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
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c.2/13/25 unknown start type «No other info besides this report»
| Source: | DOGE software approval alarms Labor Department employees NBC News, 2/13/25 |
Appointed:
date unknown Policy Advisor
Promotion:
c.11/15/25 promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff
Appointed:
date unknown Policy Advisor
Promotion:
c.11/15/25 promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff
| Source: | DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Wired Magazine, 12/02/25 |
| Source: | Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research Science, 11/21/25 |
| Source: | DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Wired Magazine, 12/02/25 |
Events
2/13/25
System 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.
System 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.
| Person: | Adam Ramada, Cole Killian, Derek Geissler, Jordan Wick, Sam Beyda |
| Source: | DOGE software approval alarms Labor Department employees NBC News, 2/13/25 |
| Agency: | DOL |
| DOGE Project: | Impunity |
c.2/13/25
| : | Sam Beyda c.2/13/25 |
| Source: | DOGE software approval alarms Labor Department employees NBC News, 2/13/25 |
| Note: | No other info besides this report |
c.10/25/25
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.
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.
| Person: | Sam Beyda |
| Source: | Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research Science, 11/21/25 |
| Agency: | CDC |
| DOGE Project: | Elimination |
c.11/07/25
Disruption:
Disruption:
| Person: | Sam Beyda |
| Source: | Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research Science, 11/21/25 |
| Agency: | CDC |
| DOGE Project: | Elimination |
c.11/15/25
| Promotion: | Sam Beyda c.11/15/25 |
| Position Title: | Deputy Chief of Staff |
| Source: | Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research Science, 11/21/25 |
| Source: | DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now Wired Magazine, 12/02/25 |
11/19/25
Official Action:
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.
Official Action:
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.
| Person: | Sam Beyda |
| Source: | HHS Proposes New CDC Programs, Including Hepatitis B Screening Bloomberg, 11/20/25 |
| Agency: | CDC |
| DOGE Project: | Elimination |
12/01/25
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.
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.
| Person: | Sam Beyda |
| Source: | New Documents Reveal a Controversial Vaccine Study’s Unusual Path to CDC Approval Rolling Stone, 2/20/26 |
| Agency: | CDC |
Open Questions
- What has Sam Beyda been doing for most of this year before showing up at HHS/CDC?