DOGE Track

Targeting for Elimination

We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead. - Elon Musk

While anti-personnel efforts have cut a swath across the entire federal government, DOGE has also frequented targeted specific departments and even entire agencies for elimination. Perhaps the most prominent examples of this have been the destruction of USAID and thwarted dismantling of CFPB, but DOGE has also targeted numerous smaller independent agencies for destruction as well.

DOGE’s methods have generally followed the same script:

  1. If necessary, coordinate with the White House to fire agenecy directors or members of a supervisory board that might prevent DOGE from being able to operate with impunity
  2. Then, arrange a meeting with agency leadership, under the pretense that you’re authorized to perform IT modernization and get them to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to detail DOGE staff into the agency.
  3. Badger or force the IT staff to grant admin access for the DOGE team in systems that manage contracts, grants, system access and personnel. In some cases, DOGE teams have relied upon allies in agency leadership to ensure this access.
  4. If able to take over agency leadership, immediately place all employees on indefinite administrative leave and lock them out from accessing agency systems.
  5. Use access to the contracts and grants systems to immediately cancel contracts and rescind all grants.
  6. Formally issue a massive Reduction in Force (RIF) notice to be executed as soon as feasible. Ensure nobody is taken off administrative leave before then.
  7. Delete the website and gloat about it on X.

For more information on who has been involved with this work, see The Wreckers.

Date Event
1/30/25
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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.
February 2025
2/01/25
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Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the independent director of the CFPB. The deputy director of the CFPB, Zixta Martinez, assumes the role of acting director.
2/01/25
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The main USAID website and 6 other related websites are taken offline by DOGE.
2/01/25
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Approximately 2000 USAID email accounts are deactivated without warning.
2/02/25
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Elon Musk posts a series of tweets calling USAID evil and saying it is “time for it to die.”
2/03/25
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is named the acting director of the CFPB and orders staff to immediately halt all work pending review.
2/03/25
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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.
2/03/25
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All USAID staff receive and email that the building is indefinitely closed. It included Gavin Kliger’s email address at USAID.
2/03/25
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Elon Musk tweets that he and President Trump are shutting down USAID, bragging he had fed the agency “into the wood chipper”
2/04/25
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All USAID staff are informed by email they will soon be placed on indefinite administrative leave. The message is sent from the USAID email address of Gavin Kliger.
2/07/25
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Elon Musk posts a tweet “CFPB RIP” with a tombstone emoji
2/07/25
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DOGE posts a tweet boasting about the removal of signage on the headquarters for USAID.
2/07/25
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All USAID staff are placed on indefinite administrative leave, as a way of locking them out of systems and keeping them out of the way of DOGE’s activities at the agency.
2/09/25
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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.
2/10/25
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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.”
2/10/25
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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.
2/11/25
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CFPB Contracting Officers (COs) are ordered to terminate the vast majority of CFPB’s contracts over the weekend (“We need to get these Termination Notifications out ASAP.”) This includes “Enforcement (102 contracts), Supervision (16 contracts), External Affairs (3 contracts), Consumer Response (20 contracts), Office of Director (33 contracts), and Legal Division (all except 2 contracts).”
2/12/25
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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.
2/12/25
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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.”
2/12/25
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In a meeting at the OMB, Russell Vought reportedly asks OMB staffers what options would allow them to dismantle the USIP. When he was told it was independent and funded by Congress, he replied “we’ll see what we can do.”
2/13/25
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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.”
2/14/25
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The CFPB’s videos are removed from its YouTube channel.
2/19/25
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USADF board member Ward Brehm becomes aware that his agency is going to be targeted by DOGE for elimination.
2/19/25
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Trump issues EO 14217, which explicitly targets the Presidio Trust, the Inter-American Foundation, the United States African Development Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace for reductions.
2/20/25
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At an internal planning meeting for the temporarily paused Reduction In Force, CFPB COO Adam Martinez confirms the White House plan was to completely end the CFPB within 30 days. The plan was to reduce the CFPB to “five guys and a phone,” ie to the minimum number of positions that were mandated by the text of Dodd-Frank (the bill that created the CFPB). Staff were informed there was no need to abide by federal data retention regulations because there would be nothing left of the agency to maintain.
2/21/25
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IAF CEO Sara Aviel confirms to a friend at USADF that DOGE plans to dismantle the agency.
2/21/25
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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.
2/21/25
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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.
2/21/25
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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.
2/21/25
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The USADF general cousel revokes their participation in the Memorandum of Understanding based on it being created under false pretenses that DOGE would be assisting the agency in “IT modernization.”
2/21/25
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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.
 Jacob Altik, Nate Cavanaugh, Ethan Shaotran
2/23/25
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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.
2/24/25
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The head of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is placed on administrative leave and eventually dismissed. She is replaced in the position by Chris Chapman, who is subsequently fired in mass layoffs on March 11th. The agency was leaderless until July 7, when it was added as additional responosibilities for another executive in the Department of Education.
2/24/25
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The IAF President Sara Aviel joins a call with Nate Cavanaugh and Jacob Altik, who claim that all but one of the board members have been terminated. They demand that Aviel approves DOGE’s plan for the agency – which she declines to do – and that she sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) assigning a DOGE member to the agency and granting them access to systems. After the call, she confirms that no board members had received a termination notice.
2/24/25
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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.
2/24/25
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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.
2/26/25
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The IAF President Sara Aviel learns in the morning that the Senior Procurement Executive at the Treasury had been ordered by DOGE to unilaterally cancel all contracts by the end of business on the following day.
2/26/25
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Sara Aviel receives an email from White House Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel Trent Morse informing her that President Trump has now terminated her position.
March 2025
3/01/25
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TTS administrator Thomas Shedd eliminates 90 members of 18F with a 1am firing email and locks them out of their machines
3/01/25
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Hours after the staff is hit with the RIF email, the DNS entry for 18F.gsa.gov is removed
3/03/25
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In a hearing for a preliminary injunction, Judge Amy Berman Jackson expresses fears that CFPB will be “choked out of its very existence” while the litigation progresses. Concerned with misleading answers from the admininistration’s lawyers, she orders a evidentiary hearing in a week and continues the restraining order against layoffs.
3/04/25
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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.
3/04/25
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DOGE brags on its X account that the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) has been reduced to a single employee.
3/04/25
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DOGE takes the Inter-American Foundation’s website offline.
3/04/25
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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.
c.3/05/25
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Peter Marocco names the remaining single employee not on admininstrative leave at the agency, the Chief Information Security Officer, as the new President of the Inter-American Foundation.
3/05/25
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Complying with the demands in EO 14217, USIP leadership submits a letter to OMB asserting that USIP is an independent nonprofit organization, not a federal agency and that the measures in the executive order do not apply.
3/08/25
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USIP President George Moose becomes aware that DOGE is conducting some sort of reconnaisance with respect to USIP’s security operations and the contractor who handles physical security at their building.
3/12/25
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Shelly C. Lowe, the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is forced out of her position by President Trump.
3/12/25
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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.
3/14/25
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Trump issues a new executive order EO 14238 targeting the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the United States Agency for Global Media (parent of VOA, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and the Minority Business Development Agency for reduction actions by DOGE.
3/15/25
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In response to Trump’s second executive order against independent agencies (EO 14238), virtually the entire staff of Voice of America (more than 1300 people) are placed on indefinite admininstrative leave.
3/15/25
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In response to Trump’s executive order targeting independent agencies, Trump’s senior advisor at the agency, Kari Lake, sends out termination notices for all grants to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. It is unclear if she has the authority to issue such terminations.
3/17/25
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USIP President George Moose is escorted out of the building by DC police who entered with DOGE at 5:30pm to eject the USIP staff and leadership.
3/17/25
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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
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DOGE-affiliated staff start removing interior signage from the USIP building.
3/20/25
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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.
3/20/25
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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.”
3/20/25
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The USIP website is taken offline.
3/25/25
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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.
3/25/25
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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.
 Nate Cavanaugh, Stephen Ehikian
3/26/25
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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.
3/27/25
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HHS announces a large reorganization, reducing HHS from 28 to 15 divisions and eliminating 20,000 jobs (or 25% of total). The URL slug of the press release includes the word “DOGE” in it.
3/28/25
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In a sweeping ruling, judge Amy Berman Jackson grants a preliminary injunction for the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) against Russell Vought, the acting CFPB director. In her ruling, she declares that it is plain that the administration intended to destroy the agency and she found significant parts of its testimony unreliable. In her injunction, she orders the admininistration must refrain from any firing any employee of the CFPB, restore any contracts that were in place before February 11th, reinstate all probationary employees that were fired, ensure that no agency data is deleted and rescind the stop-work order. It is immediately appealed by the administration.
3/28/25
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During an interview, the head of HHS Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reports that DOGE created the new organizational chart for the agency ahead of mass firings. He also claims “we’re not cutting scientists.” (fact check: misleading)
3/28/25
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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.
3/28/25
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Almost all USIP HQ staff (200-300 people) receive termination notices sent late on a Friday night.
3/31/25
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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.
3/31/25
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In a viral post on X, DOGE calls out what it sees as wasteful spending of the USIP. This includes a $132,000 grant to Mohammad Halimi, a former member of the Taliban who later switched sides and worked for the US and Afghan government. He is now living in exile as a vocal critic, but DOGE accused USIP of “funding the Taliban” by giving him a grant.
April 2025
4/01/25
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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.
4/01/25
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The Defendants in the USIP lawsuit learn that GSA will be leasing the building to the Department of Labor. This is after Nate Cavanaugh transferred its ownership to the GSA.
4/01/25
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Mark Green, a Republican who once worked for Trump, is forced out as the head of the Wilson Center. Several members of the board were also reportedly fired earlier.
4/03/25
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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
4/04/25
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A judge grants an injunction and orders that IAF President Sara Aviel must be reinstated as the president of the IAF while her lawsuit proceeds against the administration.
4/04/25
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DOGE staffers at SSA declare the need for widespread Reductions-in-Force (RIFs) at the agency, despite a previous reduction in staffing of 7000 people and notable degradations in service. Among other cuts, they suggest removing 800 people from the IT department of 4000.
c.4/07/25
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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”)
4/08/25
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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.
c.4/09/25
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The remaining 5 employees of the MBDA are transferred out of the agency. (fuzz: Date is unspecified)
4/09/25
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All but 5 employees are sent expedited 30-day termination notices and placed on immediate administrative leave by DOGE staff.
4/10/25
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Most NEH staffers receive Reduction-in-Force (RIF) notices that their positions will be terminated on June 10th.
4/10/25
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A leaked OMB budget proposal memorandum propose major changes to the discretionary budget for the Department of Health and Human Services. Specifically, it includes cutting that budget by a third and also consolidating various health and safety-related agencies into a new Administration for a Healthy America (AHA) overseen by the HHS Secretary.
4/12/25
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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.
 Gavin Kliger, Jeremy Lewin
4/12/25
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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.
 Gavin Kliger, Jeremy Lewin
4/13/25
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Jeremy Lewin has a followup Teams call with CFPB chief legal counsel Mark Paoletta to plan for the upcoming massive RIF at the CFPB
 Jeremy Lewin
4/16/25
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Agency staff at AmeriCorps are placed on immediate administrative leave and banned from accessing agency systems.
4/16/25
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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.
 Gavin Kliger, Jeremy Lewin, Noah Peters
4/17/25
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CFPB conducts a massive Reduction-in-Force, eliminating 1483 positions and retaining only 207 people to perform its duties. This is larger than the planned RIF in February that was blocked by Judge Amy Berman-Jackson. It is immediately appealed.
4/17/25
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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.
4/22/25
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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.
4/22/25
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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.
May 2025
5/02/25
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Radio Free Asia announces it is laying off 90% of its staff and stopping many of its language services due to the loss of funding after USAGM head Kari Lake terminated all grants in March.
5/13/25
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Ruling in Rhode Island v. Trump et al, Judge John McConnell Jr. ordered a preliminary injunction declaring that IMLS grants must be processed and staff brought back.
5/13/25
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Ruling in Rhode Island v. Trump, Judge McConnell grants a preliminary injunction preventing DOGE and the Trump Administration from dismantling the IMLS, MBDA and FMCS while the case is active.
5/15/25
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The US Agency for Global Media starts sending termination notices to contractors, some of whom are on J1 visas and would be forced to leave the country within 30 days.
5/19/25
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Although IMLS staff are returned to their positions by court order, employees complain that the email “reinforced attempts to eliminate staff through trauma, force, and malicious compliance.”
5/20/25
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In a post on its X account, DOGE reports that it is working to review surveys conducted by the Census Bureau and claims to have already eliminated 5 surveys that include questions about alcohol consumption and internet usage.
5/23/25
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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.
5/28/25
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Former 18F employees file a class-action appeal with the Merit Systems Protection Board stating that GSA did not provide a valid reason for eliminating the agency and the firings were acts of retaliation because of their perceived political affiliations.
June 2025
6/06/25
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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.
6/25/25
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In a surprise move, the Republican governor of Virginia, the head of public buildings service at GSA and the Commissioner for HUD announce that they will be kicking out the National Science Foundation (NSF) from its Virginia headquarters and moving HUD to that location. There are no details provided on where NSF is expected to relocate to.
6/26/25
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The Department of Defense announced that it would immediately stop ingesting and sharing data from 3 microwave-imaging satellites with NOAA’s National Hurricane Center. This imaging is used to prevent “sunrise surprises” by allowing forecasters to monitor hurricanes at night. The change is expected to degrade the quality of hurricane forecasts.
July 2025
7/01/25
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Under the direction of Marco Rubio, USAID officially ceases all operations for foreign aid. A study in the medical journal Lancet suggests that the end of USAID will lead to 14 million deaths worldwide by 2030, with 4.5 million of those being children under that age of 5.
7/04/25
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Trump signs the Big Beautiful Bill into law. Among other regressive measures, it slashes the cap on the that the CFPB can pull from by 46% to a maximum of 6.5% of the Federal Reserve operating budget.
7/11/25
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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.
7/12/25
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Almost all USIP staff receive an email on Saturday telling them they are terminated effective immediately.
7/14/25
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Although the building is still somewhat in use and staff are being paid, CFPB staff report that the agency has been mostly inoperable for six months and unable to perform its mission to protect the public.
7/17/25
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Congress passess a $9 billion recissions package that codifies DOGE cuts to foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, despite concerns from Democrats and two Senate Republicans that its cuts are purposefully vague and undermine Congress’ role in the budget process.
August 2025
8/01/25
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting issues a press release announcing that it has commenced an orderly wind-down due to the elimination of funding from both the recissions package as well as the budget for next year. A majority of staff will be let go on the September 30, 2026 with a small team retained for final closedown in January 2026. This is frankly a heartbreaking outcome for an agency that has served America for almost 60 years.
September 2025
9/29/25
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Ruling in Widakuswara v. Lake, Judge Lambeth declares that the government must pause its layoff plans at the US Agency for Global Media and lambasted the administration for showing a “concerning disrepect” for the court’s preliminary injunction
October 2025
10/14/25
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Another round of terminations results in the CDC having lost a quarter of its staff – around 3000 people – since the beginning of the Trump administration. The latest firings targeted the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the National Center for Health Statistics as well as other supporting functions within the agency like human resources, building security and the library.
c.10/25/25
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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.
November 2025
11/04/25
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Moving under the cover of the government shutdown, NASA leadership has reportedly permanently closed 13 our of 30 buildings on NASA’s Goddard Campus and emptied them of equipment and supplies. This includes highly unique equipment for testing satellites as well as components for future missions to observe the earth and the cosmos.
c.11/07/25
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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.
11/19/25
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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.
11/21/25
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Ruling in State of Rhode Island v. Trump, Judge Ryan Jackson grants an order for summary judgment finding that EO 14238 is illegal and that the Trump Administration is not allowed to shutter the small agencies – the IMLS, MBDA, FMCS and USICH – targeted in the executive order.
December 2025
12/04/25
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The State Department posts photos showing that Donald Trump’s name has now been put on the US Institute of Peace facade, with the post acclaiming him as “the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history.”
1/05/26
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The board of directors votes to formally dissolve the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ending its 58 year history of providing funding for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations. This was the inevitable outcome after Congress codified the elimination of funding for the agency.
February 2026
2/02/26
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A new report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office determines that the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the Department of Education have cost the federal government more than $28 million. The Department of Education has been blocked from implementing a reduction in force that would reduce the office to 10% of its former size but it has effectively eliminated civil rights enforcement at the agency.
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