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 for SSA 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

Noah Peters outlines with Keenan Kmiec the plan on how to use administrative leave to sideline federal employees (fuzz: Date is approximate in deposition)

Noah Peters receives a job offer to work at the OPM. He describes it as very general and vague. (fuzz: 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. (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. 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

Stephen Ehikian is named the Acting Administrator of the GSA

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 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

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. There are granted administrative access to USAJOBS, USA Staffing, and USA Performance.

Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM have their database access revoked.

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 from its new government-wide email system

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

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

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 today as the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner.

Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at the OPM

Senior USAID staff meet to explain to unnamed admininstration officials that the slow way in which USAID payments are processed through other agencies led to the appearance that funds allocated before the Trump executive order took effect were directly subverting it. 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 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.

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

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

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, senior staff are summoned to a meeting with Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor. They then presented agency leadership with a list of 57 employees involved with payments to be placed on immediate administrative leave. The list reportedly made little sense and involved many staff not involved with payments.

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 – 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 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 (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 volunteer 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 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 appropriaions and two-thirds of staff are federal workers.

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 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 questioned or checked.

After USAID’s director of labor relations pushed back against the evidence presented 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. This leads to Clayton Cromer forcibly removing him from the building by security.

Jeremy Lewin and Elon Musk order the acting head of USAID to consent to locking every USAID employee worldwide out of all email and systems. He refuses, stating a sudden loss of access could get aid workers killed.

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

Stephanie Holmes, the new head of HR at DOGE, is unable to answer staff questions about if the “Fork in the Road” retirement offer is legitimate.

Engineers working for DOGE within OPM used Meta’s LLama AI model locally 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 who then names Peter Marocco the Acting Deputy Administrator for the agency, giving him absolute power to force his demands.

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

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

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

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.”

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 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, requests Akash Bobba to join the agency (but he has issues with his 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.

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

Career IT staff in the Office of the CIO at OPM have their database access restored by order of Greg Hogan

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. The CFPB Chief Legal Counsel is also replaced by Mark Paoletta, a close associate of Russell Vought.

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 (fuzz: 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

After gaining access to the PAM DB system, DOGE members at the Treasury department see what appear to be payments flowing to recipients without Social Security numbers. Other recipients appear to be dead. This triggered Musk accusing SSA of massive fraud. It was later reveled to be DOGE not understanding the data. (fuzz: article just reports this as early Feb; but Musk tweets said he was informed on 2/7)

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.

Elon Musk posts tweets claiming to have discovered sources of “massive fraud” within SSA

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

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 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

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

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 summons Leland Dudek to his office and asks him to explain discrepancies cited by Musk. Leland convened a team of dozens of SSA engineers who reviewed data from the Treasury department. They carefully documented fallacies in DOGE’s reasoning in a memo presented to Russo. Mike Russo reportedly declared that DOGE would not trust career civil servants and demanded that Akash Bobba do his own analysis.

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, Frank Bisignano, 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

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 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.

Online security researchers find evidence that the DOGE website was developed and hosted by Outburst Data, a company run and operated by Kyle Schutt.

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 (RIF) planning for the CFPB. CFPB agrees to pay OPM $171,925 for these services.

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

The CFPB RIF team, including Adam Martinez meets with Jordan Wick, Jeremy Lewin, and OPM officials. Jeremy Lewin and Jordan Wick talk off screen with Acting Director Vought, and Wick tells the group that they want formal RIF notices to go out no later than February 14. They receive 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

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

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.

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”

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 that was purposefully deleted by DOGE, but that action is refused by order of Russell Vought. Other work is allowed for digital teams.

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 (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 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”

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 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.

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 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

IAF President Sara Aviel learns that DOGE will be visiting her agency. That afternoon, she meets Nate Cavanaugh and Ethan Shaotran who both represent they are from the GSA. They showed little interest in efficiency initiatives at the agency and just wanted access to systems.

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

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 unidentified 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. 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”

IAF President confers with the board of the IAF and members of Congress who inform her a reduction in force would be in contravention of appropriations already enacted into law.

The IAF President Sara Aviel reports her findings on 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 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 told 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

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 (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 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

The IAF President 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 2025-02-27

Sara Aviel receives an email from Trent Morse informing her that Trump has now terminated her position.

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

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 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

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

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” in response to 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 overrules the mass firing of probationary workers, only 180 workers (out of 750) return to work at the CDC

Trent Morse sends an email to the office director at the IAF that states that Peter Marocco has been appointed the acting Chairman

Peter Marocco declares an emergency board meeting (where the emergency is Trump issued an executive order), claiming that means he does not need to inform the board with a 1-week notice as required. In attendance at the meeting are Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh. This is where he declares himself the new President and Acting CIO.

Peter Marocco declares an emergency board meeting (where the emergency is Trump issued an executive order), claiming that means he does not need to inform the board with a 1-week notice as required. In attendance at the meeting are Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh. This is where he declares himself the new President and Acting CIO.

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, 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 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

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

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) starts an audit of how DOGE 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 is clearly a blatant attempt to spin the narrative and claim the agency has not been stopped from performing its statutory duties. The judge later describes this 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 detailed to the agency.

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 and all 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 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)

Erica Jehling pushes for the cancellation of 21 grants at the EPA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in construction materials and posts 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 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.

DOGE takes the IAF’s website offline

Peter Marocco sends emails terminating all of IAF’s existing grants except one (which was mostly over)

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

Peter Marocco names the remaining employee, the Chief Information Security Officer, as the new President of the IAF

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

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 direction to cancel the contracts to obscure that the direction had come from DOGE.

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. He also 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 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 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.

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

In response to Trump’s second executive order against independent agencies, 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

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

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 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

During a discussion on how to strip grants from the University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State, GSA FAS Commissioner 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.

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.

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 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. He reportedly reaches this conclusion on the advice of two unnamed senior DOGE leaders.

USIP website is taken offline

Nikhil Rajpal officially offboards from the CFPB, because his detail is concluded. It is later revealed 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

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, 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.

NLRB networking staff make a formal report of the suspicious activity to US-CERT at CISA (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 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.

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

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. (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 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 SSA-01 (Akash Bobba), SSA-05 (Cole Killian), SSA-08 (Nikhil Rajpal) and SSA-09 (Payton Rehling) 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. This group administers grants following the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (signed by Biden) to encourage semiconductor manufacturing in the US.

In a sweeping ruling, judge Amy Berman Jackson grants a preliminary injunction for the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) against Russell Vought, the acting CFPB director. In her ruling, she declares that it is plain that the administration intended to destroy the agency and she found significant parts of its testimony unreliable. In her injunction, she orders the admininistration must refrain from any firing any employee of the CFPB, restore any contracts that were in place before February 11th, reinstate all probationary employees that were fired, ensure that no agency data is deleted and rescind the stop-work order. It is immediately appealed by the administration.

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