke access to other IT systems at the CFPB.

The CFPB homepage is deleted and returns a HTTP 404 Not Found error (the rest of the site remains online). The CFPB social media account on X is also deleted. These actions are likely taken by Gavin Kliger, who was granted admin access to the website. (fuzz: Gavin Kliger access named in later court documents)

DOGE staffers Luke Farritor and Adam Ramada arrive at the Department of Energy and are onboarded.According to Dept. of Energy spokesperson, DOGE staff departed the agency within a few days of arrival, but other reporting suggests they were still active and granted access to sensitive systems in the coming months. (fuzz: Date is approximate and unknown. Report is unconfirmed)

168 employees who worked on environmental justice at the EPA are placed on indefinite administrative leave.

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

All USAID staff are placed on indefinite administrative leave, as a way of locking them out of systems and keeping them out of the way of DOGE’s activities at the agency.

After gaining access to the PAM DB system for payments, DOGE members at the Treasury department discover what appear to be payments flowing to recipients without Social Security numbers. Other recipients appear to be dead. These discrepancies lead to Musk accusing SSA of massive fraud on his Twitter feed, but later analysis by SSA staff reveal these were cases of DOGE not understanding how the data was structured. (fuzz: article just reports this as early Feb; but Musk tweets said he was informed on 2/7)

The DOGE social media account on X boasts about deleting a page of LGBTQI+ resources that was part of the DHS website.

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

Elon Musk posts more tweets claiming to have discovered sources of “massive fraud” within the SSA. These appear to be a misunderstanding of how erroneous records that exist in the SSA database are already filtered out from receiving benefits. Instead, he assumed that all erroneous records had received benefits and thus this was the massive fraud.

Using their admin access, Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor completely disable accounts for all other USAID staff on the agency’s system for creating and tracking payments. They now have absolute control.

In an email sent to all staff, Russell Vought orders the CFPB’s headquarters to be indefinitely closed. He also orders: “Please do not perform any work tasks. If there are any urgent matters, please alert me through Mark Paoletta, Chief Legal Officer, to get approval in writing before performing any work task. Otherwise, employees should stand down from performing any work task.”

Edward Coristine appears in an online DHS staff directory with the title of Senior Advisor.

In a meeting providing him with an overview of DHS programs, Kyle Schutt stuns federal staff in the Office of Civil Rights by declaring one of their programs (CRCL) looks like money laundering.

Adam Ramada shows up in the Department of Energy’s online directory, along with Luke Farritor. There also is reportedly a third DOGE staffer at the agency.

A legal affadavit states a BFS payment was presented to the State Department as one to not process after it was reviewed by DOGE staff at Treasury.

The NOTAM system at the FAA has its name changed from Notice to Air Missions back to its original name of Notice to Airmen.

Kyle Schutt is granted access to the FEMA Grant Outcomes (FEMA GO) system that is used by FEMA for tracking disaster and other grants across America. He is also given access to the source code for FEMA’s Integrated Financial Management and Information System (IFMIS) which processes payments.

Unnamed DOGE staff using non-governmental Google accounts conduct dozens of “touch-base” interviews with dozens of US Digital Corps fellows, under the direction of Thomas Shedd.

Multiple 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 to HUD’s mission and/or has DEI components.

Mike Russo summons his new ally Leland Dudek to his office and asks him to explain data discrepancies identified by Elon Musk. Leland convenes a team of dozens of SSA engineers who review the data from the Treasury department and document fallacies of DOGE’s reasoning in a memo. Mike Russo rejects the memo’s conclusions by declaring that DOGE would not trust career civil servants and demanding that Akash Bobba must do his own analysis.

Mike Russo and the DOGE chief of staff Steve Davis both demand that Akash Bobba be onboarded at Social Security Administration before midnight, bypassing the usual background security checks.

CIO Mike Russo convenes his own internal informational group in SSA where he has conversations with DOGE staff at other agencies about novel ideas for sharing sensitive SSA data. He does not inform Acting SSA Director, Michelle King.

According to the testimony of a whistleblower, the nominatee for agency director, Frank Bisignano, orders through back channels that agency leadership must onboard Mark Steffensen as an attorney at the SSA. He reportedly had coerced senior SSA leadership to not hire anybody into roles without his explicit approval.

Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor are both listed in the State Department’s directory as Senior Advisors within the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology.

A day after a conservative activist flagged the DOGE account on X about it, DOGE posts on its X.com account that it has removed gender identity options from a specific online form at the VA.

Approximately 85 probationary employees at the CFPB are fired without cause.

CFPB Contracting Officers (COs) are ordered to terminate the vast majority of CFPB’s contracts over the weekend (“We need to get these Termination Notifications out ASAP.”) This includes “Enforcement (102 contracts), Supervision (16 contracts), External Affairs (3 contracts), Consumer Response (20 contracts), Office of Director (33 contracts), and Legal Division (all except 2 contracts).”

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.

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.

In a court filing, the Department of Education submitted to a consent decree blocking DOGE from access to systems for processing student financial aid.

A legal affadavit from a Treausry employee states Marko Elez was accidentally given edit access to Bureau of the Fiscal Service systems but that he did not use it.

Kathryn Armstrong Loving sends the EPA administrator a list of contracts that DOGE wants to eliminate and she includes Cole Killian on her message.

The Chief Financial Officer of FEMA, Mary Comans, is abruptly fired and her departure is announced in a FEMA press release.

In a meeting, Kyle Schutt asks FEMA staff about the viability of deobligating appropriated funds for the agency, in essence returning the money to Treasury rather than using it for its appropriated purpose.

The USAID Inspector General is fired by the White House after releasing a report critical of DOGE’s actions at the agency.

Adam Martinez, CFPB COO, includes DOGE representatives Jordan Wick and Chris Young in emails hiring OPM for consulting on Reduction-in-Force (RIF) planning for the CFPB. CFPB agrees to pay OPM $171,925 for these services.

The Department of Defense affirm that its DOGE staff will be hired directly to the agency and will not be detailed from elsewhere in the government.

GSA technical 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.

The CFPB RIF team, including Adam Martinez meets with Jordan Wick, Jeremy Lewin, and OPM officials on a video call. Jeremy Lewin and Jordan Wick talk off screen with Acting Director Russell Vought, and Wick tells the group that they want formal RIF notices to go out no later than February 14. The team receives a template from OPM for firing 1200 employees “at night on the 13th.”

CFPB leadership authorizes the creation of an email account for the public to snitch on if CFPB staff are engaged in any enforcement or supervision actions in violation of the stop-work order. They also create an account on X for this service.

DOGE announces that its website is now live with an organizational chart and tweets from the DOGE X account.

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 staffers granted authorization to use a SQL client for databases file transfer software at Department of Labor, alarming cybersecurity staff that it could be used to remove data. The staffers named are Sam Beyda, Derek Geissler, Cole Killian, Adam Ramada and Jordan Wick.

HUD issues a press release reporting that it has launched a “DOGE Task Force” comprising both DOGE personnel and HUD staffers.

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

Representing DOGE and OPM, Noah Peters finalizes mass layoffs at the USDA just before Secretary Rollins is to be sworn in that evening. When asked later by Congress about the layoffs, she deflects and says it happened before she started.

Rachel Riley conducts a “Planning Touch Base” meeting with senior leadership at CMS.

The CFPB’s videos are removed from its YouTube channel.

The judge, Amy Berman-Jackson grants a temporary restraining order against CFPB leadership until a hearing for a preliminary injunction to prevent them from shuttering the agency by eliminating staff and canceling all contracts. DOGE and CFPB leadership had been racing to eliminate 1175 positions before the restraining order was announced.

In a speech, the Secretary of Agriculture says DOGE has been at the agency for “a few weeks” already.

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. Reportedly, this change was already on the roadmap, but multiple contractors were called in to rush it as an emergency job.

388 probationary employees are fired at the EPA.

The NASA administrator emails all staff to report that “DOGE has arrived” at the agency.

NIST workers witness a handful of people that they suspect of being DOGE touring the NIST IT facilities in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Leland Dudek is placed on administrative leave and is placed under investigation that he committed inappropriate actions to assist DOGE’s activities at the agency.

Bloomberg publishes some background information on Justin Fulcher, the DOGE staffer working quietly at the VA, which questions the details of his backstory.

Roughly 750 probationary workers at the CDC receive termination notices sent directly from OPM, in possible violation of federal laws governing the civil service.

SSA IT staff express concern to Acting Commissioner Michelle King that Akash Bobba is accessing highly sensitive data provided by SSA remotely from an insecure location (the DOGE enclave within OPM). This is in violation of the terms of his signed access agreement.

Frustrated with the questions and concerns raised by Akash Bobba about technical issues with the sandbox NUMIDENT data, Mike Russo complains directly to the Chief CIO in the office of the OMB.

The White House pressures the IRS to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) granting DOGE expanded access to internal systems at the agency containing confidential taxpayer information.

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

A senior manager at CDC reports coming 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 in the division.

A White House official confirms that one DOGE staffer will be working with an IRS employee assigned to him 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 that was purposefully deleted by DOGE. That action is refused by order of Russell Vought. Other work is allowed for digital teams.

An unidentified DOGE team holds a kickoff meeting with DoD staff at the Pentagon.

DoD agencies are ordered to provide lists of probationary employees to DOGE. Previously, defense, security and intelligence agencies have been exempted from many of the executive orders that constrained staffing or contracting.

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 by American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al (D. Md.) 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. He also hreatens to report the names of anybody blocking his work directly 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. (fuzz: Exact date is not provided in the article)

Frank Schuler is introduced on a video call meeting at the GSA by Nate Cavanaugh. (fuzz: Exact date is not provided in the article)

Privacy advocates sue to stop DOGE from gaining acess to IRS systems which contain highly sensitive data about taxpayers.

Former AirBnb executive Joe Gebbia starts working at OPM as a volunteer with the job title of Expert.

A CNN reporter shares that his FOIA request to OPM was replied to with the message “they just fired the whole privacy team.”

Multiple unidentified DOGE staffers start working at SSA on the same day. SSA-02 (Scott Coulter) is detailed from NASA. SSA-07 (Marko Elez) is detailed from the DOL. SSA-10 (Ethan Shaotran) arrives from the GSA, and SSA-05 (Cole Killian) is detailed from DOGE itself.

Senate Democrats send a letter to VA Secretary demanding more information about DOGE’s activities there.

Despite earlier reports of DOGE at the agency, staff at the CIO office at the CDC claim to not have been contacted by DOGE yet. It’s unclear if this is a lie or they have been sidestepped.

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

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

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.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says only one person from DOGE is “looking at an outdated IT system, that’s all they’re doing.” Given that Marko Elez had resigned, this is likely a reference to Ryan Wunderly.

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

According to one agency employee, DOGE workers are granted access access to contracts, partnerships, performance reviews, classified national-security information, and satellite data, among other materials. (fuzz: missing identifications for these systems and staffers)

SSA CIO Mike Russo emails Leland Dudek request access to SSA’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) for several “members of [his] team.” This includes access to the NUMIDENT list of all social security records, Master Beneficiary Record (MBR) and Supplemental Security Record (SSR) master records, as well as copies of SSA payment files which SSA transmits to the Department of the Treasury’s 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 EO 14217, which explicitly targets the Presidio Trust, the Inter-American Foundation, the United States African Development Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace for reductions.

At an internal planning meeting for the temporarily paused Reduction In Force, CFPB COO Adam Martinez confirms the White House plan was to completely end the CFPB within 30 days. The plan was to reduce the CFPB to “five guys and a phone,” ie to the minimum number of positions that were mandated by the text of Dodd-Frank (the bill that created the CFPB). Staff were informed there was no need to abide by federal data retention regulations because there would be nothing left of the agency to maintain.

Jordan Wick emails Russell Vought asking for approval to cut an additional $8.4 million of contracts at the CFPB

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 that would analyze grant descriptions for specific language.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth releases a video stating that he met with DOGE about cuts to the agency. He states that many of them are veterans. [The attendees aren’t listed, but I am inferring this is Yinon Weiss, Mike Slagh, Jim Hickey and Patrick George]

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.

IAF President Sara Aviel learns that DOGE will be visiting her agency. That afternoon, she meets Nate Cavanaugh and Ethan Shaotran who both introduce themselves as GSA employees. They showed little interest in a discussion on efficiency initiatives at the agency and stated they just wanted access to systems.

The White House and Treasury Department come to an agreement for a Memorandum of Understanding about how DOGE access to IRS systems will be structured.

In a court filing, Treasury says it is adding two more DOGE staffers to its roster who will be exclusively focused on working at the IRS.

Facing a revolt over privacy concerns by staff at the IRS, The Treasury Department 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 claimed on its website that it has cancelled the lease for their office in Buffalo, NY.

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

Chris Young meets with USADF leadership at their HQ to “introduce DOGE to the agency” and informs them that 2 engineers would be assigned to the agency.

USDA Secretary Rollins posts a photo of a grant-cancellation session on the @DOGE_USDA account. None of the participants are identified, but it looks like Gavin Kliger is in the picture.

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 formally 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 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) must be signed for their detail assignment.

Once the MOU is signed, DOGE staff reveal their real purpose is to conduct a massive reduction in agency staff and scope and demand they must file a RIF plan by February 24th.

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. He also threatens to fire the USADF board if DOGE’s demands are not met.

The USADF general cousel revokes their participation in the Memorandum of Understanding based on it being created under false pretenses that DOGE would be assisting the agency in “IT modernization.”

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.

Unidentfied alias SSA-03 (Aram Moghaddassi) is detailed over from the Department of Labor

Social Security Administration onboards 3 more unidentified DOGE staffers – SSA-06 (Jon Koval), SSA-04 (Antonio Gracias), and SSA-09 (Payton Rehling) – as volunteers with the title of Expert.

Employees at USAID receive emails with a “Specific Notice of a RIF” effective in 60 days and signed by Peter Marocco. Many employees had already been 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 Federal Personnel Payroll System (FPPS) system to process actions for herself as well as DOGE members Katrine Trampe and Tyler Hassen. This is a shared service provided by DOI which handles payroll for approximately half of the federal government.

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

In a ruling for American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al (D. Md.), 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”

The IAF President Sara Aviel confers with the board of the IAF and aliies in Congress who inform her that a Reduction-in-Force (RIF) layoff would be in contravention of appropriations already enacted into law.

The IAF President Sara Aviel joins a call with Nate Cavanaugh and Jacob Altik, who claim that all but one of the board members have been terminated. They demand that Aviel approves DOGE’s plan for the agency – which she declines to do – and that she sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) assigning a DOGE member to the agency and granting them access to systems. After the call, she confirms that no board members had received a termination notice.

Staffers at the NLRB are informed that DOGE will be arriving at the agency the following week and that they have questions about the agency’s network architecture. (fuzz: The testimony only mentions that this communication happened sometime during that week)

Four DOGE staffers are indentified with email addresses linked to NIH. These are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin and Clark Minor.

Three DOGE staffers – Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley and Clark Minor – are listed as part of the NIH Business System Department. This would grant them 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 hastily sends out an email to all federal staff requesting that list (without the threat) to every government employee. Widespread confusion occurs at many agencies about the legality and wisdom of this exercise.

USADF President/CEO Ward Brehm receives an email from White House Deputy Director of Personnel Trent Morse notifying him that he is now removed from tbe board.

USIP leadership meets with DOGE staffers James Burnham, Jacob Altik and Nate Cavanaugh to explain the history and legal status of the small independent executive branch agency and why it should not need to respond to DOGE’s demands

The DOGE delegation counters to USIP leadership 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 and return.

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

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.

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).

FDA staff conduct a meeting to provide a high-level overview of FDA structures and functions to Clark Minor, the new CIO for HHS. (fuzz: 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 staffers Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos are being granted access to only anonymized data from IDRS as was specified in an earlier MOU.

DOGE engineer Ricardo Biasini is reported to be working on updating an “AutoRIF” software package sourced from the Department of Defense that can be used to automate Reduction-in-Force (RIF) processes at federal agencies.

VA Secretary Doug Collins posts a message to X claiming that DOGE had found nearly $2 billion in contracts that could be eliminated. This figure will turn out to include important contracts that should not have been cancelled and need to be hastily restored.

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.

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 would allow the team to grant or revoke access to other systems.

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 as the representatives from DOGE.

The IAF President Sara Aviel learns in the morning that the Senior Procurement Executive at the Treasury had been ordered by DOGE to unilaterally cancel all contracts by the end of business on the following day.

Sara Aviel receives an email from White House Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel Trent Morse informing her that President Trump has now terminated her position.

One more unidentified DOGE staffer, SSA-08 (Nikhil Rajpal), is detailed to SSA from OPM.

A day after posting it had found contracts to cancel, a top V.A. contracting official sends an agency-wide email “PLEASE HALT ALL CONTRACT TERMINATIONS THAT ARE IN PROGRESS” as leadership was re-considering the scope of its contract cancellations.

During a call of human capital officers led by OPM, a representative for the GSA announces they are working on a “new federal daily check-in tool.” A test email was sent out on the same day. They announce plans to debut the tool by the first week in March. (fuzz: Date is just given as “Late February”)

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

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.)

Joe Gebbia announces on his social media account that he will be working on a project at OPM to modernize retirement processing and move it away from paper records currently stored at a cave in Pennsylvania.

Ethan Shaotran contacts Leland Dudek to inform him that DOGE had identified roughly 3 dozen federal contracts in Maine as “nonessential” and that “we should cancel them” as retribution for the Maine governor publicly countering abuse from the President over transgender athletes. Two of those contracts are for Social Security services in the State.

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

White House Deputy Trent Morse sends an email to the office director at the IAF which states that Peter Marocco has been appointed the acting Chairman for the agency.

Peter Marocco convenes an emergency board meeting (where the emergency is that Trump issued an executive order), asserting that means he can avoid the mandatory 1-week notification to the board of the agency. In attendance at the meeting are Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh. This is where he declares himself the new President and Acting CIO of the IAF.

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 of his named NxGenBdoorExtract. The name seems to indicate it’s a tool for exfiltrating data from a sensitive NLRB system named NxGen.

OPM quietly amends the Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) to remove declarations that responses are voluntary. This is after it had to concede that federal staff did not have to reply to the Five Things email because of the PIA.

Judge Alsup ruling in AFL-CIO vs. OPM (N.D. Cal.) issues a temporary restraining order that termination of probationary workers at 6 agencies was unlawful and that they should be restored to work immediately.

Via email, SSA-05 (Cole Killian) at 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. Scott Coulter is cc’ed on the approval.

USADF Managing Director of Finance Mathieu Zahui receives an email from White House Deputy Director of Personnel Trent Morse informing him the USADF is now “boardless” and naming Peter Marocco as acting chair. Zahui informs them that the appointment would require senate confirmation first.

Kyle Schutt and Edward Coristine repeatedly pressure staff over the next two months 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 later 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 Payment Management System system.

Several days after meeting with lobbyists from the tax software prep industry’s Free File Inc. coalition led by Intuit, Sam Corcos abruptly reverses his prior course and makes the case to Treasury Secretart Scott Bessent that the IRS’ Direct File program for free tax filing should be shut down.

All government employees receive a second email telling them they must list their accomplishments every Monday by 11:59pm. This does not contain a threat of termination, but it is also no longer reported as an optional exercise. Staff working on confidential or classified activities are supposed to reply to the email but redact their work.

Gavin Kliger is reportedly spotted inside the headquarters for Voice of America.

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

The night before the hearing for a preliminary injunction in NTEU v. Vought, Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta sends out an email to all staff telling them that they should have known all along that the stop work order wasn’t meant to cover statutorily mandated work. This seems like a blatant attempt to spin the narrative and claim the agency has not been stopped from performing its statutory duties. In her later ruling, Judge Amy Berman Jackson describes this move as “[insulting] the reader’s intelligence when he feigns surprise that few employees were working.”

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

In a hearing for a preliminary injunction, Judge Amy Berman Jackson expresses fears that CFPB will be “choked out of its very existence” while the litigation progresses. Concerned with misleading answers from the admininistration’s lawyers, she orders a evidentiary hearing in a week and continues the restraining order against layoffs.

The EPA takes its staff directory offline after it had been used to identify new political appointees and DOGE staffers that were detailed to the agency.

DOGE staff attempt to access NDNH, “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,” potentially as an alternative data source for the data they wanted to pull from the IRS. This attempt is refused by agency staff.

The head of HR, Traci DiMartini, for the IRS is placed on administrative leave reportedly for refusing to bring in employees over the weekend to onboard Sam Corcos outside of the usual hiring processes and schedule.

A black SUV and police escort bring DOGE staff to the NLRB. The DOGE staff 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 accounts that are created for DOGE staff and they are to be given “tenant”-level accounts with read/write/admin for all systems as part of their auditing work. This level of access exceed existing permissions that would normally be used by auditors.

DOGE lawyer Joshua Hanley’s name appeared in PDF metadata of grant cancellations sent out by the NIH to two researchers working on LGBTQ+-related scientific work.

Defying the White House, USADF board member Ward Brehm is elected by the existing board of the USADF as President/CEO of USADF.

Luke Farritor officially offboards from the CFPB and all of his system access is revoked. The reason given is that his detail had ended.

Jordan Wick is converted from a detailee to a full employee of the CFPB. This is in accordance with a DOGE strategy to avoid disclosure in CREW v. DOGE by moving DOGE staff into other agencies.

A Forbes article identifies Justin Fulcher as one of the DOGE staffers in the Pentagon and questions the veracity of his entrepeneurial background.

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

Erica Jehling pushes for the cancellation of 21 grants at the EPA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in construction materials, so that she can post a tweet on the EPA X.com account to celebrate it. She cc’s Kathryn Armstrong Loving on her emails coordinating the cancellations.

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 at IAF as President/CEO. He then begins immediately dismantling all contracts and places all staff on administrative leave for 30 days to prevent them from interfering or monitoring DOGE’s actions at the agency.

DOGE brags on its X account that the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) has been reduced to a single employee.

DOGE takes the Inter-American Foundation’s website offline.

Peter Marocco sends emails to all grantees terminating all of IAF’s existing grants except for a single one that was almost completely disbursed by that point.

NLRB network staff notice the existence of an anomalous container on their network that could be performing unauthorized actions. Its storage tokens have been expired, deterring analysis of what resources it might have accessed.

In response to recent court rulings that determined that OPM exceeded its authority, OPM quietly revises its initial memo that required all federal agencies to send lists of probationary employees to the agency. It also downplays suggestions that the lists should be used for deciding staffing levels.

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 at the agency.

USADF CFO Mathieu Zahui receives an email from Nate Cavanaugh informing him that Peter Marocco would be coming to the office the following day in his declared capacity 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 (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM), which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts

Edward Coristine, Zach Terrell, Aram Moghaddassi and Marko Elez are also 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 became 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.

Peter Marocco names the remaining single employee not on admininstrative leave at the agency, the Chief Information Security Officer, as the new President of the Inter-American Foundation.

NLRB network staff discover that a security tool for watching network traffic within their cloud environment was manually deactivated and was not logging the creation of new network nodes.

A NLRB network staffer notices a large spike in outgoing network traffic from their network with no corresponding incoming traffic (as might be the case for web traffic hitting the website). 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 headquarters.

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.

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

TTS Commissioner Thomas Shedd says in a statement that he expects the Technology Transformation Service will be 50% smaller within weeks.

NLRB network staff an account a DOGE-specific name DogeSA_2d5c3e0446f9@nlrb.microsoft.com that was recently created and then deleted. It seems to have been configured to allow automated scripts to access 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 without their awareness. This change was later confirmed to not be the result of any scheduled maintenance.

DOGE staff Jacob Altik and Ethan Shaotran return to the agency joined by Nate Cavanaugh and US marshals to force their way into the agency.

DOGE rolls out a custom GSAi custom chatbot in a trial for 1500 workers.

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

Networking staff at NLRB makes a determination that 10GB of data was likly exfiltrated from the NxGen case management system and then outwards from NLRB. Given that this volume of data is likely compressed, it could represent an even larger amount of source data stolen.

After political blowback causes SSA to reverse its decision to cancel some contracts for the state of Maine, Leland Dudek posts an offical apology claiming it was his decision to cancel the contracts. This is a deliberate misdirection from DOGE’s role in the action.

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 the contractor who handles physical security at their building.

After receiving inquiries from the DOGE staff, the head of USIP security emailed them information about the private security firm that manages access to the HQ building.

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.

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.

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 for what a responsible staffing reduction might be.

The OPM Inspector General responds to questions from Democrats in Congress by stating his office will start investigating DOGE’s email server and its IT practices at the agency.

The Trump administration nominates Laken Rapier and Russell Vought to be on the board of the USADF.

Eugene Vindman, a US Representative and former whistleblower against Trump, reports being repeatedly contacted by Clayton Cromer who identifies himself as an Executive Assistant US Attorney.

NLRB networking staff notice another surge in system utilization for the NxGen system. This coincides with multiple attempts to connect to the system from an IP address in Russia. Alarmingly, the Russian access is attempting to use 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 unidentified 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.

Immediately after the removal of the agency’s chair by the Trump administration, DOGE staffers Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox contact NEH IT for access to key systems.

Elon Musk visits the National Security Agency (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 now 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 the agency and its subsidiaries.

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 large transfer of data from NLRB systems to an external endpoint.

Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently 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 at the agency. He also explicitly authorized DOGE to only work with his agency on matters related to USPS retirement plans, workers compensation costs, congressional liaisoning regarding costs incurred by legislative mandates, reforms to its regulatory requirements, retail lease renewals, business opportunities with other federal agencies and counterfeit postage.

ProPublica reports that a 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 in the NASA online directory.

Leland Dudek grants approval for SSA-05 (Cole Killian) to run the proposed tool for modifying the death data records to eliminate implausibly old people. DOGE was convinced these data errors were a massive source of fraud, despite evidence to the contrary from SSA staff and concerns that correcting the data would be a waste of time.

Various members of the USIP board report receiving emails from the White House saying they are terminated from their positions. (fuzz: sender isn’t named, but assuming it’s Trent Morse.)

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

Trump issues a new executive order EO 14238 targeting the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the United States Agency for Global Media (parent of VOA, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and the Minority Business Development Agency for reduction actions by DOGE.

In response to Trump’s second executive order against independent agencies (EO 14238), virtually the entire staff of Voice of America (more than 1300 people) are placed on indefinite admininstrative leave.

In response to Trump’s executive order targeting independent agencies, Trump’s senior advisor at the agency, Kari Lake, sends out termination notices for all grants to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. It is unclear if she has the authority to issue such terminations.

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

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

Concerned that private contracting staff might be coerced by DOGE, the Chief Security Officer suspends the contract for building security contractor Inter-Con after being contacted by the FBI agents on the phone.

At 6pm, all Inter-Con staff are removed from the building, all keycard access is revoked and all physical keys accounted for except for a single 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 then use the single physical key still in their possession to enter the building.

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

Asked by USIP leadership on why they are assisting DOGE in accessing the building, the Vice President of Inter-Con concedes 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 to eject the USIP staff and leadership.

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 them for employee lists and access to computer systems at the agency.

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.

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.

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 Department of Justice of deliberately misrepresenting Jacob Altik’s participation in the defense “perhaps to preserve the illusion that OPM’s counsel were ignorant of what OPM was doing with the Government-Wide Email System, or perhaps to obscure the role of DOGE and the White House in this case.”

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 reinstated.

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.

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.

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 normally be required before any system access, but he has been at the agency for several weeks.

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

IMLS staff learn that DOGE is planning to visit their headquarters following day; most make plans to attend as a show of solidarity.

NLRB networking staff observe a spike in billing records from their cloud provider which are seemingly related to systems that are no longer in operation. These likely indicate resources that were short-lived or deleted to cover up tracks.

Leland Dudek approves access for “Employee 9” of the DOGE team at SSA to view some additional schemas in the PSSNAP database of Social Security Applications conducted over the phone.

Peter Marocco says that he will be succeeded at the agency by Jeremy Lewin and Kenneth Jackson, serving in deputy roles.

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

Judge Beryl Howell presides over an emergency hearing, but doesn’t grant USIP a temporary restraining order against DOGE’s takeover of the agency.

During a discussion on how to strip grants from the University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State, GSA FAS Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum sends an email to coordinate grant freezes from DOD, DHS and the EPA. He includes DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt, Adam Hoffman and Kathryn Armstrong Loving as the recipients of these requests.

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 EO 14243 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 during an all-hands meeting that there is nobody from DOGE working at the agency. This is met with widespread ridicule by staff who know about the secured DOGE floor.

Wired Magazine list DOGE staff stationed within GSA, all of whom were listed on GSA payroll on March 20, the same day Stephen Ehikian claimed there were no DOGE staff in the agency.

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

After being sworn in as the acting director of the IMLS, Keith Sonderling issues a statement that he “will revitalize IMLS and restore focus on patriotism, ensuring we preserve our country’s core values, promote American exceptionalism and cultivate love of country in future generations.”

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 orders OPM to redefine regulations so that it would give them more power to directly 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 in their possession.

Leland Dudek threatens to shut down the entire Social Security Administration instead of complying with the order to block access for DOGE. He reportedly reaches this conclusion based on the advice of two unnamed senior DOGE leaders.

The USIP website is taken offline.

Nikhil Rajpal officially offboards from the CFPB, reportedly because his detail has ended. In a later court filing, CFPB reveals that he was not granted any system access nor did he perform any actions during his time at the CFPB.

Elon Musk arrives at the Pentagon for a meeting with leadership, reportedly to discuss DOGE’s involvement at the agency.

The 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.

Dorn Carranza, a HHS liasion for DOGE, sends an email at 11am asking for information ASAP on mission-critical systems at the FDA as well as regular status updates on the data collection. Because the FDA CIO was out of office at the time, her CISO hastily submitted a response with his own opinions. This seems to have been what guided RIF selection at FDA, without anybody at DOGE reviewing the information for accuracy.

DOGE expands the GSAi chatbot rollout to more than 13,000 GSA employees who are underwhelmed by its capabilities and concerned about it being a priority.

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 by DOGE staff to internal systems at OPM by DOGE. However, he still allows access for DOGE-affiliated leadership at the agency including Charles Ezell, Amanda Scales and Greg Hogan.

Mike Russo is abruptly removed from his CIO position by the Trump administration. This is reportedly in retribution for complying quickly with the judicial ruling to remove DOGE access.

Postmaster General DeJoy abruptly resigns, reportedly forced out by the Trump Administration

Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino met with the DOGE team embedded there (Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour), reportedly to discuss ethics rules.

NLRB networking staff make a formal report to US-CERT at CISA of the suspicious activity they had detected from DOGE’s activities at the agency. (fuzz: 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 responding to the COVID-19 epidemic.

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.”

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 should have one or the staffing to fill it.

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. This later turns out to be code that is reviewing contracts to be terminated.

Kathryn Armstrong Loving and Erica Jehling continue to work directly with Josh Gruenbaum from the GSA on more grants to cancel at the EPA.

At a meeting on data sharing, an official from ICE requests that the IRS should create a service where DHS staff could simply provide the names and states of potential targets and get a list of all applicable addresses. IRS lawyers are stunned by the possible illegality and continued pressure leads to a series of resignations among staff in legal, privacy and IT offices within the IRS.

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)

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 other DOGE staff there.

After being provided with access to FPPS, Stephanie Holmes raises concerns to DOI leadership that she has not yet been granted full admin access to FPPS. The agency CIO is concerned enough about the security implications that he will only allow it if the Secretary of the Interior signs off on a memo outlining the risks. Stephanie Holmes refuses to convey the message to Secretary Burgum.