DOGE Track

Katrine Trampe

Analyst, age 29

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 married to fellow DOGE supporter Baris Akis (but has since reverted it back).

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»

Systems

System Notes
FPPS
Source
  • PEER Report Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, 2025-04-15
Federal Personnel Payroll System 3/29/25
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
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
A staffer at the EOP emails DOGE staff to take part in a webinar about the National Environmental Policy Act.
 Daniel Abrahamson, Katrine Trampe, Tyler Hassen
2/21/25
Source
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.
 Katrine Trampe, Rachel Riley, Tyler Hassen
2/21/25
Source
Katrine Trampe kicks off a series of meetings to discuss “workforce efficiency” for various bureaus at the Department of the Interior.
2/24/25
Source
  • PEER Report Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, 2025-04-15
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
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
DOGE staffers at the Department of the Interior meet with Nicole Hollander from GSA about leases to be cancelled.
 Katrine Trampe, Nicole Hollander, Tyler Hassen
2/27/25
Source
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?)
 Greg Hogan, Katrine Trampe, Riccardo Biasini, Tyler Hassen
2/28/25
Source
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
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.
 Derek Geissler, Greg Hogan, Katrine Trampe, Riccardo Biasini, Tyler Hassen
3/28/25
Source
  • PEER Report Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, 2025-04-15
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.
 Gavin Kliger, Katrine Trampe
7/09/25
Source
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)?