All The People
A list of all the people records for each person with events and positions.
Daniel Abrahamson
Tech Industry Links: Tesla
Apart from his identification in a few Politico articles naming him as DOGE’s lawyer at the Department of Transportation, Daniel Abrahamson has kept a relatively low profile. He was formerly a senior counsel at Tesla since 2022.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| DOT |
Sources
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| USDA |
Source
USDA
date unknown
Senior Advisor on Government Efficiency
«Not listed as a detailee, so suggests appointed»
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Events
| Date | Event |
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2/19/25
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Source
Interagency
A staffer at the EOP emails DOGE staff to take part in a webinar about the National Environmental Policy Act.
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3/26/25
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Source
Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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4/10/25
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Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request from American Oversight, the USDA returns a list of known DOGE members at the agency at the time.
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Jaylee Adams
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| NDS |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
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2/23/26
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Source
Directory
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.
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Justin Aimonetti
Exited govt: 7/30/25 (verified)
Identified as one of DOGE’s growing army of lawyers, Justin Aimonetti has most recently been involved in DOGE’s shutdown efforts against small independent agencies like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, acting as a point of contact between DOGE teams from the GSA and the White House through his Executive Office of the President (EOP) email address.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| DOGE |
Source
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| GSA |
Sources
resigned from agency 7/30/25
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| NLRB |
Source
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| USIP |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
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c.1/21/25
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Source
Interagency
Justin Fox reports that connected with him before he started work at DOGE. Besides Armstrong, Justin Fox was also communicating with other DOGE members via Signal both in group chats and individually. This appears to be a violation of government records laws for those other staffers who were already working in the federal government.
(fuzz: Exact date not given, but he testifies that Anthony Armstrong reached out just after inauguration)
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3/05/25
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Directory
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
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3/20/25
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Directory
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.
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3/26/25
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Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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4/29/25
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Source
Interagency
Nate Cavanaugh sends an email to the two remaining members of the CPB board requesting a meeting. He describes a DOGE team at GSA and cc’s several other members of DOGE
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5/13/25
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Directory
In an overview of how DOGE has tried to assign teams outside of the executive branch, NPR lists six DOGE staffers at GSA who are involved with those efforts.
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Baris Akis
Tech Industry Links: Human Capital
Baris Akis was a booster for DOGE before it even formally existed, and he has been linked to its activities at the IRS, Treasury and OPM by the New York Times. As a non-US citizen (he has a green card), Mr. Akis is not formally a part of DOGE, but he was identified as leading operations as recently as March alongside fellow Musk loyalists Anthony Armstrong and Steve Davis. He is the president and co-founder of the company Human Capital.
Events
| Date | Event |
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12/06/24
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Source
Directory
A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump’s transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago.
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1/02/25
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Action
Baris Akis introduces Nate Cavanaugh to Steve Davis, so that he can recruit Nate Cavanaugh to work for DOGE. Vinay Hiremath introduced Mr. Akis to Mr. Cavanagh
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1/12/25
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Directory
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
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1/24/25
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Source
Directory
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.
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c.1/25/25
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Report
Elon Musk makes a request for Baris Akis to be allowed to work for DOGE, even though he is a noncitizen and it wouldn’t normally be allowed. His request is denied.
(fuzz: date not given, but source published Feb 4th)
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c.3/26/25
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Directory
In a later interview, Sahil Lavingia describes attending an “E-meeting” for DOGE that included Elon Musk but was essentially run by Steve Davis as well as two other Musk loyalists, Anthony Armstrong and Baris Akis. Baris Akis is notably not an employee of DOGE, since he is a foreign national and Musk was not granted a waiver to hire him.
(fuzz: date is given as “late March,” assuming a Wednesday bc others reported DOGE meetings during that time)
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Jacob Altik
Exited govt: 6/27/25 (verified)
Jacob Altik is a 2021 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to joining DOGE, he clerked for DC Circuit Appeals Judge Neomi Rao, who was a protege of Russell Vought in the first Trump administration. As a lawyer, he is often responsible for backing up DOGE’s actions with legal threats, and there are several reported cases of him attempting to browbeat independent agencies into compliance with administration policy. He has also been selected to be a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch in the summer of 2025, so he left DOGE by the end of June 2025.
Likely aliases: OPM-16
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| OPM |
Sources
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| DOGE |
Source
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| USADF |
Source
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| FCC |
Source
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Systems
| System | Notes |
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USA Performance
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Source
System tracking job performance of federal employees unknown access «system name is listed as “USA Performance - Office of the Director”» |
Events
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1/24/25
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Onboard
Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at OPM
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2/06/25
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Source
Legal
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.
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2/12/25
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Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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2/21/25
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Disruption
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.
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2/21/25
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Sighting
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.
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2/21/25
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Interagency
Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh return to the IAF with Jacob Altik, who presented himself as representing the EOP. Altik confirms that DOGE plans to reduce IAF to what he considers the statutory minimum (a board and president, a location in DC, some grants) and DOGE will be conducting a Reduction in Force of all employees and terminating all grants. The demand approval from the board and threaten the board will be fired otherwise.
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2/21/25
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Access
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.
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2/21/25
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Disruption
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.
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2/24/25
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Source
Interagency
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
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2/24/25
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Report
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.
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3/05/25
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Disruption
Jacob Altik and Ethan Shaotran are rebuffed by agency leadership when attempting to enter the agency headquarters.
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3/06/25
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Disruption
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.
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3/09/25
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Disruption
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.
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3/13/25
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Source
Interagency
Tarak Makecha, Joshua Fox, and Jacob Altik communicate with FCC staff about detailing arrangements from the OPM to the FCC (presumably for Tarak and Jacob)
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3/14/25
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Disruption
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.
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3/17/25
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Disruption
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. Kenneth Jackson is named Acting President.
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3/18/25
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Legal
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.”
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3/26/25
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Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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4/04/25
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Sighting
Tarak Makecha, Jordan Wick and Jacob Altik are listed in the public directory of FCC staff and listed as associated with the Office of the Chairman at the FCC.
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4/08/25
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Interagency
Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle meet in the FCC headquarters with the Chief of Staff Greg Watson to discuss the FCC’s progress on removing regulations.
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c.4/20/25
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Interagency
In a meeting between HUD and DOGE, Jacob Altik says they are planning to use Christopher Sweet’s AI model analyzing regulations at HUD to review the entire Code of Federal regulations for regulations to review.
(fuzz: Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April)
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6/24/25
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Directory
In a status report for AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM, the government reports that multiple DOGE staff at OPM have left the government by this date. Of course, their actual departure dates might be earlier, but it’s a direct acknowledgment of multiple staff departures in the preceding months.
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7/01/25
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Action
DOGE gives a presentation of a “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool” that will use AI to target roughly 50% of federal regulations for elimination, on the argument that they aren’t meeting statutory requirements. The goal is to slash these regulations by January 20, 2026. In their presentation, DOGE claims the tool has already made determinations on 1083 decisions at HUD (using Christopher Sweet’s work) and has also been used for 100% of deregulatory actions at the CFPB. It also states that DOGE lawyers James Burnham, Austin Raynor, Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle have vetted and endorsed the tool.
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Marc Andreessen
Tech Industry Links: Andreessen Horowitz
According to early reports, Marc Andreesen’s only direct involvement with DOGE was interviewing potential candidates at Mar-a-Lago in December 2024. However, he continues to be a strident booster of the effort.
Events
| Date | Event |
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12/06/24
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Source
Directory
A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump’s transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago.
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1/12/25
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Source
Directory
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
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1/16/25
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Report
A report on conservative nonprofit groups doing research for DOGE notes that interviews are being conducted by Marc Andreessen and Shaun Maguire.
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1/24/25
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Directory
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.
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Anthony Armstrong
Exited govt: c.10/07/25 (reported)
Anthony Armstrong comes to DOGE from the world of finance, where he worked on Musk’s acquisition of Twitter as a bank executive at Morgan Stanley. Since joining DOGE at OPM, he has mostly operated quietly in a support role, but in April he was spotted at the FDIC, and I would expect him to be involved with DOGE’s work against other independent financial entities. Although he has a relatively modest title, recently departed DOGE member Sahil Lavingia indicated that he was running operations for teams across government with Baris Akis and Steve Davis. Reportedly, he left his OPM position in April but continues to coordinate DOGE from within DHS. More recently, he was named to the position of CFO for Musk’s xAI – just another example of the revolving door for Musk associates to cycle through DOGE and into reward positions in his companies.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| OPM |
Sources
OPM
1/20/25-c.4/30/25
Expert
(ED-00, excepted, volunteer)
«reportedly left OPM in April, but as at FDIC on 4/10, so maybe end of month»
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| FDIC |
Source
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| DHS |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
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1/20/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.
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c.1/21/25
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Interagency
Justin Fox reports that connected with him before he started work at DOGE. Besides Armstrong, Justin Fox was also communicating with other DOGE members via Signal both in group chats and individually. This appears to be a violation of government records laws for those other staffers who were already working in the federal government.
(fuzz: Exact date not given, but he testifies that Anthony Armstrong reached out just after inauguration)
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2/12/25
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Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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c.3/26/25
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Directory
In a later interview, Sahil Lavingia describes attending an “E-meeting” for DOGE that included Elon Musk but was essentially run by Steve Davis as well as two other Musk loyalists, Anthony Armstrong and Baris Akis. Baris Akis is notably not an employee of DOGE, since he is a foreign national and Musk was not granted a waiver to hire him.
(fuzz: date is given as “late March,” assuming a Wednesday bc others reported DOGE meetings during that time)
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4/10/25
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Source
Sighting
Brooks Morgan, Adam Ramada and Anthony Armstrong visit the FDIC headquarters. Their arrival is later confirmed for staff with an email stating they have not been granted access to any sensitive bank information.
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5/22/25
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Interagency
Elon Musk joins a late-night meeting with senior members of the DOGE leadership team. Katie Miller delivered a blunt message that DOGE was on thin ice with the White House. She also reportedly advised that DOGE should strive to collaborate with Cabinet secretaries more instead of pushiing cuts or projects on them that they didn’t want to do.
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c.6/05/25
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Source
Disruption
Concerned by people questioning his continued authority, Steve Davis reportedly taps Anthony Armstrong, Josh Gruenbaum and Stephen Ehikian to assess the loyalty of DOGE staffers and assert they are the leadership of DOGE now, acting under the authority of JD Vance and Susie Wiles in the White House. This is a bluff, and staffers in the White House counter that their authority is only within GSA itself.
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Jennifer Balajadia
Tech Industry Links: Musk family, Twitter
Exited govt: 5/28/25 (inferred)
An longtime personal assistant to Elon Musk – who reportedly once told a Twitter employee that “Elon is special in this world. It is our job to protect him and make sure what he wants to have happen” – Jennifer “Jehn” Balajadia has been linked to the Department of Education and possibly a few other agencies by the New York Times, but actual details of her activity have been scarce.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| DOGE |
Source
resigned from agency 5/28/25
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| Ed. |
Source
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Open Questions
- Is Jennifer Balajadia still in DOGE? Is she still at Education?
In the wake of Elon Musk’s departure, several high-level DOGE people who came from Musk’s circle also resigned. By all accounts, this would make Jennifer Balajadia a likely person to leave. But I have also very little info about her involvement before then.
Micaela Lopez Ballefin
Tech Industry Links: Twitter
After she appeared in a listing of staff with Senior Advisor titles at the Small Business Association, Politico has identified her as a former employee of Twitter/X and also a Uruguayan citizen. As the latter, she would normally be ineligible to work for the US government, but she has been hired as a contractor at the GSA as a senior engineering manager working with Matthew Markhurst-Session and Thomas Shedd.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| GSA |
Source
GSA
5/XX/25
consultant
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| SBA |
Source
SBA
date unknown
unknown start type
Senior Advisor
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Events
| Date | Event |
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5/16/25
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Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
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8/26/25
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Source
Directory
A report from Politico identifies three foreign nationals who are working for DOGE within the GSA. Normally, they would not be eligible for government positions but have been hired as contractors. Two are from AirBnb and one worked for X.com in prior capacities.
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Ankur Bansal
He is the president of Homelight, which makes software for the real estate industry. Prior to that, he founded SnapSaves, a startup that was later acquired.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| DOT |
Source
DOT
date unknown
«Reportedly reviewing DOT grants to cancel»
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| DOE |
Source
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| NRC |
Source
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Greg Barbaccia
Tech Industry Links: Palantir
Greg Barbaccia is not typically listed as a DOGE associate, but he checks enough of the boxes that it makes sense to include him here. Like many of the DOGE crew, he has an interest in AI and he worked at Palantir for ten years. He’s also been placed into a highly-ranked role (Federal Chief CIO) for which he has very limited experience, but would allow him to coordinate and enable the work of other DOGE appointees to the CIO level.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| OMB |
Sources
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| USAID |
Source
USAID
c.9/25/25
Acting Chief Information Officer
«Not announced, just appeared on cio.gov page some time after 9/20 and before 9/30»
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| GSA |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
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1/27/25
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Source
Onboard
Greg Barbaccia is named as the new Federal Chief Information Officer, a role which places him in charge of the CIO Council at OMB that coordinates the activities of federal CIOs.
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c.9/25/25
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Source
Onboard
In a move that apparently hasn’t been publicly announced everywhere, Federal Chief CIO Greg Barbaccia is listed as the Acting CIO for USAID on the CIO.gov page
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1/30/26
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Report
Speaking at the ACT-IAC Summit, Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia touted the work of the National Design Studio and reported that OMB is working closely with NDS to “coalesce” the administration’s website design, comparing it to how certain hotel brands will all look and smell the same. He reports there are internal sandboxes running for new designs and a redesigned site for CIO.gov will soon illustrate the new look. The NDS is also reportedly leaning heavily into using AI for its work. In addition, 35,000 people have applied to the administration’s Tech Force initiative and they are reviewing 6,000 applicants.
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2/19/26
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Onboard
Federal CIO Chief Greg Barbaccia is named as the new Acting Director for the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) at GSA, replacing Thomas Shedd in the role. Shedd has seemingly been demoted to a new role of Senior Advisor for Fraud Prevention. Greg Barbaccia is still serving in the role of CIO for USAID as well.
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Samuel Berry
He was named as a member of the DOGE team at USDA in response to a FOIA request from American Oversight. Based on a name and image match from the USDA Flickr account of him being sworn in, he seems to be a software developer and founder of a small web company Ten Five Engineering.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| USDA |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
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4/10/25
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Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request from American Oversight, the USDA returns a list of known DOGE members at the agency at the time.
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9/12/25
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Official
In an email to all staff, USDA announces that the existing Chief Information Officer for the agency will now be moved to a new role named Chief Innovation Officer and that DOGE team member Samuel Berry will be the next CIO for the agency.
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Sam Beyda
Sam Beyda has been involved with DOGE’s activities since at least early February, but he has managed to somehow stay under the radar, with only a single news report linking him to DOGE activities at the Department of Labor. More recently, however, he has taken on a prominent role as the Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC, after serving as a policy advisor in HHS. This is a pretty impressive move, considering he has no experience in public health and graduated from Columbia in 2023. Prior to DOGE, his only work experience was at a company (Day Three) that manufactured cannabinoids, whose parent organization is led by Beyda’s father-in-law.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| DOL |
Source
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| HHS |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
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2/13/25
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Source
Access
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.
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c.10/25/25
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Disruption
Sam Beyda contacts the Peaceable Primate Sanctuary to ask how many of the approximately 200 macaques it can adopt immediately from the CDC’s primate research operations and whether it would be able to adopt all of them by the end of the year.
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c.11/07/25
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Disruption
In a new capacity as Deputy Chief of Staff, Sam Beyda tells scientists at the CDC that it is time to wind down its primate research division. Despite the fact that CDC has an Acting Director, he presents himself as conveying the direct wished of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. here.
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11/19/25
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Official
The Department of Health and Human Services proposes 16 initiatives for the CDC to focus on as part of a restructuring and change in direction for the agency. This includes de-emphasizing Hepatitis B vaccination in favor of increased screening. Newly appointed deputy chief of staff Sam Beyda is in charge of 5 out of the 16 initiatives, despite only having graduated from college in 2023 and a lack of public health or leadership experience.
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12/01/25
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Source
Disruption
After a Danish anti-vaccine researcher applied for a grant to do a controlled study about the Hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau, the request was routed directly from the CDC Director’s office to the Grants office for funding, bypassing the concerns of agency scientists who found the experimental design to be poorly-constructed and immoral. Instead of listing scientists as approvers for the grant, the application only listed as reviewers Chief of Staff Sam Beyda and Stuart Burns, an anti-vaccine advocate working in the CDC Director’s office.
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Open Questions
- What has Sam Beyda been doing for most of this year before showing up at HHS/CDC?
Alexandra Beynon
Exited govt: 6/13/25 (verified)
Not much is known about Alexandra Beynon’s work on behalf of DOGE at the Department of Education. Prior to that, she worked as the head of engineering at her husband’s startup company which sold guided ketamine therapy for use in the home. Although she hasn’t been publicly linked to DOGE work at other agencies, Alexandra was one of the recipients cc’ed in an email organizing mass layoffs at the CFPB sent by Gavin Kliger. It’s unclear if she has a similar role in the staffing reducations at the Department of Education.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| DOGE |
Sources
DOGE
c.2/04/25-6/13/25
Senior Advisor
(AD-00)
«date guessed, reported as detailing from DOGE to Education»
resigned from agency 6/13/25
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| Ed. |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
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2/13/25
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Source
Directory
A story on a proposal to use AI at the Department of Education lists several DOGE staffers identified there within the last few weeks.
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4/12/25
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Source
Interagency
Emailing this time from his CFPB account, Jeremy Lewin shares the documentation for the upcoming CFPB RIF with DOGE staff posted at several agencies (Zach Terrell and Alexandra Beynon). He also includes DOGE staff at CFPB: Gavin Kliger, Chris Young and Jordan Wick. It’s unclear if they are representing their individual agencies or are just taking part as DOGE members in the conversation.
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Open Questions
- Why exactly did Gavin Kliger include Alexandra Beynon on an email chain when he was setting up the April RIF at the CFPB?
Adam Bhaloo
One of the new engineers working for the National Design Studio who reports he dropped out of school to work for the agency
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| NDS |
Source
NDS
2/06/26
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Riccardo Biasini
Tech Industry Links: Tesla, Boring Co.
Riccardo Biasini is an executive and software engineer who has worked at both Tesla and the Boring Company, both of which are Musk-owned businesses. Since joining the DOGE staff at OPM on January 20th, he has largely been focused on personnel-related initiatives like modernizing an “AutoRIF” system for automating layoffs at agencies. As a software developer, he likely has been connected to other initiatives like the Fork in the Road or the Five Things emails, but he has kept a lower profile than other engineers.
Likely aliases: OPM-02
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| OPM |
Sources
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| DOGE |
Source
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Systems
| System | Notes |
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website
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Source
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» |
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Databricks
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Source
A hosted or self-hosted service that simplifies systems for processing big Data admin access «listed as “OPM Data Azure Databricks Admin + NP / PRD Azure Subscriptions”» |
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EHRI
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Source
The Enterprise Human Resources Integration Data Warehouse (“EHRI”) collects human resources, payroll, and training data from several dozen sources outside of OPM, including other federal agencies. unknown access (never accessed) |
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github
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Source
A service owned by Microsoft for developers to run version control on their applications and back them up to shared repositories that can be used by other developers. Github is provided as both a hosted service (at github.com) or via versions that can be installed with agency data centers (aka GitHub Enterprise or GHE). Access to Github would be expected for developers, but doesn’t necessarily mean the person is a coder. unknown access «Github Enterprise» |
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USA Performance
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Source
System tracking job performance of federal employees admin access (never accessed) «system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”» |
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USA Staffing
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Source
A platform for federal agencies to recruit and onboard employees. admin access «USA Staffing Core + Admin Portal - DEV/TST/STG/TRN/PRD» |
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eOPF
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Source
An system for government employees to access their personnel files electronically. These are updated when staff receive changes in salary or duty station or title, or receive performance reviews. unknown access (never accessed) |
Events
| Date | Event |
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1/20/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.
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1/27/25
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Source
Access
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.
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1/28/25
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Source
Access
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.”
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1/28/25
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Source
Directory
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)
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1/31/25
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Source
Disruption
Federal employees at OPM report they are locked out of access to key systems by DOGE and OPM leadership.
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2/XX/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/12/25
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Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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2/25/25
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Source
Report
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.
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2/27/25
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Source
Interagency
DOGE staff at DOI invite several of their counterparts from OPM to a meeting to discuss DOI Tech Systems.
(fuzz: A michealal@x.com is also invited. Is it meant to be Micaela Lopez Ballefin?)
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c.3/03/25
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Source
Interagency
DOE staff (mostly from DOGE) meet exclusively with DOGE staff from both OPM and GSA to discuss DOI’s data centers, cloud infrastructure and software licenses.
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5/09/25
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Source
Disruption
OPM is reportedly poised to launch a rebranded version of the formerly-named AutoRIF software for automating the process of designating staff for mass layoffs. It was modernized and given a web interface by DOGE engineer Riccardo Biasini.
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9/24/25
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Source
Disruption
The Department of Interior is reportedly planning another round of layoffs for mid-October. This follows the loss of 7500 employees (nearly 11% of its workforce) already. The agency is reported to be using the AutoRIF software developed at OPM to run the process, and it is being run by Stephanie Holmes and Tyler Hassen, who did not leave the agency in August as previously reported.
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12/05/25
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Sources
Directory
A legal filing from the government states that only 5 DOGE staffers – OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-03 (Akash Bobba), OPM-05 (Gavin Kliger), OPM-10 (Austin Raynor) and OPM-18 – are still working at the agency. OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini) is reporting directly to Scott Kupor.
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Open Questions
- The appointment for Riccardo Biasini at OPM was not to exceed 2025-07-18. Has he left DOGE or was he given a new position/appointment with a longer NTE date?
Jared Birchall
Tech Industry Links: Musk family
Identified recently in a WSJ story as Elon Musk’s longtime “fixer” and the manager of Musk’s family office, Jared Birchall was instrumental in organizing Musk’s donations to the Trump campaign. He was part of the team in place before the Inauguration to interview DOGE staffers and build out the team.
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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12/06/24
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Source
Directory
A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump’s transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago.
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Frank Bisignano
Only recently appointed to the head of the Social Security Administration (SSA), Frank Bisignano has admitted to some back-channel coordination the DOGE-affiliated CIO Mike Russo, but he denies that he secretly gave direction to the DOGE team before his nomination was confirmed.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SSA |
Source
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| IRS |
Source
IRS
10/06/25
Chief Executive Officer
«Technically, position doesn’t exist and Scott Bessent is acting commissioner, but will be in charge.»
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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2/10/25
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Source
Official
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.
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3/26/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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5/06/25
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Source
Official
Frank Bisignano is confirmed by the Senate to be the new Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, replacing Leland Dudek who was serving as the acting commissioner.
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c.6/05/25
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Source
Report
Frank Bisignano is granted permission to remove any DOGE staff at his agency. According to the report, “Bisignano parted ways with one DOGE staffer from SSA, who in June moved to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.” The date and person isn’t named, but the CIO replacement at SSA and NASA connection suggest it’s Scott Coulter who was removed in early June.
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9/03/25
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Source
Official
Commissioner Frank Bisignano issues a press release announcing the new leadership structure for the Social Security Administration. This officially confirms the reports that DOGE members Aram Moghaddassi and Mike Russo had effectively been acting as co-CIOs, with Mr. Moghaddassi named to the title of Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products) and Mr. Russo to Chief Information Officer (Core Business Functions)
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9/16/25
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Source
Oversight
SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano replies to the letter from the Senate Finance Committee about the allegations of the whistleblower. He claims that all proper procedures were followed and that DOGE did not transfer data to a private cloud within the SSA Amazon Web Services accounts.
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9/24/25
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Source
Report
The New York Times reports on how the DOGE-led staffing cuts and technology changes have led to poor service, low morale and increased wait times for the public. In many field offices, the average wait for an appointment is now six weeks.
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10/06/25
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Source
Onboard
The Trump Administration names Frank Bisignano, the current administrator of SSA, as the Chief Executive Officer of the IRS, a position which does not actually exist. Technically, Scott Bessent will remain the seventh acting commissioner to run the IRS this year, but this new role seems to be a way to give Frank Bisignano direct authority over decision-making at the agency while also preserving some amount of deniability and allowing the Trump admininistration to once again sidestep the Senate confirmation process.
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1/20/26
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Source
Disruption
Acting IRS CEO Frank Bisignano announces a major shake-up for leadership at the IRS, which had already been struggling with vacancies after DOGE-driven reductions last year. Bisignano has announced he will be co-leading tax compliance at the agency. He also promoted DOGE team lead Tom Newnam to the role of Chief Financial Officer, giving him oversight over procurement, facilities and privacy at the agency.
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Brian Bjelde
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX, Twitter
Exited govt: 5/16/25 (inferred)
A SpaceX veteran who has spent 20 years at the company, Brian Bjelde also helped Elon Musk to drastically cut staff after his takeover of Twitter. It seems like Brian ia happy being a hatchet man, and he likely has been involved in the efforts to cut government staff, including a plan to eliminate 70% of the positions at OPM. He has been keeping a low profile, but the government recently reported that OPM-07 (Brian Bjelde) left working for the agency on 2025-05-16, so he’s presumably no longer in government service.
Likely aliases: OPM-07
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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website
|
Source
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» |
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github
|
Source
A service owned by Microsoft for developers to run version control on their applications and back them up to shared repositories that can be used by other developers. Github is provided as both a hosted service (at github.com) or via versions that can be installed with agency data centers (aka GitHub Enterprise or GHE). Access to Github would be expected for developers, but doesn’t necessarily mean the person is a coder. unknown access «Github Enterprise» |
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github
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Source
A service owned by Microsoft for developers to run version control on their applications and back them up to shared repositories that can be used by other developers. Github is provided as both a hosted service (at github.com) or via versions that can be installed with agency data centers (aka GitHub Enterprise or GHE). Access to Github would be expected for developers, but doesn’t necessarily mean the person is a coder. unknown access «Github Enterprise» |
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USA Performance
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Source
System tracking job performance of federal employees unknown access «system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”» |
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USA Staffing
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Source
A platform for federal agencies to recruit and onboard employees. admin access «for the govt-wide hiring freeze» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/17/25
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Source
Action
Noah Peters recalls that he met with Amanda Scales and Brian Bjelde on this day to plan for their upcoming first day at OPM.
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1/20/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.
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1/20/25
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Source
Access
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.
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2/03/25
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Report
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.
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2/12/25
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Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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5/06/25
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Source
Offboard
OPM-07 (Brian Bjelde) departs from working at the Office of Personnel Management.
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Adam Blake
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOE |
Sources
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| NRC |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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c.5/23/25
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Source
Action
In a meeting shortly after Trump signed executive orders relating to the NRC, DOGE staffer Adam Blake reportedly told the chair and top staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that they would be expected to “rubber stamp” any reactor designs which might be tested by the Department of Energy or the Department of Defense.
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c.6/05/25
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Source
Disruption
Concerned by Steve Davis’ attempts to stay involved with DOGE despite no longer being employed by the agency and instructions to not interact with him, DOGE staffers Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos, Ryan Shea, and Adam Blake privately questioned Davis about his involvement. They also reportedly contacted DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor about the legality of his continued involvement.
(fuzz: date is not given in article, unclear if at meeting or afterwards)
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6/07/25
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Source
Disruption
Steve Davis removed DOGE staffers that he considered disloyal from shared Signal chats that DOGE had continued to use for coordination. He also used his influence at GSA to have Ryan Shea removed from his position. Other Davis targets – Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos and Adam Blake – were able to remain at their posts but were shut out from DOGE communications
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7/11/25
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Source
Sighting
In a written response to questions from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the nominee to head the NRC reveals there is currently one DOGE staffer (reported as Adam Blake) detailed to the agency from the Department of Energy to reform the agency following the guidance in EO 14300.
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9/03/25
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Source
Oversight
At a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee oversight hearing, Democratic members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shared that they fear they could be fired by Trump for enforcing nuclear safety regulations. Under questioning, the NRC chair confirmed there was a meeting where NRC was told it would be expected to “rubber-stamp” any reactor designs approved by the Department of Energy or Department of Defense. NRC Chair David Wright also testified that there were currently 7 DOGE staffers at the agency. One of them has had prior experience at a nuclear plant and another, Adam Blake, did not have an NRC supervisor.
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Akash Bobba
Tech Industry Links: Palantir
Identified early in media reports as one of six engineers picked on Elon Musk’s team, Akash Bobba was a prolific wrecker from the start, including an unusual detailing document where we as assigned to OPM, Education and Social Security simultaneously. Initially, he served as a volunteer, but he been on the payroll at the Social Security Administration since early February, where has been a trusted lieutenant of Mike Russo.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
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| DOGE |
Source
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| Ed. |
Source
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| SBA |
Source
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| SSA |
Sources
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| USDA |
Source
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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website
|
Source
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» |
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USA Performance
|
Sources
System tracking job performance of federal employees admin access (never accessed) «system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”» |
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NUMIDENT
|
Source
NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody read access granted by CIO Mike Russo |
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eOPF
|
Source
An system for government employees to access their personnel files electronically. These are updated when staff receive changes in salary or duty station or title, or receive performance reviews. read access (last access 6/26/25) |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/20/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.
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1/20/25
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Source
Access
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.
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1/28/25
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Source
Directory
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)
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2/03/25
|
Source
Onboard
Unidentified employee SSA-01 (Akash Bobba) starts working at the SSA with the title of Expert and an annual salary of $90,025.
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2/03/25
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Source
Onboard
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)
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2/08/25
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Source
Access
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.
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2/10/25
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Source
Report
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.
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2/10/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/12/25
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Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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2/15/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/15/25
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Source
Access
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.
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3/12/25
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Source
Directory
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)”
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3/13/25
|
Source
Directory
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/27/25
|
Source
Access
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 granted through the SSA’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He asserts that DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.
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4/08/25
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Source
Directory
A partial copy of the GSA’s A-Suite access list includes multiple DOGE personnel who are listed as based in GSA.
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5/16/25
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Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
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7/16/25
|
Source
Offboard
OPM-03 (Akash Bobba) reaches the Not-To-Exceed (NTE) date for the special government employee status and is removed from access at the agency.
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8/04/25
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Source
Directory
In a report about DOGE’s continued work on OPM’s Online Retirement Application (ORA) continuing to move ahead, Politico identifies DOGE staff that are working on the project under Joe Gebbia.
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8/08/25
|
Source
Onboard
Special government employee OPM-03 (Akash Bobba) is converted to a permanent position within the agency, still unpaid.
(fuzz: Date from report on system access restoration)
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10/23/25
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Source
Official
Seeking to further bolster support for its proposed new voter registration tool that would be integrated with DHS databases, the Election Assistance Commission hosts a call with the National Association of Secretaries of State. Akash Bobba speaks on the call as a developer and reports it will be created by the National Design Studio and integrate with the revamped SAVE database from DHS. When asked for details about data retention and security, Bobba could only state that “clear data retention policies” would be provided to states in advance.
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12/05/25
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Sources
Directory
A legal filing from the government states that only 5 DOGE staffers – OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-03 (Akash Bobba), OPM-05 (Gavin Kliger), OPM-10 (Austin Raynor) and OPM-18 – are still working at the agency. OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini) is reporting directly to Scott Kupor.
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Ashley Boizelle
Exited govt: 1/XX/26 (self-reported)
Ashley Boizelle most recently served as lawyer within Amazon, but she worked as a counsel within the FCC during the first Trump administration, making her one of the few DOGE staffers with previous government experience. She has been linked to both DOGE offices within the EOP as well as GSA. Most of her activities have been under the radar, but we was consulted by CFPB leadership as they planned for massive layoffs at the agency.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
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| DOGE |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/05/25
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Source
Directory
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
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3/20/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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3/26/25
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Source
Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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4/08/25
|
Source
Interagency
Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle meet in the FCC headquarters with the Chief of Staff Greg Watson to discuss the FCC’s progress on removing regulations.
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4/13/25
|
Source
Interagency
Adam Martinez responds in the affirmative to an email (contents redacted in court filings) requesting items/access for unspecified people to conduct the RIF. Several DOGE staffers (Ashley Boizelle and Steve Davis as well as Gavin Kliger and Jeremy Lewin) are also cc’ed on the message
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5/05/25
|
Source
Interagency
Ashley Boizelle mails the Chief of Staff (and head of the DOGE team) at FCC to ask how the agency handles outside comments on high-profile rulemakings and if they contract with an outside service.
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6/30/25
|
Source
Interagency
Ashley Boizelle mails the Chief of Staff (and head of the DOGE team) at FCC for information about their deregulation work at the agency.
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7/01/25
|
Source
Action
DOGE gives a presentation of a “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool” that will use AI to target roughly 50% of federal regulations for elimination, on the argument that they aren’t meeting statutory requirements. The goal is to slash these regulations by January 20, 2026. In their presentation, DOGE claims the tool has already made determinations on 1083 decisions at HUD (using Christopher Sweet’s work) and has also been used for 100% of deregulatory actions at the CFPB. It also states that DOGE lawyers James Burnham, Austin Raynor, Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle have vetted and endorsed the tool.
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Nate Brown
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| NDS |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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2/23/26
|
Source
Directory
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.
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Emily Bryant
A relatively new arrival to DOGE. My only information on her is a sighting on the DOGE team at the FTC. ProPublica did report that she has an email address at both GSA and EOP, so I am assuming she started there and was detailed outward. In a recent podcast, Antonio Gracias said that “[Baris Akis] and Emily do the recruiting.” Is it possibly her?
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
|
| GSA |
Source
|
| FTC |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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4/04/25
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Source
Sighting
Axios reports that Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant have started work at the FTC, looking at grants and contracts at the agency.
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Open Questions
- Is there more info I can dig up on Emily Bryant? She doesn't seem to be any documentation on her.
James Burnham
Exited govt: 6/03/25 (verified)
James Burnham served in the previous Trump administration at both the White House and the Department of Justice. The New York Times mentioned his involvement with DOGE in an article from mid-January, and he has been listed in several subsequent media round-ups of DOGE’s lawyers. He departed from his position a day after Elon Musk left his role.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
resigned from agency 6/03/25
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/12/25
|
Source
Directory
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
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1/24/25
|
Source
Directory
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.
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2/17/25
|
Source
Interagency
Joshua Fox emails a few NASA administrators to introduce himself as “one of the attorneys at DOGE” and to also inform them “I just spoke to Scott Coulter about this, but I wanted to let you know that he is planning to go over to SSA tomorrow.” He includes several other DOGE leadership personnel in the email chain. It’s unclear from the message who actually made the decision that Scott Coulter would be detailed to the Social Security Administration.
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2/24/25
|
Source
Interagency
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
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2/24/25
|
Source
Report
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.
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3/09/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/26/25
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Source
Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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5/XX/25
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Source
Interagency
In May, Clark Milner, a senior advisor for policy in the White House, organized a meeting between USPS staff, the DOGE representatives at the agency, other DOGE staffers and members of the Domestic Policy Council.
(fuzz: No other specific date information is given)
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5/29/25
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Source
Offboard
In the wake of Elon Musk’s departure, Steve Davis, Katie Miller and James Burnham reportedly also left DOGE. Davis had been widely described as running the day-to-day operations of DOGE, and it’s unclear who will take that over.
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7/01/25
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Source
Action
DOGE gives a presentation of a “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool” that will use AI to target roughly 50% of federal regulations for elimination, on the argument that they aren’t meeting statutory requirements. The goal is to slash these regulations by January 20, 2026. In their presentation, DOGE claims the tool has already made determinations on 1083 decisions at HUD (using Christopher Sweet’s work) and has also been used for 100% of deregulatory actions at the CFPB. It also states that DOGE lawyers James Burnham, Austin Raynor, Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle have vetted and endorsed the tool.
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Brian Burroughs
Brian Burroughs was apparently introduced to GSA staff in June by Thomas Shedd and Stephen Ehikian. It apparently seemed “like they were looking for things for him to work on.” Before his time in DOGE, he was the CTO of Business Operational Concepts, a small contracting firm that does business with the federal government and GSA. Since then, ProPublica has linked his activities to other agencies.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
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| GSA |
Source
GSA
6/XX/25
«Not many details besides start date “in June.” Because he is a former IT consultant, I’m not sure if he has been hired or is consulting.»
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| Commerce |
Source
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| OPM |
Source
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| State |
Source
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| USDA |
Source
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Joshua Carter
I don’t have much info on this person yet, but they were named as being a Senior Advisor at the SBA, which was a title also assigned to known DOGE members at that agency. He seems to have come from an investment background at Morgan Stanley and his own firm, Sepio Capital.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SBA |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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5/16/25
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Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
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Nate Cavanaugh
Exited govt: 8/06/25 (reported)
A former tech entrepeneur, Nate Cavanaugh was initially spotted as one of the DOGE staffers interviewing GSA federal staff to determine layoffs. Since March however, he has been the de facto leader of DOGE’s sustained attacks against multiple independent agencies such as the NEH or IMLS. These attacks begin with Nate offering IT Modernization assistance from the GSA and then escalate through the White House firing agency leadership and naming Nate (or an associate) as the new acting agency head. Once in power, he quickly places all employees on administrative leave and starts firing staff and cancelling grants. Much like a vampire, if he shows up at the door of your agency, do not let him inside.
Positions
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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Microsoft Entra ID
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Source
A centralized identity provider used to support single-sign-on (SSO) and centralize access control for agencies. admin access «inferred because he sent emails from what looks like a global admin account for Entra» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/02/25
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Source
Action
Baris Akis introduces Nate Cavanaugh to Steve Davis, so that he can recruit Nate Cavanaugh to work for DOGE. Vinay Hiremath introduced Mr. Akis to Mr. Cavanagh
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c.1/21/25
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Source
Interagency
Justin Fox reports that connected with him before he started work at DOGE. Besides Armstrong, Justin Fox was also communicating with other DOGE members via Signal both in group chats and individually. This appears to be a violation of government records laws for those other staffers who were already working in the federal government.
(fuzz: Exact date not given, but he testifies that Anthony Armstrong reached out just after inauguration)
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c.1/22/25
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Source
Disruption
Nate Cavanaugh testifies he started working formally for DOGE a few days after the inauguration. He says his first project was a team effort to create an org chart of government agencies. This project evetually became live on the DOGE website. He does not identify who else worked on it.
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c.2/18/25
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Source
Sighting
Frank Schuler is introduced on a video call meeting at the GSA by Nate Cavanaugh.
(fuzz: Exact date is not provided in the article)
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2/20/25
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Source
Sighting
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.
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2/21/25
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Source
Sighting
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.
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2/21/25
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Source
Interagency
Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh return to the IAF with Jacob Altik, who presented himself as representing the EOP. Altik confirms that DOGE plans to reduce IAF to what he considers the statutory minimum (a board and president, a location in DC, some grants) and DOGE will be conducting a Reduction in Force of all employees and terminating all grants. The demand approval from the board and threaten the board will be fired otherwise.
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2/21/25
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Source
Access
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.
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2/21/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/24/25
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Source
Interagency
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
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2/24/25
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Source
Report
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.
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2/28/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/04/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/04/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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3/05/25
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Source
Disruption
Nate Cavanaugh sends Ward Brehm an email demanding to know by what authority he is the President/CFO of USADF.
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3/06/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/09/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/12/25
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Sources
Disruption
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 and arrive at the agency.
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3/14/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/17/25
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Source
Disruption
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. Kenneth Jackson is named Acting President.
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3/20/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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3/25/25
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Source
Disruption
The remaining board of the USIP – Marco Rubio and Mike Hegseth – terminate Kenneth Jackson as the acting president of the USIP and appoint Nate Cavanaugh to the position. The resolution also authorizes Nate Cavanaugh to dispose of the building belonging to the USIP.
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3/25/25
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Source
Interagency
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.
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c.3/30/25
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Source
Disruption
Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox gain access to the system at NEH for approving and administering grants. Justin Fox proceeds to look for grant descriptions containing words like “black,” “LGBTQ,” “Jew,” “Native,” and “immigrant” to eliminate for promoting DEI. He organized grants into a “Craziest Grants” and “Other Bad Grants” list, presumably for DOGE or the administration to use for promotional purposes. He also started asking ChatGPT to answer yes or no if individual grants “relate at all to DEI” and using that to mark grants for deletion without any further review.
(fuzz: date only given as a few days prior to termination)
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3/31/25
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Source
Access
DOGE gains admin access to IMLS systems for monitoring its grants and sending emails. The person is not named, but this is likely Nate Cavanaugh.
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3/31/25
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Source
Disruption
Justin Fox sends a letter to the acting head of the NEH, Michael McDonald, expressing frustration that the agency is not moving quickly enough to terminate grants. In his letter, he writes “We’re getting pressure from the top on this and we’d prefer that you remain on our side but let us know if you’re no longer interested.”
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3/31/25
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Source
Disruption
DOGE runs a process to send out emails cancelling all 900 open awards from IMLS to museums across the country.
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3/31/25
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Source
Disruption
DOGE wrecker Nate Cavanaugh returns to the IMLS and notifies the entire staff of the agency that they are being put on administrative leave up to 90 days effective immediately.
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4/01/25
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Source
Disruption
NEH staff members are informed that DOGE is seeking a 70-80% reduction in staff and a cancellation of any grants made under the Biden administration that were not already fully disbursed.
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4/01/25
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Source
Disruption
In a response to Justin Fox asking about cuts, NEH Chairman Michael McDonald advocates for not cutting some proposed grants, but notes: “But you have also told us that in addition to canceling projects because they may promote DEI ideology, the DOGE Team also wishes to cancel funding to assist deficit reduction. Either way, as you’ve made clear, it’s your decision on whether to discontinue funding any of the projects on this list.”
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4/02/25
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Source
Disruption
Approximately 1500 grantees receive grant cancellation emails sent from a nonstandard email address and bypassing the normal grant review process. The domain for the email address Grant_Notifications@nehemail.onmicrosoft.com suggests it was sent from a global admin account for Microsoft Entra, an access-control system used at the agency. The Acting Director of the NEH seems unaware of the messages. The content of the message cites an incorrect executive order as its justification, suggesting it was copied from an earlier email that was sent to IAF and USADF grantees after their DOGE takeover.
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4/03/25
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Source
Disruption
145 NEH staff members (approximately 80% of workforce) are abruptly placed on administrative leave and locked out of system access. The remaining employees are pressured by Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox to formally conduct a Reduction-in-Force (RIF) as quickly as possible
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4/04/25
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Source
Legal
Sara Aviel discovers that a team@iaf.gov created for the use of Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh had deactivated the admin access for the remaining IAF employee the day before Aviel’s return by orders of a court as President of the agency.
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c.4/07/25
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Source
Sighting
Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox begin holding a series of meetings with MCC leadership. Following the DOGE pattern for small independent agencies, this process eventually culminates in termination of all grants and mass layoffs.
(fuzz: exact date not given, just in “last two weeks”)
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4/08/25
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Source
Directory
A partial copy of the GSA’s A-Suite access list includes multiple DOGE personnel who are listed as based in GSA.
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4/16/25
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Source
Sighting
Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh are reportedly detailed from the GSA to work at the NLRB over the next few months.
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4/17/25
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Source
Disruption
According to a sworn declaration by an employee of MBDA, Nate Cavanaugh sends emails terminating MBDA grants under the authority of Keith Sonderling, who is the acting undersecretary of the MBDA
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4/22/25
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Source
Report
Staff at the Millennium Challenge Corporation are informed that DOGE has directed the termination of all grants and the reduction of the staff from 320 to a few dozen.
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4/28/25
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Source
Sighting
A team of 4 DOGE personnel – Nate Cavanaugh, Jonathan Mendelson, Ethan Shaotran and Marshall Wood – arrive at the headquarters of the US International Development Finance Corporation
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4/29/25
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Source
Interagency
Nate Cavanaugh sends an email to the two remaining members of the CPB board requesting a meeting. He describes a DOGE team at GSA and cc’s several other members of DOGE
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4/30/25
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Source
Oversight
Democratic members of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation send a letter to Keith Sonderling requesting details on his appointment as acting undersecretary of the MBDA and other information about DOGE’s takeover and destruction of the agency.
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5/01/25
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Source
Disruption
Appearing on an interview with DOGE by Fox host Jesse Watters in his capacity as USIP President, Nate Cavanaugh repeats the claim that USIP was directly funding the Taliban through its grant to Mohammad Halimi. He makes similar distorted claims about other USIP spending.
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5/13/25
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Source
Sighting
Justin Fox emails GAO (cc’ing Nate Cavanaugh) to schedule a call to get a DOGE team assigned to the GAO. This is despite the GAO being located in the legislative branch and thus not answerable to the President.
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5/13/25
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Source
Directory
In an overview of how DOGE has tried to assign teams outside of the executive branch, NPR lists six DOGE staffers at GSA who are involved with those efforts.
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5/14/25
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Source
Sighting
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park reportedly are assigned email addresses and reserved office space at the Export-Import Bank of the US.
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5/16/25
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Source
Sighting
Staff at the MSPB receive an email informing them that Nate Cavanaugh will be onboarded on May 21 as a detailee “from DOGE” and that he is expected to spend several weeks reviewing contracts and spending. He will be working remotely.
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5/19/25
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Source
Legal
The judge presiding over the USIP’s lawsuit against the Trump administration rules that the firing of the agency’s board was illegal, rendering all subsequent actions taken by Nate Cavanaugh as President null and void.
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6/27/25
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Source
Legal
A federal appeals court issues a stay on a lower-court ruling that blocked DOGE from taking over the USIP. In their ruling, the appeals panel noted that President Trump would face “irreparable harm from not being able to fully exercise his executive powers,” should the injunction be allowed to stand. This restores Nate Cavanaugh as President of the USIP.
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7/12/25
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Disruption
Almost all USIP staff receive an email on Saturday telling them they are terminated effective immediately.
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7/21/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
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1/23/26
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Source
Legal
Nate Cavanaugh testifies in a deposition related to American Council of Learned Societies v. NEH
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2/13/26
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Source
Legal
Ruling in American Council of Learned Societies/Authors Guild v. NEH, Judge Colleen McMahon rejects an argument by the government that a spreadsheet listing all of the DOGE staff and their positions and detailing arrangement must remain sealed for their personal safety. She orders them and a series of text messages made by DOGE staffers Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox must be entered into the record by February 17th.
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Alison Childs
Tech Industry Links: Twitter
According to ProPublica, she has been hired at GSA to work on a website promoting use of AI within the government
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
GSA
4/XX/25
Senior Advisor
($167,603)
«Date guessed based on reporting from ProPublica and 404 Media on ai.gov»
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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8/14/25
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Source
Website
GSA launches a new website usai.gov to promote new partnerships between the agency and three different AI companies. The goal is to make it easier for agencies to embed AI internally. The site features large bold fonts, big images and an email contact form, and it also is 4 pages in total. This is the project that Bee Elvy and Alison Childs were reportedly working on.
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Yat Choi
Tech Industry Links: Airbnb
An Airbnb engineer working with alumni Joe Gebbia and Andrew Vilcsak on the retirement modernization project at the OPM, Yat Choi is also reportedly a Canadian working on a temporary visa. It true, this circumstance would normally disqualify him from being a federal employee unless some special waiver were granted.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
OPM
4/XX/25
consultant
Senior Technologist
«a Canadian working on temp visa which would disqualify for federal role. LinkedIn reports he worked on the retirement processing modernization project. Wired reports still involved in OPM retirement work in December 2025»
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| GSA |
Source
GSA
6/XX/25
consultant
Scientific Technologist
«working for GSA as a contractor from MSI Consulting because a not an American citizen»
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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8/04/25
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Source
Directory
In a report about DOGE’s continued work on OPM’s Online Retirement Application (ORA) continuing to move ahead, Politico identifies DOGE staff that are working on the project under Joe Gebbia.
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8/26/25
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Source
Directory
A report from Politico identifies three foreign nationals who are working for DOGE within the GSA. Normally, they would not be eligible for government positions but have been hired as contractors. Two are from AirBnb and one worked for X.com in prior capacities.
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12/26/25
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Source
Website
The National Design Studio launches a new blog named “Dev Index” with an article written about the modernization work at OPM for digitizing retirements that apparently has moved over to the NDS from OPM with Joe Gebbia. The article is written by Yat Choi and Dennis Li and thanks Edward Coristine and Zach Terrell for reviewing the content.
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Carl Coe
Carl Coe has been the leader of the DOGE team embedded within the EPA, where he has kept a remarkably low profile, even as other DOGE staffers like Cole Killian and Kathryn Armstrong Loving showed up in media reports. At the EPA, his primary focus would be on reducing the effectiveness of the agency through eliminating staff and whittling down regulations.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Source
|
| EPA |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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5/02/25
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Source
Official
Carl Coe, the leader of the DOGE team at the EPA, is named as the Chief of Staff at the EPA.
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Open Questions
- Where can I find more info on Carl Coe's tenure at the EPA?
The first information about him appears to be his promotion to Chief of Staff on May 2nd, but the press release mentions he was the leader of the DOGE team at the EPA. How long has he been there? Did he get hired there or was he detailed from somewhere?
Michael Cole
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| USDA |
Sources
USDA
2/10/25-8/XX/25
Senior Team Leader on Government Efficiency
($170,000)
«LinkedIn profile reports August departure»
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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2/20/25
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Source
Official
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 in response to a USDA staffer suggestion to use AI more.
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4/10/25
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Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request from American Oversight, the USDA returns a list of known DOGE members at the agency at the time.
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Miles Collins
Exited govt: 8/XX/25 (self-reported)
Before working for DOGE, Miles Collins worked for a financial firm and also ran a fertility clinic in Los Angeles. This might be his connection to Musk, who has had stridently pro-natalist politics. His focus at the Department of Labor has reportedly been on spending and obligations. Unlike other members of DOGE hired at the DOL – Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi – he does not seem to have been detailed to other agencies, and it’s unclear what he has been doing recently. In April, he was given access to multiple sensitive databases focused on immigrant populations, likely in support of DOGE’s anti-immigrant surveillance project.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOL |
Sources
DOL
2/18/25-8/XX/25
Policy Advisor
(NTE 6/17/25, GS-11/03, $90,239)
«Describes self in LinkedIn as DOGE Lead at the agency and reports AI dereg effort and 20% headcount reduction. States he was there for a 6-month appointment.»
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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PMS
|
Source
A shared-services program provided by HHS for managing payments for grants unknown access (last access 4/03/25) |
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HRConnect
|
Source
HR system for tracking employee information unknown access granted by Deputy Director |
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NCFMS
|
Source
This appears to be a system that is used for tracking spending and procurement at the Department of Labor unknown access (never accessed) granted by Deputy Director |
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DRA
|
Source
A tool for managing access control to systems built on top of ActiveDirectory read access granted by Deputy Director |
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OJC-EIS
|
Source
The Job Corps program helps eligible young people ages 16 through 24 complete their high school education, trains them for meaningful careers, and assists them with obtaining employment. Job Corps has trained and educated over two million individuals since 1964. DOGE may have been initially been interested in this system as part of its fraud investigations, but it could be valuable for surveillance on immigrants. unknown access granted by Deputy Director |
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NFJP
|
Source
System for a nationally-directed, locally-administered program of services for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents unknown access |
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REO
|
Source
System which tracks funding provided for justice-involved youth and young adults and adults who were formerly incarcerated. unknown access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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3/05/25
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Source
Onboard
Business Insider reports Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles B. Collins are new DOGE arrivals at Department of Labor.
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Open Questions
- Was Miles Collins' appointment extended to be past his NTE date of 2025-06-17 and was his pay of $90,239 annual or just for those 6 months or so?
George Cooper
After Anthony Jancso posted his initial recruitment messages for DOGE to a chat group for Palantir alumni, George Cooper chimed in to say he was also recruting for the organization. A Palantir engineer since 2019, it’s unclear if he had any other involvement with DOGE since.
Sam Corcos
Tech Industry Links: Andreessen Horowitz
Sam Corcos is the co-founder of lifestyle business Levels Health (with Casey Means, the nominee for Surgeon General) which sells metabolic tracking devices. It has received funding from Andreessen Horowitz, and that is probably the connection to DOGE. He has been embedded within the IRS since February as was named a CIO at the agency in March, giving him a large amount of power over how the agency allocates its IT resources.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| IRS |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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2/28/25
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Source
Official
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.
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3/XX/25
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Source
Disruption
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 Secretary Scott Bessent that the IRS’ Direct File program for free tax filing should be shut down.
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4/08/25
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Source
Disruption
DOGE engineers kick off a hackathon at IRS with some senior IRS developers and representatives of the company Palantir to create a “Mega API” of IRS data.
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4/10/25
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Source
Disruption
The hackathon to create a “Mega API” at the IRS concludes. DOGE engineers are reportedly confident they will be able to deploy it in 30 days (they do not).
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4/11/25
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Source
Directory
In a legal filing, the government describes the DOGE team at Treasury of consisting of six people, some previously unknown as DOGE associates.
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5/26/25
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Source
Legal
Judge Vargas, ruling in New York v. Donald Trump lifted restrictions on DOGE staff accessing Treasury systems, saying that the government had demonstrated it was following proper procedures.
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6/XX/25
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Source
Report
After several DOGE staffers expressed concerns that he should not have access to government information or continue to direct DOGE staff, Steve Davis reportedly pushes for their firing, calling it an attempted coup. Sam Corcos is named as one DOGE staffer who was given the silent treatment by Davis and allies.
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c.6/05/25
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Source
Disruption
Concerned by Steve Davis’ attempts to stay involved with DOGE despite no longer being employed by the agency and instructions to not interact with him, DOGE staffers Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos, Ryan Shea, and Adam Blake privately questioned Davis about his involvement. They also reportedly contacted DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor about the legality of his continued involvement.
(fuzz: date is not given in article, unclear if at meeting or afterwards)
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6/07/25
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Source
Disruption
Steve Davis removed DOGE staffers that he considered disloyal from shared Signal chats that DOGE had continued to use for coordination. He also used his influence at GSA to have Ryan Shea removed from his position. Other Davis targets – Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos and Adam Blake – were able to remain at their posts but were shut out from DOGE communications
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c.11/15/25
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Source
Disruption
Under the direction of Sam Corcos, the IRS has rolled out coding tests hosted on the site HackerRack to its technical staff to assess their “technical proficiency.” This is likely the precursor to restructuring and layoffs within the agency’s 8500-person IT division. When asked about the purpose of the tests in an all-hands meeting, IRS leadership refused to answer.
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12/16/25
|
Source
Official
Acting in his role as CIO for the Treasury, Sam Corcos approves spending up to $1.5 million on up to 3000 licenses for ChatGPT at the agency, with more than $500,000 already obligated.
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Edward Coristine
Tech Industry Links: Neuralink
Perhaps the most famous of the DOGE wreckers, Edward “Big Balls” Coristine achieved early attention for joining DOGE at the young age of 19. Previously, he had been a camp counselor and a summer intern at Neuralink, who grew up in wealth and joined up with hacking groups online, before eagerly jumping on to the DOGE bandwagon. However, he has also accrued a large number of hits on his wrecking spree across the federal government, starting at the GSA on Day One and then detailing to OPM and a large number of other agencies within a short amount of time; for instance, he appears to have been DOGE’s vanguard within the Department of Homeland Security. Most recently, he has been linked to a team developing an online application for a $5 Million “Gold Card” Visa that has been promoted by Trump as a new revenue stream for the US.
Likely aliases: OPM-04
Positions
Systems
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USA Performance
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System tracking job performance of federal employees unknown access «system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”» |
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CAFS
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The main portal at the SBA for main portal for processing loan applications and servicing loans. read access granted by CIO |
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NFC Insight
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A business intelligence system that is one of the offerings of the National Finance Center, which handles payroll for 650,000 federal employees. read access granted by Deputy Director |
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NFC Reports
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The Reporting Center is a Web-based application page which allows managers, personnel specialists, and other employees of Federal Agencies serviced by NFC to generate Administrative Reports, Financial Reports, and Workforce Reports. read access granted by Deputy Director |
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FEMA-Go
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A system for managing grant program for communities affected by disasters read access |
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Office365
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Microsoft Office 365 is used for agency email and knowledge management systems. admin access |
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CALM
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System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. read access granted by CIO |
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HIGLAS
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A single, integrated dual-entry accounting system that centralizes accounting for CMS programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. read access granted by CIO |
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IDR
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A data warehouse that receives all Medicare claims after they have been approved for payment read access granted by CIO |
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NUMIDENT
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NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody read access granted by CIO «Assuming access around start at SSA. Used access to upload data to cloud.» |
Events
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1/20/25
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Directory
Multiple DOGE staffers start working within GSA in the office of the Administrator with the title Senior Advisor
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1/23/25
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Sighting
A GSA employee reports meeting Kyle Schutt and Ethan Shaotran and also bumping into Edward Coristine. They are described as being giddy and interested and curious and then shifting in tone the following week with DOGE staff “frantically running around trying to do impossible shit with no context and no flexibility and no ability to push back.”
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1/27/25
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Onboard
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.
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1/27/25
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Access
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.
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1/28/25
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Access
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.”
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1/28/25
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Directory
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)
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1/31/25
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Directory
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.
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2/03/25
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Action
Elias Hernandez, the associate administrator for the Office of Veterans Business Development at SBA, emails the director of the National Finance Center (NFC) asking for immediate admin access to the mainframe for “all SBA Personnel Office Identifiers (POIs)”. NFC is a shared service from USDA that handles payroll for roughly 150,000 federal employees across 170 agencies including the SBA.
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2/03/25
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Access
Edward Corisitine and Donald Park are granted access to the SBA’s core financial and loan systems within five hours of the CIO authorizing the request.
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2/03/25
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Action
After being granted access to the National Finance Center for information about staff at SBA, Edward Coristine writes to an associate administrator and chief human capital officer at SBA to ask for the phone number of the CIO for the National Finance Center at USDA.
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2/03/25
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Action
Stephen Kucharski, director of the SBA’s Office of Performance Systems Management, emailed 19 colleagues with an urgent request: “Please help me and my OCIO colleagues as we mobilize to provide Edward Coristine and Donald Park Admin access to all SBA systems. This action has been cleared and we are on a very short time frame.” They were to be granted access to HR and procurement systems. He then follows up with the agency CIO.
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2/03/25
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Access
Within three hours of the request, Edward Coristine and Donald Park are granted “admin authority” to the mainframe and read-only access to the NFC Insight and Reporting Center applications. This gives them the ability to see sensitive information like salary, banking information and even debt for employees at the SBA (and possibly other agencies)
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2/03/25
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Sighting
Email to SBA staff announces that Edward Coristine and Donald Park were granted access to all systems including HR, contract, and payment systems.
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2/10/25
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Sighting
Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor are both listed in the State Department’s directory as Senior Advisors within the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology.
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2/10/25
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Sighting
Edward Coristine appears in an online DHS staff directory with the title of Senior Advisor.
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2/12/25
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Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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2/19/25
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Access
Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt are reportedly given elevated access to CISA systems, including documents and staff emails.
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3/XX/25
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Disruption
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.
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3/04/25
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Directory
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.
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3/05/25
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Access
Multiple DOGE staff (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS). This system tracks all payments made by Medicare, among other expenditures.
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3/05/25
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Access
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
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3/05/25
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Directory
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
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3/13/25
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Directory
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).
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3/20/25
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Directory
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.
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3/28/25
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Access
USCIS CIO William McElhaney sends a message to DHS Deputy Secretary asking them to review access that was granted to DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt, Edward Coristine, Aram Moghaddassi and Payton Rehling.
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3/29/25
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Directory
In response to a discovery request made in AFL-CIO vs. DOL, the government provides an incomplete list of DOGE staff who have worked at HHS.
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3/29/25
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Legal
In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.
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4/XX/25
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Sighting
A contractor at GSA states that he came across a list of staff at GSA who had not yet completed all of their mandatory security training. This included prominent DOGE staff that had been at the agency for several months like Thomas Shedd, Josh Gruenbaum, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Steve Davis.
(fuzz: only month is given in report)
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4/XX/25
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Disruption
A team of three DOGE staffers – Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Zach Terrell – meet with chief grant management officials at NIH to demand changes in how grants are issued under DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” authority over all grant disbursement.
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4/08/25
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Directory
A partial copy of the GSA’s A-Suite access list includes multiple DOGE personnel who are listed as based in GSA.
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4/11/25
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Directory
Politico profiles a DOGE immigration task force that is located within DHS but has contacts with DOGE staff at other agencies. It includes multiple DOGE staffers detailed from various agencies.
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4/16/25
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Directory
Three DOGE staffers – Marko Elez, Edward Coristine and Joe Gebbia – are reported to be working with staff from DHS, the State Department and USCIS on implementing an application process for a $5 Million “Gold Card” visa. It is unclear what agencies they are working for and how this partnership has been structured.
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5/16/25
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Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
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5/23/25
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Disruption
Reuters reports that DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt and Edward Coristine have attempted to gain access to DHS employee emails in recent months and ordered staff to train AI to identify communications suggesting an employee is not “loyal” to Trump’s political agenda. Given earlier reports, the AI in question is like xAi’s “Grok” AI system.
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5/31/25
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Report
Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor’s roles are both converted into regular positions at the GSA at the GS-15 level, which would mean an annual salary of $167,603 - $195,200 in Washington, DC. This is the maximum level possible for a general government worker, and it often takes years or decades to reach. It would not normally be granted to staff with such limited work experience.
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6/23/25
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Sighting
Edward Coristine is reportedly sighted at the Woodlawn, MD location of the Social Security Administration alongside Aram Moghaddassi. It is later confirmed that he is now working as a Special Government Employee (SGE) for the agency after he had resigned his position at GSA.
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6/23/25
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Offboard
Less than a month after he was officially hired at GSA, Edward Coristine reportedly resigns his position and is removed from the building directory.
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8/11/25
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Action
Expressing concerns that the lax security of DOGE’s cloud could lead to the leak of every American’s social security number (and the requirement ro reissue new ones), the Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration contacts Edward Coristine and John Solly to request information about the security of DOGE’s cloud. He is never granted a reply and learns that the SSA Office of General Counsel (headed by DOGE member Mark Steffensen) has advised employees not to respond to his inquiries.
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11/25/25
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Website
The Department of Energy launches a new “Genesis Mission” to heavily use AI tools for scientific research. The website for this endeavor is created by the National Design Studio and features the classic hallmarks of their work: bold fonts on a black background with animations all on a single page with no navigation and an email signup form. According to Edward Coristine’s twitter account, this page took 3 weeks to make.
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12/26/25
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Website
The National Design Studio launches a new blog named “Dev Index” with an article written about the modernization work at OPM for digitizing retirements that apparently has moved over to the NDS from OPM with Joe Gebbia. The article is written by Yat Choi and Dennis Li and thanks Edward Coristine and Zach Terrell for reviewing the content.
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2/21/26
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Report
In a tweet on his personal account on X, Edward Coristine claims that the source code for freedom.gov will be open-sourced for public review.
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2/23/26
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Directory
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.
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2/27/26
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Official
Posting with the title of Director of Engineering, Edward Coristine publishes a blog post on the National Design Studio website about how NDS is elevating the importance of accessibility in its designs and citing its work on trumprx.gov specifically.
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Open Questions
- Now that Edward Coristine has left the GSA, does that mean that all his detailing agreements have ended? How many of them were still open?
Scott Coulter
Scott Coulter started his work for DOGE as a wrecker based in Social Security and detailed to NASA, but when Mike Russo was abruptly demoted as the CIO for Social Security, Scott stepped up into the role. Recently, however, the New York Times reported that Aram Mohgaddassi and Mike Russo were acting informally as co-CIOs within Social Security, leading to questions if Scott Coulter is still there or if he’s just occupying a figurehead role.
Likely aliases: SSA-02
Positions
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Events
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1/30/25
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Interagency
Leland Dudek reaches out to Tiffany Flick, the Associate Director of Budget, Facilities and Security to inform her that Mike Russo and Scott Coulter would be onboarding for DOGE. He was a mid-level employee at the time who would not normally be coordinating inter-agency details like this.
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2/XX/25
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Interagency
A whistleblower reports attending a meeting with USDS Administrator Amy Gleason, the SSA CIO Scott Coulter and several other DOGE staffers at the agency. The whistleblower reports that Gleason did not contribute to the meeting and was clearly not directing DOGE activities at the agency.
(fuzz: time is just given as February)
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2/17/25
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Interagency
Joshua Fox emails a few NASA administrators to introduce himself as “one of the attorneys at DOGE” and to also inform them “I just spoke to Scott Coulter about this, but I wanted to let you know that he is planning to go over to SSA tomorrow.” He includes several other DOGE leadership personnel in the email chain. It’s unclear from the message who actually made the decision that Scott Coulter would be detailed to the Social Security Administration.
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2/18/25
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Onboard
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.
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2/24/25
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Disruption
The Social Security Administration eliminates an internal team of technologists called the Office of Transformation that was working to modernize SSA processes. Although officially made by Leland Dudek, this direction was given by Scott Coulter.
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2/28/25
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Official
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.
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3/12/25
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Directory
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)”
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3/13/25
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Directory
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/14/25
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Directory
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.
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3/14/25
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Access
ProPublica reports that a DOGE detailee at NASA Scott Coulter has “wide access to internal databases at NASA.”
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4/08/25
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Oversight
A letter from Democrats on the House Committee of Science, Space, and Technology expresses specific concern about the lack of qualifications of DOGE staff at the agency. It explicitly names Scott Coulter, Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour as the DOGE team at the agency.
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4/08/25
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Access
Aram Moghaddassi adds 6300 names of suspected immigrants to the “death master file” as a way of forcing them to “self-deport” by making it impossible to use financial products. This list included the names of 7 minors.
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4/10/25
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Access
102 more names of living people are added to the Master Death File at SSA to destroy their ability to participate in society and to “self-deport” as a result.
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4/10/25
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Disruption
Greg Pearre, a senior career executive overseeing technologists at the SSA, is forced out of his office by security guards after clashing with CIO Scott Coulter and calling his plan to forcibly declare immigrants dead both illegal and cruel
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4/18/25
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Disruption
Some immigrants have been forced to prove they aren’t dead after being added to the Master Death File in an attempt to force them to “self-deport.” The White House had falsely claimed nobody was really declared dead.
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c.6/05/25
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Report
Frank Bisignano is granted permission to remove any DOGE staff at his agency. According to the report, “Bisignano parted ways with one DOGE staffer from SSA, who in June moved to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.” The date and person isn’t named, but the CIO replacement at SSA and NASA connection suggest it’s Scott Coulter who was removed in early June.
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6/28/25
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Disruption
According to a page update on the Federal CIO site, Aram Moghaddassi is named the new CIO of the Social Security Administration, making him the third DOGE-affiliated CIO in a row at the agency. This follows on reports that he had been acting in a co-CIO role with former CIO Mike Russo. He replaces Scott Coulter who was the CIO as recently as late May.
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Clayton Cromer
Exited govt: 7/XX/25 (self-reported)
As one of the legal attack dogs within DOGE, Clayton Cromer was involved with the efforts to shut down USAID, including chasing down an administrator to suspend him for not agreeing to suspend other staff who were accused of subverting the administration’s agenda just by doing their jobs. More recently, he has appeared at the DOJ, where he has been repoortedly badgering US Congressman (and former whistleblower) Vindman about a business that supplied assistance to Ukraine in their war.
Positions
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| OPM |
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| USAID |
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Events
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1/27/25
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Onboard
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.
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1/30/25
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Disruption
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.
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1/31/25
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Interagency
The Department of Energy consults with DOGE staff at OPM about return-to-office mandates. Clayton Cromer handles the exchange from OPM’s side.
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3/11/25
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Disruption
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.
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Ethan Damiano
I don’t have much info on this person yet, but they were named as being a Special Advisor at the SBA, which was a title also assigned to known DOGE member Aram Moghaddassi. His background does seem to be as a field organizer for the Trump campaign, so while he matches the “young, eager, doesn’t ask questions” DOGE demographic, he probably isn’t writing code, especially since he hasn’t been granted the maximum salary and grade like most DOGE operatives.
Positions
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| SBA |
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Events
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5/16/25
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Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
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Steve Davis
Tech Industry Links: Twitter, Boring Co., SpaceX
Exited govt: 5/28/25 (verified)
Reportedly so loyal to Elon Musk that associates have joked he would jump off a cliff if Musk asked him, Steve Davis has long been besides Musk’s side at various companies, serving in senior executive roles at the Boring Company and Twitter. At Twitter, he was reportedly so dedicated to the work that he moved into the offices with his wife, Nicole Hollander, and their small child. And it is also reported that he was once so distressed by setbacks and failures that he started pulling out his own hair. It’s been a thinly-veiled secret that Steve Davis was running the show at DOGE, well before Amy Gleason was publicly named as the administrator. And recent interviews with Sahil Lavingia and other insiders suggested he had continued to fill that role, until he abruptly departed after Elon Musk left.
Despite no longer being in government, Steve Davis has reportedly stayed in contact with DOGE staffers and has directed their actions through back-channel communications. Reportedly, he has even called for the firing of DOGE staffers who expressed concerns about the legality of his continued involvement.
Positions
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resigned from agency 5/28/25
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Events
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12/06/24
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Directory
An article in the NYT identifies Brad Smith as the person effectively running DOGE at Mar-a-Lago during the project’s formation and speculates that DOGE may have an early focus on healthcare for this reason. It also names Steve Davis as a close collaborator.
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12/06/24
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Directory
A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump’s transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago.
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c.12/15/24
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Interagency
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”)
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1/02/25
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Action
Baris Akis introduces Nate Cavanaugh to Steve Davis, so that he can recruit Nate Cavanaugh to work for DOGE. Vinay Hiremath introduced Mr. Akis to Mr. Cavanagh
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1/12/25
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Directory
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
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1/24/25
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Directory
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.
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1/30/25
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Interagency
Elon Musk reportedly visits GSA to meet with staff, several of whom are identified from their appearances in the internal directory for the agency. These include Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Luke Farritor.
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1/31/25
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Directory
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.
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2/05/25
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Official
According to later sworn testimony from Kendall Lindemann, this is the date that Steve Davis was designated as the decision-maker for DOGE as the senior-most political appointee until Amy Gleason is appointed as acting administratior of DOGE on 2025-02-18. Later news reports suggest Steve Davis continued to remain in charge.
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2/10/25
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Disruption
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.
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3/03/25
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Disruption
An unidentified member of the DOGE team at the SSA emailed a password-protected and encrypted file to DHS but also included Steve Davis at DOGE and an unidentified DOGE team member at the Department of Labor (possibly Marko Elez or Aram Moghaddassi who were detailed to SSA from DOL). SSA staff believes it contained sensitive PII of approximately 1000 individuals, but the Chief Information Office has been unable to determine more. Notably, the CIO role for SSA has been held by a rotation of several DOGE staffers since February.
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3/05/25
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Directory
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
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3/12/25
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Interagency
Steve Davis sends an email to the FCC general counsel Adam Candeub introducing him to Tarak Makecha (whom he identifies as the Biz Lead) and Jordan Wick (software engineer). He follows up with Tarak and suggests chatting with him on his personal phone number (instead of an official government phone number).
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c.3/26/25
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Directory
In a later interview, Sahil Lavingia describes attending an “E-meeting” for DOGE that included Elon Musk but was essentially run by Steve Davis as well as two other Musk loyalists, Anthony Armstrong and Baris Akis. Baris Akis is notably not an employee of DOGE, since he is a foreign national and Musk was not granted a waiver to hire him.
(fuzz: date is given as “late March,” assuming a Wednesday bc others reported DOGE meetings during that time)
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3/28/25
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Disruption
Reports emerge that DOGE is planning to rewrite the entire COBOL codebase for Social Security to Java in months using generative AI
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4/XX/25
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Sighting
A contractor at GSA states that he came across a list of staff at GSA who had not yet completed all of their mandatory security training. This included prominent DOGE staff that had been at the agency for several months like Thomas Shedd, Josh Gruenbaum, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Steve Davis.
(fuzz: only month is given in report)
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4/08/25
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Directory
A partial copy of the GSA’s A-Suite access list includes multiple DOGE personnel who are listed as based in GSA.
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4/13/25
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Interagency
Adam Martinez responds in the affirmative to an email (contents redacted in court filings) requesting items/access for unspecified people to conduct the RIF. Several DOGE staffers (Ashley Boizelle and Steve Davis as well as Gavin Kliger and Jeremy Lewin) are also cc’ed on the message
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5/22/25
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Interagency
Elon Musk joins a late-night meeting with senior members of the DOGE leadership team. Katie Miller delivered a blunt message that DOGE was on thin ice with the White House. She also reportedly advised that DOGE should strive to collaborate with Cabinet secretaries more instead of pushiing cuts or projects on them that they didn’t want to do.
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5/29/25
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Source
Offboard
In the wake of Elon Musk’s departure, Steve Davis, Katie Miller and James Burnham reportedly also left DOGE. Davis had been widely described as running the day-to-day operations of DOGE, and it’s unclear who will take that over.
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5/31/25
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Source
Offboard
After smiling with Trump at a press conference at the White House, Elon Musk convened DOGE staff for a private farewell at his office in the Old Executive Office Building. He reportedly urged DOGE to rethink its methods and that the next iteration of DOGE should be decentralized and work more collaboratively with agency leadership. Steve Davis joined in by telephone and stated that he did not intend to go anywhere, which many interpreted to mean that he would be hired into a new role.
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6/XX/25
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Source
Report
After several DOGE staffers expressed concerns that he should not have access to government information or continue to direct DOGE staff, Steve Davis reportedly pushes for their firing, calling it an attempted coup. Sam Corcos is named as one DOGE staffer who was given the silent treatment by Davis and allies.
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6/03/25
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Source
Interagency
Steve Davis walked into DOGE’s weekly meeting at the GSA, asserting he was still in charge even though he was no longer a government employee. The acting director of the GSA, Stephen Ehikian, reportedly responded “Steve Davis remains in charge until he says he’s not” to DOGE members confused by this turn of events.
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c.6/05/25
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Source
Disruption
Concerned by people questioning his continued authority, Steve Davis reportedly taps Anthony Armstrong, Josh Gruenbaum and Stephen Ehikian to assess the loyalty of DOGE staffers and assert they are the leadership of DOGE now, acting under the authority of JD Vance and Susie Wiles in the White House. This is a bluff, and staffers in the White House counter that their authority is only within GSA itself.
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c.6/05/25
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Source
Disruption
Concerned by Steve Davis’ attempts to stay involved with DOGE despite no longer being employed by the agency and instructions to not interact with him, DOGE staffers Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos, Ryan Shea, and Adam Blake privately questioned Davis about his involvement. They also reportedly contacted DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor about the legality of his continued involvement.
(fuzz: date is not given in article, unclear if at meeting or afterwards)
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6/05/25
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Source
Action
Despite having left DOGE a week prior, Steve Davis reportedly holds a meeting with DOGE staff hosted on the sixth floor of the GSA headquarters. At the meeting, he reportedly proposes a “DOGE 2.0” which would be more collaborative with agency heads.
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6/07/25
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Source
Disruption
Steve Davis removed DOGE staffers that he considered disloyal from shared Signal chats that DOGE had continued to use for coordination. He also used his influence at GSA to have Ryan Shea removed from his position. Other Davis targets – Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos and Adam Blake – were able to remain at their posts but were shut out from DOGE communications
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6/10/25
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Source
Report
Despite having left government service, Elon Musk, Steve Davis and Katie Miller reportedly tell top DOGE staff at a meeting that Musk continues to back their work and they should continue to stay the course.
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7/08/25
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Source
Report
The Wall Street Journal reports that Steve Davis continues to exert control over DOGE via informal communications, despite having departed the agency after Musk left.
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8/13/25
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Source
Interagency
In a call hosted by the US CIO, DOGE team lead Scott Langmack shares info on an AI tool named SweetREX Deregulation AI Plan Builder developed by Christoper Sweet to review agency regulations for elimination. This is the same tool highlighted by DOGE in a presentation to the White House earlier in the month. Agency representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of State, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are on the call. Steve Davis also was on the call despite having left DOGE and asked if the tool could be open-sourced.
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11/22/25
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Source
Report
Many current and former members of DOGE reportedly hold a reunion in Austin, Texas where Elon Musk and Steve Davis are expected to attend and it’s likely there will be discussions on the future of DOGE.
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Stephen Duarte
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Exited govt: 3/05/25 (guessed)
Like three other new DOGE staffers who started early t OPM, Stephen Duarte was previously a HR specialist at SpaceX. He reportedly has worked closely with Brian Bjelde.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
OPM
2/03/25-3/05/25
Expert
(ED-00, excepted, volunteer)
«Likely 1 of 3 unidentified OPM aliases who started in Feb and left in March 2025»
resigned from agency 3/05/25
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/03/25
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Source
Onboard
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.
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2/12/25
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Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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Leland Dudek
Exited govt: 6/XX/25 (reported)
DOGE is only able to subvert agencies when it has the explicit cooperation and support of senior leadership there. Nobody better exemplifies than Leland Dudek, who was a relatively minor supervisor within Social Security before he was placed on leave for insubordination by giving DOGE access without authorization. Soon, he was rewarded for his defiance by being named Acting Commissioner for the agency after the Trump administration fired the existing commissioner.
With the appointment of Steve Bisignano to the role of Commissioner, Leland Dudek has stepped aside out of the limelight and was dismissed by SSA in June. In a recent interview with ProPublica, Dudek has stated that some of his apparent blustering and stumbling in the role were deliberate to wake up people to what was happening, and that he often was the leaked source for articles critical of himself and DOGE.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SSA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
c.12/15/24
|
Source
Interagency
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”)
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1/30/25
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Source
Interagency
Leland Dudek reaches out to Tiffany Flick, the Associate Director of Budget, Facilities and Security to inform her that Mike Russo and Scott Coulter would be onboarding for DOGE. He was a mid-level employee at the time who would not normally be coordinating inter-agency details like this.
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2/10/25
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Source
Report
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.
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2/10/25
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Source
Sighting
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.
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2/14/25
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Source
Official
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.
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2/16/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/19/25
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Source
Official
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.
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2/20/25
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Source
Directory
Several DOGE staffers working at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group).
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2/24/25
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Sources
Disruption
The Social Security Administration eliminates an internal team of technologists called the Office of Transformation that was working to modernize SSA processes. Although officially made by Leland Dudek, this direction was given by Scott Coulter.
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2/27/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/28/25
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Source
Official
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.
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3/04/25
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Source
Sighting
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.
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3/20/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/26/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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3/27/25
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Source
Access
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 granted through the SSA’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He asserts that DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.
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4/01/25
|
Source
Disruption
Alarmed at the viral spread of DOGE’s false claim that 40% of all calls to Social Security are fraud, agency staff at SSA draft a public statement to correct the errors in the claim. They are specifically ordered by Katie Miller not to release it. She asserts “the number is 40 percent.”
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4/07/25
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Source
Interagency
After some qualms about its legality, Leland Dudek signs two memos authorizing sharing data from the Social Security Administration that would allow DHS and ICE to locate immigrants who had been paying taxes to Social Security (despite not being able to collect it).
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|
4/12/25?
|
Source
Access
The Social Security Administration shares sensitive information on 100,000 people with DHS, including their addresses, social security numbers, birth and death dates and bank information. Leland Dudek reports this request was made via a phone call late on a Saturday night with the justification that it was needed for a criminal investigation.
(fuzz: Date isn’t given, assuming this is after Leland Dudek signed data sharing agreement, but it’s possible agreement was retroactive cover)
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|
5/06/25
|
Source
Official
Frank Bisignano is confirmed by the Senate to be the new Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, replacing Leland Dudek who was serving as the acting commissioner.
|
Stephen Ehikian
Exited govt: 9/03/25 (reported)
Stephen Ehikian is an executive from Silicon Valley, like so many of the DOGE leaders. His specific background involves stints at Salesforce and an AI-related startup. Since starting at GSA, he has been a prime supporter of DOGE’s various efforts both within the agency (staffing up a team of wreckers, cancelling building leases) as well as ways in which GSA’s central role can affect the wider government (canceling purchase cards, controlling shared services). He also has been a vocal booster to roll out an AI-based tool named GSAi to the whole workforce, despite it demonstrating lackluster results in pilot tests.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/20/25
|
Source
Onboard
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.
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|
1/30/25
|
Source
Interagency
Elon Musk reportedly visits GSA to meet with staff, several of whom are identified from their appearances in the internal directory for the agency. These include Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Luke Farritor.
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|
3/20/25
|
Source
Report
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.
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3/25/25
|
Source
Interagency
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.
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4/08/25
|
Source
Directory
A partial copy of the GSA’s A-Suite access list includes multiple DOGE personnel who are listed as based in GSA.
|
|
6/03/25
|
Source
Interagency
Steve Davis walked into DOGE’s weekly meeting at the GSA, asserting he was still in charge even though he was no longer a government employee. The acting director of the GSA, Stephen Ehikian, reportedly responded “Steve Davis remains in charge until he says he’s not” to DOGE members confused by this turn of events.
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|
c.6/05/25
|
Source
Disruption
Concerned by people questioning his continued authority, Steve Davis reportedly taps Anthony Armstrong, Josh Gruenbaum and Stephen Ehikian to assess the loyalty of DOGE staffers and assert they are the leadership of DOGE now, acting under the authority of JD Vance and Susie Wiles in the White House. This is a bluff, and staffers in the White House counter that their authority is only within GSA itself.
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|
6/05/25
|
Source
Action
Despite having left DOGE a week prior, Steve Davis reportedly holds a meeting with DOGE staff hosted on the sixth floor of the GSA headquarters. At the meeting, he reportedly proposes a “DOGE 2.0” which would be more collaborative with agency heads.
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|
7/21/25
|
Source
Offboard
In a move that is seen as reprisal for GSA leadership’s support of Steve Davis attempt to continue running DOGE after he left, the Trump White House names Mike Rigas as the new acting administrator of GSA. This demotes Stephen Ehikian to his role as Deputy Administrator of GSA only.
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7/31/25
|
Source
Report
After removing Stephen Ehikian as the acting director of GSA, the White House has reportedly detailed nine other staffers to the agency to speed a “de-Muskification” of the agency. This is possibly also related to the GSA supporting Steve Davis over the White House in his attempt to keep running DOGE even after he had left. Josh Gruenbaum is named as being in their good graces still.
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9/03/25
|
Source
Offboard
Stephen Ehikian sends an email to GSA staff announcing that he is “transitioning out” of the Deputy Administrator role after an AI startup announces that he is its new CEO. It’s unclear when his actual last date at the agency will be or how he can be working for a private entity and the GSA during this transition.
|
Marko Elez
Tech Industry Links: Twitter, SpaceX
Marko Elez first appeared as the only DOGE member who was authorized to access confidential systems at the Bureau of Fiscal Services within the Treasury Department, a development which was swiftly blocked for a while by lawsuits. During that time, he also became the only DOGE member to resign his position, when various past racist tweets of his were discovered by the Wall Street Journal. He was quickly reinstated by Elon Musk with the support of J.D. Vance, who saw nothing wrong with his speech; indeed, since then DOGE has added several other members linked to racist and extremist content online. Upon rejoning DOGE, Marko Elez was placed with Aram Moghaddassi on a team inside of the Department of Labor, and the two are frequently sent on reimburable details to other agencies like SSA or DHS.
Likely aliases: SSA-07
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| Treas. |
Sources
Treas.
1/21/25-2/06/25
Special Advisor (IT&M)
(NTE 5/25/25, GS-11/01, $84,601 (for 4 months))
«Abruptly resigned when past racist tweets were reported. I think the pay here is to the NTE date, since his later detail to SSA from DOL is reimbursed at $71k a quarter»
resigned from agency 2/06/25
|
| DOGE |
Source
DOGE
2/10/25
«Listed as Volunteer Employee. This seems like it was a way to keep Elez with access after resigned from Treasury but before starting at DOL»
|
| DOL |
Source
|
| SSA |
Sources
|
| HHS |
Source
|
| DHS |
Source
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
ASAP
|
Source
A payment system that allows recipients to draw down funds from an established bank account for that recipient. source-code access |
|
PAM DB
|
Source
The U.S. government uses the Payment Automation Manager (PAM) to pay all bills, except payments in foreign currency. PAM processed over 1.2 billion payments in FY 2024, valued at over 4.7 trillion dollars. source-code access granted by Deputy Director |
|
SPS
|
Source
Used by federal government agencies to securely create, certify, and submit payments to the Fiscal Service. source-code access granted by Deputy Director |
|
PAM DB
|
Source
The U.S. government uses the Payment Automation Manager (PAM) to pay all bills, except payments in foreign currency. PAM processed over 1.2 billion payments in FY 2024, valued at over 4.7 trillion dollars. read-write access (last access 2/05/25) |
|
PAM FS
|
Source
Where payment files are transmitted from initiating agencies before they are certified and processed by Treasury read access (last access 2/05/25) |
|
SPS
|
Source
Used by federal government agencies to securely create, certify, and submit payments to the Fiscal Service. read-write access (last access 2/05/25) granted by Deputy Director |
|
DRA
|
Source
A tool for managing access control to systems built on top of ActiveDirectory read access (never accessed) granted by Deputy Director |
|
ePACS
|
Source
Used to control physical access to the DOL HQ and several other buildings. Could track when employees enter and leave read access granted by Deputy Director |
|
USAccess
|
Source
Shared service access provider system read access granted by Deputy Director |
|
CALM
|
Source
System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. read access granted by CIO |
|
HIGLAS
|
Source
A single, integrated dual-entry accounting system that centralizes accounting for CMS programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. read access granted by CIO |
|
IDR
|
Source
A data warehouse that receives all Medicare claims after they have been approved for payment read access granted by CIO |
|
NDNH
|
Source
A system for tracking wages and new hires that’s used for child support location read access granted by CTO |
|
SAVE
|
Source
An online service for agencies to verify immigration status and naturalized/acquired U.S. citizenship of applicants seeking benefits or licenses. unknown access |
|
MBR
|
Source
A large record of all individuals elgible to receive social security benefits read access granted by CIO Mike Russo |
|
NUMIDENT
|
Source
NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody read access granted by CIO Mike Russo |
|
SSR
|
Source
A master record used by the SSA for the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program read access granted by CIO Mike Russo |
|
UI Data
|
Source
Unemployment insurance claims data from states’ unemployment insurance agencies. This was explicitly transferred from the Inspector General’s office at DOL following a 2025-03-20 executive order read access granted by CIO Thomas Shedd |
|
REO
|
Source
System which tracks funding provided for justice-involved youth and young adults and adults who were formerly incarcerated. unknown access |
|
ECAS
|
Source
A system used by DOJ for tracking the status of immigration cases unknown access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/28/25
|
Source
Access
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.”
|
|
2/11/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
2/18/25
|
Source
Onboard
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.
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|
2/20/25
|
Source
Directory
Several DOGE staffers working at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group).
|
|
2/20/25
|
Source
Onboard
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.
|
|
3/03/25
|
Source
Disruption
An unidentified member of the DOGE team at the SSA emailed a password-protected and encrypted file to DHS but also included Steve Davis at DOGE and an unidentified DOGE team member at the Department of Labor (possibly Marko Elez or Aram Moghaddassi who were detailed to SSA from DOL). SSA staff believes it contained sensitive PII of approximately 1000 individuals, but the Chief Information Office has been unable to determine more. Notably, the CIO role for SSA has been held by a rotation of several DOGE staffers since February.
|
|
3/05/25
|
Source
Access
Multiple DOGE staff (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS). This system tracks all payments made by Medicare, among other expenditures.
|
|
3/05/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
3/05/25
|
Source
Access
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
|
|
3/05/25
|
Source
Directory
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
|
|
3/05/25
|
Source
Onboard
Business Insider reports Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles B. Collins are new DOGE arrivals at Department of Labor.
|
|
3/12/25
|
Source
Directory
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)”
|
|
3/13/25
|
Source
Directory
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
|
|
3/13/25
|
Source
Directory
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).
|
|
3/19/25
|
Source
Report
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.
|
|
3/29/25
|
Source
Directory
In response to a discovery request made in AFL-CIO vs. DOL, the government provides an incomplete list of DOGE staff who have worked at HHS.
|
|
3/29/25
|
Source
Legal
In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.
|
|
4/11/25
|
Source
Directory
Politico profiles a DOGE immigration task force that is located within DHS but has contacts with DOGE staff at other agencies. It includes multiple DOGE staffers detailed from various agencies.
|
|
4/16/25
|
Source
Directory
Three DOGE staffers – Marko Elez, Edward Coristine and Joe Gebbia – are reported to be working with staff from DHS, the State Department and USCIS on implementing an application process for a $5 Million “Gold Card” visa. It is unclear what agencies they are working for and how this partnership has been structured.
|
Open Questions
- Was Marko Elez' appointment extended to be past his NTE date of 2025-06-11 and was his pay of $84,601 annual or just for those 6 months or so?
- How did DOGE staff from Treasury share their data with the DOGE staff at SSA?
The NYT reports that DOGE staff at Treasury found what it thought were fraudulent payouts from SSA and shared them with DOGE staff at SSA on 2/10. How did they do this? Treasury testified Marko Elez was the only DOGE person with access and his laptop was secured against data removal. And Elez resigned on 2/7 so he couldn’t have taken his laptop over there. So, how did the data get there?
Bee Elvy
Tech Industry Links: Twitter
According to ProPublica, he has been hired at GSA to work on a website promoting use of AI within the government
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
8/14/25
|
Source
Website
GSA launches a new website usai.gov to promote new partnerships between the agency and three different AI companies. The goal is to make it easier for agencies to embed AI internally. The site features large bold fonts, big images and an email contact form, and it also is 4 pages in total. This is the project that Bee Elvy and Alison Childs were reportedly working on.
|
Charles Ezell
Exited govt: 10/XX/25 (self-reported)
Before the Trump inauguration, Charles Ezell’s title was Branch Chief for OPM’s Data & Analytics division located in Macon, GA. Through circumstances currently unknown, he was named the new Acting Director for the agency on January 20th. Since then, he has used his position to be the quintessential enabler, providing cover (and sometimes firepower) to ensure the DOGE is able to get its way within the agency. Ths included such work as immediately replacing the CIO with Greg Hogan or issuing directives asking for data on probationary workers or other data calls with ridiculously tight deadlines. At some times, even Ezell seemed like he was caught flat-footed by DOGE’s plans, including the confusing rollouts for the “Fork in the Road” or the “Five Things” emails. He also has wildly overstated the control that OPM has over federal hiring and firing.
He certainly has done the most work for DOGE of any acting administrator. Perhaps this is why he was still in the role months later, with nominee Scott Kupor not being confirmed by the Senate until July 9th.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
website
|
Source
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» |
|
STAMP
|
Source
This is a system at OPM that I do not have information about yet unknown access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/20/25
|
Source
Access
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.
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1/20/25
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Source
Disruption
Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell replaces existing CIO Melvin Brown with DOGE ally Greg Hogan, who will serve as the Acting CIO.
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1/27/25
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Source
Access
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.
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1/31/25
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Source
Disruption
Federal employees at OPM report they are locked out of access to key systems by DOGE and OPM leadership.
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2/12/25
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Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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3/24/25
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Source
Legal
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.
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7/09/25
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Source
Onboard
Scott Kupor is confirmed by the Senate to be the new Director of OPM, replacing Charles Ezell who had been serving in an acting capacity since January 20th.
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Carter Farmer
A former director of IT Systems and Solutions at the USIP, he apparently joined up with DOGE after they took over and destroyed that agency. Since then, he has been named the new CIO of the Environmental Protection Agency, presumably providing access and support for DOGE teams within the agency.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| EPA |
Source
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Luke Farritor
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Although he doesn’t have the same brash presence as his collegues Edward Coristine or Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor has proven to be one of the most ruthless operatives among the DOGE wreckers. From the start, he has been dispatched to multiple agencies from the GSA with the sole purpose of seizing control of their spending mechanisms (through grants or direct expenditures). At HHS, he has admin control of Grants.gov, which is used by 18 agencies to issue grants. And, at USAID, he worked with Gavin Kliger to completely lock out agency staff from being able to disburse funds, freezing millions in grants and making him directly responsible for likely hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Source
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| HHS |
Sources
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| DOGE |
Source
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| USAID |
Source
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| DOE | |
| CFPB |
Source
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| State |
Source
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| NSF |
Source
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| DOL |
Source
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| DHS |
Source
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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PMS
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Source
A shared-services program provided by HHS for managing payments for grants admin access granted by CTO |
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Grant Solutions
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Source
A shared-service provider tool for federal agencies to track grants across their entire lifecycles read access granted by Deputy Director |
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eRA
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Source
FIXME read access granted by CIO |
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HCAS
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Source
This appears to be a system used at HHS for tracking acquisition and procurement efforts across the agency. admin access granted by Deputy Director |
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ICE
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Source
A system for tracking contracts at CDC read access granted by CIO |
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HIGLAS
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Source
A single, integrated dual-entry accounting system that centralizes accounting for CMS programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. read access granted by CIO |
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CALM
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Source
System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. read access granted by CIO |
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APEX
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Source
A relatively new (~2022) system for tracking procurement at the CDC read access granted by CIO |
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Office365
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Microsoft Office 365 is used for agency email and knowledge management systems. unknown access |
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AD
|
Source
A system for controlling access to other systems within an agency unknown access granted by CIO |
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Microsoft Entra ID
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Source
A centralized identity provider used to support single-sign-on (SSO) and centralize access control for agencies. admin access granted by CIO |
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IDR
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Source
A data warehouse that receives all Medicare claims after they have been approved for payment read access granted by CIO |
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EHCM
|
Source
This system is used at HHS for managing all aspects of human-capital related tasks, including staffing notes and performance plans. admin access granted by ISSO |
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EBS
|
Source
Oracle E-Business Suite is a comprehensive suite of applications for finance, order management, logistics, procurement, projects, manufacturing, asset lifecycle, and human capital management. read access granted by CIO |
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PRISM
|
Source
System for tracking procurement and contracting read access granted by CIO |
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Grants.gov
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Source
A system run and administered by HHS that is used at 18+ agencies for publishing grants, finding recipients and delivering funds admin access granted by Deputy Director «The govt reported he had blocked all access a week earlier, so I doubt it» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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12/05/24
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Source
Sighting
Luke Farritor posts a recruitment message for DOGE in a Discord server for SpaceX interns stating that he is looking for volunteers to work at DOGE for 6 months.
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1/20/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staffers start working within GSA in the office of the Administrator with the title Senior Advisor
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1/27/25
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Source
Onboard
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.
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1/27/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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1/30/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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1/30/25
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Source
Access
Luke Farritor is granted read-only access to the CDC’s Integrated Contract Expert (ICE) system for contracts.
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1/30/25
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Source
Report
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.
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1/30/25
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Source
Interagency
Elon Musk reportedly visits GSA to meet with staff, several of whom are identified from their appearances in the internal directory for the agency. These include Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Luke Farritor.
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1/31/25
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Source
Access
Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) which centralizes payments for CMS medical claims
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2/03/25
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Source
Access
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.
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2/04/25
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Source
Access
Luke Farritor is given read access to the CDC’s Acquisition Performance and Execution (APEX) system that tracks procurements at the CDC.
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2/06/25
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Source
Onboard
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.
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2/07/25
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Source
Sighting
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)
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2/09/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/10/25
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Source
Sighting
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.
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2/10/25
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Source
Sighting
Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor are both listed in the State Department’s directory as Senior Advisors within the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology.
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2/24/25
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Source
Access
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
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2/24/25
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Source
Directory
Four DOGE staffers are indentified with email addresses linked to NIH. These are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin and Clark Minor.
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3/04/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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3/04/25
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Source
Offboard
Luke Farritor officially offboards from the CFPB and all of his system access is revoked. The reason given is that his detail had ended.
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3/05/25
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Source
Access
Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims.
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3/05/25
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Source
Directory
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
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3/13/25
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Source
Directory
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/13/25
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Source
Directory
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).
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3/20/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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3/29/25
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Source
Directory
In response to a discovery request made in AFL-CIO vs. DOL, the government provides an incomplete list of DOGE staff who have worked at HHS.
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3/29/25
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Source
Legal
In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.
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4/XX/25
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Source
Sighting
A contractor at GSA states that he came across a list of staff at GSA who had not yet completed all of their mandatory security training. This included prominent DOGE staff that had been at the agency for several months like Thomas Shedd, Josh Gruenbaum, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Steve Davis.
(fuzz: only month is given in report)
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4/XX/25
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Source
Disruption
A team of three DOGE staffers – Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Zach Terrell – meet with chief grant management officials at NIH to demand changes in how grants are issued under DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” authority over all grant disbursement.
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4/08/25
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Source
Directory
A partial copy of the GSA’s A-Suite access list includes multiple DOGE personnel who are listed as based in GSA.
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4/11/25
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Source
Disruption
Luke Farritor uses his admin access to lock out all government officials at multiple agencies from using grants.gov to issue new grants. Instead, all grants must now be sent to a new email address which will be reviewed by DOGE staffers before grants can be posted.
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4/12/25
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Source
Official
Jeremy Lewin emails CFPB leadership asking for full global admininstrative access for Entra and HRConnect to be restored for the DOGE engineers Gavin Kliger and Jordan Wick. Weirdly, this list includes Luke Farritor who offboarded at CFPB on 2025-03-04. This request is denied by the agency CIO.
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4/14/25
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Source
Sighting
Three unidentified DOGE staffers show up at NSF headquarters, forcing all approved grants to go through a “secondary review.” They were later identified as Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley and Zach Terrell.
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4/22/25
|
Source
Directory
Three DOGE staffers are now at the National Science Foundation reviewing grants. Luke Farritor has a “Budget, Finance, and Administration” clearance, which a source said allows him to view and modify the agency’s funding opportunity system.
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|
4/28/25
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Source
Access
Luke Farritor and Adam Ramada reportedly have had accounts for several weeks on systems and networks that handle classified material about nuclear weapons. This contradicts agency reports they had departed the agency within a few days of arrival.
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5/01/25
|
Source
Interagency
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a “connect” with OMB about the National Science Foundation
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5/09/25
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Source
Action
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a Microsoft Teams meeting with Thomas Shedd (the acting CIO and fellow GSA employee) as well as another DOL staffer to discuss grants to the agency.
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5/19/25
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Source
Interagency
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a quick sync with a finance department deputy at the agency and a DOGE liasion.
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5/27/25
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Source
Interagency
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a meeting with a representative from the Department of Justice and another from the FBI.
(fuzz: It’s unclear what agency Farritor is representing here, but assuming it’s DOL since other events were there.)
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5/31/25
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Source
Report
Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor’s roles are both converted into regular positions at the GSA at the GS-15 level, which would mean an annual salary of $167,603 - $195,200 in Washington, DC. This is the maximum level possible for a general government worker, and it often takes years or decades to reach. It would not normally be granted to staff with such limited work experience.
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6/26/25
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Source
Official
In an email to agency partners, the operators of grants.gov declare that the revised mechanism added in April that routed all Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) through a DOGE email address has been reversed. Instead, agencies are to return to using the tool like that did previously. This doesn’t necessarily mean that DOGE or political appointees will not be reviewing grants, but they have no longer locked other users out of the system.
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7/21/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
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Conor Fennessy
There aren’t many public details about Conor Fennessy, except that he apparently has a background in finance. Whatever his story, he joined up early with DOGE, starting as a part-time consultant at the Department of Education before heading over to HHS and then the Department of the Interior. His main specialization seems to be reviewing grants for cancellation if they match certain verboten topics like climate change or “DEI.”
Likely aliases: ED-02
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| Ed. |
Source
|
| HHS |
Sources
|
| DOI |
Source
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| USDA |
Source
|
| SBA |
Source
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
CALM
|
Source
System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. read access granted by CIO «revoked earlier» |
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Grant Solutions
|
Source
A shared-service provider tool for federal agencies to track grants across their entire lifecycles read access granted by Deputy Director |
|
Grants.gov
|
Source
A system run and administered by HHS that is used at 18+ agencies for publishing grants, finding recipients and delivering funds read access granted by Deputy Director |
|
HCAS
|
Source
This appears to be a system used at HHS for tracking acquisition and procurement efforts across the agency. read access granted by Deputy Director |
|
EBS
|
Source
Oracle E-Business Suite is a comprehensive suite of applications for finance, order management, logistics, procurement, projects, manufacturing, asset lifecycle, and human capital management. read access granted by CIO |
|
PRISM
|
Source
System for tracking procurement and contracting read access granted by CIO |
|
FBIS
|
Source
A system for tracking business operations at HHS read access granted by Deputy Director «revoke date likely earlier» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/17/25
|
Source
Sighting
The public calendar of Riley Sennott mentions a 30-minute “SGE Ethics Discussion” meeting with other new DOGE members Derek Geissler, Brooks Morgan and Conor Fennessy included on the invitation. SGE stands for Special Government Employee.
|
|
2/03/25
|
Source
Access
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.
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|
c.2/04/25
|
Source
Disruption
The head of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) meets with multiple DOGE personnel with her main point of contact being Conor Fennessy. She describes the interactions with DOGE as chaotic and unclear, with many of their requests being filtered down thorugh multiple layers of leadership.
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3/29/25
|
Source
Directory
In a court declaration in AFL-CIO vs. DOL, counsel for the plaintiffs Alexa Milton provides the names of two DOGE staffers at HHS who were not included in the government’s list of staffers provided as part of legal discovery.
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5/07/25
|
Source
Disruption
A spreadsheet created by Conor Fennessy outlines a reported $26 million in grant reductions for programs in the National Parks, including those identified as “DEI” or studying climate change. It also axes a popular Scientists in Parks program, that provides educational opportunities for early-career scientists and students. A $400K project to make a park accessible for children with disabilities was also targeted because it was “DEI.”
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5/16/25
|
Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
|
Joshua Fox
Exited govt: 9/13/25 (verified)
Apart from his appearance on a leaked list of DOGE’s lawyers, there isn’t much public information about Joshua Fox. In November, ProPublica added him to their list of DOGE staffers and linked him to several agencies but reported he transitioned to a General Counsel role in the White House in June
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
|
| NOAA |
Source
|
| MCC |
Source
|
| USDA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/17/25
|
Source
Interagency
Joshua Fox emails a few NASA administrators to introduce himself as “one of the attorneys at DOGE” and to also inform them “I just spoke to Scott Coulter about this, but I wanted to let you know that he is planning to go over to SSA tomorrow.” He includes several other DOGE leadership personnel in the email chain. It’s unclear from the message who actually made the decision that Scott Coulter would be detailed to the Social Security Administration.
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|
3/05/25
|
Source
Directory
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
|
|
3/13/25
|
Source
Interagency
Tarak Makecha, Joshua Fox, and Jacob Altik communicate with FCC staff about detailing arrangements from the OPM to the FCC (presumably for Tarak and Jacob)
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3/17/25
|
Source
Interagency
In a redacted email about onboarding Jordan Wick, Joshua Fox sends an email to other FCC staff introducing Kendall Lindemann as DOGE’s “onboarding/HR/personnel expert.”
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|
3/26/25
|
Source
Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
|
Justin Fox
Tech Industry Links: Special
Exited govt: c.9/15/25 (verified)
Joining GSA as a wrecker in mid-February, Justin Fox has mainly served as Nate Cavanaugh’s sidekick for the destruction of several small independent federal agencies. Prior to his career as a visigoth, he worked as an analyst at several different investment firms. He was all friends in college with fellow wrecker Marshall Wood. Since October 1, 2025, he has been the co-founder of a tech company named Special with Nate Cavanaugh.
Positions
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
Microsoft Entra ID
|
Source
A centralized identity provider used to support single-sign-on (SSO) and centralize access control for agencies. admin access «inferred because he sent emails from what looks like a global admin account for Entra» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
c.1/21/25
|
Source
Interagency
Justin Fox reports that connected with him before he started work at DOGE. Besides Armstrong, Justin Fox was also communicating with other DOGE members via Signal both in group chats and individually. This appears to be a violation of government records laws for those other staffers who were already working in the federal government.
(fuzz: Exact date not given, but he testifies that Anthony Armstrong reached out just after inauguration)
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|
3/12/25
|
Sources
Disruption
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 and arrive at the agency.
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c.3/30/25
|
Source
Disruption
Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox gain access to the system at NEH for approving and administering grants. Justin Fox proceeds to look for grant descriptions containing words like “black,” “LGBTQ,” “Jew,” “Native,” and “immigrant” to eliminate for promoting DEI. He organized grants into a “Craziest Grants” and “Other Bad Grants” list, presumably for DOGE or the administration to use for promotional purposes. He also started asking ChatGPT to answer yes or no if individual grants “relate at all to DEI” and using that to mark grants for deletion without any further review.
(fuzz: date only given as a few days prior to termination)
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3/31/25
|
Source
Sighting
DOGE staff reportedly visit the Wilson Center for Scholars headquarters. In other reporting, the New York Times had identified Justin Fox as part of this delegation.
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|
3/31/25
|
Source
Disruption
Justin Fox sends a letter to the acting head of the NEH, Michael McDonald, expressing frustration that the agency is not moving quickly enough to terminate grants. In his letter, he writes “We’re getting pressure from the top on this and we’d prefer that you remain on our side but let us know if you’re no longer interested.”
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4/01/25
|
Source
Disruption
NEH staff members are informed that DOGE is seeking a 70-80% reduction in staff and a cancellation of any grants made under the Biden administration that were not already fully disbursed.
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4/01/25
|
Source
Disruption
In a response to Justin Fox asking about cuts, NEH Chairman Michael McDonald advocates for not cutting some proposed grants, but notes: “But you have also told us that in addition to canceling projects because they may promote DEI ideology, the DOGE Team also wishes to cancel funding to assist deficit reduction. Either way, as you’ve made clear, it’s your decision on whether to discontinue funding any of the projects on this list.”
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4/02/25
|
Source
Disruption
Approximately 1500 grantees receive grant cancellation emails sent from a nonstandard email address and bypassing the normal grant review process. The domain for the email address Grant_Notifications@nehemail.onmicrosoft.com suggests it was sent from a global admin account for Microsoft Entra, an access-control system used at the agency. The Acting Director of the NEH seems unaware of the messages. The content of the message cites an incorrect executive order as its justification, suggesting it was copied from an earlier email that was sent to IAF and USADF grantees after their DOGE takeover.
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4/03/25
|
Source
Disruption
145 NEH staff members (approximately 80% of workforce) are abruptly placed on administrative leave and locked out of system access. The remaining employees are pressured by Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox to formally conduct a Reduction-in-Force (RIF) as quickly as possible
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c.4/07/25
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Source
Sighting
Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox begin holding a series of meetings with MCC leadership. Following the DOGE pattern for small independent agencies, this process eventually culminates in termination of all grants and mass layoffs.
(fuzz: exact date not given, just in “last two weeks”)
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4/16/25
|
Source
Sighting
Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh are reportedly detailed from the GSA to work at the NLRB over the next few months.
|
|
4/22/25
|
Source
Report
Staff at the Millennium Challenge Corporation are informed that DOGE has directed the termination of all grants and the reduction of the staff from 320 to a few dozen.
|
|
4/29/25
|
Source
Interagency
Nate Cavanaugh sends an email to the two remaining members of the CPB board requesting a meeting. He describes a DOGE team at GSA and cc’s several other members of DOGE
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|
5/13/25
|
Source
Sighting
Justin Fox emails GAO (cc’ing Nate Cavanaugh) to schedule a call to get a DOGE team assigned to the GAO. This is despite the GAO being located in the legislative branch and thus not answerable to the President.
|
|
5/13/25
|
Source
Directory
In an overview of how DOGE has tried to assign teams outside of the executive branch, NPR lists six DOGE staffers at GSA who are involved with those efforts.
|
|
5/20/25
|
Source
Action
Justin Fox sends a message to the Acting Chair of NEH stating “Ringing to give you a heads-up that the DOGE team is planning to make an X post on NEH highlighting a few of the crazy DEI grants from Biden-era administration and reiterating that NEH grants going forward will be merit-based and awarded to nonDEI, pro-America causes”
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|
7/21/25
|
Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
|
|
1/28/26
|
Sources
Legal
Justin Fox testifies in a deposition related to American Council of Learned Societies v. NEH. He states he has no access to NEH or GSA equipment and that all of the communications related to mass terminations at NEH were done on his GSA laptop. He also admits to communicating with DOGE staffers before and after hiring on Signal. He states that Anythony Armstrong specifically used Signal to send him messages related to DOGE leadership priorities, and that Anthony Armstrong was very focused about using Signal.
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|
2/13/26
|
Source
Legal
Ruling in American Council of Learned Societies/Authors Guild v. NEH, Judge Colleen McMahon rejects an argument by the government that a spreadsheet listing all of the DOGE staff and their positions and detailing arrangement must remain sealed for their personal safety. She orders them and a series of text messages made by DOGE staffers Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox must be entered into the record by February 17th.
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Justin Fulcher
Exited govt: 7/20/25 (verified)
Justin Fulcher is a programmer and entrepeneur, whose last project was a telehealth startup called RingMD (although there are some questions about its success and his life story). Justin started his work for DOGE as an employee working within the VA and keeping a low profile. More recently, he has moved over to the Department of Defense, where he is a Special Advisor in Pete Hegseth’s office.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| VA |
Source
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| DOD |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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2/04/25
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Source
Access
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)
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2/14/25
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Source
Directory
Bloomberg publishes some background information on Justin Fulcher, the DOGE staffer working quietly at the VA, which questions the details of his backstory.
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3/04/25
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Source
Onboard
A Forbes article identifies Justin Fulcher as one of the DOGE staffers in the Pentagon and questions the veracity of his entrepeneurial background.
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3/25/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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4/15/25
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Source
Disruption
Claiming that he knew of warrantless wiretapping from the NSA, Justin Fulcher pressured Defense Secretary Hegseth’s Chief of Staff and personal legal counsel to let him run an investigation into leaking at the Pentagon. Once he was included, it was clear there was no such evidence, but it had led to several key roles being fired. Justin Fulcher denied this account when reached for comment.
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6/25/25
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Source
Oversight
Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency.
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7/20/25
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Source
Offboard
After a rocky few months in the Defense Secretary’s office, Scott Fulcher resigns from his position. He claims he always intended to only spend six months in government.
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Nicholas Gallagher
Nicholas Gallagher is a lawyer working within GSA. Prior to that, he worked at a law firm Clement & Murphy, “which specializes in arguing conservative causes before the U.S. Supreme Court” according to ProPublica.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Source
|
| GSA |
Source
|
Mattieu Gamache-Asselin
Exited govt: 1/XX/25 (inferred)
Reported as present in HHS in January by ProPublica, but there are no other details about his time there or what he was doing.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| HHS |
Source
|
Joe Gebbia
Tech Industry Links: Airbnb
Joe Gebbia is very much a known person – he is a co-founder of AirBnB and has appeared among the DOGE staff on several television interviews. He started in February at OPM, where he has worked to accelerate a Biden-era project to modernize retirement claims processing. More recently, he has been part of an inter-agency collaboration between DHS, State and USCIS to develop a $5 Million “Gold Card” immigration visa.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
|
| NDS |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/18/25
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Source
Onboard
Former AirBnb executive Joe Gebbia starts working at OPM as a volunteer with the job title of Expert.
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2/27/25
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Source
Official
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.
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4/16/25
|
Source
Directory
Three DOGE staffers – Marko Elez, Edward Coristine and Joe Gebbia – are reported to be working with staff from DHS, the State Department and USCIS on implementing an application process for a $5 Million “Gold Card” visa. It is unclear what agencies they are working for and how this partnership has been structured.
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5/09/25
|
Source
Official
OPM reports it will rolling out a Online Retirement Application (ORA) system which replaces the paper-based system for federal departments served by the National Finance Center and Interior Business Center. This was a program originally started in the Biden Administration that is being accelerated without pilot programs.
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|
8/04/25
|
Source
Directory
In a report about DOGE’s continued work on OPM’s Online Retirement Application (ORA) continuing to move ahead, Politico identifies DOGE staff that are working on the project under Joe Gebbia.
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8/21/25
|
Source
Official
President Trump signs EO 14338, which creates the new National Design Studio within the EOP and tasks it with centralizing control over design across the federal government. Joe Gebbia is subsequently named the new Chief Design Officer. Similar to DOGE’s structure, the NDS contains a temporary organization within that can be used for hiring Special Government Employees (SGEs) to work for the government on a volunteer basis.
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|
11/18/25
|
Source
Report
In an interview, Joe Gebbia affirms he has been the Chief Design Officer since being appointed to the role in September, after EO 14338 was issued in August. He also confirms the position is in the White House and reports directly to the Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Although it has an office nearby, Gebbia will primarily be working from his home in Austin, Texas.
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11/25/25
|
Sources
Website
The Department of Energy launches a new “Genesis Mission” to heavily use AI tools for scientific research. The website for this endeavor is created by the National Design Studio and features the classic hallmarks of their work: bold fonts on a black background with animations all on a single page with no navigation and an email signup form. According to Edward Coristine’s twitter account, this page took 3 weeks to make.
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1/23/26
|
Source
Report
Speaking in a podcast interview, Joe Gebbia reports that the National Design Studio is working to revise every government website, adding that “look like they’re from the mid-90s.” He also states that the NDS is going to deliver a refresh of some existing websites by July 4, 2026 and that the team will eventually consist of approximately 15 engineers and 15 designers and is currently employing brilliant veterans of Silicon Valley.
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|
1/30/26
|
Source
Report
Speaking at the ACT-IAC Summit, Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia touted the work of the National Design Studio and reported that OMB is working closely with NDS to “coalesce” the administration’s website design, comparing it to how certain hotel brands will all look and smell the same. He reports there are internal sandboxes running for new designs and a redesigned site for CIO.gov will soon illustrate the new look. The NDS is also reportedly leaning heavily into using AI for its work. In addition, 35,000 people have applied to the administration’s Tech Force initiative and they are reviewing 6,000 applicants.
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|
2/23/26
|
Source
Directory
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.
|
Open Questions
- How is Joe Gebbia assigned to the Gold Card Visa project? Is he detailed from OPM to elsewhere?
Derek Geissler
Apart from a single report by NBC News placing him at the Department of Labor in mid-February, there are no public details about Derek Geissler. According to ProPublica, “Geissler has been working at the GSA since the beginning of the administration in close coordination with political leadership on DOGE special projects, including artificial intelligence and data sharing efforts.” Despite his prominent position, Derek has done a good job of avoiding the spotlight.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Source
GSA
1/XX/25
(volunteer)
|
| DOL |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/17/25
|
Source
Sighting
The public calendar of Riley Sennott mentions a 30-minute “SGE Ethics Discussion” meeting with other new DOGE members Derek Geissler, Brooks Morgan and Conor Fennessy included on the invitation. SGE stands for Special Government Employee.
|
|
2/13/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
c.3/03/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOE staff (mostly from DOGE) meet exclusively with DOGE staff from both OPM and GSA to discuss DOI’s data centers, cloud infrastructure and software licenses.
|
|
3/04/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
|
Patrick George
Patrick George is reportedly the DOGE lead in the US Navy, where he has been involved in reviewing contracts. He comes from a venture capital background, and was also a Marine. Pete Hegseth has claimed that all of the DOGE staff within the Department of Defense will be veterans.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOD |
Sources
DOD
2/18/25?
«Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans»
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/20/25
|
Source
Official
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]
|
Patricia Gibson
I don’t have much info on this person yet, but they were named as being a Senior Advisor at the SBA, which was a title also assigned to known DOGE members at that agency. I know that she worked at SBA as a Senior Advisor in the previous Trump administration, so this might be a false alarm, but her LinkedIn listed her current role just as “Organizational Development Consultant” which seems like DOGE’s evasion. However, this is looking like a false alarm.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SBA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
5/16/25
|
Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
|
Brady Glantz
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Exited govt: 6/02/25 (reported)
One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. That term was extended, only to be forcibly ended on June 2nd.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| FAA |
Source
fired 6/02/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/17/25
|
Source
Directory
Four SpaceX engineers at FAA are granted ethics waivers and designated as Special Government Employees, but must recuse from decisions affecting SpaceX.
|
|
4/25/25
|
Source
Disruption
DOGE staff assigned to the FAA have reportedly enlisted government staff to work on a secret communications project named “Project Lift,” requiring them to sign NDAs. It is rumored to be about incorporating Starlink into FAA projects.
|
|
6/02/25
|
Source
Offboard
In the wake of Elon Musk’s exit from DOGE, the four SpaceX engineers that have been working secretly in the FAA – Ted Malaska, Sam Smeal, Thomas Kiernan and Brady Glantz – are all immediately removed from the agency. The Post reports that some agency staff went for post-work drinks to celebrate the banishment of the DOGE team.
|
Amy Gleason
Amy Gleason was suddenly thrusted into the public spotlight on Feb. 18, 2025 when the White House Press Secretary identified her as the Administrator of DOGE. Conveniently, she was on vacation in Mexico at the time, so the press was unable to clarify if she was also blindsided by the news. Since then, she has gamely testified for a few times as the administrator of DOGE, but since early March she has largely resumed working full-time as an official employee within HHS, where she had started work in January 2025 for the US Digital Service. Nobody in DOGE seems to even be pretending anymore that she is running things.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
|
| HHS |
Sources
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
CALM
|
Source
System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. read access granted by CIO |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/XX/25
|
Source
Interagency
A whistleblower reports attending a meeting with USDS Administrator Amy Gleason, the SSA CIO Scott Coulter and several other DOGE staffers at the agency. The whistleblower reports that Gleason did not contribute to the meeting and was clearly not directing DOGE activities at the agency.
(fuzz: time is just given as February)
|
|
2/05/25
|
Source
Official
According to later sworn testimony from Kendall Lindemann, this is the date that Steve Davis was designated as the decision-maker for DOGE as the senior-most political appointee until Amy Gleason is appointed as acting administratior of DOGE on 2025-02-18. Later news reports suggest Steve Davis continued to remain in charge.
|
|
2/17/25
|
Source
Interagency
Joshua Fox emails a few NASA administrators to introduce himself as “one of the attorneys at DOGE” and to also inform them “I just spoke to Scott Coulter about this, but I wanted to let you know that he is planning to go over to SSA tomorrow.” He includes several other DOGE leadership personnel in the email chain. It’s unclear from the message who actually made the decision that Scott Coulter would be detailed to the Social Security Administration.
|
|
2/18/25
|
Source
Interagency
Kendall Lindemann contacts the FCC on behalf of DOGE and Amy Gleason to start the process of detailing several DOGE staffers to the agency.
|
|
2/24/25
|
Source
Access
Amy Gleason is granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM), which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts.
|
|
2/26/25
|
Source
Official
After days of sustained questioning about who the USDS Administrator is, the White House gives the name of Amy Gleason. It is unclear how long she had been in the role. She also conveniently is on a trip to Mexico during the announcement and is thus unreachable.
|
|
3/19/25
|
Source
Directory
In another sworn statement, Amy Gleason declares “every member of an agency’s DOGE Team is an employee of the agency or a detailee to the agency.” She does later clarify that some are detailed from USDS but also claims they report to agency heads. She also reports that USDS has approximately 79 directly appointed employees and 10 employees detailed from other agencies.
|
|
3/29/25
|
Source
Directory
In response to a discovery request made in AFL-CIO vs. DOL, the government provides an incomplete list of DOGE staff who have worked at HHS.
|
|
3/29/25
|
Source
Legal
In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.
|
|
4/01/25
|
Source
Report
In a group chat within HHS system, Amy Gleason attempts to distance herself from the mass layoffs caused by DOGE by claiming she is just the USDS administrator only and has nothing to do with how the DOGE teams operate.
|
|
7/15/25
|
Source
Legal
In a setback for the Trump administration, an appeals court rules in CREW v. DOGE that the agency must comply with records requests being made by CREW and that the official DOGE administrator Amy Gleason must be made available to testify. This came after CREW modified its initial request to exclude certain communications that the Supreme Court had ruled should be exempted. Those changes were enough to satisfy the appeals court.
|
Mike Gonzalez
Exited govt: 6/XX/25 (self-reported)
Mike Gonzalez was included in a roundup by Techcrunch of 19 founders and VCs who are part of DOGE. He is linked to Trump administation AI czar David Sacks; both worked at the company Zenefits. He also founded another human resources startup.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Source
|
Ross Graber
Tech Industry Links: Twitter
After reportedly assisting DOGE at the State Department, Ross Graber was named into the position of Chief Information Officer at the Department of Energy when Ryan Riedel suddenly departed. And then after two months, he suddenly resigned from the role as well. Prior to DOGE, he had been a security manager at Yahoo, Google and then Twitter before moving into the role of Senior Director of Security Technologies at Procore Technologies (until leaving in February to join DOGE).
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| State |
Source
State
2/XX/25-3/13/25
resigned from agency 3/13/25
|
| DOE |
Sources
DOE
3/13/25-7/XX/25
Chief Information Officer
($195,200)
«Reported to have resigned on 4/18, but LinkedIN reports working into July»
|
| NNSA |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/13/25
|
Source
Onboard
After reportedly supporting DOGE activities in the State Department, Ross Graber is named as the new CIO for the Department of Energy
|
|
4/28/25
|
Source
Offboard
Ross Graber abruptly resigns as the CIO of the Department of Energy, making him the second DOGE pick to be named to and exit the role. The responsibilities of CIO are reverted back to the agency’s Deputy CIO, who had been serving in the role after Ryan Riedel’s departure.
|
Antonio Gracias
Tech Industry Links: Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, Valor
Exited govt: 7/01/25 (verified)
Antonio Gracias has had a longtime connection with Elon Musk as an early investor in both Tesla and SpaceX, and he has also sat on the boards of both companies. He also was involved with Musk’s purchase of Twitter. He has been stationed as part of the DOGE team within Social Security Administration, since late February. Over the last few months, he has regularly appeared on friendly media outlets to describe alleged instances of fraud within SSA.
Likely aliases: SSA-04
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SSA |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/23/25
|
Source
Onboard
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.
|
|
3/12/25
|
Source
Directory
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)”
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|
3/13/25
|
Source
Directory
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
|
|
3/30/25
|
Source
Disruption
During campaign rallies in Wisconsin, Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias publish a chart claiming to show an increase in social security numbers being granted to noncitizens as evidence of voting fraud or benefits fraud by immigrants. The problem is that these numbers are necessary for immigrants to work in roles, and are used for paying taxes rather than receiving benefits, and the statistics were from a program to replace a more cumbersome process for assigning SSN IDs. Based on this interpretation, the Trump Administration argued for a change where applicants would have to instead visit an already overstretched field office, a change that is likely to both reduce tax income from immigrant workers and increase the per-person cost from $8 to $51,000
|
|
4/02/25
|
Source
Disruption
In an interview on Fox, Antonio Gracias makes misleading claims that DOGE had discovered widespread voting fraud through joining social security data and state voter rolls.
|
|
4/11/25
|
Source
Directory
Politico profiles a DOGE immigration task force that is located within DHS but has contacts with DOGE staff at other agencies. It includes multiple DOGE staffers detailed from various agencies.
|
|
5/22/25
|
Source
Interagency
Elon Musk joins a late-night meeting with senior members of the DOGE leadership team. Katie Miller delivered a blunt message that DOGE was on thin ice with the White House. She also reportedly advised that DOGE should strive to collaborate with Cabinet secretaries more instead of pushiing cuts or projects on them that they didn’t want to do.
|
|
5/23/25
|
Source
Interagency
In a podcast appearance, Antonio Gracias reported that the Department of Justice had requested for DOGE to find “10-20 cases” of alleged noncitizen voting in every state.
|
|
7/01/25
|
Source
Offboard
In response to a letter from the American Federation of Teachers union to nine public pension funds who are investors, Valor Equity Partners confirms that Antonio Gracias was working for Valor the entire time he was in DOGE and also reports that he left DOGE on July 1st. It’s unclear what the status of other Valor employees embedded in DOGE, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling, are.
|
Michael Grimes
Tech Industry Links: Twitter
Exited govt: 2/XX/26 (self-reported)
Michael Grimes is one of the two members of DOGE who came to the agency from Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that coordinated Musk’s takeover of Twitter. At Commerce, he has kept a relatively low profile, but there were some reports of him subjecting staff in the CHIPS for America program to DOGE-style interviews.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| Commerce |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/28/25
|
Source
Sighting
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.
|
Tai Groot
One of the new names at the National Design Studio. Unclear if a designer or an engineer. He also seems to be linked to the Social Security Administration.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| NDS |
Source
|
| SSA |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/23/26
|
Source
Directory
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.
|
Josh Gruenbaum
Josh Gruenbaum is another DOGE member who comes from the world of private equity and mergers & acquisitions, having worked at KKR & Co and Moelis. At the GSA, he was appointed as commissioner over the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) at GSA, giving him oversight over all the ways in which GSA procures stuff, whether it’s office supplies or custom software. He is the direct supervisor of Thomas Shedd and he himself reports to Stephen Ehikian who also is in DOGE.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
c.1/21/25
|
Source
Interagency
Justin Fox reports that connected with him before he started work at DOGE. Besides Armstrong, Justin Fox was also communicating with other DOGE members via Signal both in group chats and individually. This appears to be a violation of government records laws for those other staffers who were already working in the federal government.
(fuzz: Exact date not given, but he testifies that Anthony Armstrong reached out just after inauguration)
|
|
3/18/25
|
Source
Interagency
A senior policy strategist at the White House relays a “Stephen request” (meaning Stephen Miller) that “POTUS wants to see more action against universities.” Included in the initial coordination is GSA Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum. He becomes involved with figuring out grants from multiple agencies to cut for both University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State University, because they had allowed trans athletes to participate in sports. This is very much not his area of responsibility at the GSA, but he is on the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism which stripped funding from Columbia Univesity.
|
|
3/19/25
|
Source
Interagency
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.
|
|
3/25/25
|
Source
Interagency
Kathryn Armstrong Loving and Erica Jehling continue to work directly with Josh Gruenbaum from the GSA on more grants to cancel at the EPA.
|
|
4/XX/25
|
Source
Sighting
A contractor at GSA states that he came across a list of staff at GSA who had not yet completed all of their mandatory security training. This included prominent DOGE staff that had been at the agency for several months like Thomas Shedd, Josh Gruenbaum, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Steve Davis.
(fuzz: only month is given in report)
|
|
4/03/25
|
Source
Interagency
Tarak Makecha, a DOGE representative at DOJ is forwarded a list at 6pm of DOJ contracts to terminate for the Acacia Center, a nonprofit in DOGE’s crosshairs that day and a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the DOJ. He coordinates with Josh Gruenbaum at the GSA, who is leading a multi-agency effort to eliminate grants.
|
|
4/30/25
|
Source
Interagency
As part of a DOGE-driven effort to find ways to punish Harvard by pulling its grants from the federal govenment, Josh Gruenbaum emails Alexander Simonpour to ask if there are grants that can be revoked by NASA. The next day, Simonpour relayed the request to other NASA staffers and then followed up on May 8th stating that the White House had imposed a 5pm deadline for the information.
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|
5/08/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOGE staff at NASA, GSA and the White House finalize a list of five NASA grants to be killed and discuss the language for the terminiation letters in a series of email discussions and meetings to 11pm that night. The agency sends a letter to Harvard the following day.
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|
5/08/25
|
Source
Interagency
Jeremy Lichtman emails USDA officials to inform them that GSA (likely Josh Gruenbaum) had directed them to review several agency grants for termination. These terminations were reportedly “awaiting final greenlight from the White House.”
|
|
c.6/05/25
|
Source
Disruption
Concerned by people questioning his continued authority, Steve Davis reportedly taps Anthony Armstrong, Josh Gruenbaum and Stephen Ehikian to assess the loyalty of DOGE staffers and assert they are the leadership of DOGE now, acting under the authority of JD Vance and Susie Wiles in the White House. This is a bluff, and staffers in the White House counter that their authority is only within GSA itself.
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|
7/18/25
|
Source
Report
In an interview with the Financial Times about his reported squeeze of government contractors, Josh Gruenbaum denies he has made unreasonable demands of many companies while going easy on Trump allies during his reviews of all government contracts overseen by the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA.
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|
7/31/25
|
Source
Report
After removing Stephen Ehikian as the acting director of GSA, the White House has reportedly detailed nine other staffers to the agency to speed a “de-Muskification” of the agency. This is possibly also related to the GSA supporting Steve Davis over the White House in his attempt to keep running DOGE even after he had left. Josh Gruenbaum is named as being in their good graces still.
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|
c.1/10/26
|
Source
Action
After GSA officials raised concerns that the xAI Grok model was a safety risk because it was too syncophantic and susceptible to manipulation, Josh Gruenbaum defends the inclusion of the company’s models into the government’s USAi site. Susie Wiles is satisfied by his explanation, but usage of the model by government agencies has been low, except in some cases where security testers have needed to simulate a bad actor.
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|
c.1/10/26
|
Source
Action
After GSA officials raised concerns that the xAI Grok model was a safety risk because it was too syncophantic and susceptible to manipulation, Josh Gruenbaum defends the inclusion of the company’s models into the government’s USAi site. Susie Wiles is satisfied by his explanation, but usage of the model by government agencies has been low, except in some cases where security testers have needed to simulate a bad actor.
|
Gavin Hamrick
He was identified as part of Nate Cavanaugh’s crew in a raid on IMLS, but I want to confirm he’s part of DOGE first.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| IMLS |
Source
IMLS
3/31/25
detailed
|
Joshua Hanley
Part of DOGE’s army of lawyers, there isn’t much public information about his activities, although his name did appear in the metadata for some grant cancellation documents that were sent out by NIH. This doesn’t mean necessarily that he was detailed to that agency; but it does indicate some role in crafting the justifications given to agencies about these moves.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
|
| DOGE |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/03/25
|
Source
Sighting
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.
|
|
3/05/25
|
Source
Directory
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
|
|
3/26/25
|
Source
Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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Christina Hanna
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX, Musk family
Exited govt: 3/05/25 (guessed)
Before DOGE, Christina Hanna worked at both SpaceX and for Elon Musk personally as an HR manager. Her activities at OPM since her start have not been publicly disclosed.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
OPM
2/03/25-3/05/25
Expert
(ED-00, excepted, volunteer)
«Likely 1 of 3 unidentified OPM aliases who started in Feb and left in March 2025»
resigned from agency 3/05/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/03/25
|
Source
Onboard
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.
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2/12/25
|
Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
|
Tyler Hassen
Exited govt: 11/XX/25 (self-reported)
As a Texas oil executive with myriad investments in the field, it’s clear why Tyler Hassen would want a senior role in the Department of the Interior even though his personal connection to Musk’s orbit is unknown. At DOI, Hassen has been promoted into increasingly senior roles and responsibilities while being shunted into positions that do not require Senate confirmation or for him to address his vast conflicts of interest.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOI |
Sources
DOI
3/07/25-4/XX/25
promoted to
Acting Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget
«ended with title change to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary»
DOI
4/XX/25-9/03/25
promoted to
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
«title change allows him to avoid Senate approval/ethics rules. He reported he was leaving the agency on 8/1, but was seemingly still in the role until 9/3»
DOI
9/03/25-11/XX/25
unknown start type
«Working on layoffs / consolidation; LinkedIn reports left in November»
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
WRT
|
Source
The AutoRIF software tool was adapted by DOGE engineer Riccardo Biasini into a web service to help automate the process of identifying staff to be laid off and conducting the operation. read-write access «Reported as using AutoRIF» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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|
2/16/25
|
Source
Official
Tyler Hassen sets up the DOGE_DOI account on X.com
|
|
2/17/25
|
Source
Disruption
Katrine Trampe and Tyler Hassen are invited to a series of meetings related to reviewing contracts at the Department of the Interior.
|
|
2/19/25
|
Source
Interagency
A staffer at the EOP emails DOGE staff to take part in a webinar about the National Environmental Policy Act.
|
|
2/21/25
|
Source
Interagency
Several DOGE staff at HHS and DOI are involved in a large meeting related to a contract with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS. Among other systems, this office maintains the Unaccompanied Children Portal, which was of interest to DOGE’s immigration focus.
|
|
2/24/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
2/25/25
|
Source
Action
Citing concerns that there is fraud in the federal payroll, the DOGE team at the Department of the Interior meets with the Interior Business Center Team to discuss their request to receive a log audit of all employee names, positions and hire dates as well as total pay for each pay period.
|
|
2/27/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOGE staffers at the Department of the Interior meet with Nicole Hollander from GSA about leases to be cancelled.
|
|
2/27/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOGE staff at DOI invite several of their counterparts from OPM to a meeting to discuss DOI Tech Systems.
(fuzz: A michealal@x.com is also invited. Is it meant to be Micaela Lopez Ballefin?)
|
|
2/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
Officials at the US Fish and Wildlife Service meet with Katrine Trampe and Tyler Hassen to show them their system for reviewing and processing contracts and to identify ways for both to start approving new contracts for the organization.
|
|
c.3/03/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOE staff (mostly from DOGE) meet exclusively with DOGE staff from both OPM and GSA to discuss DOI’s data centers, cloud infrastructure and software licenses.
|
|
3/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
Tyler Hassen places the CIO and CISO at the Department of the Interior on admininstrative leave under investigation for raising alarm about DOGE’s access and delaying Stephanie Holmes from having admin access to the FPPS system.
|
|
4/17/25
|
Source
Disruption
The Washington Posts reports that both Tyler Hassen and Matt Luby are scrutinizing all grants at the Department of the Interior. They also requested a list of all grants going to Maine, perhaps to punish the state for its governor’s defiance of Trump.
|
|
4/17/25
|
Source
Official
The Secretary of the Interior formally designates that Tyler Hassen is in charge of implementing cuts to the agency and reorganizing its offices and areas of responsibility.
|
|
6/06/25
|
Source
Directory
An article in the New York Times reports that both Tyler Hassen and Stephanie Holmes are still active at the DOI.
|
|
7/09/25
|
Source
Oversight
Ranking Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee send a letter expressing concern and urging the Secretary of the Department of the Interior to immediately revoke DOGE’s access to the FPPS system that handles payroll for large parts of the US government.
|
|
8/18/25
|
Source
Report
Despite announcing that he would be leaving the agency on August 1st, Tyler Hassen is still reportedly working at the Department of the Interior. It is unclear what his title is and where his work is focused, but he is still there.
|
|
9/02/25
|
Source
Oversight
Democrats on the House Committe on Natural Resources send a letter to the Secretary of the Interior requesting information about the activities of Tyler Hassen at the agency including his financial disclosure forms, communications with the ethics office and daily calendar.
|
|
9/03/25
|
Source
Offboard
A day after receiving the letter from House Democrats, the Secretary of the Interior amends his prior order naming Tyler Hassen to the position of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary to instead be filled by another person at the agency not affiliated with DOGE. It’s unclear if this means that Tyler Hassen is out of the agency or is just in a different role.
|
|
9/24/25
|
Source
Disruption
The Department of Interior is reportedly planning another round of layoffs for mid-October. This follows the loss of 7500 employees (nearly 11% of its workforce) already. The agency is reported to be using the AutoRIF software developed at OPM to run the process, and it is being run by Stephanie Holmes and Tyler Hassen, who did not leave the agency in August as previously reported.
|
Jim Hickey
Identified by ProPublica as one of the DOGE crew who have secretly been working at the Department of Defense, Jim Hickey was formerly a director at MITRE and before that a senior advisor for the Air Force
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOD |
Sources
DOD
2/18/25?
Senior Advisor
«Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans. LinkedIn says Feb.»
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/20/25
|
Source
Official
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]
|
Vinay Hiremath
Identified by the New York Times as part of DOGE’s pre-inauguration recruitment push, Vinay reportedly spent a month personally calling hundreds of people to recruit them for DOGE before he dropped out of the project in January.
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/02/25
|
Source
Action
Baris Akis introduces Nate Cavanaugh to Steve Davis, so that he can recruit Nate Cavanaugh to work for DOGE. Vinay Hiremath introduced Mr. Akis to Mr. Cavanagh
|
|
1/12/25
|
Source
Directory
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
|
Adam Hoffman
A former staffer at the Griffin’s Citadel hedge fund, he joined DOGE sometime in April and was assigned to a team that is using DOJ databases to assemble information on immigrants.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DHS |
Sources
|
| DOJ |
Source
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
ECAS
|
Source
A system used by DOJ for tracking the status of immigration cases unknown access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/19/25
|
Source
Interagency
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.
|
|
3/19/25
|
Source
Onboard
DOGE has reportedly hired Adam Hoffman to work on national security related projects. It is unclear if he is working directly for DOGE or is formally hired at another agency.
|
Greg Hogan
Tech Industry Links: Andreessen Horowitz
It’s not surprising that there are reports that OPM has been training AI models with information on government personnel. Greg Hogan, the agency’s CIO, previously worked for an AI company that was backed Marc Andreesen’s firm Andreesen Horowitz. After leaving OPM abruptly in September 2025, he has reportedly moved over to the National Design Studio with the title Hacker In Residence.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
OPM
1/20/25-1/20/25
Senior Advisor to the Director for Technology and Delivery
(ES-00, $195,200)
«ended by promotion to CIO»
OPM
1/20/25-2/11/25
promoted to
Acting Chief Information Officer
(ES-00, $195,200)
«testified he started as Senior Advisor but was made Acting CIO same day. Made permanent CIO on 2/11»
resigned from agency 9/02/25
|
| NDS |
Source
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
website
|
Source
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» |
|
github
|
Source
A service owned by Microsoft for developers to run version control on their applications and back them up to shared repositories that can be used by other developers. Github is provided as both a hosted service (at github.com) or via versions that can be installed with agency data centers (aka GitHub Enterprise or GHE). Access to Github would be expected for developers, but doesn’t necessarily mean the person is a coder. unknown access «Github Enterprise» |
|
USA Performance
|
Source
System tracking job performance of federal employees unknown access «system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”» |
|
Databricks
|
Source
A hosted or self-hosted service that simplifies systems for processing big Data admin access (never accessed) |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/20/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
1/20/25
|
Source
Disruption
Acting OPM Director Charles Ezell replaces existing CIO Melvin Brown with DOGE ally Greg Hogan, who will serve as the Acting CIO.
|
|
2/06/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
2/12/25
|
Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
|
|
2/27/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOGE staff at DOI invite several of their counterparts from OPM to a meeting to discuss DOI Tech Systems.
(fuzz: A michealal@x.com is also invited. Is it meant to be Micaela Lopez Ballefin?)
|
|
c.3/03/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOE staff (mostly from DOGE) meet exclusively with DOGE staff from both OPM and GSA to discuss DOI’s data centers, cloud infrastructure and software licenses.
|
|
3/24/25
|
Source
Legal
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.
|
|
5/30/25
|
Source
Legal
The judge in AFL-CIO vs. OPM examines Greg Hogan on the stand and asks if he had followed the principle of least privilege in providing system access to DOGE. The judge’s questions indicated that she seemed to be leaning towards a issuing a preliminary injunction against DOGE’s “chaotic” access to systems at OPM.
|
|
c.9/02/25
|
Source
Offboard
Greg Hogan has reportedly departed from his role as Chief Information Officer at OPM. He had held it from the first day of the Trump Administration when the acting CIO was demoted by Charles Ezell.
|
|
2/23/26
|
Source
Directory
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.
|
Nicole Hollander
Tech Industry Links: Twitter
Exited govt: 5/29/25 (reported)
Nicole Hollander is married to fellow DOGE operative and ad hoc leader Steve Davis, and she has worked with Elon Musk at Twitter. She had reportedly been involved with securing an enclave for DOGE to work from and live within GSA HQ (complete with laundry facilities). Her biggest effort has been the ongoing march to cancel GSA leases across the country. Her conenctions to other DOGE projects have not be publicly documented yet, and she left the agency (and working for the government) where her husband also resigned.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
GSA
1/20/25-5/29/25
(volunteer)
resigned from agency 5/29/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/20/25
|
Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staffers start working within GSA in the office of the Administrator with the title Senior Advisor
|
|
1/29/25
|
Source
Disruption
GSA regional managers receive instructions from HQ that “lease terminations are the clear priority at this time.”
|
|
1/29/25
|
Source
Report
A team of high-ranking GSA employees meets with Nicole Hollander to discuss building special “resting rooms” for DOGE and other A-suite staff.
|
|
1/30/25
|
Source
Interagency
Elon Musk reportedly visits GSA to meet with staff, several of whom are identified from their appearances in the internal directory for the agency. These include Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Luke Farritor.
|
|
1/31/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
|
|
2/27/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOGE staffers at the Department of the Interior meet with Nicole Hollander from GSA about leases to be cancelled.
|
|
3/04/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
|
|
3/20/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
|
Stephanie Holmes
Stephanie Holmes is an employment attorney and consultant who previously offered courses on “non-woke” HR and redefining DEI to be more “Christian,” in a conventional conservative evangelical sense. After being an HR head at DOGE, she was detailed to the Department of the Interior, where she was named the acting Chief Human Capital Officer. At DOI, she had the CIO and other senior staff sidelined so she could be granted admin powers over a shared service that handles payroll for approximately half of the federal government.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
DOGE
c.2/01/25
Senior Advisor for Technology and Efficiency
«First reported today, likely onboarded earlier in January»
|
| DOI |
Sources
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
FPPS
|
Source
A shared service which processes payrolls for Interior, but also DOJ, Treasury, DHS, the Air Force, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other agencies. Covers about half of federal personnel. admin access granted by Deputy Director |
|
WRT
|
Source
The AutoRIF software tool was adapted by DOGE engineer Riccardo Biasini into a web service to help automate the process of identifying staff to be laid off and conducting the operation. read-write access «Reported as using AutoRIF» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/01/25
|
Source
Report
Stephanie Holmes, the new head of HR at DOGE/USDS, is unable to answer questions from USDS staff about if the “Fork in the Road” retirement offer is legitimate.
|
|
2/12/25
|
Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
|
|
2/24/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
2/25/25
|
Source
Action
Citing concerns that there is fraud in the federal payroll, the DOGE team at the Department of the Interior meets with the Interior Business Center Team to discuss their request to receive a log audit of all employee names, positions and hire dates as well as total pay for each pay period.
|
|
2/27/25
|
Source
Access
Stephanie Holmes’ request for admin access to the FPPS system is approved Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior, Jarrod Agen.
|
|
3/27/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
5/02/25
|
Source
Disruption
Stephanie Holmes, in her role as acting chief human capital officers, sends an email ordering DOI staff to stop by May 28 from doing any detail work they were doing to cover for DOGE staffing cuts at the agency.
|
|
6/06/25
|
Source
Directory
An article in the New York Times reports that both Tyler Hassen and Stephanie Holmes are still active at the DOI.
|
|
7/09/25
|
Source
Oversight
Ranking Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee send a letter expressing concern and urging the Secretary of the Department of the Interior to immediately revoke DOGE’s access to the FPPS system that handles payroll for large parts of the US government.
|
|
9/24/25
|
Source
Disruption
The Department of Interior is reportedly planning another round of layoffs for mid-October. This follows the loss of 7500 employees (nearly 11% of its workforce) already. The agency is reported to be using the AutoRIF software developed at OPM to run the process, and it is being run by Stephanie Holmes and Tyler Hassen, who did not leave the agency in August as previously reported.
|
|
11/04/25
|
Source
Legal
In a court filing, the Department of Interior reveals that it has frozen its plans to imminently layoff more employees.
|
Kenneth Jackson
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| State |
State
1/XX/25
«I know Kenneth Jackson started at State, but I haven’t found more info of when and where»
|
| USIP |
Sources
removed 3/25/25
|
| USAID |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/10/25
|
Source
Onboard
The Trump Administration nominates Kenneth Jackson and Russell Vought to be on the board of the IAF.
|
|
3/14/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
3/17/25
|
Source
Disruption
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. Kenneth Jackson is named Acting President.
|
|
3/19/25
|
Source
Official
Peter Marocco says that he will be succeeded at the agency by Jeremy Lewin and Kenneth Jackson, serving in deputy roles.
|
|
3/25/25
|
Source
Disruption
The remaining board of the USIP – Marco Rubio and Mike Hegseth – terminate Kenneth Jackson as the acting president of the USIP and appoint Nate Cavanaugh to the position. The resolution also authorizes Nate Cavanaugh to dispose of the building belonging to the USIP.
|
|
6/24/25
|
Source
Disruption
Jeremy Lewin overrides many objections by staffers reviewing the grant and rushes a grant of $30 million for the month of June to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation only five days after its funding request was submitted. The request was also handled by Kenneth Jackson and accumulated over 58 objections from USAID staffers that GHF failed both technical and financial requirements for aid recipients. GHF was hastily formed in February 2025 and has been faulted for forcing Palestinians to navigate crowded militarized zones to receive aid. This has resulted in multiple mass killings near GHF sites.
|
Anthony Jancso
Tech Industry Links: Palantir
In late November and early December, Jancso was actively recruiting for DOGE on message boards for Palantir alumni and other similar places he might find likely candidates. It’s unclear what his involvement has been with DOGE since January, but in May he started recruiting for a project to “deploy AI agents across live workflows in federal agencies”. Prior to DOGE, he was a cofounder with Jordan Wick of a project called Accelerate SF which promised to deploy AI across the public sector.
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
11/26/24
|
Source
Sighting
A person who is likely Anthony Jancso posted a message in an AI challenge’s Discord saying “Helping the Dept. of Government Efficiency team find hardcore engineers. Send your GitHub/LinkedIn to @DOGE on X and your X handle to me in DM if you’re interested or know someone who is, could help get them into the pipeline.”
|
|
12/05/24
|
Source
Sighting
A person who is likely Anthony Jancso posts recruitment messages for DOGE to a chat group for employees who had worked at Palantir
|
Raj Jegannathan
A relatively new addition to the DOGE staff based in GSA, Raj is also working for his job as the vice president of IT for AI infrastructure and vehicle support operations at Tesla. These dual-employment scenarios would be unthinkable in other presidential admininstrations; for DOGE, they’re routine. Jegannathan is “working closely with senior political leadership at the GSA on federal acquisition efforts,” according to ProPublica
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
|
Erica Jehling
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Source
GSA
2/XX/25
«Assuming GSA start because linked there by ProPublica and at time, people were detailed from there»
|
| EPA |
Sources
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
EAS
|
Source
System used at the EPA to initiate, award, modify and track acquisition actions. read access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/04/25
|
Source
Official
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.
|
|
3/25/25
|
Source
Interagency
Kathryn Armstrong Loving and Erica Jehling continue to work directly with Josh Gruenbaum from the GSA on more grants to cancel at the EPA.
|
Thomas Kiernan
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Exited govt: 6/02/25 (reported)
One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. That short term was extended until June 4th, when it was revoked suddenly in the wake of Musk’s departure.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| FAA |
Source
fired 6/02/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/17/25
|
Source
Directory
Four SpaceX engineers at FAA are granted ethics waivers and designated as Special Government Employees, but must recuse from decisions affecting SpaceX.
|
|
4/25/25
|
Source
Disruption
DOGE staff assigned to the FAA have reportedly enlisted government staff to work on a secret communications project named “Project Lift,” requiring them to sign NDAs. It is rumored to be about incorporating Starlink into FAA projects.
|
|
6/02/25
|
Source
Offboard
In the wake of Elon Musk’s exit from DOGE, the four SpaceX engineers that have been working secretly in the FAA – Ted Malaska, Sam Smeal, Thomas Kiernan and Brady Glantz – are all immediately removed from the agency. The Post reports that some agency staff went for post-work drinks to celebrate the banishment of the DOGE team.
|
Cole Killian
Exited govt: 6/27/25 (inferred)
Gautier “Cole” Killian was identified early as one of the initial DOGE employees, and there are reports of him interviewing USDS staff about their roles as early as January 21st. He was also spotted in a few of the early wrecking crew raids, but he has largely fallen off the radar since the end of February, when he was detailed to the Social Security Administration. Perhaps he is one of the still-unidentified aliases there and more details of his involvement will become apparent in future court filings and FOIA releases.
Likely aliases: SSA-05
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
DOGE
1/20/25-6/27/25
«reported as interviewing USDS staff about jobs, not found in GSA or OPM lists»
resigned from agency 6/27/25
|
| EPA |
Sources
|
| DOL |
Source
|
| SSA |
Source
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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EAS
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Source
System used at the EPA to initiate, award, modify and track acquisition actions. read access |
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IRON
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Source
I have not found any public details about this system. It was named in internal emails from SSA as a way for Cole Killian to investigate people beyound a reasonable age whould could be declared dead. unknown access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/21/25
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Source
Disruption
Nikhil Rajpal and Cole Killian start screening all preexisting USDS staff with short interviews, asking them their views of DOGE and to name who they think are underperformers that should be fired.
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2/04/25
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Source
Sighting
Cole Killian appears in an EPA internal directory as a “Federal Detailee” (under his legal name Gautier Killian).
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2/11/25
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Source
Disruption
Kathryn Armstrong Loving sends the EPA administrator a list of contracts that DOGE wants to eliminate and she includes Cole Killian on her message.
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2/13/25
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Source
Access
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.
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2/18/25
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Source
Onboard
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.
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2/20/25
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Source
Directory
Several DOGE staffers working at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group).
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2/28/25
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Source
Official
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.
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3/12/25
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Source
Directory
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)”
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3/13/25
|
Source
Directory
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/14/25
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Source
Access
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.
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3/27/25
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Source
Access
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 granted through the SSA’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He asserts that DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.
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Tyler Kim
One of the new young engineers at the National Design Studio who started in February.
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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2/23/26
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Source
Directory
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.
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2/24/26
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Source
Report
In a tweet on his personal X account, National Design Studio member Tyler Kim confirms that the content on cio.gov was “almost entirely generated by our internal ai agent system [end-to-end].”
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Boris Kizenko
Boris Kizenko has reportedly worked on several projects at GSA and has also been associated with the SBA. Prior to DOGE, he worked as a legislative correspondent in the office of disgraced Rep. Matt Gaetz and claimed as a 16-year-old in 2019 that he was denied entry into the National Honor Society at his high school because he was a Trump supporter (the NHS uses GPA, leadership skills and volunteering hours to determine who will be inducted).
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Source
GSA
date unknown
Senior Advisor
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| SBA |
Source
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Gavin Kliger
A poster boy for DOGE’s wanton cruelty and destruction, Gavin Kliger is a software developer with five years of experience who has shown a particular flair for being the face of DOGE’s abuse of federal personnel. At USAID, he was the one who locked staff out of the building. At CFPB, he vandalized the website and later returned to run a marathon 36-hour prep session for massive layoffs where he reportedly screamed at staff to work even harder at laying off their colleagues. Arriving at the IRS, he reportedly pulled out five different laptops from his bag to show the various agencies he had been granted access to. He has since left a few of those positions – or very possibly been fired – but he still has his fingers in a lot of pies, and the collection of laptops to prove it.
Likely aliases: OPM-05
Positions
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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website
|
Source
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» |
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github
|
Source
A service owned by Microsoft for developers to run version control on their applications and back them up to shared repositories that can be used by other developers. Github is provided as both a hosted service (at github.com) or via versions that can be installed with agency data centers (aka GitHub Enterprise or GHE). Access to Github would be expected for developers, but doesn’t necessarily mean the person is a coder. unknown access «Github Enterprise» |
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USA Performance
|
Source
System tracking job performance of federal employees admin access (last access 4/13/25) |
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USA Staffing
|
Source
A platform for federal agencies to recruit and onboard employees. admin access «USA Staffing Core + Admin Portal - DEV/TST/STG/TRN/PRD» |
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GWES
|
Source
A new system developed by DOGE for sending out email to all federal employees and collecting responses. It was most famously used for the Fork in The Road email. admin access (never accessed) |
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Databricks
|
Source
A hosted or self-hosted service that simplifies systems for processing big Data admin access «listed as “OPM Data Azure Databricks Admin + NP / PRD Azure Subscriptions”» |
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AD
|
Source
A system for controlling access to other systems within an agency unknown access (never accessed) granted by CIO |
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Microsoft Entra ID
|
Source
A centralized identity provider used to support single-sign-on (SSO) and centralize access control for agencies. unknown access (never accessed) granted by CIO |
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PAC
|
Source
Possibly a system for controlling and monitoring physical access to CFPB buildings unknown access granted by CIO |
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website
|
Source
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using read-write access granted by Other Luke Farritor «admin Entra access used to grant website access» |
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Sharepoint
|
Source
Microsoft service for sharing documents within an organization admin access granted by CIO «Used by Gavin to access documents to run layoffs» |
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Power Automate
|
Source
A Microsoft tool for automating tasks that operate on documents and providing to staff admin access |
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Power Automate
|
Source
A Microsoft tool for automating tasks that operate on documents and providing to staff admin access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/20/25
|
Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.
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1/20/25
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Source
Access
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.
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1/27/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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1/30/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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2/03/25
|
Source
Disruption
All USAID staff receive and email that the building is indefinitely closed. It included Gavin Kliger’s email address at USAID.
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2/06/25
|
Source
Onboard
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.
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2/07/25
|
Source
Disruption
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)
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2/09/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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2/12/25
|
Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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2/19/25
|
Source
Action
“Does the following blurb encapsulate what Gavin is looking for?” is what a USDA policy lead writes to the agency’s chief financial officer about proposed agency-wide guidance to find and report grants that related to climate change. She then emailed to Gavin for his direct approval.
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2/20/25
|
Source
Official
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 in response to a USDA staffer suggestion to use AI more.
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|
2/20/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
2/21/25
|
Source
Official
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.
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|
2/28/25
|
Source
Official
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.
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|
c.3/01/25
|
Source
Sighting
Gavin Kliger is reportedly spotted inside the headquarters for Voice of America.
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|
3/28/25
|
Source
Interagency
After the CIO and CISO are sidelined, Gavin Kliger joins a call with Katrine Trampe to pressure a senior advisor in human resources at DOI to direct them to the system owner for FPPS.
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4/04/25
|
Source
Sighting
Axios reports that Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant have started work at the FTC, looking at grants and contracts at the agency.
|
|
4/08/25
|
Source
Disruption
DOGE engineers kick off a hackathon at IRS with some senior IRS developers and representatives of the company Palantir to create a “Mega API” of IRS data.
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|
4/10/25
|
Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request from American Oversight, the USDA returns a list of known DOGE members at the agency at the time.
|
|
4/10/25
|
Source
Official
Gavin Kliger receives a warning from the CFPB Ethics Office that his stock holdings present serious concerns about possible conflicts of interest. He is required to divest himself of prohibited holdings by May 8th and excuse himself from decisions that might affect his holdings immediately.
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|
4/11/25
|
Source
Directory
In a legal filing, the government describes the DOGE team at Treasury of consisting of six people, some previously unknown as DOGE associates.
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|
4/12/25
|
Source
Interagency
CFPB leadership under Russell Vought uses the opening granted by the appeals court to attempt another massive RIF. Emailing from his USAID email account, Jeremy Lewin kicks off the process by providing Gavin Kliger and Adam Martinez with a letter to use for RIFs at the CFPB.
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4/12/25
|
Source
Interagency
Gavin Kliger begins working with Adam Martinez of CFPB and Jeremy Lewin at USAID on the infrastructure to automate a massive RIF at the CFPB. This includes scripts to send termination letters to each employee.
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|
4/12/25
|
Source
Interagency
Emailing this time from his CFPB account, Jeremy Lewin shares the documentation for the upcoming CFPB RIF with DOGE staff posted at several agencies (Zach Terrell and Alexandra Beynon). He also includes DOGE staff at CFPB: Gavin Kliger, Chris Young and Jordan Wick. It’s unclear if they are representing their individual agencies or are just taking part as DOGE members in the conversation.
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|
4/12/25
|
Source
Official
Jeremy Lewin emails CFPB leadership asking for full global admininstrative access for Entra and HRConnect to be restored for the DOGE engineers Gavin Kliger and Jordan Wick. Weirdly, this list includes Luke Farritor who offboarded at CFPB on 2025-03-04. This request is denied by the agency CIO.
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|
4/13/25
|
Source
Interagency
Adam Martinez responds in the affirmative to an email (contents redacted in court filings) requesting items/access for unspecified people to conduct the RIF. Several DOGE staffers (Ashley Boizelle and Steve Davis as well as Gavin Kliger and Jeremy Lewin) are also cc’ed on the message
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4/13/25
|
Source
Access
In an email, CFPB CIO Chris Chilbert reports that Gavin Kliger has been granted access to Ops HC - Prod to build the RIF automation. He also asks to confirm that Gavin Kliger should have his access immediately revoked to systems that let him deactivate employee email accounts or lock them out of their laptops.
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4/13/25
|
Source
Access
In an email, CFPB CIO Chris Chilbert informs Gavin Kliger that he will not be granted global admin access for his requests.
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4/16/25
|
Source
Interagency
Noah Peters at OPM denies the CFPB request made by Adam Martinez as well as Jeremy Lewin and Gavin Kliger to conduct an “emergency” RIF at the CFPB which would only give employees 30 days before their termination.
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4/17/25
|
Source
Disruption
According to sworn testimony by Alex Doe, Gavin Kliger forces the entire CFPB team to work for 36 hours straight and subjects them to frequent verbal abuse.
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|
5/08/25
|
Source
Offboard
Gavin Kliger leaves the CFPB, officially because his detail had ended but his departure date is also the day he would be in violation of ethics rules for having not sold stock holdings prohibited to CFBP staff.
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|
12/05/25
|
Sources
Directory
A legal filing from the government states that only 5 DOGE staffers – OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-03 (Akash Bobba), OPM-05 (Gavin Kliger), OPM-10 (Austin Raynor) and OPM-18 – are still working at the agency. OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini) is reporting directly to Scott Kupor.
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3/06/26
|
Sources
Onboard
The Department of Defense names Gavin Kliger as its Chief Data Officer, overseeing aspects of the Pentagon’s AI strategy and coordination with private AI firms. The press release also stated that Mr. Kliger also oversaw the launch of the GenAI.mil site as well as the Drone Dominance program that involved other DOGE staffers.
(fuzz: Weirdly, Gavin’s own LinkedIn listed him with the title of Chief Data Officer in December last year.)
|
Open Questions
- Why was Gavin Kliger given admin for access control systems at the CFPB?
Keenan Kmiec
Exited govt: 2/05/25 (inferred)
One of the DOGE team of lawyers, there aren’t many public details about Keenan Kmiec’s specific contributions, apart from testimony from Noah Peters that he discussed the idea of firing probationary employees before the administration began. Like a small number of the DOGE crew, he comes from a cryptocurrency company and would possibly be involved with any work or policy by DOGE related to that sector.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
DOGE
1/24/25-2/05/25
resigned from agency 2/05/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
c.1/16/25
|
Source
Action
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)
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|
3/26/25
|
Source
Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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Kaitlyn Koller
Kaitlyn Koller graduated from Marquette University in 2023 and had been involved in conservative youth political organizations and been an intern for Senator Jim Risch before working with Amy Gleason at USDS. More recently, she has been part of the National Design Studio, likely in a communications or political role.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
|
| NDS |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/23/26
|
Source
Directory
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.
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Jon Koval
Jon Koval is a vice president at Valor Equity Partners, the private-equity firm operated by Antonio Gracias. He has been working alongside Gracias at the SSA, but recently he was detailed to the DOJ to help build up DOGE’s immigrant-tracking panopticon.
Likely aliases: SSA-06
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SSA |
Source
|
| DOJ |
Source
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
MBR
|
Source
A large record of all individuals elgible to receive social security benefits read access granted by CIO Mike Russo |
|
NUMIDENT
|
Source
NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody read access granted by CIO Mike Russo |
|
SSR
|
Source
A master record used by the SSA for the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program read access granted by CIO Mike Russo |
|
ECAS
|
Source
A system used by DOJ for tracking the status of immigration cases unknown access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/23/25
|
Source
Onboard
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.
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|
3/12/25
|
Source
Directory
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)”
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|
3/13/25
|
Source
Directory
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/25/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
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6/25/25
|
Source
Oversight
Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency.
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|
7/01/25
|
Source
Offboard
In response to a letter from the American Federation of Teachers union to nine public pension funds who are investors, Valor Equity Partners confirms that Antonio Gracias was working for Valor the entire time he was in DOGE and also reports that he left DOGE on July 1st. It’s unclear what the status of other Valor employees embedded in DOGE, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling, are.
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Michael Kratsios
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| EOP |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
12/06/24
|
Source
Directory
A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump’s transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago.
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|
2/20/26
|
Source
Official
Speaking at the India AI Impact Summit, White House OSTP Director Micheal Kratsios announces that the Peace Corps will launch a new Tech Corps initiative to promote AI worldwide. Volunteers will be deployed to countries participating in the American AI Exports Program, service for 12-27 months overseas. The launch includes a new site for signups that looks like it was developed by the National Design Studio.
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Tom Krause
Exited govt: 6/06/25 (reported)
Tom Krause is the CEO of Cloud Software Group, which sells the Citrix tool used for remote desktops in enterprise environments. He has been involved with DOGE’s attempts to control all payments flowing through the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) department in the US Treasury. Due to ethics concerns, he onboarded as a volunteer part-time consultant, but in mid-February he was converted to a Schedule C appointment on the GS-15 payscale, which could mean he is being paid up to $195,200 a year.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| Treas. |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/08/25
|
Source
Official
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.”
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|
2/04/25
|
Source
Oversight
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.
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|
3/24/25
|
Source
Legal
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)
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|
4/11/25
|
Source
Directory
In a legal filing, the government describes the DOGE team at Treasury of consisting of six people, some previously unknown as DOGE associates.
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|
5/26/25
|
Source
Legal
Judge Vargas, ruling in New York v. Donald Trump lifted restrictions on DOGE staff accessing Treasury systems, saying that the government had demonstrated it was following proper procedures.
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|
6/06/25
|
Source
Offboard
Tom Krause resigns his position at Treasury and exits government service, according to an email that he sent to employees at the Cloud Software Group, the company which he was simultaneously running. He departed Treasury a month before his SGE status would have required him to leave.
|
Scott Kupor
Tech Industry Links: Andreessen Horowitz
A managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Scott Kupor was advanced by a Senate committee as the nomination for the permanent head of the OPM to replace Charles Ezell. Now that he has finally been confirmed to the role in July, many expect him to be the new driver of the administration’s efforts to decimate the federal workforce.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
12/06/24
|
Source
Directory
A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump’s transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago.
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|
4/03/25
|
Source
Oversight
Scott Kupor, the nominee to lead OPM, assured senators in a confirmation hearing that he believes strongly in data privacy and respecting the humanity and dignity of the federal workforce.
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|
7/09/25
|
Source
Onboard
Scott Kupor is confirmed by the Senate to be the new Director of OPM, replacing Charles Ezell who had been serving in an acting capacity since January 20th.
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7/21/25
|
Source
Disruption
Scott Kupor states that he expects to eliminate roughly 1000 positions at OPM (or about a third of its staff) by the end of the year.
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8/06/25
|
Source
Disruption
OPM announces the end of the requirement that all federal workers must send in a weekly “Five Things” email describing their work the prior work. OPM director Scott Kupor announced the change in a meeting with all human capital officials across the government.
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9/03/25
|
Source
Report
In an interview with Axios, Scott Kupor claims that he was not involved with any of DOGE’s actions at OPM before he was appointed (indeed, he says he was locked out of the agency until he was appointed). Despite being an employee of Andreesen Horowitz, he states only March Andreesen and Ben Horowitz were in communication with Elon Musk.
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11/24/25
|
Source
Disruption
Revising earlier dire estimates even higher, OPM head Scott Kupor reports that the US government will eliminate 317,000 jobs in 2025. He also reports that it will hire 68,000 new employees this year.
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|
12/10/25
|
Source
Disruption
The head of OPM, Scott Kupor, reports that 317,000 federal workers have left their jobs this year as a result of DOGE’s actions and Trump administration policies. He asserts that the vast majority of departures were voluntary.
|
Nicholas Lahera
Scott Langmack
According to his LinkedIn, Scott Langmack is also continuing to serve as the CEO of Kukun, a real estate technology company, while he is also heading the DOGE team at HUD. At HUD, he seems to have been focused mostly on searching for fraud they’re convinced is in the system and figuring out how to delete grants from HUD. It’s no coincidence that both of these missions will impact the poor and vulnerable the most. More recently, he moved into a new role at OMB that is looking to apply the AI-driven approach to deregulation across multiple agencies
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| HUD |
Sources
|
| OMB |
Source
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
HUDCAPS
|
Source
Integrated management system for Section 8 programs under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public and Indian Housing read-write access |
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LOCCS
|
Source
Handles disbursement and cash management for the majority of HUD’s grant programs read-write access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/10/25
|
Source
Sighting
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.
|
|
2/26/25
|
Source
Sighting
There is reportedly a 6-person DOGE team working at HUD, with 4 of the staff identified as existing HUD employees and Michael Mirski and Scott Langmack as the representatives from DOGE.
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c.4/10/25
|
Source
Onboard
Scott Langmack sends a message to HUD staff announcing that “I’d like to share with you that Chris Sweet has joined the HUD DOGE team with the title of special assistant, although a better title might be ‘AI computer programming quant analyst.’”
(fuzz: Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April)
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|
8/13/25
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Source
Interagency
In a call hosted by the US CIO, DOGE team lead Scott Langmack shares info on an AI tool named SweetREX Deregulation AI Plan Builder developed by Christoper Sweet to review agency regulations for elimination. This is the same tool highlighted by DOGE in a presentation to the White House earlier in the month. Agency representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of State, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are on the call. Steve Davis also was on the call despite having left DOGE and asked if the tool could be open-sourced.
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Sahil Lavingia
A tech founder who created the site Gumroad, Sahil Lavingia showed up late to DOGE, with the goal of helping veterans at the VA. Despite displaying a remarkable and sometimes frankly infuriating naivete about both DOGE’s real mission and how civic technology operated before, his blog post about his experiences has given us the best view of how DOGE actually operated. Sadly, it’s also what got him fired from the “most transparent organization in government.” More recently, the IRS apparently hired him back into government in November, at the direction of Sam Corcos, reportedly as a career employee in the nonpartisan civil service. He reportedly is working on online accounts at the IRS.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| VA |
Sources
fired 5/09/25
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| IRS |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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3/25/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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5/08/25
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Source
Report
Fast Company runs an interview with Sahil Lavingia, who is promptly fired by DOGE the following day.
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6/06/25
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Source
Report
ProPublica analyzes public code by Sahil Lavingia for an AI-powered tool to evaluate contracts at the VA and determine which ones are “munchable” (meaning they should be canceled). The analysis finds the AI was given poor instructions and lacks context to correctly make these decisions.
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6/25/25
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Source
Oversight
Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency.
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12/08/25
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Source
Official
Sahil Lavingia shares a revision to the IRS homepage’s look and feel which makes it look more like LinkedIn or similar. Design critics note that it has 3 different Sign In buttons, which Sahil states it will save the user time depending on where their cursor is.
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Jeremy Lewin
Jeremy Lewin is unusual among the most prolific wreckers because he is a lawyer and not a programmer. He also came from a more progressive background than many of the DOGE crew, which makes his recent heel turn all the more astonishing. Since joining DOGE, Mr. Lewin has been part of some of the more odious aspects of DOGE’s takedown of USAID and attempted elimination of the CFPB. Under the wing of DOGE ally, he has been rapidly promoted upward in the eviscerated remnants of USAID and the remnants of a similar foreign-aid operation within the Department of State. Despite these new positions, he still finds time to participate in DOGE activities; recent documents from the NTEU’s lawsuit against Russell Vought include Lewin emailing instructions to Gavin Kliger on how to conduct an attempted reduction-in-force at the CFPB in April.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
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| USAID |
Sources
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| CFPB |
Source
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| HHS |
Sources
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| State |
Source
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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Grant Solutions
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Source
A shared-service provider tool for federal agencies to track grants across their entire lifecycles read access granted by Deputy Director |
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CALM
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Source
System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. read access granted by CIO |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/20/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staffers start working within GSA in the office of the Administrator with the title Senior Advisor
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1/30/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/03/25
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Source
Access
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.
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2/06/25
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Source
Onboard
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.
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2/13/25
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Source
Disruption
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.”
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2/20/25
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Source
Report
Trump political appointees and DOGE staffers hold an impromptu celebration of their work on the one-month anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, complete with a celebratory cake, in the agency’s new temporary offices where senior staff are isolated from the remaining career employees by a “moat” of 90 empty desks
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2/24/25
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Source
Directory
Four DOGE staffers are indentified with email addresses linked to NIH. These are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin and Clark Minor.
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2/27/25
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Source
Disruption
In a meeting the day after a federal judge ordered USAID to release funding for humanitarian operations, Jeremy Lewin, not yet in charge of programs at the agency, told senior staff that he viewed the legal rulings as a license to dispense with some of the formal reviews for unfreezing operations. One of the attendees took his remarks to mean he had no intention of unfreezing anything.
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3/01/25
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Source
Disruption
Reviewing the spreadsheet, Jeremy Lewin orders that 151 additional awards must be terminated, writing that he would “have strong objections to these awards being turned on.” Emailing later at 11:30pm, Peter Marocco also states the reactivations were far too broad and indicating more programs to be terminated
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3/03/25
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Source
Access
Jeremy Lewin is granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts.
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3/19/25
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Source
Official
Peter Marocco says that he will be succeeded at the agency by Jeremy Lewin and Kenneth Jackson, serving in deputy roles.
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3/20/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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3/26/25
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Source
Disruption
The IT department at USAID has been reduced from 100 to only 5 staffers – 3 IT operations employees, a project manager, and a single contracting officer. All employees focused on compliance and security are on administrative leave and a team to coordinate the transfer of IT assets from USAID to the Department of State was disbanded by Jeremy Lewin.
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3/26/25
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Source
Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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3/28/25
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Source
Disruption
Almost all of the remaining 900 USAID employees are terminated by email from Jeremy Lewin with RIFs that will go into effect either in July or September.
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3/29/25
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Source
Directory
In a court declaration in AFL-CIO vs. DOL, counsel for the plaintiffs Alexa Milton provides the names of two DOGE staffers at HHS who were not included in the government’s list of staffers provided as part of legal discovery.
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3/29/25
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Source
Legal
In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.
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4/08/25
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Source
Disruption
After Rubio and the Trump administration promised to keep many lifesaving humanitarian grant programs active, almost all of them are slashed over the weekend. Some of the cut programs are then restored later. In one example, Peter Marocco ordered staff to comply with White House orders to stop all funds to Afghanistan. In other cases, Jeremy Lewin appears to have been involved with the alterations. USAID staff are not informed directly of these changes but find out from aid organizations whose funds have been affected.
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4/12/25
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Source
Interagency
CFPB leadership under Russell Vought uses the opening granted by the appeals court to attempt another massive RIF. Emailing from his USAID email account, Jeremy Lewin kicks off the process by providing Gavin Kliger and Adam Martinez with a letter to use for RIFs at the CFPB.
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4/12/25
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Source
Interagency
Gavin Kliger begins working with Adam Martinez of CFPB and Jeremy Lewin at USAID on the infrastructure to automate a massive RIF at the CFPB. This includes scripts to send termination letters to each employee.
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4/12/25
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Source
Interagency
Emailing this time from his CFPB account, Jeremy Lewin shares the documentation for the upcoming CFPB RIF with DOGE staff posted at several agencies (Zach Terrell and Alexandra Beynon). He also includes DOGE staff at CFPB: Gavin Kliger, Chris Young and Jordan Wick. It’s unclear if they are representing their individual agencies or are just taking part as DOGE members in the conversation.
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4/12/25
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Source
Official
Jeremy Lewin emails CFPB leadership asking for full global admininstrative access for Entra and HRConnect to be restored for the DOGE engineers Gavin Kliger and Jordan Wick. Weirdly, this list includes Luke Farritor who offboarded at CFPB on 2025-03-04. This request is denied by the agency CIO.
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4/13/25
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Source
Interagency
Jeremy Lewin has a followup Teams call with CFPB chief legal counsel Mark Paoletta to plan for the upcoming massive RIF at the CFPB
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4/13/25
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Source
Interagency
Adam Martinez responds in the affirmative to an email (contents redacted in court filings) requesting items/access for unspecified people to conduct the RIF. Several DOGE staffers (Ashley Boizelle and Steve Davis as well as Gavin Kliger and Jeremy Lewin) are also cc’ed on the message
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4/16/25
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Source
Interagency
Noah Peters at OPM denies the CFPB request made by Adam Martinez as well as Jeremy Lewin and Gavin Kliger to conduct an “emergency” RIF at the CFPB which would only give employees 30 days before their termination.
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6/24/25
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Source
Disruption
Jeremy Lewin overrides many objections by staffers reviewing the grant and rushes a grant of $30 million for the month of June to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation only five days after its funding request was submitted. The request was also handled by Kenneth Jackson and accumulated over 58 objections from USAID staffers that GHF failed both technical and financial requirements for aid recipients. GHF was hastily formed in February 2025 and has been faulted for forcing Palestinians to navigate crowded militarized zones to receive aid. This has resulted in multiple mass killings near GHF sites.
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7/11/25
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Source
Report
Jeremy Lewin is promoted to Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Affairs and Religious Freedom in the State Department. This is the third highest rank in the agency and he is possibly the youngest person to ever hold it.
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7/21/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
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|
3/04/26
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Source
Legal
An appeals court blocked a ruling by a judge that would have compelled Elon Musk and other senior officials at USAID to testify under oath, finding that the lower court had “abused its discretion” in ordering the testimony.
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Dennis Li
A member of the National Design Studio who has been involved with the retirement modernization work at OPM.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Source
OPM
6/XX/25
«Left prior job in May, December blog post said working past 6 months on OPM project to digitize paper retirements. Although lists job as NDS, this should be an OPM role.»
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
12/26/25
|
Source
Website
The National Design Studio launches a new blog named “Dev Index” with an article written about the modernization work at OPM for digitizing retirements that apparently has moved over to the NDS from OPM with Joe Gebbia. The article is written by Yat Choi and Dennis Li and thanks Edward Coristine and Zach Terrell for reviewing the content.
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Jeremy Lichtman
Exited govt: 12/XX/25 (self-reported)
He was named as a member of the DOGE team at USDA in response to a FOIA request from American Oversight. According to LinkedIn, he has held multiple positions related to shareholder activism and strategic investing.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| USDA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
4/10/25
|
Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request from American Oversight, the USDA returns a list of known DOGE members at the agency at the time.
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|
5/08/25
|
Source
Interagency
Jeremy Lichtman emails USDA officials to inform them that GSA (likely Josh Gruenbaum) had directed them to review several agency grants for termination. These terminations were reportedly “awaiting final greenlight from the White House.”
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Kendall Lindemann
Exited govt: 7/XX/25 (self-reported)
Coming to DOGE from McKinsey, she has also been the person to testify in a deposition as a DOGE representative in a court case.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
DOGE
c.2/10/25-7/XX/25
Senior Advisor for Technology and Efficiency
(AD-00)
«Departure from own LinkedIn»
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/05/25
|
Source
Official
According to later sworn testimony from Kendall Lindemann, this is the date that Steve Davis was designated as the decision-maker for DOGE as the senior-most political appointee until Amy Gleason is appointed as acting administratior of DOGE on 2025-02-18. Later news reports suggest Steve Davis continued to remain in charge.
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|
2/17/25
|
Source
Interagency
Joshua Fox emails a few NASA administrators to introduce himself as “one of the attorneys at DOGE” and to also inform them “I just spoke to Scott Coulter about this, but I wanted to let you know that he is planning to go over to SSA tomorrow.” He includes several other DOGE leadership personnel in the email chain. It’s unclear from the message who actually made the decision that Scott Coulter would be detailed to the Social Security Administration.
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2/18/25
|
Source
Interagency
Kendall Lindemann contacts the FCC on behalf of DOGE and Amy Gleason to start the process of detailing several DOGE staffers to the agency.
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|
3/17/25
|
Source
Interagency
In a redacted email about onboarding Jordan Wick, Joshua Fox sends an email to other FCC staff introducing Kendall Lindemann as DOGE’s “onboarding/HR/personnel expert.”
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|
4/07/25
|
Source
Legal
Kendall Lindemann testifies in a sworn deposition for AFL-CIO v. Dep’t of Labor (D.D.C.) as a representative of DOGE after saying she had conducted extensive conversations with Amy Gleason.
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Kathryn Armstrong Loving
Exited govt: 6/XX/25 (self-reported)
There aren’t many details about Loving’s work for DOGE, apart from a brief sighting at the EPA, where she was reviewing contracts. She is a coder who has spent a decade or so working in biotech. She is also the sister of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who recently offered to hire any DOGE alumni, no questions asked.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| EPA |
Sources
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
EAS
|
Source
System used at the EPA to initiate, award, modify and track acquisition actions. read access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/11/25
|
Source
Disruption
Kathryn Armstrong Loving sends the EPA administrator a list of contracts that DOGE wants to eliminate and she includes Cole Killian on her message.
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|
3/04/25
|
Source
Official
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.
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3/19/25
|
Source
Interagency
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.
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3/25/25
|
Source
Interagency
Kathryn Armstrong Loving and Erica Jehling continue to work directly with Josh Gruenbaum from the GSA on more grants to cancel at the EPA.
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Matt Luby
A childhood friend and chief of staff for Vivek Ramaswamy, he has apparently stayed involved in DOGE even as Vivek departed. He is linked to DOGE in January 2025 and was spotted at the Department of the Interior in April, but it’s unclear what he was doing in the interim for DOGE (or Vivek).
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOI |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/12/25
|
Source
Directory
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
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|
4/17/25
|
Source
Disruption
The Washington Posts reports that both Tyler Hassen and Matt Luby are scrutinizing all grants at the Department of the Interior. They also requested a list of all grants going to Maine, perhaps to punish the state for its governor’s defiance of Trump.
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Shaun Maguire
Shaun Maguire is a partner at the investment firm Sequoia. In that position, he has been heavily involved with investments in several of Musk’s companies like SpaceX, the Boring Company and xAI. He was heavily involved in setting up DOGE and planning its strategies in the months after the election, but he has not had a formal role in the agency, serving as a vocal booster and recruiter on social media instead.
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
12/06/24
|
Source
Directory
A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump’s transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago.
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|
1/12/25
|
Source
Directory
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
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|
1/16/25
|
Source
Report
A report on conservative nonprofit groups doing research for DOGE notes that interviews are being conducted by Marc Andreessen and Shaun Maguire.
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|
1/24/25
|
Source
Directory
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.
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Tarak Makecha
Tech Industry Links: Tesla, Valor
Exited govt: 7/XX/25 (self-reported)
Tarak Makecha is the former head of stategic planning for Tesla Energy. Although he describes himself as a software engineer, he comes from a backgroun in finance. In that capacity, he has been reviewing and cancelling grants for the DOJ and FBI, but recent sources have also linked him to the US Agency for Global Media and grant cancellations there. His LinkedIn reports that he left working for DOGE in July and is now a vice president at Valor Equity Partners, the investment firm run by Antonio Gracias and the employer of Jon Koval and Payton Rehling. I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| State |
Source
|
| OPM |
Sources
|
| USAGM |
Source
|
| FCC |
Source
|
| FBI |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/12/25
|
Source
Interagency
Steve Davis sends an email to the FCC general counsel Adam Candeub introducing him to Tarak Makecha (whom he identifies as the Biz Lead) and Jordan Wick (software engineer). He follows up with Tarak and suggests chatting with him on his personal phone number (instead of an official government phone number).
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3/13/25
|
Source
Interagency
Tarak Makecha, Joshua Fox, and Jacob Altik communicate with FCC staff about detailing arrangements from the OPM to the FCC (presumably for Tarak and Jacob)
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|
4/03/25
|
Source
Disruption
Tarak Makecha escalates his demands at 6:25pm that the Acacia contracts must be terminated immediately despite it being after business hours and there not being an actual emergency.
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|
4/03/25
|
Source
Disruption
Tarak Makecha finds a DOJ Contracting Officer after hours at 7:25pm to send the termination despite agency concerns that it violates the terms of a court order to not provide 3 days notice for termination.
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|
4/03/25
|
Source
Interagency
Tarak Makecha, a DOGE representative at DOJ is forwarded a list at 6pm of DOJ contracts to terminate for the Acacia Center, a nonprofit in DOGE’s crosshairs that day and a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the DOJ. He coordinates with Josh Gruenbaum at the GSA, who is leading a multi-agency effort to eliminate grants.
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|
4/04/25
|
Source
Sighting
Tarak Makecha, Jordan Wick and Jacob Altik are listed in the public directory of FCC staff and listed as associated with the Office of the Chairman at the FCC.
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|
4/08/25
|
Source
Interagency
Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle meet in the FCC headquarters with the Chief of Staff Greg Watson to discuss the FCC’s progress on removing regulations.
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Open Questions
- Why does a FOIA of start dates and positions list Tarak starting at State in January 2025?
Ted Malaska
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Exited govt: 6/02/25 (reported)
One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. It seems like that term was extended however, only to be revoked in the wake of Elon Musk’s departure. Ted was also named in several reports where he promised to steamroll any federal staff who got in his way.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| FAA |
Source
fired 6/02/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/17/25
|
Source
Directory
Four SpaceX engineers at FAA are granted ethics waivers and designated as Special Government Employees, but must recuse from decisions affecting SpaceX.
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2/18/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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4/25/25
|
Source
Disruption
DOGE staff assigned to the FAA have reportedly enlisted government staff to work on a secret communications project named “Project Lift,” requiring them to sign NDAs. It is rumored to be about incorporating Starlink into FAA projects.
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|
6/02/25
|
Source
Offboard
In the wake of Elon Musk’s exit from DOGE, the four SpaceX engineers that have been working secretly in the FAA – Ted Malaska, Sam Smeal, Thomas Kiernan and Brady Glantz – are all immediately removed from the agency. The Post reports that some agency staff went for post-work drinks to celebrate the banishment of the DOGE team.
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Dave Malcher
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Source
GSA
c.4/24/25
|
| VA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
7/21/25
|
Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
|
Allan Mangaser
Tech Industry Links: Palantir
According to ProPublica, he previously worked for Palantir and Theorem, a financial services startup. They report he has met with officials from the TSA and CISA
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| EOP |
Source
|
| DHS |
Source
|
Peter Marocco
A veteran of the first Trump administration, he was reportedly placed on administrative leave in 2020 for establishing a pattern in a division of USAID that he ran where he would unilaterally freeze or revoke grants that he felt didn’t reflect administration priorities. When employees spoke up about it, he would then accuse them of insubordination and attempt to get them suspended or fired. He sounds like a really nice guy, so it’s probably not surprising that placing him in charge of USAID this year led to the rapid destruction of the agency. And it’s also possibly why he himself was reportedly ousted from the State Department after the damage was complete. It would be comically ironic, if it didn’t mean the loss of hundreds of valuable people in USAID and hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| State |
Sources
fired 4/13/25
|
| USAID |
Source
USAID
2/01/25-3/19/25
resigned from agency 3/19/25
|
| IAF |
Source
removed 4/04/25
|
| USADF |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/23/25
|
Source
Interagency
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.
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|
1/24/25
|
Source
Official
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.
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|
1/27/25
|
Source
Onboard
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.
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|
1/30/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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|
2/01/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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|
2/20/25
|
Source
Report
Trump political appointees and DOGE staffers hold an impromptu celebration of their work on the one-month anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, complete with a celebratory cake, in the agency’s new temporary offices where senior staff are isolated from the remaining career employees by a “moat” of 90 empty desks
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2/23/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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2/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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3/01/25
|
Source
Disruption
Reviewing the spreadsheet, Jeremy Lewin orders that 151 additional awards must be terminated, writing that he would “have strong objections to these awards being turned on.” Emailing later at 11:30pm, Peter Marocco also states the reactivations were far too broad and indicating more programs to be terminated
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3/04/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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3/04/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/04/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/19/25
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Source
Official
Peter Marocco says that he will be succeeded at the agency by Jeremy Lewin and Kenneth Jackson, serving in deputy roles.
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4/08/25
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Source
Disruption
After Rubio and the Trump administration promised to keep many lifesaving humanitarian grant programs active, almost all of them are slashed over the weekend. Some of the cut programs are then restored later. In one example, Peter Marocco ordered staff to comply with White House orders to stop all funds to Afghanistan. In other cases, Jeremy Lewin appears to have been involved with the alterations. USAID staff are not informed directly of these changes but find out from aid organizations whose funds have been affected.
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3/04/26
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Source
Legal
An appeals court blocked a ruling by a judge that would have compelled Elon Musk and other senior officials at USAID to testify under oath, finding that the lower court had “abused its discretion” in ordering the testimony.
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Antoine McCord
A former Marine with a background in intelligence, McCord was named as the CIO for DHS the same week as the DOGE delegation started there. He has been a frequent enabler of their access to various systems and is reportedly also very excited about the application of AI at the agency.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DHS |
Sources
|
Paul McInerny
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Another alumn of SpaceX, Paul McInery left the company in 2020 to be the VP of Engineering at a lawncare-oriented startup named Lawn Love. Despite no experience at being either in government, he was tapped to be the new CIO of the Department of the Interior, after the previous one was forced out of the position for not granting Stephanie Holmes admin access to the FPDS system that manages payroll for half of the federal government.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOI |
Source
|
Jonathan Mendelson
An April addition to the DOGE lineup, Jonathan Mendelson has been part of Nate Cavanaugh’s wrecking crew that visits small independent executive agencies to subvert and destroy them. He has been spotted at the SEC and the USDFC so far, which is concerning considering he comes from a background in venture capital and investment banking. Prior to DOGE, he was an investor in the Silicon Valley VC firm Accel.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Source
GSA
4/09/25
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| DFC |
Source
|
| SEC |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
4/28/25
|
Source
Sighting
A team of 4 DOGE personnel – Nate Cavanaugh, Jonathan Mendelson, Ethan Shaotran and Marshall Wood – arrive at the headquarters of the US International Development Finance Corporation
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4/29/25
|
Source
Interagency
Nate Cavanaugh sends an email to the two remaining members of the CPB board requesting a meeting. He describes a DOGE team at GSA and cc’s several other members of DOGE
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5/13/25
|
Source
Directory
In an overview of how DOGE has tried to assign teams outside of the executive branch, NPR lists six DOGE staffers at GSA who are involved with those efforts.
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c.8/03/25
|
Source
Interagency
SEC leadership meets with DOGE representatives Jonathan Mendelson and Christopher Sweet to discuss using Sweet’s AI tool to identify regulations to cut or modify at the agency. It’s unclear if Sweet is detailed to the agency or just demonstrating the tool to SEC staff. Reportedly, agency staff then used the tool to identify thousands of regulations to cut. The list will then be reviewed by agency leadership and lawyers.
(fuzz: Date given is “a short time after” the AI task force is created)
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Katie Miller
Exited govt: 5/29/25 (verified)
The wife of Stephen Miller, Katie is in some sort of communications role for DOGE, but it’s unclear what her day-to-day responsibilities for his entail. Sharing the virulent anti-immigrant politics of her husband, she likely has been a conduit for coordinating DOGE’s anti-immigration focus. Recently, she notably left DOGE along with Elon Musk to go work for him instead.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
resigned from agency 5/29/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/24/25
|
Source
Directory
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.
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4/01/25
|
Source
Disruption
Alarmed at the viral spread of DOGE’s false claim that 40% of all calls to Social Security are fraud, agency staff at SSA draft a public statement to correct the errors in the claim. They are specifically ordered by Katie Miller not to release it. She asserts “the number is 40 percent.”
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5/22/25
|
Source
Interagency
Elon Musk joins a late-night meeting with senior members of the DOGE leadership team. Katie Miller delivered a blunt message that DOGE was on thin ice with the White House. She also reportedly advised that DOGE should strive to collaborate with Cabinet secretaries more instead of pushiing cuts or projects on them that they didn’t want to do.
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5/29/25
|
Source
Offboard
In the wake of Elon Musk’s departure, Steve Davis, Katie Miller and James Burnham reportedly also left DOGE. Davis had been widely described as running the day-to-day operations of DOGE, and it’s unclear who will take that over.
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|
6/10/25
|
Source
Report
Despite having left government service, Elon Musk, Steve Davis and Katie Miller reportedly tell top DOGE staff at a meeting that Musk continues to back their work and they should continue to stay the course.
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Clark Minor
Tech Industry Links: Palantir
A former head of cloud strategy at Palantir, Clark Minor was named the CIO for Health and Human Services in February. in that position, he is able to grant access for DOGE staff to many systems.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| HHS |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/24/25
|
Source
Access
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
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|
2/24/25
|
Source
Directory
Four DOGE staffers are indentified with email addresses linked to NIH. These are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin and Clark Minor.
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|
c.2/25/25
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Source
Sighting
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)
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|
3/XX/25
|
Source
Access
In a response to a Trump EO on tracking grants, the DOGE team is granted approval by HHS CIO Clark Minor to build an API to retrieved data from the Payment Management System system.
|
|
9/09/25
|
Source
Official
All employees at HHS and its subsidiary agencies receive an email informing them that ChatGPT will be rolled out to the entire agency immediately. The rollout is being managed by Clark Minor, and the email states that the deployment is secure enough that agency staff can even include procurement-sensitive data and “non-sensitive” PII into the chats, although sensitive PII, classified informatio and other confidential information should not be shared.
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Michael Mirski
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| HUD |
Sources
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
HEMS
|
Source
A database for tracking housing discrimination complaints and enforcement actions, including accusations of domestic violence unknown access |
|
FASS-PH
|
Source
A database to measure the financial condition of public housing agencies and assess their ability to provide safe and decent housing. read access |
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HUDCAPS
|
Source
Integrated management system for Section 8 programs under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public and Indian Housing read-write access |
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IDIS
|
Source
A database for tracking all HUD programs nationwide, it includes hidden locations of domestic violence shelters read access |
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LOCCS
|
Source
Handles disbursement and cash management for the majority of HUD’s grant programs read-write access |
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WASS
|
Source
System for authorizing access and setting permissions to talk to other systems at HUD read-write access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/26/25
|
Source
Sighting
There is reportedly a 6-person DOGE team working at HUD, with 4 of the staff identified as existing HUD employees and Michael Mirski and Scott Langmack as the representatives from DOGE.
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4/15/25
|
Source
Disruption
Michael Mirski is named as leading a DOGE effort at HUD to identify and target households that include undocumented immigrants. These could then be referred to the surveillance system that is being built by DOGE at DHS for immigration enforcement.
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Eliezer Mishory
A perfect enacapsulation of the ethical quagmires surrounding DOGE. Prior to his current assignement, he was the chief regulatory officer at a prediction and betting company, for whom Donald Trump Jr. is an advisor. Now he gets to work his ways on the SEC.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SEC |
Sources
detail ended 10/31/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
4/15/25
|
Source
Sighting
Reports that SEC leadership has pushed back on DOGE requests to get admin access for staff emails, personnel data, contracts, and payments systems.
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|
7/01/25
|
Source
Disruption
DOGE staff at the SEC reportedly have been holding meetings in recent weeks pressuring SEC staff to eliminate regulations around blank-check companies and confidential reporting by private investment funds that were finalized in the Biden administration.
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|
10/30/25
|
Source
Report
The DOGE team at the SEC has reportedly wrapped up its work at the agency and will be exiting from its involvement at the regulator. Although multiple people have been part of DOGE’s efforts, only Eliezer Mishory has been spotted there in recent months
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Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Exited govt: 3/05/25 (guessed)
The DOGE member who did HR at SpaceX. Nope, not that one. Not that one either. She actually is one of four HR specialists who came from SpaceX to OPM, presumably to work on ways to reduce the federal workforces.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
OPM
2/03/25-3/05/25
Expert
(ED-00, excepted, volunteer)
«Likely 1 of 3 unidentified OPM aliases who started in Feb and left in March 2025»
resigned from agency 3/05/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/03/25
|
Source
Onboard
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.
|
|
2/12/25
|
Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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Aram Moghaddassi
Tech Industry Links: Neuralink, Twitter
A former employee at both X and Neuralink, Aram Moghaddassi arrived as a hire at the Department of Labor in February and has been detailed to other agencies like Social Security or DHS to work at important projects for Musk, whether it’s trying to detect fraud at SSA or building a surveillance state for immigration. His hiring arrangements at DOL were finally made public, revealing that he was hired and then immediately detailed to SSA, where he has continued to work past his original projected end of term in June. So, there are still a lot of questions about what he has been up to.
Likely aliases: SSA-03
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOL |
Source
|
| SSA |
Sources
DOL SSA
2/22/25
[as SSA-03]
detailed
(reimbursed up to $71,000)
«MOU signed by Mike Russo, was this followed by being hired at SSA»
SSA
9/03/25
promoted to
Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products)
«Had reportedly been in an informal co-CIO role with Mike Russo since June, now made official»
|
| HHS |
Source
|
| DHS |
Source
|
| SBA |
Source
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
Grant Solutions
|
Source
A shared-service provider tool for federal agencies to track grants across their entire lifecycles read access granted by Deputy Director |
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CALM
|
Source
System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. read access granted by CIO |
|
HIGLAS
|
Source
A single, integrated dual-entry accounting system that centralizes accounting for CMS programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. read access granted by CIO |
|
IDR
|
Source
A data warehouse that receives all Medicare claims after they have been approved for payment read access granted by CIO |
|
NDNH
|
Source
A system for tracking wages and new hires that’s used for child support location read access granted by CTO |
|
PSSNAP
|
SSN application process data (Phone). This is a data extract file rather than an independent system. read-write access granted by Agency Director Leland Dudek «“these profiles concerningly included equipment pin access and write access,” the PIN would allow them to make edits without it being traced to an individual» |
|
CIS
|
Source
The CIS contains information about immigrants who use Alien Numbers, or A-Numbers. unknown access granted by CIO Antoine McCord |
|
ELIS
|
Source
ELIS acts as a case management system for USCIS and includes information about green cards and petitions, as well as details related to Temporary Protected Status and DACA applicants unknown access granted by CIO Antoine McCord |
|
DBIS
|
Source
A system for tracking payments and business operations of USCIS unknown access granted by CIO Antoine McCord |
|
FLAG
|
Source
This newly-modernized portal will help U.S. employers find qualified workers while ensuring protections for U.S. and foreign workers. admin access «granted “OIG-level” admin access» |
|
REO
|
Source
System which tracks funding provided for justice-involved youth and young adults and adults who were formerly incarcerated. unknown access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/22/25
|
Source
Onboard
Unidentfied alias SSA-03 (Aram Moghaddassi) is detailed over from the Department of Labor
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|
3/XX/25
|
Source
Official
Aram Moghaddassi writes to Florida officials to state “we’re working on SAVE access for Florida law enforcement now.” He also requests information from Florida, claiming that ICE “has several leads on non-citizen voting in Florida and would like to work with Florida to investigate and prosecute these cases.”
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|
3/03/25
|
Source
Disruption
An unidentified member of the DOGE team at the SSA emailed a password-protected and encrypted file to DHS but also included Steve Davis at DOGE and an unidentified DOGE team member at the Department of Labor (possibly Marko Elez or Aram Moghaddassi who were detailed to SSA from DOL). SSA staff believes it contained sensitive PII of approximately 1000 individuals, but the Chief Information Office has been unable to determine more. Notably, the CIO role for SSA has been held by a rotation of several DOGE staffers since February.
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|
3/05/25
|
Source
Access
Multiple DOGE staff (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS). This system tracks all payments made by Medicare, among other expenditures.
|
|
3/05/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
3/05/25
|
Source
Access
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
|
|
3/05/25
|
Source
Onboard
Business Insider reports Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles B. Collins are new DOGE arrivals at Department of Labor.
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|
3/12/25
|
Source
Directory
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)”
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|
3/13/25
|
Source
Directory
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).
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|
3/27/25
|
Source
Disruption
In an interview on FOX News, Aram Moghaddassi mangles a statistic that 40% of fraud involved a call to a service center to change direct deposit information. He instead announces that 40% of all calls to the SSA are fraudlent. The claim is amplified across conservative media and the White House refuses to correct.
|
|
3/28/25
|
Source
Access
USCIS CIO William McElhaney sends a message to DHS Deputy Secretary asking them to review access that was granted to DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt, Edward Coristine, Aram Moghaddassi and Payton Rehling.
|
|
3/28/25
|
Source
Official
As part of an interview on Fox News, Aram Moghaddassi spreads an incorrect statistic that states 40% of all phones calls to SSA are from people committing fraud.
|
|
3/29/25
|
Source
Legal
In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.
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|
4/08/25
|
Source
Access
Aram Moghaddassi adds 6300 names of suspected immigrants to the “death master file” as a way of forcing them to “self-deport” by making it impossible to use financial products. This list included the names of 7 minors.
|
|
4/10/25
|
Source
Access
102 more names of living people are added to the Master Death File at SSA to destroy their ability to participate in society and to “self-deport” as a result.
|
|
4/10/25
|
Source
Disruption
Greg Pearre, a senior career executive overseeing technologists at the SSA, is forced out of his office by security guards after clashing with CIO Scott Coulter and calling his plan to forcibly declare immigrants dead both illegal and cruel
|
|
4/11/25
|
Source
Directory
Politico profiles a DOGE immigration task force that is located within DHS but has contacts with DOGE staff at other agencies. It includes multiple DOGE staffers detailed from various agencies.
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|
4/18/25
|
Source
Disruption
Some immigrants have been forced to prove they aren’t dead after being added to the Master Death File in an attempt to force them to “self-deport.” The White House had falsely claimed nobody was really declared dead.
|
|
5/16/25
|
Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
|
|
6/06/25
|
Source
Sighting
A report in the New York Times suggests that Mike Russo and Aram Moghaddassi have essentially been acting as joint CIOs at the agency.
|
|
6/10/25
|
Access
John Solly asks staff in the Social Security Administration’s CIO office (then possibly under the leadership of Scott Coulter or Aram Moghaddassi) to create a cloud environment to upload the NUMIDENT data to. The stated reason was purported reason for the project was to improve the way that SSA exchanges data.
|
|
6/12/25
|
Disruption
A career official writes up a Risk Acceptance Request Form to share with Aram Moghaddassi and another unnamed career official in the office of the CIO at Social Security about DOGE’s request to have administrative access to a separate Virtual Private Cloud within the Amazon Web Services infrastructure at SSA. The official classifies this as high-risk due a proposal to copy NUMIDENT data to a developer environment with looser access controls and security measures. DOGE developers would also be able to make this data publicly accessible without following the Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements for any new public services and install software not approved for operation in SSA infrastructure.
|
|
6/16/25
|
Source
Report
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for SSA sends an email to Aram Moghaddassi with his assessment that moving NUMIDENT data to the cloud would be at an unacceptably high risk for being hacked or stolen (computed on a 1-5 scale with a 3 for probability of risk and 5 for the impact of this risk)
|
|
6/23/25
|
Source
Sighting
Edward Coristine is reportedly sighted at the Woodlawn, MD location of the Social Security Administration alongside Aram Moghaddassi. It is later confirmed that he is now working as a Special Government Employee (SGE) for the agency after he had resigned his position at GSA.
|
|
6/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
According to a page update on the Federal CIO site, Aram Moghaddassi is named the new CIO of the Social Security Administration, making him the third DOGE-affiliated CIO in a row at the agency. This follows on reports that he had been acting in a co-CIO role with former CIO Mike Russo. He replaces Scott Coulter who was the CIO as recently as late May.
|
|
8/11/25
|
Action
Expressing concerns that the lax security of DOGE’s cloud could lead to the leak of every American’s social security number (and the requirement ro reissue new ones), the Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration contacts Edward Coristine and John Solly to request information about the security of DOGE’s cloud. He is never granted a reply and learns that the SSA Office of General Counsel (headed by DOGE member Mark Steffensen) has advised employees not to respond to his inquiries.
|
|
9/03/25
|
Source
Official
Commissioner Frank Bisignano issues a press release announcing the new leadership structure for the Social Security Administration. This officially confirms the reports that DOGE members Aram Moghaddassi and Mike Russo had effectively been acting as co-CIOs, with Mr. Moghaddassi named to the title of Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products) and Mr. Russo to Chief Information Officer (Core Business Functions)
|
Justin Monroe
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Justin Monroe started at the OPM about a week after the Inauguration and was dispatched to the FBI the following day as a Senior Advisor to the Director. It’s unclear what role he might be playing in the Attorney General’s own “JUST-US” project to bring DOGE-style interventions to the DOJ. Prior to DOGE, he was a SpaceX employee.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
|
| FBI |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/28/25
|
Source
Onboard
Justin Monroe and Christopher Stanley start working at OPM as a volunteers with the job title of Expert.
|
|
1/29/25
|
Source
Sighting
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
|
|
2/12/25
|
Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
|
Brooks Morgan
Exited govt: 8/04/25 (inferred)
The CEO of an educational startup, Brooks Morgan joined the DOGE team working within the Department of Education in early February. Unlike most DOGE staff who served as special government employees, he was instead hired as a part-time consultant working for free. It’s likely he was later formally appointed to a role, since he has been detailed from Education to both the Department of the Treasury and FDIC in early April.
Likely aliases: ED-04
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| Ed. |
Sources
|
| Treas. |
Source
|
| FDIC |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/17/25
|
Source
Sighting
The public calendar of Riley Sennott mentions a 30-minute “SGE Ethics Discussion” meeting with other new DOGE members Derek Geissler, Brooks Morgan and Conor Fennessy included on the invitation. SGE stands for Special Government Employee.
|
|
2/13/25
|
Source
Directory
A story on a proposal to use AI at the Department of Education lists several DOGE staffers identified there within the last few weeks.
|
|
4/09/25
|
Source
Onboard
Adam Ramada and Brooks Morgan are part of a cohort of 9 staffers detailed from the Department of Education to the Treasury, under the aegis of supporting federal student aid functions at Treasury.
|
|
4/10/25
|
Source
Sighting
Brooks Morgan, Adam Ramada and Anthony Armstrong visit the FDIC headquarters. Their arrival is later confirmed for staff with an email stating they have not been granted access to any sensitive bank information.
|
|
9/10/25
|
Source
Report
A report on the Secretary of Education’s visit to an AI-powered private school in Austin named the Alpha School includes a profile and picture of two students whose father is identified as Brooks Morgan. This is likely the same Brooks Morgan who has been working at the Department of Education for DOGE.
|
Trent Morse
Technically not a member of DOGE, Trent Morse has often coordinated with them on their operations against smaller independent agencies. In several examples, when the Trump Administration has moved to fire board members and executives of independent agencies, that email has always come from Trent Morse.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| EOP |
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/24/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
2/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
2/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
3/14/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.)
|
|
4/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
Three members of the board for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting receive an email from Trent Morse at the White House informing them that they have been fired. This renders the board inert without quorum.
|
|
6/XX/25
|
Source
Official
The White House Presidential Personnel Office contacts DOGE leads across the government to inform them that Steve Davis is no longer an employee of DOGE and they should cease all contact with him.
(fuzz: Not named, but linking to Trent Morse, since this is his office.)
|
|
6/16/25
|
Source
Disruption
White House Deputy Director Trent Morse sends a letter firing one of the five members of the board (and the only Biden appointee) for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
|
Elon Musk
Exited govt: 5/28/25 (reported)
Elon Musk was certainly the face and inspiration of DOGE, but it will likely be some time before we know the exact nature of his activities there. According to the official record, he was merely a humble advisor and DOGE was actually run by Amy Gleason. In actuality, it appears that Musk was setting the high-level direction of DOGE, with the daily operations conducted by deputies like Steve Davis, Anthony Armstrong or even Baris Akis. Musk was particularly preoccupied with finding instances of waste and fraud that he was certain was rampant everywhere in the government, and a lot of DOGE’s early involvement at the Treasury and SSA was in chasing down false alarms and misinformation triggered by DOGE’s poor understanding of data or even how the government worked. After his relationship soured with Trump, Musk left DOGE in late May, followed by multiple resignations of other DOGE allies leaving before the winds shifted. This didn’t mark the end of DOGE however, and the remaining staff are largely still carrying forward the same mission they started with.
Events
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11/15/24
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Source
Sighting
Elon Musk and Russell Vought meet each other for the first time at Mar-a-Lago. They reportedly got along very well, with “both on the same wavelength in terms of taking the most extreme action possible.”
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12/06/24
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Source
Directory
A report on the tech billionaires steering Trump’s transition mentions Elon Musk and other names we now know to be DOGE staffers, and it describes how they have been interviewing people at Mar-a-Lago.
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c.1/25/25
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Source
Report
Elon Musk makes a request for Baris Akis to be allowed to work for DOGE, even though he is a noncitizen and it wouldn’t normally be allowed. His request is denied.
(fuzz: date not given, but source published Feb 4th)
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1/30/25
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Source
Interagency
Elon Musk reportedly visits GSA to meet with staff, several of whom are identified from their appearances in the internal directory for the agency. These include Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Luke Farritor.
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1/30/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/04/25
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Source
Interagency
One of AFGE’s members who works in the headquarters of the Department received an instruction from Department leadership that Elon Musk and his DOGE team would be accessing Department of Labor headquarters beginning around 4 p.m. on February 5, 2025. This member and other employees were told by Department leadership that when Mr. Musk and his team visit, they are to do whatever they ask, not to push back, not to ask questions. They were told to provide access to any DOL system they requested access to and not to worry about any security protocols; “just do it.”
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2/07/25
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Source
Disruption
Elon Musk posts a tweet “CFPB RIP” with a tombstone emoji
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2/09/25
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Source
Official
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.
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2/16/25
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Source
Official
Elon Musk posts a tweet claiming that DOGE had uncovered fraud of millions of people older than 120 who were collecting social security payments: “Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security.” This data issue is real, but there is no indication that millions of people were receiving improper payments
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3/12/25
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Source
Interagency
Elon Musk visits the National Security Agency (NSA) to meet with its top administrator, General Timothy Haugh
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3/21/25
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Source
Sighting
Elon Musk arrives at the Pentagon for a meeting with leadership, reportedly to discuss DOGE’s involvement at the agency.
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c.3/26/25
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Source
Directory
In a later interview, Sahil Lavingia describes attending an “E-meeting” for DOGE that included Elon Musk but was essentially run by Steve Davis as well as two other Musk loyalists, Anthony Armstrong and Baris Akis. Baris Akis is notably not an employee of DOGE, since he is a foreign national and Musk was not granted a waiver to hire him.
(fuzz: date is given as “late March,” assuming a Wednesday bc others reported DOGE meetings during that time)
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3/27/25
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Source
Interagency
The EPA administrator’s public calendar includes a “Meeting w/ Elon Musk West Wing 221” at 6:30pm. Musk reportedly did not attend.
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3/30/25
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Source
Disruption
During campaign rallies in Wisconsin, Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias publish a chart claiming to show an increase in social security numbers being granted to noncitizens as evidence of voting fraud or benefits fraud by immigrants. The problem is that these numbers are necessary for immigrants to work in roles, and are used for paying taxes rather than receiving benefits, and the statistics were from a program to replace a more cumbersome process for assigning SSN IDs. Based on this interpretation, the Trump Administration argued for a change where applicants would have to instead visit an already overstretched field office, a change that is likely to both reduce tax income from immigrant workers and increase the per-person cost from $8 to $51,000
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3/31/25
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Source
Interagency
Elon Musk visits the CIA at the invitation of its director, John Ratcliffe.
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5/14/25
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Source
Official
Testifying before a House committee, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. described DOGE’s role in their layoffs as “Elon Musk gave us help in figuring out where there was waste, fraud and abuse in the department, but it was up to me to make the decision.”
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5/22/25
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Source
Interagency
Elon Musk joins a late-night meeting with senior members of the DOGE leadership team. Katie Miller delivered a blunt message that DOGE was on thin ice with the White House. She also reportedly advised that DOGE should strive to collaborate with Cabinet secretaries more instead of pushiing cuts or projects on them that they didn’t want to do.
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5/28/25
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Source
Offboard
Elon Musk claims on his X.com account that he has ended his time as a Special Government Employee but that he remains on good terms with the team.
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5/31/25
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Source
Offboard
After smiling with Trump at a press conference at the White House, Elon Musk convened DOGE staff for a private farewell at his office in the Old Executive Office Building. He reportedly urged DOGE to rethink its methods and that the next iteration of DOGE should be decentralized and work more collaboratively with agency leadership. Steve Davis joined in by telephone and stated that he did not intend to go anywhere, which many interpreted to mean that he would be hired into a new role.
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6/10/25
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Source
Report
Despite having left government service, Elon Musk, Steve Davis and Katie Miller reportedly tell top DOGE staff at a meeting that Musk continues to back their work and they should continue to stay the course.
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11/22/25
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Source
Report
Many current and former members of DOGE reportedly hold a reunion in Austin, Texas where Elon Musk and Steve Davis are expected to attend and it’s likely there will be discussions on the future of DOGE.
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2/05/26
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Source
Legal
A federal judge ruled that Elon Musk and senior State Department officials must sit for depositions about their roles in dismantling USAID. The judge cited the lack of documentation and no cooperation from other State Department staff as the reason there was “no alternative” to ordering the depositions.
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3/04/26
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Source
Legal
An appeals court blocked a ruling by a judge that would have compelled Elon Musk and other senior officials at USAID to testify under oath, finding that the lower court had “abused its discretion” in ordering the testimony.
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Todd Newnam
One of the newer DOGE staffers who have been assigned to the IRS, Todd Newnam was the CEO of an IT Consulting firm located in South Carolina. Prior to that, he was associated with the Carlyle Group. His financial disclosure reveal that he also owns shares of Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, which is concerning form someone being given oversight powers at the IRS.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| Treas. |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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4/11/25
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Source
Directory
In a legal filing, the government describes the DOGE team at Treasury of consisting of six people, some previously unknown as DOGE associates.
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5/26/25
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Source
Legal
Judge Vargas, ruling in New York v. Donald Trump lifted restrictions on DOGE staff accessing Treasury systems, saying that the government had demonstrated it was following proper procedures.
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1/20/26
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Source
Disruption
Acting IRS CEO Frank Bisignano announces a major shake-up for leadership at the IRS, which had already been struggling with vacancies after DOGE-driven reductions last year. Bisignano has announced he will be co-leading tax compliance at the agency. He also promoted DOGE team lead Tom Newnam to the role of Chief Financial Officer, giving him oversight over procurement, facilities and privacy at the agency.
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Michael Novia
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| NDS |
Source
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Donald Park
Mr. Park is the cofounder of a private equity company named Ionic Partners and located in Austin, Texas. He has been involved in efforts to discover fraud in SBA loans.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
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| SBA |
Sources
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| EXIM |
Source
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| DOD |
Source
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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CAFS
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Source
The main portal at the SBA for main portal for processing loan applications and servicing loans. read access granted by CIO |
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NFC Insight
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Source
A business intelligence system that is one of the offerings of the National Finance Center, which handles payroll for 650,000 federal employees. read access granted by Deputy Director |
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NFC Reports
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Source
The Reporting Center is a Web-based application page which allows managers, personnel specialists, and other employees of Federal Agencies serviced by NFC to generate Administrative Reports, Financial Reports, and Workforce Reports. read access granted by Deputy Director |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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2/03/25
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Source
Action
Elias Hernandez, the associate administrator for the Office of Veterans Business Development at SBA, emails the director of the National Finance Center (NFC) asking for immediate admin access to the mainframe for “all SBA Personnel Office Identifiers (POIs)”. NFC is a shared service from USDA that handles payroll for roughly 150,000 federal employees across 170 agencies including the SBA.
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2/03/25
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Source
Access
Edward Corisitine and Donald Park are granted access to the SBA’s core financial and loan systems within five hours of the CIO authorizing the request.
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2/03/25
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Source
Action
Stephen Kucharski, director of the SBA’s Office of Performance Systems Management, emailed 19 colleagues with an urgent request: “Please help me and my OCIO colleagues as we mobilize to provide Edward Coristine and Donald Park Admin access to all SBA systems. This action has been cleared and we are on a very short time frame.” They were to be granted access to HR and procurement systems. He then follows up with the agency CIO.
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2/03/25
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Source
Access
Within three hours of the request, Edward Coristine and Donald Park are granted “admin authority” to the mainframe and read-only access to the NFC Insight and Reporting Center applications. This gives them the ability to see sensitive information like salary, banking information and even debt for employees at the SBA (and possibly other agencies)
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2/03/25
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Source
Sighting
Email to SBA staff announces that Edward Coristine and Donald Park were granted access to all systems including HR, contract, and payment systems.
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2/16/25
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Source
Disruption
Donald Park sets up the @DOGE_SBA account on X as a communications channel for DOGE and a place for the general public to snitch on agency activities. He does not involve agency communications staff that would normally handle social media accounts.
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5/14/25
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Source
Sighting
Nate Cavanaugh and Donald Park reportedly are assigned email addresses and reserved office space at the Export-Import Bank of the US.
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5/16/25
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Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
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Matthew Parkhurst-Session
He is the founder/CEO of cloud company Antimetal. According to ProPublica, he has been linked to the “Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Labor and the Environmental Protection Agency,” but unclear if these are detailing arrangements or meetings. He also has apparently been involved in meetings with tech firms who are vendors to the federal government.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
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Noah Peters
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Source
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| DOGE |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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c.1/16/25
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Source
Action
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)
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c.1/16/25
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Source
Action
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)
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c.1/16/25
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Source
Action
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)
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1/17/25
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Source
Action
Noah Peters recalls that he met with Amanda Scales and Brian Bjelde on this day to plan for their upcoming first day at OPM.
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1/20/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.
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1/28/25
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Source
Directory
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)
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2/12/25
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Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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2/13/25
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Source
Interagency
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.
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3/26/25
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Source
Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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4/11/25
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Source
Legal
The plaintiffs in AFGE, AFL-CIO, et. al vs. OPM file a motion asking for the testimony of Noah Peters to be disregarded because they argue it is misleading and possibly fabricated in certain parts.
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4/16/25
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Source
Interagency
Noah Peters at OPM denies the CFPB request made by Adam Martinez as well as Jeremy Lewin and Gavin Kliger to conduct an “emergency” RIF at the CFPB which would only give employees 30 days before their termination.
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Open Questions
- Why isn't Noah Peters listed in a FOIA of job starts at various agencies?
Darshan Phillips
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| NDS |
Source
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Nikhil Rajpal
An arrival to DOGE from Twitter, Nikhil Rajpal was a visible member in early Wrecker raids (including a foray into NOAA’s headquarter just outside of DC). Since mid-February, he has been exclusively based within the DOGE team at the Social Security Administration, which might explain the recent radio silence about his activities.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
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| DOGE |
Source
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| NOAA |
Source
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| CFPB |
Source
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| SSA |
Sources
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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website
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Source
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» |
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Databricks
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Source
A hosted or self-hosted service that simplifies systems for processing big Data admin access «listed as “OPM Data Azure Databricks Admin + NP / PRD Azure Subscriptions”» |
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USA Performance
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Source
System tracking job performance of federal employees admin access (never accessed) «system name is listed as “USA Performance - U.S. Office of Personnel Management”» |
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USA Staffing
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Source
A platform for federal agencies to recruit and onboard employees. admin access «USA Staffing Core + Admin Portal - DEV/TST/STG/TRN/PRD» |
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eOPF
|
Source
An system for government employees to access their personnel files electronically. These are updated when staff receive changes in salary or duty station or title, or receive performance reviews. unknown access (never accessed) |
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GWES
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Source
A new system developed by DOGE for sending out email to all federal employees and collecting responses. It was most famously used for the Fork in The Road email. admin access (never accessed) |
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EHRI
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Source
The Enterprise Human Resources Integration Data Warehouse (“EHRI”) collects human resources, payroll, and training data from several dozen sources outside of OPM, including other federal agencies. admin access (last access 6/26/25) (never accessed) |
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Google
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Source
read-write access granted by Agency Director |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/21/25
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Source
Disruption
Nikhil Rajpal and Cole Killian start screening all preexisting USDS staff with short interviews, asking them their views of DOGE and to name who they think are underperformers that should be fired.
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1/24/25
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Source
Onboard
Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at OPM
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1/27/25
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Source
Access
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.
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1/28/25
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Source
Access
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.”
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2/04/25
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Source
Sighting
DOGE staffer Nikhil Rajpal reportedly enters NOAA facilities in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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2/06/25
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Source
Onboard
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.
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2/12/25
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Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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2/20/25
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Source
Directory
Several DOGE staffers working at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group).
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2/26/25
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Source
Onboard
One more unidentified DOGE staffer, SSA-08 (Nikhil Rajpal), is detailed to SSA from OPM.
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3/12/25
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Source
Directory
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)”
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3/13/25
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Source
Directory
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/21/25
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Source
Offboard
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.
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3/27/25
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Source
Access
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 granted through the SSA’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He asserts that DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.
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Adam Ramada
Exited govt: 8/XX/25 (self-reported)
Adam Ramada is thus far the only DOGE wrecker to have testified under oath in a deposition, appearing as a witness in litigation brought both against the Department of Education and the Department of Labor. He was detailed to both agencies directly from DOGE, but it’s unclear if he was still employed by the US DOGE Service or was been officially onboarded at another agency like his DOGE colleagues Jordan Wick and Amy Gleason. According to his LinkedIn, he has been working since August for the same company (Banner VC) as fellow DOGE member Brooks Morgan.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
DOGE
1/23/25-6/30/25
resigned from agency 6/30/25
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| Ed. |
Sources
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| DOE | |
| DOL |
Source
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| Treas. |
Source
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| FDIC |
Source
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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FMS
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Source
A system that consolidates grants, loans and work-study funds for students under Title IV of the Higher Education Act read access (last access 2/04/25) «not allowed to view PII» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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2/07/25
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Source
Sighting
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)
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2/10/25
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Source
Sighting
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.
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2/13/25
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Source
Directory
A story on a proposal to use AI at the Department of Education lists several DOGE staffers identified there within the last few weeks.
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2/13/25
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Source
Access
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.
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4/09/25
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Source
Onboard
Adam Ramada and Brooks Morgan are part of a cohort of 9 staffers detailed from the Department of Education to the Treasury, under the aegis of supporting federal student aid functions at Treasury.
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4/10/25
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Source
Sighting
Brooks Morgan, Adam Ramada and Anthony Armstrong visit the FDIC headquarters. Their arrival is later confirmed for staff with an email stating they have not been granted access to any sensitive bank information.
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4/28/25
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Source
Access
Luke Farritor and Adam Ramada reportedly have had accounts for several weeks on systems and networks that handle classified material about nuclear weapons. This contradicts agency reports they had departed the agency within a few days of arrival.
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Open Questions
- Is it true that Adam Ramada accessed only one system at the Department of Education and only for a single day?
In sworn testimony, an employee at the Department of Education affirmed that Adam Ramada was the only person from DOGE with system access, that he was only granted access to the FMS system, and that he only used that access once
Austin Raynor
Austin Raynor is another one of the conservative lawyers who have been part of DOGE’s operations at OPM. He previously has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and has served as a senior lawyer at the Pacific Foundation, a libertarian organization. As a lawyer in DOGE’s team at OPM, he probably has worked closely with Noah Peters and Keenan Kmiec.
Likely aliases: OPM-10
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
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| DOGE |
Source
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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USA Performance
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Source
System tracking job performance of federal employees unknown access «system name is listed as “USA Performance - Office of the Director”» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/30/25
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Source
Onboard
Austin Raynor and Chris Young start working at OPM.
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2/12/25
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Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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3/26/25
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Source
Directory
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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c.6/05/25
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Source
Disruption
Concerned by Steve Davis’ attempts to stay involved with DOGE despite no longer being employed by the agency and instructions to not interact with him, DOGE staffers Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos, Ryan Shea, and Adam Blake privately questioned Davis about his involvement. They also reportedly contacted DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor about the legality of his continued involvement.
(fuzz: date is not given in article, unclear if at meeting or afterwards)
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7/01/25
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Source
Action
DOGE gives a presentation of a “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool” that will use AI to target roughly 50% of federal regulations for elimination, on the argument that they aren’t meeting statutory requirements. The goal is to slash these regulations by January 20, 2026. In their presentation, DOGE claims the tool has already made determinations on 1083 decisions at HUD (using Christopher Sweet’s work) and has also been used for 100% of deregulatory actions at the CFPB. It also states that DOGE lawyers James Burnham, Austin Raynor, Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle have vetted and endorsed the tool.
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12/05/25
|
Sources
Directory
A legal filing from the government states that only 5 DOGE staffers – OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini), OPM-03 (Akash Bobba), OPM-05 (Gavin Kliger), OPM-10 (Austin Raynor) and OPM-18 – are still working at the agency. OPM-02 (Riccardo Biasini) is reporting directly to Scott Kupor.
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Payton Rehling
Tech Industry Links: Valor
Exited govt: 7/XX/25 (inferred)
Payton Rehling is a senior data engineer at Valor Equity Partners, the private equity firm that is run by Antonio Gracias and Jon Koval. Rehling joined the Social Security Administration DOGE team in February but has since been detailed to DHS and the DOJ, where he has likely been heavily involved in the administration’s efforts to create a surveillance system to supercharge immigration enforcement. In July 2025, he was promoted to a Vice President position at Valor, presumably as an exit from his DOGE work.
Likely aliases: SSA-09
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SSA |
Sources
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| DHS |
Source
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| DOJ |
Source
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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PSSNAP
|
Source
SSN application process data (Phone). This is a data extract file rather than an independent system. read-write access granted by Agency Director Leland Dudek |
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MBR
|
Source
A large record of all individuals elgible to receive social security benefits read access granted by CIO Mike Russo |
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NUMIDENT
|
Source
NUMIDENT files that have been extracted from SSA systems, these contain SSNs for everybody read access granted by CIO Mike Russo |
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SSR
|
Source
A master record used by the SSA for the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program read access granted by CIO Mike Russo |
|
CIS
|
Source
The CIS contains information about immigrants who use Alien Numbers, or A-Numbers. unknown access granted by CIO Antoine McCord |
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ELIS
|
Source
ELIS acts as a case management system for USCIS and includes information about green cards and petitions, as well as details related to Temporary Protected Status and DACA applicants unknown access granted by CIO Antoine McCord |
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DBIS
|
Source
A system for tracking payments and business operations of USCIS unknown access granted by CIO Antoine McCord |
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ECAS
|
Source
A system used by DOJ for tracking the status of immigration cases unknown access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/23/25
|
Source
Onboard
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.
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3/12/25
|
Source
Directory
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)”
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3/13/25
|
Source
Directory
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/19/25
|
Source
Access
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.
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3/25/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
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3/27/25
|
Source
Access
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 granted through the SSA’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He asserts that DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.
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3/28/25
|
Source
Access
USCIS CIO William McElhaney sends a message to DHS Deputy Secretary asking them to review access that was granted to DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt, Edward Coristine, Aram Moghaddassi and Payton Rehling.
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|
4/11/25
|
Source
Directory
Politico profiles a DOGE immigration task force that is located within DHS but has contacts with DOGE staff at other agencies. It includes multiple DOGE staffers detailed from various agencies.
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6/25/25
|
Source
Oversight
Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency.
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7/01/25
|
Source
Offboard
In response to a letter from the American Federation of Teachers union to nine public pension funds who are investors, Valor Equity Partners confirms that Antonio Gracias was working for Valor the entire time he was in DOGE and also reports that he left DOGE on July 1st. It’s unclear what the status of other Valor employees embedded in DOGE, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling, are.
|
Ryan Riedel
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Exited govt: 3/07/25 (reported)
Before being named to the role of Chief Information Officer at the Department of Energy, Ryan Riedel was a lead network security engineer at SpaceX. After initially granting elevated access to Adam Ramada and Luke Farritor, he lasted for about a month in the role before resigning and presumably leaving government service.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOE |
Sources
resigned from agency 3/07/25
|
Rachel Riley
Rachel Riley has been heavily involved in DOGE’s operations within HHS, where she has worked very closely with Brad Smith, and she has been granted access to a wide range of databases for tracking contracts and operations. Before DOGE, she worked for McKinsey and Associates in government policy in Atlanta, which would place her in good proximity to the CDC. In September, she pushed for a massive wave of firings at HHS that were eventually overruled, with Rachel herself apparently ousted by the end of October. However, it seems like is being placed over the office of naval research as a reward, despite her lack of experience with the navy.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| HHS |
Sources
|
| NSF |
Source
|
| DOD |
Source
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
CALM
|
Source
System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. read access granted by CIO |
|
EHCM
|
Source
This system is used at HHS for managing all aspects of human-capital related tasks, including staffing notes and performance plans. read access granted by CIO |
|
HCAS
|
Source
This appears to be a system used at HHS for tracking acquisition and procurement efforts across the agency. admin access granted by Deputy Director |
|
FBIS
|
Source
A system for tracking business operations at HHS read access granted by Deputy Director «not granted access to view PII data» |
|
BIIS
|
Source
Used to track expenditures at HHS read access granted by CIO |
|
Grant Solutions
|
Source
A shared-service provider tool for federal agencies to track grants across their entire lifecycles read access granted by Deputy Director |
|
EBS
|
Source
Oracle E-Business Suite is a comprehensive suite of applications for finance, order management, logistics, procurement, projects, manufacturing, asset lifecycle, and human capital management. read access granted by CIO |
|
PRISM
|
Source
System for tracking procurement and contracting read access granted by CIO |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/12/25
|
Source
Directory
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
|
|
1/24/25
|
Source
Directory
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.
|
|
2/03/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
2/14/25
|
Source
Action
Rachel Riley conducts a “Planning Touch Base” meeting with senior leadership at CMS.
|
|
2/21/25
|
Source
Interagency
Several DOGE staff at HHS and DOI are involved in a large meeting related to a contract with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS. Among other systems, this office maintains the Unaccompanied Children Portal, which was of interest to DOGE’s immigration focus.
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|
2/24/25
|
Source
Access
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
|
|
2/24/25
|
Source
Directory
Four DOGE staffers are indentified with email addresses linked to NIH. These are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin and Clark Minor.
|
|
3/13/25
|
Source
Directory
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).
|
|
3/31/25
|
Source
Report
Politico reports that Brad Smith, who crafted the plan to layoff 10,000 staffers within HHS, is facing criticism from other DOGE staffers for attempting to shield CMS from the brunt of the layoffs. His aide, Rachel Riley is accused of being extraordinarily secretive with the plan.
|
|
4/14/25
|
Source
Sighting
Three unidentified DOGE staffers show up at NSF headquarters, forcing all approved grants to go through a “secondary review.” They were later identified as Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley and Zach Terrell.
|
|
4/22/25
|
Source
Directory
Three DOGE staffers are now at the National Science Foundation reviewing grants. Luke Farritor has a “Budget, Finance, and Administration” clearance, which a source said allows him to view and modify the agency’s funding opportunity system.
|
|
5/14/25
|
Source
Disruption
After rescinding 300 past layoffs, the head of human resources at CDC emails Rachel Riley to share that the plan going forward will be to fire one person for every singer person who returns to the agency.
|
|
9/30/25
|
Sources
Disruption
The day before the beginning of the 2025 federal government shutdown, HHS proposes eliminating 8,000 jobs at the suggestion of Russell Vought, who wants to use the shutdown to inflict pain. HHS eventually lays off 1760 positions on October 10th, but was later revised to 954 after HHS blamed a coding error for firing too many people. Initially, HHS refuses to identify the creator for the layoff proposal within HHS, but it’s eventually revealed to be Rachel Riley.
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|
10/28/25?
|
Source
Onboard
The Navy removes the head of the Office of Naval Research and places Rachel Riley in the role, despite the fact that she has no experience with the Navy. She was working on DOGE operations within HHS and her prior experience was with McKinsey.
|
Timothy Ronan
He was named as a member of the DOGE team at USDA in response to a FOIA request from American Oversight. Otherwise, I have no other info yet.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| USDA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
4/10/25
|
Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request from American Oversight, the USDA returns a list of known DOGE members at the agency at the time.
|
Christopher Roussos
In late March, Chris Roussos was identified as one of the members of a larger DOGE contingent within the VA. He is an Army veteran himself, and he also has been a CEO of several health and fitness services. Given his experience and background, it’s likely he might be the leader of the DOGE team within the VA, where he has been working with Cary Volpert to review and eliminate a large number of VA contracts.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| VA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/25/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
|
|
5/13/25
|
Source
Disruption
A new memo from the acting principal director for acquisitions at the VA declares that all new contracts for information technology and professional services or any other contract for more than $10 million must be approved first by either Christopher Roussos or Cary Volpert. In addition, they are now required to send weekly reports to both of the DOGE representatives.
|
|
6/25/25
|
Source
Oversight
Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency.
|
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio is technically not a member of DOGE – in fact, there have been moments where reportedly has faced off against Elon Musk in cabinet meetings and his allegiance has always been to Donald Trump. Nevertheless, there are multiple circumstances where he has particularly aided DOGE’s destruction of agencies that he is nominally in charge of. So, it makes sense to add him here, if only to better illustrate how DOGE has abused the Vacancies Act to put leaders in charge all over the federal government without Senate approval.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| State |
Source
|
| USAID |
Sources
resigned from agency 8/29/25
|
| NARA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/24/25
|
Source
Official
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.
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|
2/01/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
2/07/25
|
Sources
Disruption
President Trump dismisses the Archivist of the United States, the head of the National Archives and the chief official responsible for preserving government records. Marco Rubio is named the Acting Archivist.
|
|
3/10/25
|
Source
Official
Posting from his account on X, Marco Rubio announces that the 6-week program review at USAID had concluded and 83% of programs (approximately 5200 contracts) had been cancelled. Only about 1000 awards were being continued
|
|
3/25/25
|
Source
Disruption
The remaining board of the USIP – Marco Rubio and Mike Hegseth – terminate Kenneth Jackson as the acting president of the USIP and appoint Nate Cavanaugh to the position. The resolution also authorizes Nate Cavanaugh to dispose of the building belonging to the USIP.
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|
4/22/25
|
Source
Disruption
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces plans for a major reorganization of the State Department that would eliminate 132 offices and terminate roughly 700 positions in DC. It also would reduce monitoring of war crimes and global conflicts.
|
|
7/11/25
|
Source
Disruption
The State Department lays off more than 1300 people – many specializing in violent extremism, refugee resettlement and women’s rights – as part of a sweeping reorganization announced by Marco Rubio on April 22. The terminated staff will be placed on a 120-day administrative leave period before formally losing their jobs.
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|
7/14/25
|
Source
Disruption
Months after the destruction of USAID and folding in some of its staff and responsibilities into the US Department of State, the Trump administration incinerates 500 million tons of emergency food biscuits worth $800,000 rather than sending it to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where it could have fed 1.5 million children for a week because it was due to expire. Marco Rubio had promised the House Appropriations Committee that he would ensure food aid is distributed before expiration, but the government eliminated all aid to Afghanistan and refused to divert the food to other emergency crises. The cost of destroying the biscuits will be $130,000 making this nearly a $1 million dollar loss incurred by DOGE (not to mention lives that will be lost).
|
|
8/29/25
|
Source
Disruption
Marco Rubio announces on TruthSocial that Russell Vought has been named as the new Acting Administrator of USAID to “oversee the closeout” of the agency after much of its staff was fired, certain responsibilities were absorbed into the State Department and grants were slashed
|
Mike Russo
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Reportedly a favorite of incoming SSA commissioner Frank Bisignano, Mike Russo was named the CIO of Social Security in early February and immediately advocated for the expedited onboarding of Akash Bobba. The DOGE contingent eventually swelled to 11 engineers under his watch. In late March, he was removed from the CIO position and demoted to a Senior Advisor, reportedly because the Trump administration was displeased that he cooperated with a judge’s order to revoke DOGE access to SSA systems. However, recent reports by the New York Times claim that he is effectively acting as a co-CIO with Aram Moghaddassi under Frank Bisignano’s leadership, so perhaps he has returned to good graces. Prior to government service, he was a senior executive at Shift4 Payments, which is an investor in SpaceX and a payment processor for Starlink.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SSA |
Sources
SSA
3/25/25-9/03/25
demoted to
Senior Advisor
($195,200)
«Demoted and replaced by Scott Coulter in CIO role, he seems to be acting in a quasi co-CIO role since June»
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/30/25
|
Source
Interagency
Leland Dudek reaches out to Tiffany Flick, the Associate Director of Budget, Facilities and Security to inform her that Mike Russo and Scott Coulter would be onboarding for DOGE. He was a mid-level employee at the time who would not normally be coordinating inter-agency details like this.
|
|
2/03/25
|
Source
Onboard
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)
|
|
2/10/25
|
Source
Report
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.
|
|
2/10/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
2/10/25
|
Source
Sighting
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.
|
|
2/15/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
2/19/25
|
Source
Official
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.
|
|
3/24/25
|
Source
Disruption
Mike Russo is abruptly removed from his CIO position by the Trump administration. This is rumored to be retribution for complying quickly with the judicial ruling to remove DOGE access.
|
|
3/26/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
6/06/25
|
Source
Sighting
A report in the New York Times suggests that Mike Russo and Aram Moghaddassi have essentially been acting as joint CIOs at the agency.
|
|
6/25/25
|
Access
Reportedly acting as a joint CIO at Social Security, Mike Russo overrides the concerns of junior staff in the Office of the CIO at the Social Security Administration and approves a request by John Solly to transfer NUMIDENT data into the new DOGE-controlled cloud environment.
|
|
6/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
According to a page update on the Federal CIO site, Aram Moghaddassi is named the new CIO of the Social Security Administration, making him the third DOGE-affiliated CIO in a row at the agency. This follows on reports that he had been acting in a co-CIO role with former CIO Mike Russo. He replaces Scott Coulter who was the CIO as recently as late May.
|
|
9/03/25
|
Source
Official
Commissioner Frank Bisignano issues a press release announcing the new leadership structure for the Social Security Administration. This officially confirms the reports that DOGE members Aram Moghaddassi and Mike Russo had effectively been acting as co-CIOs, with Mr. Moghaddassi named to the title of Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products) and Mr. Russo to Chief Information Officer (Core Business Functions)
|
Amanda Scales
An associate of Elon Musk from xAI, Amanda Scales has been located at GSA since Day 1, where she acted as the Chief of Staff until swapping places with James Sullivan at the end of March. She seemingly left OPM and government service soon after but has returned in January 2026 to lead recruitment and staffing for OPM’s new Tech Force initiative.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
OPM
3/28/25-c.3/29/25
demoted to
Senior Advisor
(ES-00, $195,200)
«Her LinkedIn profile says she left OPM in March. Assuming it followed her demotion/replacement, assuming pay stayed same»
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
website
|
Source
This is a stand-in for whatever website platform an agency is using unknown access «listed as grant for “Web Admin” on 1/20. Not revoked as of 2/12» |
|
github
|
Source
A service owned by Microsoft for developers to run version control on their applications and back them up to shared repositories that can be used by other developers. Github is provided as both a hosted service (at github.com) or via versions that can be installed with agency data centers (aka GitHub Enterprise or GHE). Access to Github would be expected for developers, but doesn’t necessarily mean the person is a coder. unknown access «Github Enterprise» |
|
USA Staffing
|
Source
A platform for federal agencies to recruit and onboard employees. admin access (last access 2/28/25) «for verifying the govt-wide hiring freeze» |
|
STAMP
|
Source
This is a system at OPM that I do not have information about yet unknown access |
|
Databricks
|
Source
A hosted or self-hosted service that simplifies systems for processing big Data admin access (never accessed) |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/17/25
|
Source
Action
Noah Peters recalls that he met with Amanda Scales and Brian Bjelde on this day to plan for their upcoming first day at OPM.
|
|
1/20/25
|
Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.
|
|
1/20/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
1/24/25
|
Source
Interagency
Representing OPM, James Sullivan coordinates in an email to Department of Energy officials on several DOGE-led initiatives. One messages states “as discussed over the phone, when you compile the list of 69 DEI employees placed on admin leave, please share with Amanda and myself.” Energy officials also send a list of 1394 probationary employees to Amanda Scales, all of whom will be fired.
|
|
1/27/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
1/28/25
|
Source
Directory
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)
|
|
1/31/25
|
Source
Disruption
Federal employees at OPM report they are locked out of access to key systems by DOGE and OPM leadership.
|
|
2/12/25
|
Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
|
|
3/24/25
|
Source
Legal
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.
|
|
3/28/25
|
Source
Action
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.
(fuzz: Amanda Scales reports on her LinkedIn that she left DOGE in March, so this might have been the cause)
|
|
1/28/26
|
Source
Onboard
In a post on LinkedIn, Amanda Scales announces she has returned to a role at OPM, overseeing the recruitment and hiring for the new Tech Force initiative to bring in technical staff from Silicon Valley companies into federal service for 2-year terms.
|
Frank Schuler
Exited govt: 7/29/25 (reported)
A former partner in a real-estate investment firm in Atlanta, Frank Schuler was mentioned as one of Stephen Ehikian’s pending appointments on January 20th. He wasn’t sighted in GSA until mid-February, when he appeared in a meeting and was introduced by Nate Cavanaugh. It’s unclear what he is doing for DOGE inside of GSA.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
resigned from agency 7/29/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
c.2/18/25
|
Source
Sighting
ProPublica reports that Frank Schuler has appeared in the GSA directory.
(fuzz: Exact date is not provided in the article)
|
|
c.2/18/25
|
Source
Sighting
Frank Schuler is introduced on a video call meeting at the GSA by Nate Cavanaugh.
(fuzz: Exact date is not provided in the article)
|
|
7/21/25
|
Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
|
Kyle Schutt
Exited govt: 6/XX/25 (self-reported)
Kyle Schutt is from the intersection of technologist and Republican party politics, having built an online fundraising platform Revv, that is frequently used by the GOP. He was also linked to the development of DOGE’s website doge.gov, which was hacked and vandalized at launch because he left the database accessible to the outside world, and his computer has been infected with credential-stealing malware multiple times. For its part, DOGE gave him access to a highly-sensitive database containing information on unaccompanied migrant children and admin credentials at CISA. His LinkedIn reports that he left DHS in June 2025.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Source
|
| GSA |
Sources
|
| DHS |
Sources
|
| HHS |
Source
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
FEMA-Go
|
Source
A system for managing grant program for communities affected by disasters read access |
|
IFMIS
|
Source
A system for processing all FEMA grant payments source-code access |
|
UAC Portal
|
Source
The UC Portal manages all medical (mental and dental health included), educational, and sponsorship information for UC in ORR custody read access granted by CTO |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/23/25
|
Source
Sighting
A GSA employee reports meeting Kyle Schutt and Ethan Shaotran and also bumping into Edward Coristine. They are described as being giddy and interested and curious and then shifting in tone the following week with DOGE staff “frantically running around trying to do impossible shit with no context and no flexibility and no ability to push back.”
|
|
2/10/25
|
Source
Access
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.
|
|
2/10/25
|
Source
Report
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.
|
|
c.2/11/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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2/11/25
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Source
Report
Online security researchers post evidence that the DOGE website was developed and is hosted by Outburst Data, a company run and operated by Kyle Schutt.
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2/19/25
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Source
Access
Edward Coristine and Kyle Schutt are reportedly given elevated access to CISA systems, including documents and staff emails.
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3/XX/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/04/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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3/19/25
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Source
Interagency
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.
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3/20/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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3/21/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/28/25
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Source
Access
USCIS CIO William McElhaney sends a message to DHS Deputy Secretary asking them to review access that was granted to DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt, Edward Coristine, Aram Moghaddassi and Payton Rehling.
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3/29/25
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Source
Directory
In response to a discovery request made in AFL-CIO vs. DOL, the government provides an incomplete list of DOGE staff who have worked at HHS.
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4/11/25
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Source
Directory
Politico profiles a DOGE immigration task force that is located within DHS but has contacts with DOGE staff at other agencies. It includes multiple DOGE staffers detailed from various agencies.
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5/23/25
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Source
Disruption
Reuters reports that DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt and Edward Coristine have attempted to gain access to DHS employee emails in recent months and ordered staff to train AI to identify communications suggesting an employee is not “loyal” to Trump’s political agenda. Given earlier reports, the AI in question is like xAi’s “Grok” AI system.
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7/08/25
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Source
Disruption
Funds for FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program (SSP) normally used for disaster relief are redirected to instead provide $608.4 million to ICE for the construction of an immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades. This amount is only slightly smaller than the entire 2025 budget for the program, which has only $83.5 million in reserve for this fiscal year. Possibly, DOGE aide Kyle Schutt might have assisted in finding money by deobligating other grants.
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Riley Sennott
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
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| NASA |
Source
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| SBA |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/06/25
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Source
Directory
Future DOGE recruit Riley Sennott’s public calendar lists a 15-minute DOGE recruiting meeting on this day.
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1/17/25
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Source
Sighting
The public calendar of Riley Sennott mentions a 30-minute “SGE Ethics Discussion” meeting with other new DOGE members Derek Geissler, Brooks Morgan and Conor Fennessy included on the invitation. SGE stands for Special Government Employee.
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3/14/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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3/20/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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4/08/25
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Source
Oversight
A letter from Democrats on the House Committee of Science, Space, and Technology expresses specific concern about the lack of qualifications of DOGE staff at the agency. It explicitly names Scott Coulter, Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour as the DOGE team at the agency.
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5/16/25
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Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
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Bryton Shang
Before DOGE, Bryton was the founder of a startup to help fish farmers improve their yields. While his background check was still being processed, he accompanied Tyler Hassen on a failed publicity stunt to order the DOI Bureau of Reclamation to release more water from reservoirs in Northern California as a publicity stunt about the wildfires much further south in LA. Since April, he has been serving as a senior advisor at the NOAA, where he likely has been reviewing contracts and programs for termination. This role would also give him involvement in regulations and oversight over America’s fisheries.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| NOAA |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/28/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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Ethan Shaotran
Exited govt: 1/XX/26 (self-reported)
“I dropped out of Harvard and came here to serve my country… most of campus hates me now” is what Ethan Shaotran boasted about his alma mater in a recent TV interview. He dropped out of the school in his senior year to join DOGE, where he was part of the initial wrecking crew formed in GSA. In that role, he was involved in efforts to cancel grants, eliminate staff and shut down multple agencies. He was even involved in efforts at some agencies to cancel grants to universities, including his alma mater. According to his LinkedIn, he left government service in January 2026 and is now working on Aligned, a governance platform at OpenAI.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
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| DOGE |
Source
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| Ed. |
Source
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| SSA |
Sources
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| USADF |
Source
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| IAF |
Source
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| USPS |
Source
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| DFC |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/20/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staffers start working within GSA in the office of the Administrator with the title Senior Advisor
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c.1/21/25
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Source
Interagency
Justin Fox reports that connected with him before he started work at DOGE. Besides Armstrong, Justin Fox was also communicating with other DOGE members via Signal both in group chats and individually. This appears to be a violation of government records laws for those other staffers who were already working in the federal government.
(fuzz: Exact date not given, but he testifies that Anthony Armstrong reached out just after inauguration)
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1/23/25
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Source
Sighting
A GSA employee reports meeting Kyle Schutt and Ethan Shaotran and also bumping into Edward Coristine. They are described as being giddy and interested and curious and then shifting in tone the following week with DOGE staff “frantically running around trying to do impossible shit with no context and no flexibility and no ability to push back.”
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1/31/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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2/08/25
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Source
Access
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.
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2/18/25
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Source
Onboard
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.
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2/20/25
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Source
Directory
Several DOGE staffers working at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group).
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2/20/25
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Source
Sighting
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.
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2/21/25
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Source
Sighting
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.
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2/21/25
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Source
Interagency
Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh return to the IAF with Jacob Altik, who presented himself as representing the EOP. Altik confirms that DOGE plans to reduce IAF to what he considers the statutory minimum (a board and president, a location in DC, some grants) and DOGE will be conducting a Reduction in Force of all employees and terminating all grants. The demand approval from the board and threaten the board will be fired otherwise.
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2/21/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/27/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/28/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/04/25
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Source
Directory
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.
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3/05/25
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Source
Disruption
Jacob Altik and Ethan Shaotran are rebuffed by agency leadership when attempting to enter the agency headquarters.
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3/06/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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3/12/25
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Source
Directory
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)”
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3/13/25
|
Source
Directory
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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3/24/25
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Source
Sighting
Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino met with the DOGE team embedded there (Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour), reportedly to discuss ethics rules.
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4/XX/25
|
Source
Sighting
Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour meet again with the acting Postmaster General as well as other senior staff. Reportedly, the topic of this meeting is potential price increases, which is outside the limitations on their work that had been set by former Postmaster DeJoy in the Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) he signed for their presence at the agency.
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4/04/25
|
Source
Legal
Sara Aviel discovers that a team@iaf.gov created for the use of Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh had deactivated the admin access for the remaining IAF employee the day before Aviel’s return by orders of a court as President of the agency.
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4/10/25
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Source
Report
Ethan Shaotran is converted to a regular position at the GSA at the GS-14 level, which would mean an annual salary of $142,488 - $185,234 in Washington, DC. This is a relatively senior position for any government worker that would not normally be granted to someone with his limited work experience.
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4/28/25
|
Source
Sighting
A team of 4 DOGE personnel – Nate Cavanaugh, Jonathan Mendelson, Ethan Shaotran and Marshall Wood – arrive at the headquarters of the US International Development Finance Corporation
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5/XX/25
|
Source
Interagency
In May, Clark Milner, a senior advisor for policy in the White House, organized a meeting between USPS staff, the DOGE representatives at the agency, other DOGE staffers and members of the Domestic Policy Council.
(fuzz: No other specific date information is given)
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5/23/25
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Source
Disruption
Ethan Shaotran sends a Survey of Surveys email to federal agencies asking them to report information on data-collection surveys. This is redundant to the existing survey oversight already conducted by OMB, and there are concerns about what the data will be used for.
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7/21/25
|
Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
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Ryan Shea
Exited govt: 6/07/25 (reported)
As someone who joined up with DOGE in May, Ryan Shea presumably knew exactly what he was signing up for. Prior to DOGE, he was the executive of a cryptocurrency startup, which makes him a natural fit to support the DOGE team embedded within the Department of Health and Human Services.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Source
fired 6/07/25
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| HHS |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
c.6/05/25
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Source
Disruption
Concerned by Steve Davis’ attempts to stay involved with DOGE despite no longer being employed by the agency and instructions to not interact with him, DOGE staffers Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos, Ryan Shea, and Adam Blake privately questioned Davis about his involvement. They also reportedly contacted DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor about the legality of his continued involvement.
(fuzz: date is not given in article, unclear if at meeting or afterwards)
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6/07/25
|
Source
Disruption
Steve Davis removed DOGE staffers that he considered disloyal from shared Signal chats that DOGE had continued to use for coordination. He also used his influence at GSA to have Ryan Shea removed from his position. Other Davis targets – Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos and Adam Blake – were able to remain at their posts but were shut out from DOGE communications
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Thomas Shedd
Tech Industry Links: Tesla
When he was named the Deputy Administrator of FAS (under Josh Gruenbaum) and the head of GSA’s innovative Technology Transformation Service (which includes 18F and login.gov), the press releases touted his most recent experience, 8 years of being a software developer at Tesla. It turns out that was his only experience, and he hasn’t ever been a senior executive or worked within government before. Instead, his main skills seem to be a loyalty to Musk and a willingness to destroy the parts of the agency in his care if asked. To this end, he has eliminated 18F and tried to gain admin access to services like Notify.gov or Login.gov, that would give him unprecedented control over government services. He also has been a big booster of replacing staff with AI. Since March, he has also been serving as the CIO at the Department of Labor, an arrangement that largely seems to exist so he can grant access for sensitive systems to DOGE staff.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
|
| DOL |
Sources
resigned from agency 8/01/25
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/30/25
|
Source
Interagency
Elon Musk reportedly visits GSA to meet with staff, several of whom are identified from their appearances in the internal directory for the agency. These include Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Luke Farritor.
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1/31/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
|
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2/10/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
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2/18/25
|
Source
Disruption
A GSA employee reportedly resigned rather than give unrestricted admin access for the SMS emergency notification service Notify.gov to Thomas Shedd.
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2/19/25
|
Source
Disruption
Thomas Shedd has allegedly requested admin access to 19 different systems within TTS at GSA
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3/01/25
|
Source
Disruption
TTS administrator Thomas Shedd eliminates 90 members of 18F with a 1am firing email and locks them out of their machines
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3/06/25
|
Source
Disruption
TTS Commissioner Thomas Shedd says in a statement that he expects the Technology Transformation Service will be 50% smaller within weeks.
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3/20/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
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4/XX/25
|
Source
Sighting
A contractor at GSA states that he came across a list of staff at GSA who had not yet completed all of their mandatory security training. This included prominent DOGE staff that had been at the agency for several months like Thomas Shedd, Josh Gruenbaum, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Steve Davis.
(fuzz: only month is given in report)
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4/17/25
|
Source
Disruption
In his new role as CIO for the Department of Labor, Thomas Shedd announces goals to reduce the department by 30% through resignations and layoffs. He also claims that DOGE is not “tracking” staff at the agency, and that all changes will be determined by focusing on results.
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5/09/25
|
Source
Action
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a Microsoft Teams meeting with Thomas Shedd (the acting CIO and fellow GSA employee) as well as another DOL staffer to discuss grants to the agency.
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6/06/25
|
Source
Report
Wired reports that Thomas Shedd is in need of in-house developers and is looking to revamp and restart the Presidential Innovation Fellows program months after it was eliminated due to the hiring freeze and mass layoffs initiated by Thomas Shedd.
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7/07/25
|
Source
Action
Thomas Shedd announces that after a review of 7200 websites in the federal government, GSA is recommending that 332 of those should be eliminated. These cuts are not evenly distributed (the SBA will eliminate half of its websites). This initiative dates back to 2023 OMB guidance for the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act, so this is not a DOGE-created project, but some of the websites and pages are for programs targeted by DOGE.
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8/01/25
|
Source
Offboard
Thomas Shedd ends his role as the temporary CIO at the Department of Labor. It is unclear who will be filling the role next.
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2/19/26
|
Source
Onboard
Federal CIO Chief Greg Barbaccia is named as the new Acting Director for the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) at GSA, replacing Thomas Shedd in the role. Shedd has seemingly been demoted to a new role of Senior Advisor for Fraud Prevention. Greg Barbaccia is still serving in the role of CIO for USAID as well.
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Roland Shen
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| Treas. |
Source
Treas.
4/18/25
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
4/18/25
|
Source
Onboard
A new DOGE staffer (Roland Shen) who works for the payments startup Ramp is reportedly also granted access to BFS systems.
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Alexander Simonpour
Tech Industry Links: Tesla
Exited govt: 8/XX/25 (self-reported)
Alexander Simonpour is a former engineering manager at Tesla who is now working for DOGE and embedded among the wrecking crew at GSA. He was one of the three DOGE staffers who were detailed from GSA to NASA in March, and he has also been involved in DOGE’s efforts at the USPS. His LinkedIn reports that he left DOGE in August and he has returned to a role at Tesla.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
GSA
3/XX/25-8/XX/25
($167,603)
«he was detailed to USPS from GSA, so assuming appointed at GSA but info unknown. Dates from LinkedIn»
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| USPS |
Source
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| NASA |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/14/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
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|
3/24/25
|
Source
Sighting
Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino met with the DOGE team embedded there (Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour), reportedly to discuss ethics rules.
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4/XX/25
|
Source
Sighting
Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour meet again with the acting Postmaster General as well as other senior staff. Reportedly, the topic of this meeting is potential price increases, which is outside the limitations on their work that had been set by former Postmaster DeJoy in the Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) he signed for their presence at the agency.
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4/08/25
|
Source
Oversight
A letter from Democrats on the House Committee of Science, Space, and Technology expresses specific concern about the lack of qualifications of DOGE staff at the agency. It explicitly names Scott Coulter, Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour as the DOGE team at the agency.
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4/30/25
|
Source
Interagency
As part of a DOGE-driven effort to find ways to punish Harvard by pulling its grants from the federal govenment, Josh Gruenbaum emails Alexander Simonpour to ask if there are grants that can be revoked by NASA. The next day, Simonpour relayed the request to other NASA staffers and then followed up on May 8th stating that the White House had imposed a 5pm deadline for the information.
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5/XX/25
|
Source
Interagency
In May, Clark Milner, a senior advisor for policy in the White House, organized a meeting between USPS staff, the DOGE representatives at the agency, other DOGE staffers and members of the Domestic Policy Council.
(fuzz: No other specific date information is given)
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5/08/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOGE staff at NASA, GSA and the White House finalize a list of five NASA grants to be killed and discuss the language for the terminiation letters in a series of email discussions and meetings to 11pm that night. The agency sends a letter to Harvard the following day.
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7/21/25
|
Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
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Mike Slagh
The founder of a company that apparently connects defense contractors with government buyers. Before that, he was the founder of a company that did job training for veterans. It’s unclear where he is working inside of the Pentagon. He served in the Navy.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOD |
Source
DOD
2/18/25?
«Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans»
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/20/25
|
Source
Official
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]
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Sam Smeal
Tech Industry Links: SpaceX
Exited govt: 6/02/25 (reported)
One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. That term was apparently extended until June 2, when their access was abruptly revoked.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| FAA |
Source
fired 6/02/25
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/17/25
|
Source
Directory
Four SpaceX engineers at FAA are granted ethics waivers and designated as Special Government Employees, but must recuse from decisions affecting SpaceX.
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|
4/25/25
|
Source
Disruption
DOGE staff assigned to the FAA have reportedly enlisted government staff to work on a secret communications project named “Project Lift,” requiring them to sign NDAs. It is rumored to be about incorporating Starlink into FAA projects.
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|
6/02/25
|
Source
Offboard
In the wake of Elon Musk’s exit from DOGE, the four SpaceX engineers that have been working secretly in the FAA – Ted Malaska, Sam Smeal, Thomas Kiernan and Brady Glantz – are all immediately removed from the agency. The Post reports that some agency staff went for post-work drinks to celebrate the banishment of the DOGE team.
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Brad Smith
A healthcare executive who served in the first administration, Brad Smith kept a relatively low profile running DOGE operations within HHS. There, he mainly was involved in organizing $67 billion in cuts and the large layoffs that eliminated 10,000 positions across the various agencies within HHS. He left HHS and DOGE about a week before Elon Musk’s departure, but he has apparently returned in August to work at the State Department.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Sources
DOGE
1/20/25-6/11/25
Senior Advisor
«identified as dual appointee at HHS and DOGE / resigned on 6/11 and returned to State Dept in August.»
resigned from agency 6/11/25
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| HHS |
Sources
|
| State |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
12/06/24
|
Source
Directory
An article in the NYT identifies Brad Smith as the person effectively running DOGE at Mar-a-Lago during the project’s formation and speculates that DOGE may have an early focus on healthcare for this reason. It also names Steve Davis as a close collaborator.
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|
1/12/25
|
Source
Directory
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
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|
1/24/25
|
Source
Directory
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.
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3/31/25
|
Source
Report
Politico reports that Brad Smith, who crafted the plan to layoff 10,000 staffers within HHS, is facing criticism from other DOGE staffers for attempting to shield CMS from the brunt of the layoffs. His aide, Rachel Riley is accused of being extraordinarily secretive with the plan.
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11/17/25
|
Source
Official
Acting in his new capacity as a global health advisor in the State Department, Brad Smith is reportedly pressuring African nations to sign memorandums of understanding which would grant the US access to their health data for the next 25 years in return for limited health aid from the US for the next five years. This is blasted by critics as extractive and an attempt by the US to bypass the World Health Organization’s normal role in monitoring for emerging pathogens.
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John Solly
Exited govt: 9/XX/25 (self-reported)
A software expert in cloud-native geospatial analysis, he has been working at Social Security in March and apparently has not been listed on the internal directory to keep a low profile. At SSA, he reportedly worked on a controversial project to move sensitive NUMIDENT data of everybody’s social security numbers into an unsecured cloud environment. He left DOGE in September to go work for the contracting firm Leidos in October as a head of their health initiatives.
Likely aliases: SSA-11
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SSA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
6/10/25
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Access
John Solly asks staff in the Social Security Administration’s CIO office (then possibly under the leadership of Scott Coulter or Aram Moghaddassi) to create a cloud environment to upload the NUMIDENT data to. The stated reason was purported reason for the project was to improve the way that SSA exchanges data.
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6/11/25
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Action
John Solly modifies his request to instead ask to transfer NUMIDENT data to a test environment. This is not entirely unheard of, but it’s considered a very insecure practice to move production data into a testing environment that might not be authorized for that. DOGE then amends their request again to ask for full admin access to SSA’s cloud environment.
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6/12/25
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Disruption
A career official writes up a Risk Acceptance Request Form to share with Aram Moghaddassi and another unnamed career official in the office of the CIO at Social Security about DOGE’s request to have administrative access to a separate Virtual Private Cloud within the Amazon Web Services infrastructure at SSA. The official classifies this as high-risk due a proposal to copy NUMIDENT data to a developer environment with looser access controls and security measures. DOGE developers would also be able to make this data publicly accessible without following the Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements for any new public services and install software not approved for operation in SSA infrastructure.
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6/25/25
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Access
Reportedly acting as a joint CIO at Social Security, Mike Russo overrides the concerns of junior staff in the Office of the CIO at the Social Security Administration and approves a request by John Solly to transfer NUMIDENT data into the new DOGE-controlled cloud environment.
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8/11/25
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Action
Expressing concerns that the lax security of DOGE’s cloud could lead to the leak of every American’s social security number (and the requirement ro reissue new ones), the Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration contacts Edward Coristine and John Solly to request information about the security of DOGE’s cloud. He is never granted a reply and learns that the SSA Office of General Counsel (headed by DOGE member Mark Steffensen) has advised employees not to respond to his inquiries.
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Keith Sonderling
Another of the cadre of conservative lawyers within DOGE, Sonderling had been the commisioner of the EEOC in the previous Trump administration. He was tapped to be Deputy Secretary by Trump for DOL, but he has also served as support for Nate Cavanaugh’s wrecking crew. Exploiting a rule in the Vacancies Act that lets the administraion named appointed officials as acting leaders of other agencies, DOGE has named Sonderling as the acting leaders in the IMLS and MBDA so he could order their destruction.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOL |
Source
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| IMLS |
Source
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| MBDA |
Source
MBDA
c.4/17/25
Acting Undersecretary
«Nate Cavanaugh sent out grant rejections under the authority of Sonderling as Acting Undersecretary»
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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3/20/25
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Source
Official
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.”
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3/20/25
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Source
Sighting
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.
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4/17/25
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Source
Disruption
According to a sworn declaration by an employee of MBDA, Nate Cavanaugh sends emails terminating MBDA grants under the authority of Keith Sonderling, who is the acting undersecretary of the MBDA
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4/30/25
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Source
Oversight
Democratic members of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation send a letter to Keith Sonderling requesting details on his appointment as acting undersecretary of the MBDA and other information about DOGE’s takeover and destruction of the agency.
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6/12/25
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Source
Legal
The plaintiffs in Rhode Island v. Trump et al file an amended complaint asking the court to rule that the IMLS closure was unconstitutional and violated the Administrative Procedures Act. As part of this filing, they issued summons to Keith Sonderling, Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick and Russell Vought. They have 60 days to respond, pushing the nest phase of the trial to August.
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Branden Spikes
A longtime associate of Elon Musk at Twitter and other companies, Branden Spikes reportedly spent a couple of months within DOGE, but there are no public details yet.
Christopher Stanley
Tech Industry Links: Twitter, SpaceX
Exited govt: 6/XX/25 (reported)
Christopher Stanley had been a long-time aide of Elon Musk with positions as a Security Engineer at both SpaceX and X.com before his arrival at DOGE. He kicked off his involvement by greeting jailed January 6th protestors who had been pardoned by Trump. Since then, he has had a varierty of other erratic appearances on the timeline. He briefly launched a custom AI chatbot on the DOGE website before it was noticed and taken down. On March 17th, he was appointed to the board of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, only to resign immediately the next day. More recently, he has been embedded in the Department of Justice as part of the DOGE team building a surveillance system to use against immigrants.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
|
| DOGE |
Source
DOGE
1/31/25
Senior Advisor of Technology and Efficiency
«Seems to have been hired at DOGE instead of detailed there from OPM»
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| FHFA |
Source
FHFA
3/17/25-3/18/25
Board Member, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac
«resigned abruptly the day after being appointed»
resigned from agency 3/18/25
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| DOJ |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/28/25
|
Source
Onboard
Justin Monroe and Christopher Stanley start working at OPM as a volunteers with the job title of Expert.
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2/18/25
|
Source
Report
A custom AI chatbot based on xAI’s Grok model was discovered hosted on subdomain on the doge.gov site. It is linked to Christopher Stanley.
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4/01/25
|
Source
Sighting
DOGE member Christopher Stanley is listed as a Senior Advisor in the Deputy Attorney General’s Office and he reportedly holds a security clearance.
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Open Questions
- Christopher Stanley has reportedly left DOGE in the wake of Musk's departure. Are there more details?
Braden Steffaniak
One of the software engineers who has joined the National Design Studio directly instead of cycling through from DOGE. He previously worked for several finance and life insurance companies as well as Boeing.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| NDS |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/23/26
|
Source
Directory
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.
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Mark Steffensen
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| SSA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/10/25
|
Source
Official
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.
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8/11/25
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Action
Expressing concerns that the lax security of DOGE’s cloud could lead to the leak of every American’s social security number (and the requirement ro reissue new ones), the Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration contacts Edward Coristine and John Solly to request information about the security of DOGE’s cloud. He is never granted a reply and learns that the SSA Office of General Counsel (headed by DOGE member Mark Steffensen) has advised employees not to respond to his inquiries.
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Jack Stein
Recently an investment banking associate at Salem Partners, he is one of the newer members of Nate Cavanaugh’s wrecking crew that visited small agencies in April.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| MCC |
Source
|
| GSA |
Source
GSA
4/15/25
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
5/13/25
|
Source
Directory
In an overview of how DOGE has tried to assign teams outside of the executive branch, NPR lists six DOGE staffers at GSA who are involved with those efforts.
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Brian Stube
Exited govt: 8/XX/25 (reported)
Brian Stube was a “quant” at the the hedge fund Citadel before 2012, which is also where Adam Hoffman works. According to his LinkedIn profile, he left DOT (and presumably DOGE) in August.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOT |
Sources
|
James Sullivan
A veteran of the first Trump Administration, James Sullivan might not have been considered DOGE before by any media organizations. But he was hired with the Senior Advisor title and on 3/28, he took over as the Chief of Staff at OPM from Amanda Scales. He also is one of the redacted identies in court filings from the OPM. So, I think he counts? James has mainly been involved in coordinating layoffs at various agencies from his position at OPM.
Likely aliases: OPM-08
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Sources
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
Databricks
|
Source
A hosted or self-hosted service that simplifies systems for processing big Data admin access «listed as “OPM Data Azure Databricks Admin + NP / PRD Azure Subscriptions”» |
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USA Staffing
|
Source
A platform for federal agencies to recruit and onboard employees. admin access «for the govt-wide hiring freeze» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
1/24/25
|
Source
Interagency
Representing OPM, James Sullivan coordinates in an email to Department of Energy officials on several DOGE-led initiatives. One messages states “as discussed over the phone, when you compile the list of 69 DEI employees placed on admin leave, please share with Amanda and myself.” Energy officials also send a list of 1394 probationary employees to Amanda Scales, all of whom will be fired.
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3/28/25
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Source
Action
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.
(fuzz: Amanda Scales reports on her LinkedIn that she left DOGE in March, so this might have been the cause)
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8/04/25
|
Source
Directory
In a report about DOGE’s continued work on OPM’s Online Retirement Application (ORA) continuing to move ahead, Politico identifies DOGE staff that are working on the project under Joe Gebbia.
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Caelin Sutch
One of the new names at the National Design Studio. Unclear if a designer or an engineer.
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/23/26
|
Source
Directory
An article on the National Design Studio in NextGov lists several people as associated with National Design Studio, including some names that hadn’t been mentioned previously.
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Christopher Sweet
Exited govt: 12/XX/25 (reported)
Joining DOGE sometime in early April, Christopher Sweet has been based in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), where he building a custom generative AI model to analyze the agency’s regulations and make recommendations of specific parts to cut. More recently, his work has been moved to OMB, where his tool is being used to trim regulations at multiple agencies. Christopher Sweet is young and inexperienced like many of the DOGE wreckers, and is currently on a break as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| HUD |
Sources
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
SweetREX Deregulation AI Plan Builder
|
Sources
A custom tool developed by college student Christopher Sweet that uses AI models to analyze regulations at HUD to determine which can be eliminated or reframed. DOGE is planning to use this tool at other agencies as part of a drive to eliminate 50% of all regulations across the federal government. admin access «There are few public details, inferring based on news reports» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
c.4/10/25
|
Source
Onboard
Scott Langmack sends a message to HUD staff announcing that “I’d like to share with you that Chris Sweet has joined the HUD DOGE team with the title of special assistant, although a better title might be ‘AI computer programming quant analyst.’”
(fuzz: Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April)
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|
c.4/15/25
|
Source
Access
Christopher Sweet is reported to be using an AI model to analyze HUD regulations and suggest revisions. These are presented to HUD staff for review in a large spreadsheet. It is not clear how the AI system is making these determinations.
(fuzz: Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April)
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|
c.4/20/25
|
Source
Interagency
In a meeting between HUD and DOGE, Jacob Altik says they are planning to use Christopher Sweet’s AI model analyzing regulations at HUD to review the entire Code of Federal regulations for regulations to review.
(fuzz: Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April)
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|
c.7/01/25
|
Source
Action
Christopher Sweet participates in a meeting at HUD to discuss more permanent hosting options for the AI deregulation tool which had been running internally. This could be the precursor to providing it as a service to other agencies.
(fuzz: Meeting reported as in week of 2025-06-30)
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|
7/01/25
|
Source
Action
DOGE gives a presentation of a “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool” that will use AI to target roughly 50% of federal regulations for elimination, on the argument that they aren’t meeting statutory requirements. The goal is to slash these regulations by January 20, 2026. In their presentation, DOGE claims the tool has already made determinations on 1083 decisions at HUD (using Christopher Sweet’s work) and has also been used for 100% of deregulatory actions at the CFPB. It also states that DOGE lawyers James Burnham, Austin Raynor, Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle have vetted and endorsed the tool.
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|
c.8/03/25
|
Source
Interagency
SEC leadership meets with DOGE representatives Jonathan Mendelson and Christopher Sweet to discuss using Sweet’s AI tool to identify regulations to cut or modify at the agency. It’s unclear if Sweet is detailed to the agency or just demonstrating the tool to SEC staff. Reportedly, agency staff then used the tool to identify thousands of regulations to cut. The list will then be reviewed by agency leadership and lawyers.
(fuzz: Date given is “a short time after” the AI task force is created)
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|
8/13/25
|
Source
Interagency
In a call hosted by the US CIO, DOGE team lead Scott Langmack shares info on an AI tool named SweetREX Deregulation AI Plan Builder developed by Christoper Sweet to review agency regulations for elimination. This is the same tool highlighted by DOGE in a presentation to the White House earlier in the month. Agency representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of State, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation are on the call. Steve Davis also was on the call despite having left DOGE and asked if the tool could be open-sourced.
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Zach Terrell
Another very recent college graduate, Zach Terrell was involved in several cryptocurrency and Web3-related startups before joinging the DOGE wrecking crew at HHS in March. More recently, he was elevated in September to the role of CTO, a position which was previously held by fellow DOGE member Clark Minor and which would allow him to grant access to sensitive databases and systems to other DOGE personnel. He also seems to have some involvement with the National Design Studio’s work.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| HHS |
Sources
|
| NSF |
Source
|
| NDS |
Sources
|
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
EHCM
|
Source
This system is used at HHS for managing all aspects of human-capital related tasks, including staffing notes and performance plans. read access granted by Other |
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IDR
|
Source
A data warehouse that receives all Medicare claims after they have been approved for payment read access granted by CIO |
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FBIS
|
Source
A system for tracking business operations at HHS read access granted by Deputy Director «revoke date likely earlier» |
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UFMS
|
Source
A department-wide financial management system which supports all of HHS Program Service Center’s Accounting Services and reporting read access «app access only, no DB access» |
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PMS
|
Source
A shared-services program provided by HHS for managing payments for grants read access granted by CTO |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/29/25
|
Source
Legal
In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.
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|
4/XX/25
|
Source
Disruption
A team of three DOGE staffers – Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Zach Terrell – meet with chief grant management officials at NIH to demand changes in how grants are issued under DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” authority over all grant disbursement.
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|
4/12/25
|
Source
Interagency
Emailing this time from his CFPB account, Jeremy Lewin shares the documentation for the upcoming CFPB RIF with DOGE staff posted at several agencies (Zach Terrell and Alexandra Beynon). He also includes DOGE staff at CFPB: Gavin Kliger, Chris Young and Jordan Wick. It’s unclear if they are representing their individual agencies or are just taking part as DOGE members in the conversation.
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|
4/14/25
|
Source
Sighting
Three unidentified DOGE staffers show up at NSF headquarters, forcing all approved grants to go through a “secondary review.” They were later identified as Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley and Zach Terrell.
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|
4/22/25
|
Source
Directory
Three DOGE staffers are now at the National Science Foundation reviewing grants. Luke Farritor has a “Budget, Finance, and Administration” clearance, which a source said allows him to view and modify the agency’s funding opportunity system.
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|
c.9/01/25
|
Source
Disruption
Zach Terrell is named as the new Chief Technology Officer at HHS. He reportedly is also continuing to hold a role at NSF, supervising DOGE activities there.
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|
12/26/25
|
Source
Website
The National Design Studio launches a new blog named “Dev Index” with an article written about the modernization work at OPM for digitizing retirements that apparently has moved over to the NDS from OPM with Joe Gebbia. The article is written by Yat Choi and Dennis Li and thanks Edward Coristine and Zach Terrell for reviewing the content.
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Katrine Trampe
Katrine came from a background working for real-estate investment firms. She also reportedly uses the title “Comtesse” because her father is a Count with ties to the Danish royal family. All of these are important skills that explain why she needed to be given high-level administrative access to a system at DOI that handles payroll for half of the federal government. More recently, she had changed her LinkedIn to add the last name of Akis, suggesting she is possibly married to fellow DOGE supporter Baris Akis? Since DOGE, she has apparently returned to graduate school, seeking a degree in sustainable development.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOI |
Sources
DOI
2/10/25-8/XX/25
unknown start type
(volunteer)
«invited to meeting on 2/12, assuming start on Monday that week; reported on 7/29 as leaving DOI; unclear if leaving DOGE»
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
|
FPPS
|
Source
A shared service which processes payrolls for Interior, but also DOJ, Treasury, DHS, the Air Force, Nuclear Regulatory Commission and other agencies. Covers about half of federal personnel. admin access granted by Deputy Director |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
2/17/25
|
Source
Disruption
Katrine Trampe and Tyler Hassen are invited to a series of meetings related to reviewing contracts at the Department of the Interior.
|
|
2/19/25
|
Source
Interagency
A staffer at the EOP emails DOGE staff to take part in a webinar about the National Environmental Policy Act.
|
|
2/21/25
|
Source
Interagency
Several DOGE staff at HHS and DOI are involved in a large meeting related to a contract with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within HHS. Among other systems, this office maintains the Unaccompanied Children Portal, which was of interest to DOGE’s immigration focus.
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|
2/21/25
|
Source
Disruption
Katrine Trampe kicks off a series of meetings to discuss “workforce efficiency” for various bureaus at the Department of the Interior.
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|
2/24/25
|
Source
Access
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.
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2/25/25
|
Source
Action
Citing concerns that there is fraud in the federal payroll, the DOGE team at the Department of the Interior meets with the Interior Business Center Team to discuss their request to receive a log audit of all employee names, positions and hire dates as well as total pay for each pay period.
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|
2/27/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOGE staffers at the Department of the Interior meet with Nicole Hollander from GSA about leases to be cancelled.
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|
2/27/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOGE staff at DOI invite several of their counterparts from OPM to a meeting to discuss DOI Tech Systems.
(fuzz: A michealal@x.com is also invited. Is it meant to be Micaela Lopez Ballefin?)
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|
2/28/25
|
Source
Disruption
Officials at the US Fish and Wildlife Service meet with Katrine Trampe and Tyler Hassen to show them their system for reviewing and processing contracts and to identify ways for both to start approving new contracts for the organization.
|
|
c.3/03/25
|
Source
Interagency
DOE staff (mostly from DOGE) meet exclusively with DOGE staff from both OPM and GSA to discuss DOI’s data centers, cloud infrastructure and software licenses.
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|
3/28/25
|
Source
Interagency
After the CIO and CISO are sidelined, Gavin Kliger joins a call with Katrine Trampe to pressure a senior advisor in human resources at DOI to direct them to the system owner for FPPS.
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|
7/09/25
|
Source
Oversight
Ranking Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee send a letter expressing concern and urging the Secretary of the Department of the Interior to immediately revoke DOGE’s access to the FPPS system that handles payroll for large parts of the US government.
|
Open Questions
- Is Katrine Trampe married to Baris Akis?
What looks to be her LinkedIn lists her name as Katrine Trampe Akis? Have they been married? Were they involved while she was in DOGE (and he was too, but he wasn’t supposed to be)?
Andrew Vilcsak
Tech Industry Links: Airbnb
Coming from Airbnb, he is working alongside fellow alumni Yat Choi and Joe Gebbia on finishing the project to digitize OPM’s Online Retirement Application system and rush it into production as a DOGE win. Like Yat Choi, he also appears to be Canadian which would disqualify him from working for the federal government, so he has been hired as a contractor instead. At AirBnb, he was involved in the Samara project that was also Joe Gebbia’s interest.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Source
|
| OPM |
Source
OPM
date unknown
consultant
«Named as working alongside Airbnb alumni at OPM.»
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
8/04/25
|
Source
Directory
In a report about DOGE’s continued work on OPM’s Online Retirement Application (ORA) continuing to move ahead, Politico identifies DOGE staff that are working on the project under Joe Gebbia.
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|
8/26/25
|
Source
Directory
A report from Politico identifies three foreign nationals who are working for DOGE within the GSA. Normally, they would not be eligible for government positions but have been hired as contractors. Two are from AirBnb and one worked for X.com in prior capacities.
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Cary Volpert
In May, a new rule at the VA mandated that all new contracts for IT and professional services (or that were for more than $10 million) must be formally approved by either Volpert or Christopher Roussos. Previously, he was the founder of a startup that offered social networking for senior citizens, and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. Understandably, there have been concerns that he lacks the experience and expertise to effectively review contracts at the VA, especially since he is reportedly looking to aggressively cancel many of them quickly.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| VA |
Sources
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
3/25/25
|
Source
Directory
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.
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|
5/13/25
|
Source
Disruption
A new memo from the acting principal director for acquisitions at the VA declares that all new contracts for information technology and professional services or any other contract for more than $10 million must be approved first by either Christopher Roussos or Cary Volpert. In addition, they are now required to send weekly reports to both of the DOGE representatives.
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|
6/25/25
|
Source
Oversight
Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency.
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Russell Vought
It seems a bit weird to associate Russell Vought with DOGE, given his background in the first Trump administration and the Heritage Foundation. However, it’s become increasingly clear that Vought has been a force directing the actions of DOGE, including its initial strategy of targeting agency personnel and budgets. Since Musk’s departure, he has inherited unequivocal control over the group from his perch at OMB.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OMB |
|
| CFPB |
Source
|
| USAID |
Source
|
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
|
11/15/24
|
Source
Sighting
Elon Musk and Russell Vought meet each other for the first time at Mar-a-Lago. They reportedly got along very well, with “both on the same wavelength in terms of taking the most extreme action possible.”
|
|
2/06/25
|
Source
Onboard
Russell Vought is confirmed by Congress as the Director of the powerful Office of Management and Budget.
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|
2/07/25
|
Source
Official
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.
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2/10/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.”
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2/12/25
|
Source
Disruption
In a meeting on foreign aid at OMB, Russell Vought stuns staffers by asking them to cut foreign aid to the greatest extent possible. When told that the cuts will lead to more people dying, he reportedly nonchalantly replied “you could say that about any of these cuts.”
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2/13/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.”
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|
2/18/25
|
Source
Disruption
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.
|
|
2/20/25
|
Source
Disruption
Jordan Wick emails Russell Vought asking for approval to cut an additional $8.4 million of contracts at the CFPB
|
|
3/10/25
|
Source
Onboard
The Trump administration nominates Laken Rapier and Russell Vought to be on the board of the USADF.
|
|
3/10/25
|
Source
Onboard
The Trump Administration nominates Kenneth Jackson and Russell Vought to be on the board of the IAF.
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|
5/13/25
|
Source
Disruption
The CFPB, still under the acting leadership of Russell Vought, withdraws a rule proposed in December that would limit the ability of data brokers to sell sensitive information by placing them under the oversight of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
|
|
6/04/25
|
Source
Official
Testifying to Congress, Russell Vought says the White House is in “the midst of … establishing the leadership on an ongoing basis.” But he also says more DOGE staff will be embedded directly in agencies to report to leadership there. Amy Gleason is not mentioned.
|
|
6/12/25
|
Source
Legal
The plaintiffs in Rhode Island v. Trump et al file an amended complaint asking the court to rule that the IMLS closure was unconstitutional and violated the Administrative Procedures Act. As part of this filing, they issued summons to Keith Sonderling, Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick and Russell Vought. They have 60 days to respond, pushing the nest phase of the trial to August.
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7/23/25
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Source
Interagency
Citing safety concerns, the head of the CFPB (Russell Vought) signs an agreement with the head of the OMB (Russell Vought) to spend $4.7 milliion of the CFPB’s budget from now through December to provide a security detail for Russell Vought. This is the same time as the agency is facing its budget being slashed in half.
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8/29/25
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Source
Disruption
Marco Rubio announces on TruthSocial that Russell Vought has been named as the new Acting Administrator of USAID to “oversee the closeout” of the agency after much of its staff was fired, certain responsibilities were absorbed into the State Department and grants were slashed
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9/30/25
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Sources
Disruption
The day before the beginning of the 2025 federal government shutdown, HHS proposes eliminating 8,000 jobs at the suggestion of Russell Vought, who wants to use the shutdown to inflict pain. HHS eventually lays off 1760 positions on October 10th, but was later revised to 954 after HHS blamed a coding error for firing too many people. Initially, HHS refuses to identify the creator for the layoff proposal within HHS, but it’s eventually revealed to be Rachel Riley.
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Yinon Weiss
Exited govt: 7/XX/25 (reported)
A former Army Special Forces captain, Yinon Weiss is the founder of a startup that sells software for automobile repair shops.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOD |
Sources
DOD
2/18/25?-7/XX/25
«Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans. Reported as having left DOD in July by Wash. Post»
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Events
| Date | Event |
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2/20/25
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Source
Official
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]
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c.6/05/25
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Source
Disruption
Concerned by Steve Davis’ attempts to stay involved with DOGE despite no longer being employed by the agency and instructions to not interact with him, DOGE staffers Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos, Ryan Shea, and Adam Blake privately questioned Davis about his involvement. They also reportedly contacted DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor about the legality of his continued involvement.
(fuzz: date is not given in article, unclear if at meeting or afterwards)
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6/07/25
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Source
Disruption
Steve Davis removed DOGE staffers that he considered disloyal from shared Signal chats that DOGE had continued to use for coordination. He also used his influence at GSA to have Ryan Shea removed from his position. Other Davis targets – Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos and Adam Blake – were able to remain at their posts but were shut out from DOGE communications
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Owen West
Owen West is a Marine Corps veteran and former financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. He served as an assistant secretary of defense in the first Trump administration and was reportedly tapped to lead the DOGE team at the Pentagon after the departure of Yinon Weiss.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOD |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
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7/10/25
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Source
Official
The Pentagon releases a memo calling for “drone dominance,” including increasing manufacturing, embedding drones within armed units and assuming more risk in developing new technologies. The memo is signed by Pete Hegseth, but it was disributed with a DOGE Controlled tag and revealed the appointment of Owen West as the chief point of contact. This is a marked departure from DOGE’s spending control and personnel reduction efforts at the agency.
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10/31/25
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Source
Report
The DOGE team at the Pentagon is reported to be leading efforts to change how the military procures and uses drones and is expected to submit a report to leadership in the coming weeks. One of their goals is reportedly to acquire 30,000 drones in the next few months before ramping up further. The team’s work is being led by Owen West, who also co-authored a drone memo in June.
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1/10/26
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Source
Action
Owen West is named as the new head of the Defense Innovation Unit at the Department of Defense. He has been the head of the DOGE team at the Pentagon and is expected to take over his new position in February or March.
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Linda Whitridge
There aren’t many public details about Linda Whitridge that provide clues to what she is doing for DOGE at the IRS. Her ethics disclosures have revealed that she owns shares of Intuit (who make TurboTax) which is a glaring conflict of interest for someone in her role. Before DOGE, she had been a crossfit trainer and anti-mask advocate in Greenwich, Connecticut and apparently has known Tom Krause since attending Princeton together with him. These are all very relevant skills for a GS-12 position at Treasury paying over $100,000 a year.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| Treas. |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
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4/11/25
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Source
Directory
In a legal filing, the government describes the DOGE team at Treasury of consisting of six people, some previously unknown as DOGE associates.
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5/26/25
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Source
Legal
Judge Vargas, ruling in New York v. Donald Trump lifted restrictions on DOGE staff accessing Treasury systems, saying that the government had demonstrated it was following proper procedures.
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Jordan Wick
Jordan Wick is one of the few early DOGE staffers, who did not have some sort of direct link to Musk or one of his companies, having worked as an engineer at autonomous car company Waymo. He also is a cofounder of a vague civic-technology-with-AI-or-something startup named Accelerate SF with early DOGE booster Anthony Jancso; this is likely what brought him into DOGE. In DOGE itself, he has kept a relatively low profile, but he worked alongside Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger in DOGE’s takeover of the CFPB, and he has stayed on as a full-time staffer at the agency since March 5th, even as he has been deployed elsewhere.
Positions
Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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Concur
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Source
Shared service for booking government travel read access (never accessed) granted by Deputy Director |
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DI
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Source
Provides information on CFPB reporting structure read access granted by Deputy Director |
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G-invoice
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Source
A shared service from BFS for handling intergovernmental invoicing read access (never accessed) granted by Deputy Director |
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HRConnect
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Source
HR system for tracking employee information read-write access granted by Deputy Director |
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IPP
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Source
read access granted by Deputy Director |
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OBI
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Source
read access granted by Deputy Director |
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PRISM
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Source
System for tracking procurement and contracting read access granted by Deputy Director |
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oneARC
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Source
A system for tracking business processes within Salesforce read access granted by Deputy Director |
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USA Staffing
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Source
A platform for federal agencies to recruit and onboard employees. read access granted by Deputy Director |
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WebTA
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Source
System for tracking timecards read access granted by Deputy Director |
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Microsoft Entra ID
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Source
A centralized identity provider used to support single-sign-on (SSO) and centralize access control for agencies. admin access granted by CIO |
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NPS
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Source
A system which tracks information about payments and loans for farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers. The Farm Service Agency already provides public data extracts, so this system would only be used to get access to sensitive information in loan applications and disbursements. It might also possibly be used in DOGE’s anti-immigration efforts. admin access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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2/12/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/13/25
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Source
Disruption
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.”
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2/13/25
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Source
Access
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.
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2/20/25
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Source
Disruption
Jordan Wick emails Russell Vought asking for approval to cut an additional $8.4 million of contracts at the CFPB
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2/28/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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3/04/25
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Source
Onboard
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.
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3/12/25
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Source
Interagency
Steve Davis sends an email to the FCC general counsel Adam Candeub introducing him to Tarak Makecha (whom he identifies as the Biz Lead) and Jordan Wick (software engineer). He follows up with Tarak and suggests chatting with him on his personal phone number (instead of an official government phone number).
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3/17/25
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Source
Interagency
In a redacted email about onboarding Jordan Wick, Joshua Fox sends an email to other FCC staff introducing Kendall Lindemann as DOGE’s “onboarding/HR/personnel expert.”
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4/01/25
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Source
Action
Jordan Wick sends a data file of FCC orders to the Chief Counsel to review. In response, the counsel says “I have a quasi-personal FCC data issue I’d love to discuss over lunch (on me).”
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4/XX/25
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Source
Access
Jordan Wick is granted high-level access to the National Payment Service (NPS) system, which would allow him to see and alter payments or even cancel loans to farmers and other agricultural producers. Concerningly, his activities are not logged or recorded.
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4/04/25
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Source
Sighting
Tarak Makecha, Jordan Wick and Jacob Altik are listed in the public directory of FCC staff and listed as associated with the Office of the Chairman at the FCC.
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4/08/25
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Source
Interagency
Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle meet in the FCC headquarters with the Chief of Staff Greg Watson to discuss the FCC’s progress on removing regulations.
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4/10/25
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Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request from American Oversight, the USDA returns a list of known DOGE members at the agency at the time.
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4/12/25
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Source
Interagency
Emailing this time from his CFPB account, Jeremy Lewin shares the documentation for the upcoming CFPB RIF with DOGE staff posted at several agencies (Zach Terrell and Alexandra Beynon). He also includes DOGE staff at CFPB: Gavin Kliger, Chris Young and Jordan Wick. It’s unclear if they are representing their individual agencies or are just taking part as DOGE members in the conversation.
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4/12/25
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Source
Official
Jeremy Lewin emails CFPB leadership asking for full global admininstrative access for Entra and HRConnect to be restored for the DOGE engineers Gavin Kliger and Jordan Wick. Weirdly, this list includes Luke Farritor who offboarded at CFPB on 2025-03-04. This request is denied by the agency CIO.
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4/28/25
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Source
Action
Jordan Wick sends an email to the FCC General Counsel asking for data on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews for cell phone tower installations. He then asks to meet with a technical contributor about the feasibility of adding a new feature to their review tracking software. Narrowing environmental review is a Trump administration priority.
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5/16/25
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Source
Directory
In a response to a FOIA request made by American Oversight, SBA provides a list of all people who have been identified as communicating on agency head Kelly Loefler’s behalf. It includes a number of people known to be DOGE and others with the title Senior Advisor who might also be doge.gov
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c.5/25/25
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Source
Disruption
Over 200 loan recipients have their birth date voided and their accounts closed in the National Payment Service (NPS) system. This action was likely taken by Jordan Wick in response to discovering that some number of loan recipients had “1900” as their birth years (DOGE presumed similar circumstances at SSA indicated fraud when it was really issues with data entry). It is possible that this action was a pretext for closing other accounts.
(fuzz: date just reported as late May)
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Open Questions
- Why is Jordan Wick's detail to the FCC so murky and weird?
According to documents FOIAed from the agency, Jordan Wick is supposed to have been detaled from DOGE to the FCC around March 18th (the agreement is not signed) and he is listed as a volunteer. The detailing agreement mentions that Wick is being detailed from OPM which will bill for his services. Is OPM involved or is this just a bad cut and paste job? Also, at the time of this detail Jordan Wick was an employee of the CFPB, which isn’t mentioned at all anywhere.
Joanna Wischer
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| OPM |
Source
OPM
1/20/25
Senior Advisor to the Director
(excepted, $167,603 - $195,200)
«Salary range for GS-15 in DC; LinkedIn says she is working for OMB “Made in America” initiative since March 2025»
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| OMB |
Sources
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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USA Performance
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Source
System tracking job performance of federal employees unknown access «system name is listed as “USA Performance - Office of the Director”» |
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STAMP
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Source
This is a system at OPM that I do not have information about yet unknown access |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/12/25
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Source
Directory
A New York Times report on DOGE from just before the Inauguration roughly describes the working arrangements for embedding some staff and detailing others as well as some early participants in the project
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1/20/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff start working at OPM and are listed as part of the Office of the Director.
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1/24/25
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Source
Directory
A report from Business Insider names some of the DOGE staffers who were involved in transition activities and provides an early snapshot of who is in DOGE.
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1/28/25
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Source
Directory
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)
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2/12/25
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Source
Directory
In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time.
Akash Bobba, Amanda Scales, Anthony Armstrong, Austin Raynor, Brian Bjelde, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Charles Ezell, Christina Hanna, Edward Coristine, Gavin Kliger, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik, Joanna Wischer, Justin Monroe, Nikhil Rajpal, Noah Peters, Riccardo Biasini, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte
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Marshall Wood
Exited govt: 9/XX/25 (reported)
A former investment banking associate at Jefferies, Marshall Wood is part of the wrecking crew led by Nate Cavanaugh that has visited multiple independent agencies. He also is a friend of Justin Fox from their days as students at the University of Virginia. Much of DOGE’s wrecking activities have dissipated in recent months, and his own LinkedIn reports that he has now landed in a reward position in Strategic Finance at xAI, one of Musk’s companies.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Sources
GSA
4/21/25-9/XX/25
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| DFC |
Source
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| NEA |
Source
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| ODNI |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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4/28/25
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Source
Sighting
A team of 4 DOGE personnel – Nate Cavanaugh, Jonathan Mendelson, Ethan Shaotran and Marshall Wood – arrive at the headquarters of the US International Development Finance Corporation
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5/13/25
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Source
Directory
In an overview of how DOGE has tried to assign teams outside of the executive branch, NPR lists six DOGE staffers at GSA who are involved with those efforts.
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7/21/25
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Source
Directory
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
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Ryan Wunderly
Tech Industry Links: Anduril
There isn’t much public reporting about Ryan Wunderly, who has wisely taken a much lower public profile than Marko Elez, the brash engineer preceding him who had to resign his role at Treasury over past racist tweets (only to be rehired later). Ryan has continued DOGE’s work of gaining elevated access and control to Treasury systems. Prior to DOGE, he was a Robotics Engineer at the military contractor Anduril.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| Treas. |
Sources
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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2/19/25
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Source
Official
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.
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2/20/25
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Source
Onboard
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.
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3/24/25
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Source
Legal
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)
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4/11/25
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Source
Directory
In a legal filing, the government describes the DOGE team at Treasury of consisting of six people, some previously unknown as DOGE associates.
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4/12/25
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Source
Legal
Judge Vargas rules in New York et al vs. Donald Trump that Ryan Wunderly should be granted access to Treasury systems.
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5/26/25
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Source
Legal
Judge Vargas, ruling in New York v. Donald Trump lifted restrictions on DOGE staff accessing Treasury systems, saying that the government had demonstrated it was following proper procedures.
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Chris Young
Likely aliases: OPM-14
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| DOGE |
Source
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| CFPB | |
| OPM |
Sources
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Systems
| System | Notes |
|---|---|
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USA Performance
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Source
System tracking job performance of federal employees unknown access «system name is listed as “USA Performance - Office of the Director”» |
Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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1/30/25
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Source
Onboard
Austin Raynor and Chris Young start working at OPM.
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2/06/25
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Source
Onboard
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.
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2/12/25
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Source
Disruption
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.
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2/20/25
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Source
Sighting
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.
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4/12/25
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Source
Interagency
Emailing this time from his CFPB account, Jeremy Lewin shares the documentation for the upcoming CFPB RIF with DOGE staff posted at several agencies (Zach Terrell and Alexandra Beynon). He also includes DOGE staff at CFPB: Gavin Kliger, Chris Young and Jordan Wick. It’s unclear if they are representing their individual agencies or are just taking part as DOGE members in the conversation.
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6/24/25
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Source
Directory
In a status report for AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM, the government reports that multiple DOGE staff at OPM have left the government by this date. Of course, their actual departure dates might be earlier, but it’s a direct acknowledgment of multiple staff departures in the preceding months.
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Bridget Youngs
Exited govt: 8/XX/25 (self-reported)
Not much is reported about Bridget Youngs’ actions for DOGE. Like many of Nate Cavanaugh’s wrecking crew, she comes from a background in finance and investment, and is young (graduating from college in 2017). She left DOGE in August to found a company manufacturing electrical transformers.
Positions
| Position | Notes |
|---|---|
| GSA |
Source
GSA
3/XX/25-8/XX/25
Contract Specialist
«Emails from Peace Corps staff shared via FOIA reveal that she was detailed from GSA, this matches common pattern for wreckers»
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| DOL |
Sources
GSA DOL
3/XX/25-8/XX/25
detailed
«From her LinkedIn: “Lead agency actions resulting in over $5 billion in taxpayer savings, re-industrialization workforce initiatives, deregulation, and platform modernization for Federal unemployment and workforce visas” but described elsewhere as from GSA, so assuming detail»
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| Peace |
Source
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Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
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4/03/25
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Source
Interagency
A human resources division chief at the Peace Corps reports receiving two phone calls in quick succession. The first was from a Senior Advisor at OPM who also claimed to be a liasion for the White House, reporting that a DOGE representative would be detailed from USAID. The second was from a woman detailed to DOGE from GSA, who stated she was originally going to be detailed to USAID but will now be in a leadership position short term. She is not identified but is likely Bridget Youngs.
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4/04/25
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Source
Onboard
In a heavily redacted email, a DOGE member (likely Bridget Youngs) reports that they will likely be the only person on-site, but requests that 4 names total should be granted physical access to the building
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4/04/25
|
Sources
Sighting
DOGE staffer Bridget Youngs visits the Peace Corps, planning to work over the weeked to review records and access IT systems.
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5/07/25
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Source
Disruption
DOGE staff at the Department of Labor terminate more than two dozen grants to increase the representation of women in trades like construction, manufacturing and IT, as well as to combat gender-based violence and discrimination. DOGE later brags about it on its X account.
(fuzz: She’s not named, but I am linking Bridget Youngs since she claims she was reviewing grants at DOL)
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Open Questions
- She was named as showing up at the Peace Corps once. Has she been involved in any other DOGE visits to other independent agencies?
- Did Bridget Youngs start at DOL and get detailed from there? Or did she start at GSA like many others in Nate Cavanaugh's orbit and then get detailed to DOL?