Tom Krause

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.”

Tom Krause starts as Senior Advisor for Technology and Modernization at Treas..

After Tom Krause requested it from Treasury staff, Marko Elez emailed an unencrypted spreadsheet containing information about 350 payments made by USAID to two unnamed staffers at GSA. Marko violated bureau policy by not obtaining approval before sending this and the file contained some sensitive PII about payment recipients. The GSA staffers are not identified, but Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, and Jeremy Lewin had all been detailed to USAID from GSA at the time the email was sent and could still have been using their GSA email addresses.

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.

A large contingent of DOGE staff from multiple agencies meet at GSA HQ. It is unclear if they are representing their specific agencies or if this is a DOGE all-hands gathering. It is also unclear how many DOGE staffers in GSA are in attendance.

Tom Krause converted to permanent paid position at Treas.

The Acting Director of ICE, Caleb Vitello, sends an email to a collection of DOGE staff at the IRS and Treasury requesting that the IRS should provide personal information on approximately 700,000 individuals, including their addresses, phone numbers, employers and addresses and SSN or TIN. The message is addressed to Tom Krause at Treasury and Gavin Kliger at IRS, but it also is cc’ed to Aram Moghaddassi at the Department of Labor and Luke Farritor at HHS (it’s unclear if they are representing those agencies or just using those emails but are representing DOGE)

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)

In a legal filing, the government describes the DOGE team at Treasury of consisting of six people, some previously unknown as DOGE associates.

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.

Tom Krause leaves role at Treas. (exits govt. service)

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.