Mar 2025

Gavin Kliger and Tarak Makecha detailed from OPM to USAGM

Gavin Kliger is reportedly spotted inside the headquarters for Voice of America.

TTS administrator Thomas Shedd eliminates 90 members of 18F with a firing email sent at 1:00 AM in the morning and immediately locks them out of their machines.

Hours after the staff is hit with the RIF email, the DNS entry for 18F.gsa.gov is removed

All government employees receive a second email telling them they must list their accomplishments every Monday by 11:59pm. This does not contain a threat of termination, but it is also no longer reported as an optional exercise. Staff working on confidential or classified activities are supposed to reply to the email but redact their work.

Reviewing the spreadsheet, Jeremy Lewin orders that 151 additional awards must be terminated, writing that he would “have strong objections to these awards being turned on.” Emailing later at 11:30pm, Peter Marocco also states the reactivations were far too broad and indicating more programs to be terminated.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) starts an audit of how DOGE has handled data at several agencies.

The night before the hearing for a preliminary injunction in NTEU v. Vought, Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta sends out an email to all staff telling them that they should have known all along that the stop work order wasn’t meant to cover statutorily mandated work. This seems like a blatant attempt to spin the narrative and claim the agency has not been stopped from performing its statutory duties. In her later ruling, Judge Amy Berman Jackson describes this move as “[insulting] the reader’s intelligence when he feigns surprise that few employees were working.”

Justin Fox and Matthew Parkhurst-Session start as Senior Advisor at GSA.

Justin Aimonetti detailed from GSA to NLRB

Ashley Boizelle and Nicholas Gallagher detailed from GSA to DOGE

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.

Jeremy Lewin is granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts.

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.

The EPA takes its staff directory offline after it had been used to identify new political appointees and DOGE staffers that were detailed to the agency.

Adam Hoffman visits GSA for a meeting (likely a job interview). He is signed in to the agency by Edward Coristine.

DOGE staff attempt to access NDNH, “a system within a broader government database created to help enforce child support payments, which pulls a vast trove of information, including income data linked to nearly all workers,” potentially as an alternative data source for the data they wanted to pull from the IRS. This attempt is refused by agency staff.

The head of HR, Traci DiMartini, for the IRS is placed on administrative leave reportedly for refusing to bring in employees over the weekend to onboard Sam Corcos outside of the usual hiring processes and schedule.

A black SUV and police escort bring DOGE staff to the NLRB. The DOGE staff weren’t introduced and didn’t interact with IT staff directly.

The NLRB Assistant CIO conveys instructions that there are to be no logs or records made of accounts that are created for DOGE staff and they are to be given “tenant”-level accounts with read/write/admin for all systems as part of their auditing work. This level of access exceed existing permissions that would normally be used by auditors.

DOGE lawyer Joshua Hanley’s name appeared in PDF metadata of grant cancellations sent out by the NIH to two researchers working on LGBTQ+-related scientific work.

An unidentified member of the DOGE team at the SSA emailed a password-protected and encrypted file to DHS but also included Steve Davis at DOGE and an unidentified DOGE team member at the Department of Labor (possibly Marko Elez or Aram Moghaddassi who were detailed to SSA from DOL). SSA staff believes it contained sensitive PII of approximately 1000 individuals, but the Chief Information Office has been unable to determine more. Notably, the CIO role for SSA has been held by a rotation of several DOGE staffers since February.

Defying the White House, USADF board member Ward Brehm is elected by the existing board of the USADF as President/CEO of USADF.

Justin Fox detailed from GSA to IAF

Justin Aimonetti, Nate Cavanaugh, and Justin Fox detailed from GSA to USIP

Justin Fulcher detailed from VA to DOD

Amy Gleason converted to permanent position as Expert/Consultant at HHS

Brad Smith converted to permanent position as Senior Advisor at HHS

Luke Farritor ends detailed position at CFPB

DOGE boasts in a tweet that 27% more water was released by the Bureau of Reclamation in February compared to January (unclear if this adjusts for different lengths of months).

Erica Jehling pushes for the cancellation of 21 grants at the EPA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in construction materials, so that she can post a tweet on the EPA X.com account to celebrate it. She cc’s Kathryn Armstrong Loving on her emails coordinating the cancellations.

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.

DOGE brags on its X account that the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) has been reduced to a single employee.

DOGE takes the Inter-American Foundation’s website offline.

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.

NLRB network staff notice the existence of an anomalous container on their network that could be performing unauthorized actions. Its storage tokens have been expired, deterring analysis of what resources it might have accessed.

In response to recent court rulings that determined that OPM exceeded its authority, OPM quietly revises its initial memo that required all federal agencies to send lists of probationary employees to the agency. It also downplays suggestions that the lists should be used for deciding staffing levels.

In a meeting, Dudek stresses again that DOGE will make mistakes and also admits “I am receiving decisions that are made without my input. I have to effectuate those decisions,” suggesting DOGE is in charge at the agency.

USADF CFO Mathieu Zahui receives an email from Nate Cavanaugh informing him that Peter Marocco would be coming to the office the following day in his declared capacity as Chairman of the Board.

Edward Coristine detailed from GSA to HHS

Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi detailed from DOL to HHS

Jordan Wick converted to permanent position as Expert/Consultant at CFPB

Stephen Duarte leaves role at OPM (exits govt. service)

Stephen Duarte leaves role as Expert at OPM (exits govt. service)

Christina Hanna leaves role as Expert at OPM (exits govt. service)

Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski leaves role as Expert at OPM (exits govt. service)

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.

Multiple DOGE staff (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS). This system tracks all payments made by Medicare, among other expenditures.

Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims.

A second wave of DOGE members detailed to HHS (Edward Coristine, Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi) are granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM), which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts

Edward Coristine, Zach Terrell, Aram Moghaddassi and Marko Elez are also granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims.

From this date, detailing arrangements for DOGE staff are between the target agency and other agencies that have now hired DOGE staff, according to a declaration made by DOGE in AFL-CIO et al vs. Department of Labor. For instance, Jordan Wick became an employee of the CFPB instead of DOGE.

NLRB network staff discover that a security tool for watching network traffic within their cloud environment was manually deactivated and was not logging the creation of new network nodes.

A NLRB network staffer notices a large spike in outgoing network traffic from their network with no corresponding incoming traffic (as might be the case for web traffic hitting the website). He also sees a surge in DNS requests which might be used to hide tunnels for stealing data.

Nate Cavanaugh sends Ward Brehm an email demanding to know by what authority he is the President/CFO of USADF.

Jacob Altik and Ethan Shaotran are rebuffed by agency leadership when attempting to enter the agency headquarters.

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.

Todd Newnam starts as Senior Advisor at Treas..

Zach Terrell starts at HHS.

The Engineering Director of USDS publicly resigns in protest, stating “this is not the mission I joined.”

TTS Commissioner Thomas Shedd says in a statement that he expects the Technology Transformation Service will be 50% smaller within weeks.

NLRB network staff an account a DOGE-specific name DogeSA_2d5c3e0446f9@nlrb.microsoft.com that was recently created and then deleted. It seems to have been configured to allow automated scripts to access NLRB’s cloud.

After various users reported login problems to the service desk, networking staff at NLRB discover that certain conditional access policies had been updated without their awareness. This change was later confirmed to not be the result of any scheduled maintenance.

DOGE staff Jacob Altik and Ethan Shaotran return to the agency joined by Nate Cavanaugh and US marshals to force their way into the agency.

Alexander Simonpour detailed from GSA to USPS

Tyler Hassen promoted to Acting Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget at DOI

Ryan Riedel leaves role as Chief Information Officer at DOE (exits govt. service)

DOGE rolls out a custom GSAi custom chatbot in a trial for 1500 workers.

Networking staff at NLRB discovered that 3 Github libraries were downloaded in the prior 30 days by DOGE staff at the agency which could be used for scraping high volumes of data and obscuring the source requests.

Networking staff at NLRB makes a determination that 10GB of data was likly exfiltrated from the NxGen case management system and then outwards from NLRB. Given that this volume of data is likely compressed, it could represent an even larger amount of source data stolen.

Starting from this data and continuing until March 17, members of the DOGE team at SSA were using servers at Cloudflare to share SSA data (the exact product is not identified, but it could be the D1 system for SQL databases). Needless to say, Cloudflare is not approved by SSA for storing sensitive data, and SSA staff have been unable to determine what data was shared and if it is still hosted on Cloudflare systems.

After political blowback causes SSA to reverse its decision to cancel some contracts for the state of Maine, Leland Dudek posts an offical apology claiming it was his decision to cancel the contracts. This is a deliberate misdirection from DOGE’s role in the action.

The federal staff who objected to DOGE getting access to NDNH are reportedly “no longer with the agency.”

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.

After receiving inquiries from the DOGE staff, the head of USIP security emailed them information about the private security firm that manages access to the HQ building.

DOGE staff meet with career officials at NIH and are adamant that 3000 positions should be terminated. The number does not appear to be derived from any analysis or consultation with NIH senior leadership for what a responsible staffing reduction might be.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper demands that DOGE should reponse to discovery order in a court case with a rolling release of documents to commence within weeks.

The OPM Inspector General responds to questions from Democrats in Congress by stating his office will start investigating DOGE’s email server and its IT practices at the agency.

Posting from his account on X, Marco Rubio announces that the 6-week program review at USAID had concluded and 83% of programs (approximately 5200 contracts) had been cancelled. Only about 1000 awards were being continued.

Antoine McCord starts as Chief Information Officer at DHS.

DOGE has fired more than a hundred employees at CISA, including many “red team” staffers who simulate real-world attacks as well as the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT).

Eugene Vindman, a US Representative and former whistleblower against Trump, reports being repeatedly contacted by Clayton Cromer who identifies himself as an Executive Assistant US Attorney.

NLRB networking staff notice another surge in system utilization for the NxGen system. This coincides with multiple attempts to connect to the system from an IP address in Russia. Alarmingly, the Russian access is attempting to use an account that was created only 15 minutes earlier by DOGE engineers at the agency.

Ethan Shaotran detailed from GSA to USPS

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan issues an order giving DOGE and Elon Musk three weeks to comply with document discovery requests about its staffing and downsizing plans for agencies

Several unidentified DOGE representatives are reportedly spotted working at DOJ

Shelly C. Lowe, the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is forced out of her position by President Trump. She is replaced by Michael McDonald as acting chairman.

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 and arrive at the agency.

Elon Musk visits the National Security Agency (NSA) to meet with its top administrator, General Timothy Haugh

In an inventory of system access on March 12, SSA staff determined the following access had been granted before it was revoked on March 24th. Three DOGE team members had been granted access to a workforce system. Two were granted access to security systems to revoke employee access to systems and facilities. Six DOGE team members were granted access to a workspace to share data among each other. Two DOGE members had access to a data visualization tool which could provide PII. And two DOGE employees were given expanded access to the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Multiple SSA employees told ProPublica, their tech systems now seem to be crashing nearly every day, leading to more delays in serving beneficiaries.

Steve Davis sends an email to the FCC general counsel Adam Candeub introducing him to Tarak Makecha (whom he identifies as the Biz Lead) and Jordan Wick (software engineer). He follows up with Tarak and suggests chatting with him on his personal phone number (instead of an official government phone number).

Ross Graber starts as Chief Information Officer at DOE.

Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox detailed from GSA to NEH

Ross Graber leaves role at State

Attorney General Pam Bondi announces she is forming a “JUST DOGE” team to look at restructuring the agency and its subsidiaries.

46 former GSA executives write an open letter decrying the damage that DOGE has done to the agency.

The acting chief counsel of the IRS, William Paul, is removed from his role and replaced by Andrew De Mello, who is seen as more supportive of DOGE’s work at the agency.

NLRB networking staff detect another large transfer of data from NLRB systems to an external endpoint.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy sends a letter to Congress informing he has signed an agreement with GSA and DOGE to eliminate 10,000 jobs at the agency. He also explicitly authorized DOGE to only work with his agency on matters related to USPS retirement plans, workers compensation costs, congressional liaisoning regarding costs incurred by legislative mandates, reforms to its regulatory requirements, retail lease renewals, business opportunities with other federal agencies and counterfeit postage.

Tarak Makecha, Joshua Fox, and Jacob Altik communicate with FCC staff about detailing arrangements from the OPM to the FCC (presumably for Tarak and Jacob)

EO 14238: Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy

Thomas Shedd starts as Chief Information Officer at DOL.

Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour detailed from GSA to NASA

Kyle Schutt detailed from GSA to HHS

ProPublica reports that a DOGE detailee at NASA Scott Coulter has “wide access to internal databases at NASA.”

Leland Dudek grants approval for SSA-05 (Cole Killian) to run the proposed tool for modifying the death data records to eliminate implausibly old people. DOGE was convinced these data errors were a massive source of fraud, despite evidence to the contrary from SSA staff and concerns that correcting the data would be a waste of time.

Various members of the USIP board report receiving emails from the White House saying they are terminated from their positions.

DOGE members Kenneth Jackson, Jacob Altik and Nate Cavanaugh show up at USIP building with 2 other people who claim to be FBI agents. They are refused entry. The DOGE delegation attempts to present a document firing the USIP president.

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.

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.

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.

John Solly starts as Expert at SSA.

Two FBI agents visited a senior USIP security official at his home unannounced to ask about gaining entry to the building, possibly through pressuring the the Institute’s security contractor

The Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Johnathan Hornok, and two FBI special agents call USIP’s outside counsel, Mr. Foote, on the phone stating that they had suspicion of criminal behavior occuring at USIP.

Concerned that private contracting staff might be coerced by DOGE, the Chief Security Officer suspends the contract for building security contractor Inter-Con after being contacted by the FBI agents on the phone.

At 6pm, all Inter-Con staff are removed from the building, all keycard access is revoked and all physical keys accounted for except for a single one held by the Inter-Con account manager for USIP

Emily Bryant starts at GSA.

Kenneth Jackson starts as Acting President at USIP.

Sahil Lavingia starts as Senior Advisor at VA.

Jeremy Lichtman starts as Advisor on Government Efficiency at USDA.

Christopher Stanley starts as Board Member, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac at FHFA.

Michael Cole promoted to Senior Team Leader on Government Efficiency at USDA

Acting General Counsel David Taggart at the Department of Energy issues a memo stating that all DOGE spreadsheets being used to determine which grants will be cut at the agency should be designated as “legal privilege” documents. This classification is meant to prevent the documents from being shared in legal disclosures or FOIA responses.

The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team at Social Security discovers that DOGE’s access to the EDW was not authorized through the standard process.

At 2:30pm, the Inter-Con account manager and employees attempt to enter the building with key cards and are denied. They then use the single physical key still in their possession to enter the building.

At 2:59pm, the USIP Security Chief calls DC police and institutes a high-level lockdown for the building. He observes with the security cameras that DOGE staff are attempting to gain entry on various doors.

Asked by USIP leadership on why they are assisting DOGE in accessing the building, the Vice President of Inter-Con concedes that DOGE threatened to cancel every single one of their federal contracts if they didn’t comply.

USIP President George Moose reports being present when four Inter-Con employees entered the USIP building without permission.

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.

Various USIP staff report receiving messages from DOGE staff asking them for employee lists and access to computer systems at the agency.

In a redacted email about onboarding Jordan Wick, Joshua Fox sends an email to other FCC staff introducing Kendall Lindemann as DOGE’s “onboarding/HR/personnel expert.”

Alison Childs and Bee Elvy start as Senior Advisor at GSA.

Kenneth Jackson and Jeremy Lewin start at USAID.

Jacob Altik and Jordan Wick detailed from DOGE to FCC

Tarak Makecha detailed from OPM to FCC

Christopher Stanley leaves role as Board Member, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac at FHFA

In a ruling in J. Doe 1-26 v. Musk (D. Md), Judge Theodore D. Chuang declares that evidence shows that Elon Musk was effectively running DOGE without being formally appointed to the role.

In an unsigned email response to the Intercept Media, DOGE claims it is within the Executive Office of the President and thus not subject to FOIA. This is a response they use to deny all FOIA requests.

Notes from a meeting at DOL about DOGE access state “they do not have write access. They have asked; we’ve held them at bay. We’ve tried to get them to tell us what they want & then we do it. They only have read access”

A lawyer for the plaintiffs accuses the Department of Justice of deliberately misrepresenting Jacob Altik’s participation in the defense “perhaps to preserve the illusion that OPM’s counsel were ignorant of what OPM was doing with the Government-Wide Email System, or perhaps to obscure the role of DOGE and the White House in this case.”

A senior policy strategist at the White House relays a “Stephen request” (meaning Stephen Miller) that “POTUS wants to see more action against universities.” Included in the initial coordination is GSA Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum. He becomes involved with figuring out grants from multiple agencies to cut for both University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State University, because they had allowed trans athletes to participate in sports. This is very much not his area of responsibility at the GSA, but he is on the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism which stripped funding from Columbia Univesity.

Adam Hoffman starts at DHS.

Peter Marocco leaves role at USAID

Marko Elez affirms he has completed his mandatory privacy training at the Department of Labor. This would normally be required before any system access, but he has been at the agency for several weeks.

GSA hosts a deep-background media briefing to demo its GSAi tool with invitations sent to reporters from Bloomberg, The Atlantic, and Fox among other media organizations.

IMLS staff learn that DOGE is planning to visit their headquarters following day; most make plans to attend as a show of solidarity.

NLRB networking staff observe a spike in billing records from their cloud provider which are seemingly related to systems that are no longer in operation. These likely indicate resources that were short-lived or deleted to cover up tracks.

Leland Dudek approves access for “Employee 9” of the DOGE team at SSA to view some additional schemas in the PSSNAP database of Social Security Applications conducted over the phone.

Peter Marocco says that he will be succeeded at the agency by Jeremy Lewin and Kenneth Jackson, serving in deputy roles.

DOGE-affiliated staff start removing interior signage from the USIP building.

Judge Beryl Howell presides over an emergency hearing, but doesn’t grant USIP a temporary restraining order against DOGE’s takeover of the agency.

During a discussion on how to strip grants from the University of Pennsylvania and San Jose State, GSA FAS Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum sends an email to coordinate grant freezes from DOD, DHS and the EPA. He includes DOGE staffers Kyle Schutt, Adam Hoffman and Kathryn Armstrong Loving as the recipients of these requests.

EO 14240: Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement

EO 14243: Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos

Keith Sonderling starts as Acting Director at IMLS.

Justin Fox detailed from GSA to IMLS

In a response to the court order by Judge Cooper in CREW v. DOGE, the government estimates it would need to produce 105,403 documents in response to the CREW FOIA requests

President Trump issues an executive order demaning that agency heads must share all access to any unclassified datasets “related to the identification and elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse.” This is potentially in violation of the Privacy Act, so the order leaves it to individual agency staff to determine what sharing is allowed “to the maximum extent consistent with law.”

Trump issues an executive order EO 14243 which explicitly includes an instruction that “the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary’s designees shall receive, to the maximum extent consistent with law, unfettered access to all unemployment data and related payment records, including all such data and records currently available to the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General.”

Stephen Ehikian claims during an all-hands meeting that there is nobody from DOGE working at the agency. This is met with widespread ridicule by staff who know about the secured DOGE floor.

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.

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.”

Access to purchase cards are restored at NIH for nonemergency purchases, but scientists face a huge backlog in processing orders for supplies.

President Trump issues an executive order that orders OPM to redefine regulations so that it would give them more power to directly terminate employees at other agencies.

In a ruling for AFL-CIO vs. SSA, Judge Hollander grants a temporary restraining order enjoining DOGE from having any access to SSA systems or installing any software as well as ordering them to delete any data in their possession.

Leland Dudek threatens to shut down the entire Social Security Administration instead of complying with the court order to block access for DOGE. He reportedly reaches this conclusion based on the advice of two unnamed senior DOGE leaders.

The USIP website is taken offline.

Nikhil Rajpal ends detailed position at CFPB

Elon Musk arrives at the Pentagon for a meeting with leadership, reportedly to discuss DOGE’s involvement at the agency.

The Trump administration eliminates the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and two ombudsman offices responsible for investigating allegations of abuse from immigrants. This also includes the CRCL program that was characterized as “money laundering” by DOGE staffer Kyle Schutt.

Dorn Carranza, a HHS liasion for DOGE, sends an email at 11am asking for information ASAP on mission-critical systems at the FDA as well as regular status updates on the data collection. Because the FDA CIO was out of office at the time, her CISO hastily submitted a response with his own opinions. This seems to have been what guided RIF selection at FDA, without anybody at DOGE reviewing the information for accuracy.

DOGE expands the GSAi chatbot rollout to more than 13,000 GSA employees who are underwhelmed by its capabilities and concerned about it being a priority for the agency compared to other pressing technical needs.

Less than 24 hours after DOGE’s access was revoked by the temporary restraining order, senior members of the EDW team receive emails ordering them to restore access for two members of the DOGE team. Furthermore, they were ordered to grant them additional expanded privileges.

Nate Cavanaugh, Justin Fox, and Jack Stein detailed from GSA to MCC

Joshua Fox detailed from DOGE to MCC

Keith Sonderling promoted to Deputy Secretary of Labor at DOL

Bridget Youngs starts as Contract Specialist at GSA.

Scott Coulter starts as Chief Information Officer at SSA.

NLRB networking staff make a formal report to US-CERT at CISA of the suspicious activity they had detected from DOGE’s activities at the agency.

Ruling in American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against to internal systems at the Departoment of Education by DOGE staff and the Acting Secretary where the justification for access was “the DOGE agenda” (i.e., all of them)

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)

Ruling in American Federation of Teachers et al v. Bessent et al, Judge Boardman issues a preliminary injunction against access by DOGE staff to internal systems at OPM by DOGE. However, he still allows access for DOGE-affiliated leadership at the agency including Charles Ezell, Amanda Scales and Greg Hogan.

After members of an unidentified political advocacy group contacted two members of the DOGE team at SSA, one of the DOGE members signed a Voter Data Agreement to share data. The group was looking for data to accuse states of fraud to overturn election results. The DOGE team member did not consult SSA lawyers or follow any mandatory clearance procedures for sharing data with outside entities. It is unclear if they sent data, but the two employees were referred for investigation of violating the Hatch Act in December 2025, which forbids government officials from partisan political activities.

An unidentified member of the DOGE team at Social Security Administration was running queries against the NUMIDENT data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse the morning on the same day that access was scheduled to be revoked.

The Social Security Administration’s Office of Information Security (OIS) revokes access for DOGE members again, restoring enforcement of the temporary restraining order.

Mike Russo is abruptly removed from his CIO position by the Trump administration. This is rumored to be retribution for complying quickly with the judicial ruling to remove DOGE access.

Postmaster General DeJoy abruptly resigns, reportedly forced out by the Trump Administration

Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino met with the DOGE team embedded there (Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour), reportedly to discuss ethics rules.

EO 14247: Modernizing Payments to and From America's Bank Account

EO 14248: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections

Nate Cavanaugh starts as Acting President at USIP.

Michael Kratsios starts as Director, Office of Science and Technology Program at EOP.

Christopher Roussos and Cary Volpert start at VA.

Mike Russo demoted to Senior Advisor at SSA

Kenneth Jackson leaves role as Acting President at USIP

At a meeting on data sharing, an official from ICE requests that the IRS should create a service where DHS staff could simply provide the names and states of potential targets and get a list of all applicable addresses. IRS lawyers are stunned by the possible illegality and continued pressure leads to a series of resignations among staff in legal, privacy and IT offices within the IRS.

CDC claws back $11.4 billion in funds allocated to various state and community health departments for responding to the COVID-19 epidemic.

Within a large executive order (EO 14248) about voting, Trump orders DOGE “to review each State’s publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities.”

President Trump issues an executive order mandating that all payments flow through Treasury and that agencies must modify SORNs to share data with Treasury as “routine use”

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.

Kathryn Armstrong Loving and Erica Jehling continue to work directly with Josh Gruenbaum from the GSA on more grants to cancel at the EPA.

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.

Jordan Wick detailed from DOGE to USDA

During his confirmation hearing, Frank Bisignano, the nominee to run the agency, confirms that he had coordinated with Michael Russo but denied a whistleblower report that he had ordered the appointment of other DOGE staff there.

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.