Feb 2025

Stephanie Holmes starts as Senior Advisor for Technology and Efficiency at DOGE.

Peter Marocco starts at USAID.

Trump fires Rohit Chopra, the independent director of the CFPB. The deputy director of the CFPB, Zixta Martinez, assumes the role of acting director.

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.

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.

THe USAID Director of Security and their deputy are placed on administrative leave for reportedly trying to prevent DOGE from accessing personnel files and classified data.

The main USAID website and 6 other related websites are taken offline by DOGE.

DOGE staff arrive at USAID HQ hoping to work within the administrator’s suite at USAID, but their badges were not properly coded to provide access. The DOGE staff reportedly concluded this meant agency staff were keeping them out and could not be trusted.

Approximately 2000 USAID email accounts are deactivated without warning.

Ethan Shaotran at GSA hosts Brooks Morgan and Conor Fennessy from Education in a Saturday co-working session. It’s unclear if they are there to work together or they are simply interested in using DOGE’s space in the GSA to work.

Elon Musk posts a series of tweets calling USAID evil and saying it is “time for it to die.”

Aram Moghaddassi, Marko Elez and Riley Sennott arrive at GSA to work with unspecified GSA staff on a Sunday. They are signed in by Thomas Shedd and Luke Farritor. Riley Sennott is still not an official employee of GSA at the time of the meeting.

Stephen Duarte, Stephen Duarte, Christina Hanna, and Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski start as at OPM.

Marco Rubio starts as Acting Administrator at USAID.

Akash Bobba detailed from OPM to Ed.

Akash Bobba detailed from OPM to SSA

Edward Coristine and Donald Park detailed from GSA to SBA

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.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is named the acting director of the CFPB and orders staff to immediately halt all work pending review.

Twenty DOGE staff are reportedly sighted within the Department of Education and “have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset that contains the personal information for millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.”

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.

Email to SBA staff announces that Edward Coristine and Donald Park were granted access to all systems including HR, contract, and payment systems.

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.

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)

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.

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.

Elon Musk tweets that he and President Trump are shutting down USAID, bragging he had fed the agency “into the wood chipper”

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.

Alexandra Beynon starts as Senior Advisor at DOGE.

Justin Fulcher starts at VA.

Brooks Morgan starts at Ed..

Edward Coristine detailed from GSA to DHS

Luke Farritor detailed from GSA to DOE

Adam Ramada detailed from DOGE to DOE

Cole Killian detailed from DOGE to EPA

Nikhil Rajpal detailed from OPM to NOAA

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.

Luke Farritor is given read access to the CDC’s Acquisition Performance and Execution (APEX) system that tracks procurements at the CDC.

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.”

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.

Cole Killian appears in an EPA internal directory as a “Federal Detailee” (under his legal name Gautier Killian).

Jordan Wick, Nate Cavanaugh and Frederik Lohner are signed in at GSA. Nate Cavanaugh should have been officially hired already, and Jordan Wich is detailed to GSA at some point, so it’s unclear why they signed in.

DOGE staffer Nikhil Rajpal reportedly enters NOAA facilities in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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.

A representative from DOGE was given access to contracting systems as well as information on VA operations and information technology systems.

Alexandra Beynon detailed from DOGE to Ed.

Adam Ramada detailed from DOGE to DOL

Austin Raynor and Chris Young detailed from OPM to DOGE

Keenan Kmiec leaves role at DOGE (exits govt. service)

The WSJ reports that DOGE staff arrive at CMS HQ and are reportedly granted access to the CALM system, but sources at CMS deny they have access to HIGLAS.

CMS issues a press release stating that two agency veterans have been assigned to work closely with DOGE.

DOGE staff are seen entering the headquarters of the Department of Commerce.

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, even after Amy Gleason’s appointment.

Thomas Flagg, the CIO of the Dept. of Education, sends a memo to the heads of IT that orders them to give DOGE staff prompt access to all systems that they request.

DOGE staff are given access to several unspecified Department of Labor IT systems.

Elon Musk promises that DOGE will make rapid upgrades to airline systems after outage of NOTAM alerting system occur.

OPM attests the Government-Wide Email System runs only on agency systems (and is not hosted in an external provider, which would be a violation of federal IT policy).

OPM issues a Privacy Impact Assessment for its Government-Wide Email System (GWES) which states responses to its messages are voluntary, brief and do not include identifying information from federal staffers.

Marko Elez leaves role as Special Advisor (IT&M) at Treas.

DOGE staff reportedly arrive at CDC HQ in Atlanta to request access to health payment systems used at the agency.

The Washington Post reports that DOGE is feeding Department of Education data into an unidentified AI system hosted in Microsoft Azure.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issues a ruling stating that DOGE should be granted only read access to government systems at Treasury.

Nate Cavanaugh and Frederik Lohner show up at GSA and are signed into the building by Thomas Shedd

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.

The judge in Jane Does 1-2 v. Office of Personnel Management (D.D.C.) dismisses the motion for a temporary restraining order against the OPM email system since there is now a Privacy Impact Assessment available for it.

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.

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.

Ryan Riedel starts as Chief Information Officer at DOE.

Russell Vought starts as Director at OMB.

Luke Farritor and Jeremy Lewin detailed from GSA to CFPB

Gavin Kliger, Nikhil Rajpal, and Chris Young detailed from OPM to CFPB

Jordan Wick detailed from DOGE to CFPB

Elon Musk posts a tweet “CFPB RIP” with a tombstone emoji

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.

DOGE staff are granted global admin access to various CFPB systems without completing all the mandated training or agreeing to CFPB’s acceptable use policy for IT systems. This includes a system that allows them to grant or revoke access to other IT systems at the CFPB.

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.

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.

168 employees who worked on environmental justice at the EPA are placed on indefinite administrative leave.

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.

DOGE posts a tweet boasting about the removal of signage on the headquarters for USAID.

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.

After gaining access to the PAM DB system for payments, DOGE members at the Treasury department discover what appear to be payments flowing to recipients without Social Security numbers. Other recipients appear to be dead. These discrepancies lead to Musk accusing SSA of massive fraud on his Twitter feed, but later analysis by SSA staff reveal these were cases of DOGE not understanding how the data was structured.

Russell Vought starts as Acting Director at CFPB.

The DOGE social media account on X boasts about deleting a page of LGBTQI+ resources that was part of the DHS website.

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.

Luke Farritor hosts a contingent of other DOGE staffers – Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi and Riley Sennott – to work at GSA on a Saturday. Notably, this is a day after Marko Elez had resigned his position (but was secretly hired at DOGE) and Riley Sennott had not formally started his role at GSA yet.

Akash Bobba starts as Expert at SSA.

Michael Cole starts as Senior Advisor on Government Efficiency at USDA.

DOGE members Baris Akis, Katrine Trampe, Jordan Wick and Riley Sennott are signed in to work at GSA headquarters on a Sunday. It’s unclear if they are there for a meeting or just to use the DOGE working space inside of GSA. They are hosted at the building by Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Ethan Shaotran.

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.

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.

Kendall Lindemann and Marko Elez start as Senior Advisor for Technology and Efficiency at DOGE.

Justin Aimonetti and Riley Sennott start at GSA.

Scott Langmack and Michael Mirski start as Senior Advisor at HUD.

Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor detailed from GSA to State

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.”

Edward Coristine appears in an online DHS staff directory with the title of Senior Advisor.

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.

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.

A legal affadavit states a BFS payment was presented to the State Department as one to not process after it was reviewed by DOGE staff at Treasury.

The NOTAM system at the FAA has its name changed from Notice to Air Missions back to its original name of Notice to Airmen.

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.

Unnamed DOGE staff using non-governmental Google accounts conduct “touch-base” interviews with dozens of US Digital Corps fellows, under the direction of Thomas Shedd.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor are both listed in the State Department’s directory as Senior Advisors within the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology.

A day after a conservative activist flagged the DOGE account on X about it, DOGE posts on its X.com account that it has removed gender identity options from a specific online form at the VA.

EO 14210: Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Workforce Optimization Initiative

Greg Hogan promoted to Chief Information Officer at OPM

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.

Approximately 85 probationary employees at the CFPB are fired without cause.

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).”

Trump issues EO 14210 which grants DOGE teams in every agency final approval over any hiring decisions. It also creates a rule that an agency can hire 1 new person only if 4 people have left.

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.

In a court filing, the Department of Education submitted to a consent decree blocking DOGE from access to systems for processing student financial aid.

A legal affadavit from a Treasury employee states that Marko Elez was accidentally given edit access to Bureau of the Fiscal Service systems but that he did not use it.

Kathryn Armstrong Loving sends the EPA administrator a list of contracts that DOGE wants to eliminate and she includes Cole Killian on her message.

The Chief Financial Officer of FEMA, Mary Comans, is abruptly fired and her departure is announced in a FEMA press release.

The USAID Inspector General is fired by the White House after releasing a report critical of DOGE’s actions at the agency.

Marko Elez starts as Policy Advisor at DOL.

Erica Jehling detailed from GSA to EPA

Ethan Shaotran detailed from GSA to Ed.

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.

The Department of Defense affirm that its DOGE staff will be hired directly to the agency and will not be detailed from elsewhere in the government.

GSA technical staff describe also being subjected to 15-minute interviews where they felt they were asked to justify their jobs.

Dozens of probationary workers within the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) are fired, with many of the cuts focused on the US Digital Corps and Presidential Innovation Fellows programs

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.” He also inquires about dismantling the USIP completely. When told it was independent and funded by Congress, he replied, “we’ll see what we can do.”

Derek Geissler detailed from GSA to DOL

Cole Killian and Jordan Wick detailed from DOGE to DOL

Tom Krause converted to permanent paid position at Treas.

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.”

CFPB leadership authorizes the creation of an email account for the public to snitch on if CFPB staff are engaged in any enforcement or supervision actions in violation of the stop-work order. They also create an account on X for this service.

DOGE announces that its website is now live. The site is launched with an organizational chart and tweets from the DOGE X account. It is presented as white text on a black background.

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.

HUD issues a press release reporting that it has launched a “DOGE Task Force” comprising both DOGE personnel and HUD staffers.

NASA leadership replies to a congressional inquiry to report that DOGE had identified a single individual who would be employed at the agency.

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.

Joshua Hanley starts at GSA.

Clark Minor promoted to Chief Information Officer at HHS

Rachel Riley conducts a “Planning Touch Base” meeting with senior leadership at CMS.

The CFPB’s videos are removed from its YouTube channel.

The judge, Amy Berman-Jackson grants a temporary restraining order against CFPB leadership until a hearing for a preliminary injunction to prevent them from shuttering the agency by eliminating staff and canceling all contracts. DOGE and CFPB leadership had been racing to eliminate 1175 positions before the restraining order was announced.

In a speech, the Secretary of Agriculture says DOGE has been at the agency for “a few weeks” already.

Approximately 50 USDS staff are fired, with most of terminations focused on project managers and designers (removing approximately 1/3 of the USDS staff that predated DOGE).

After a conservative account complained to Musk on Twitter about gender options on the FAFSA form, it was changed the same day. Reportedly, this change was already on the roadmap, but multiple contractors were called in to rush it as an emergency job.

388 probationary employees are fired at the EPA.

The NASA administrator emails all staff to report that “DOGE has arrived” at the agency.

NIST workers witness a handful of people that they suspect of being DOGE touring the NIST IT facilities in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

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.

Roughly 750 probationary workers at the CDC receive termination notices sent directly from OPM, in possible violation of federal laws governing the civil service.

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.

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.

Brady Glantz, Thomas Kiernan, Ted Malaska, and Sam Smeal start as Senior Advisor at FAA.

Marco Rubio starts as Acting Archivist at NARA.

Leland Dudek promoted to Acting Commissioner at SSA

Christopher Stanley leaves role as Expert at OPM

Tyler Hassen sets up the DOGE_DOI account on X.com

The White House pressures the IRS to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) granting DOGE expanded access to internal systems at the agency which contain confidential taxpayer information.

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.

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.

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

A senior manager at CDC reports coming back from a meeting to find two men in Tesla shirts leaving her office who said they “fixed” her computer.

Katrine Trampe and Tyler Hassen are invited to a series of meetings related to reviewing contracts at the Department of the Interior.

In a filing in “State of New Mexico v. Elon Musk,” DOJ lawyers declare on the record that Elon Musk is not the USDS Administrator, but just a mere advisor.

The head of the medical device safety division at the FDA is fired amid mass layoffs

The head of the FDA’s food safety division resigns to protest 89 employees being indiscriminately fired in the division.

A White House official confirms that one DOGE staffer will be working with an IRS employee assigned to him to access IRS systems.

A USAID official under Trump testifies that “changes in the process by which payments can be made and approved by the Agency over the past weeks” in the payment system were causing certain allowance statements to be delayed.

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.

EO 14215: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies

Patrick George, Jim Hickey, Mike Slagh, and Yinon Weiss start as at DOD.

Kyle Schutt starts at GSA.

Miles Collins and Aram Moghaddassi start as Policy Advisor at DOL.

Joe Gebbia starts as Expert at OPM.

Scott Coulter detailed from NASA to SSA

Marko Elez detailed from DOL to SSA

Cole Killian detailed from DOGE to SSA

Ethan Shaotran detailed from GSA to SSA

Gavin Kliger converted to permanent paid position as Senior Advisor to the Director for Information Technology at OPM

Amy Gleason promoted to Acting Administrator, US DOGE Service and the DOGE Temporary Organization at DOGE

ProPublica reports that Frank Schuler has appeared in the GSA directory.

Frank Schuler is introduced on a video call meeting at the GSA by Nate Cavanaugh.

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.

An unidentified DOGE team holds a kickoff meeting with DoD staff at the Pentagon.

DoD agencies are ordered to provide lists of probationary employees to DOGE. Previously, defense, security and intelligence agencies have been exempted from many of the executive orders that constrained staffing or contracting.

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.

A federal judge denied an attempt by American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al (D. Md.) to block DOGE from accessing Department of Education systems related to financial aid.

DOGE staffer Ted Malaska (one of the 4 detailed from SpaceX) declares that SpaceX is the only company able to complete a communications network contract already awarded to Verizon. He also threatens to report the names of anybody blocking his work directly to Musk.

A GSA employee reportedly resigned rather than give unrestricted admin access for the SMS emergency notification service Notify.gov to Thomas Shedd.

Privacy advocates sue to stop DOGE from gaining acess to IRS systems which contain highly sensitive data about taxpayers.

A CNN reporter shares that his FOIA request to OPM was replied to with the message “they just fired the whole privacy team.”

Senate Democrats send a letter to VA Secretary demanding more information about DOGE’s activities there.

Kendall Lindemann contacts the FCC on behalf of DOGE and Amy Gleason to start the process of detailing several DOGE staffers to the agency.

EO 14217: Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

EO 14218: Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders

EO 14219: Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Deregulatory Initiative

Kyle Schutt detailed from GSA to DHS