Apr 2025

HHS terminates a large number of staff at CDC in the name of cost savings and realignment, with the HHS director, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reportedly wanting to focus only on infectious diseases

Federal staff at the USDA are sent an email offering them another chance to do a deferred resignation if they enroll within the next week or so from this date.

The manager of the DOI’s labor relations branch initiates an investigation of the DOI’s CIO, Deputy CIO, Associate Solicitor and a Special Advisor to HR over their attempts to prevent DOGE from having admin access to FPPS.

DOGE member Christopher Stanley is listed as a Senior Advisor in the Deputy Attorney General’s Office and he reportedly holds a security clearance.

Employees at the Department of Energy are sent an email offering for them to enroll in a new separate deferred resignation plan.

Jordan Wick sends a data file of FCC orders to the Chief Counsel to review. In response, the counsel says “I have a quasi-personal FCC data issue I’d love to discuss over lunch (on me).”

HHS terminates a large number of staff at FDA in the name of cost savings and realignment, the same day as the new head of FDA is sworn in to office.

In a group chat within HHS system, Amy Gleason attempts to distance herself from the mass layoffs caused by DOGE by claiming she is just the USDS administrator only and has nothing to do with how the DOGE teams operate.

HUD staff receive an email from HUD HR offering a new “Fork in the Road” offer for deferred resignation, open until April 11.

In a response to Justin Fox asking about cuts, NEH Chairman Michael McDonald advocates for not cutting some proposed grants, but notes: “But you have also told us that in addition to canceling projects because they may promote DEI ideology, the DOGE Team also wishes to cancel funding to assist deficit reduction. Either way, as you’ve made clear, it’s your decision on whether to discontinue funding any of the projects on this list.”

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.

HHS terminates a large number of staff at NIH in the name of cost savings and realignment. This coincides with the new head of NIH being sworn in to office.

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.

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.

Alarmed at the viral spread of DOGE’s false claim that 40% of all calls to Social Security are fraud, agency staff at SSA draft a public statement to correct the errors in the claim. They are specifically ordered by Katie Miller not to release it. She asserts “the number is 40 percent.”

HHS issues Reduction-in-Force orders for 10,000 employees across many divisions (FDA, CDC, NIH, HHS) in the name of “bureaucratic realignment.” Despite RFK’s promises to the contrary, the layoffs do include many scientists

Christopher Stanley detailed from OPM to DOJ

DOGE continues its destruction of IMLS by terminating 15 IMLS grants listed under its “Grants to States” program.

Approximately 1500 grantees receive grant cancellation emails sent from a nonstandard email address and bypassing the normal grant review process. The domain for the email address Grant_Notifications@nehemail.onmicrosoft.com suggests it was sent from a global admin account for Microsoft Entra, an access-control system used at the agency. The Acting Director of the NEH seems unaware of the messages. The content of the message cites an incorrect executive order as its justification, suggesting it was copied from an earlier email that was sent to IAF and USADF grantees after their DOGE takeover.

A group of 22 house members send a letter to Commerce Secretary Lutnick expressing concern about the firing of 70 staffers at NIST.

The head and deputy leader of the NSA are both relieved of their command by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

In an interview on Fox, Antonio Gracias makes misleading claims that DOGE had discovered widespread voting fraud through joining social security data and state voter rolls.

Tarak Makecha, a DOGE representative at DOJ is forwarded a list at 6pm of DOJ contracts to terminate for the Acacia Center, a nonprofit in DOGE’s crosshairs that day and a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the DOJ. He coordinates with Josh Gruenbaum at the GSA, who is leading a multi-agency effort to eliminate grants.

Tarak Makecha escalates his demands at 6:25pm that the Acacia contracts must be terminated immediately despite it being after business hours and there not being an actual emergency.

Tarak Makecha finds a DOJ Contracting Officer after hours at 7:25pm to send the termination despite agency concerns that it violates the terms of a court order to not provide 3 days notice for termination.

Multiple senior technological positions at the IRS are terminated. These include director of cybersecurity architecture and implementation, deputy chief information security officer, and acting director of security risk management.

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.

Scott Kupor, the nominee to lead OPM, assured senators in a confirmation hearing that he believes strongly in data privacy and respecting the humanity and dignity of the federal workforce.

Social Security employees received an offer from the human resources department for voluntary reassignments to “mission-critical” front-line roles in call services and hearing offices to replace staff that were eliminated.

A human resources division chief at the Peace Corps reports receiving two phone calls in quick succession. The first was from a Senior Advisor at OPM who also claimed to be a liasion for the White House, reporting that a DOGE representative would be detailed from USAID. The second was from a woman detailed to DOGE from GSA, who stated she was originally going to be detailed to USAID but will now be in a leadership position short term. She is not identified but is likely Bridget Youngs.

Bridget Youngs detailed from DOL to Peace

Nate Cavanaugh ends detailed position at IAF

Peter Marocco leaves role as President/CEO at IAF

Ethan Shaotran ends detailed position at IAF

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly lashed out at Yinon Weiss for seeming to overstep his authority. The altercation was apparently triggered by Justin Fulcher storming out of a meeting with Weiss because he thought that Weiss has reported him to the Pentagon’s police service.

Tarak Makecha, Jordan Wick and Jacob Altik are listed in the public directory of FCC staff and listed as associated with the Office of the Chairman at the FCC.

Axios reports that Gavin Kliger and Emily Bryant have started work at the FTC, looking at grants and contracts at the agency.

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.

Sara Aviel discovers that a team@iaf.gov created for the use of Ethan Shaotran and Nate Cavanaugh had deactivated the admin access for the remaining IAF employee the day before Aviel’s return by orders of a court as President of the agency.

DOGE staffer Bridget Youngs visits the Peace Corps, planning to work over the weeked to review records and access IT systems.

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.

CISA informs NLRB networking staff that they should drop any investigation into the DOGE team’s cybersecurity lapses and not move forward on any reporting of the suspicious activity at the agency.

Samuel Berry starts as Special Advisor at USDA.

Kaitlyn Koller starts as Senior Advisor at DOGE.

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.

Newly-appointed director of CMS, Dr. Mehmet Oz, suggests replacing front-line healthcare workers with AI avatars for cost savings.

Kendall Lindemann testifies in a sworn deposition for AFL-CIO v. Dep’t of Labor (D.D.C.) as a representative of DOGE after saying she had conducted extensive conversations with Amy Gleason.

The Post confirms with multiple source that Social Security’s website has crashed repeatedly in recent weeks, with outages ranging from 20 minutes to an entire day. They speculate this is due to the introduction of an expanded fraud check system created by DOGE that wasn’t tested for scalability before being deployed.

In a 2-1 vote, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay against DOGE data access at the Treasury, OPM and Department of Education imposed in the case American Federation of Teachers v. Bessent et al.

The IRS and DHS execute a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for data sharing between both agencies. Although DOGE is not named specifically in this agreement, ICE is allowed to designate authorized individuals to access the shared data. AI usage must also be reviewed first by the IRS.

After some qualms about its legality, Leland Dudek signs two memos authorizing sharing data from the Social Security Administration that would allow DHS and ICE to locate immigrants who had been paying taxes to Social Security (despite not being able to collect it).

Terminated employees at the CDC report enduring months of DOGE representatives walking around the building looking for nominal work violations (like going to the bathroom but leaving their secure PIV card on their desk) as a pretext to immediately fire people for “security violations.”

DOGE staff are reportedly examining Navy’s enterprise software licenses under the direction of the Departmeny of Defense CIO.

Employees at the EPA report being told by Trump-appointed officials that DOGE was using AI to monitor communication tools (including Microsoft Teams) for anti-Trump or anti-Musk language.

DOGE engineers kick off a hackathon at IRS with some senior IRS developers and representatives of the company Palantir to create a "Mega API" of IRS data. Palantir is also involved with efforts to build surveillance systems for ICE to use against immigrants.

A letter from Democrats on the House Committee of Science, Space, and Technology expresses specific concern about the lack of qualifications of DOGE staff at the agency. It explicitly names Scott Coulter, Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour as the DOGE team at the agency.

Aram Moghaddassi adds 6300 names of suspected immigrants to the “death master file” as a way of forcing them to “self-deport” by making it impossible to use financial products. This list included the names of 7 minors.

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.

Jacob Altik and Ashley Boizelle meet in the FCC headquarters with the Chief of Staff Greg Watson to discuss the FCC’s progress on removing regulations.

EO 14270: Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy

Jonathan Mendelson starts at GSA.

Nate Cavanaugh detailed from GSA to Commerce

Nate Cavanaugh detailed from GSA to MBDA

Brooks Morgan and Adam Ramada detailed from Ed. to Treas.

The remaining 5 employees of the MBDA are transferred out of the agency.

After DOGE’s claim that USIP had funded the Taliban is picked up by the Afghan press, family members of exiled ex-Taliban critic Mohammad Halimi are arrested by the Taliban and beaten in prison.

DOGE terminates most of the remaining grants from IMLS (over 1000 in total).

All but 5 employees are sent expedited 30-day termination notices and placed on immediate administrative leave by DOGE staff.

Christopher Sweet starts as Special Assistant at HUD.

Anthony Armstrong detailed from OPM to FDIC

Brooks Morgan detailed from Ed. to FDIC

Adam Ramada detailed from DOGE to FDIC

Ethan Shaotran converted to permanent paid position as Senior Advisor at GSA

Gavin Kliger receives a warning from the CFPB Ethics Office that his stock holdings present serious concerns about possible conflicts of interest. He is required to divest himself of prohibited holdings by May 8th and excuse himself from decisions that might affect his holdings immediately.

Brooks Morgan, Adam Ramada and Anthony Armstrong visit the FDIC headquarters. Their arrival is later confirmed for staff with an email stating they have not been granted access to any sensitive bank information.

Baris Akis spends several days working within GSA HQ, despite not being a formal DOGE employee. He is signed into GSA by Emily Bryant and Alexandra Beynon.

Ethan Shaotran is converted to a regular position at the GSA at the GS-14 level, which would mean an annual salary of $142,488 - $185,234 in Washington, DC. This is a relatively senior position for any government worker that would not normally be granted to someone with his limited work experience.

The hackathon to create a “Mega API” at the IRS concludes. DOGE engineers are reportedly confident they will be able to deploy it in 30 days. It is unclear if it was ever deployed.

Most NEH staffers receive Reduction-in-Force (RIF) notices that their positions will be terminated on June 10th.

Greg Pearre, a senior career executive overseeing technologists at the SSA, is forced out of his office by security guards after clashing with CIO Scott Coulter and calling his plan to forcibly declare immigrants dead both illegal and cruel.

102 more names of living people are added to the Master Death File at SSA to destroy their ability to participate in society and to “self-deport” as a result.

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.

AmeriCorps’ acting director submits a plan to the OPM and OMB proposing a 50% cut in the agency workforce.

A three-judge appeal panel for the DC Circuit issues a ruling on the appeal for Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s preliminary injunction in NTEU v. Vought. The appeals court stays a measure that prevent CFPB leadership from enforcing work stoppages for non-statutory work. It also allows CFPB leadership to perform a reduction-in-force, provided that they conduct a “particularized assessment” for the process.

The plaintiffs in AFGE, AFL-CIO, et. al vs. OPM file a motion asking for the testimony of Noah Peters to be disregarded because they argue it is misleading and possibly fabricated in certain parts.

The Social Security Agency is reportedly shifting all its official communications exclusively to X.

Luke Farritor uses his admin access to lock out all government officials at multiple agencies from using grants.gov to issue new grants. Instead, all grants must now be sent to a new email address which will be reviewed by DOGE staffers before grants can be posted.

The Social Security Administration shares sensitive information on 100,000 people with DHS, including their addresses, social security numbers, birth and death dates and bank information. Leland Dudek reports this request was made via a phone call late on a Saturday night with the justification that it was needed for a criminal investigation.

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.

Emailing this time from his CFPB account, Jeremy Lewin shares the documentation for the upcoming CFPB RIF with DOGE staff posted at several agencies (Zach Terrell and Alexandra Beynon). He also includes DOGE staff at CFPB: Gavin Kliger, Chris Young and Jordan Wick. It’s unclear if they are representing their individual agencies or are just taking part as DOGE members in the conversation.

Jeremy Lewin emails CFPB leadership asking for full global admininstrative access for Entra and HRConnect to be restored for the DOGE engineers Gavin Kliger and Jordan Wick. Weirdly, this list includes Luke Farritor who offboarded at CFPB on 2025-03-04. This request is denied by the agency CIO.

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.

Judge Vargas rules in New York et al vs. Donald Trump that Ryan Wunderly should be granted access to Treasury systems.

Peter Marocco leaves role as Director of Foreign Assistance at State

In an email, CFPB CIO Chris Chilbert reports that Gavin Kliger has been granted access to Ops HC - Prod to build the RIF automation. He also asks to confirm that Gavin Kliger should have his access immediately revoked to systems that let him deactivate employee email accounts or lock them out of their laptops.

Jeremy Lewin has a followup Teams call with CFPB chief legal counsel Mark Paoletta to plan for the upcoming massive RIF at the CFPB

In an email, CFPB CIO Chris Chilbert informs Gavin Kliger that he will not be granted global admin access for his requests.

Adam Martinez responds in the affirmative to an email (contents redacted in court filings) requesting items/access for unspecified people to conduct the RIF. Several DOGE staffers (Ashley Boizelle and Steve Davis as well as Gavin Kliger and Jeremy Lewin) are also cc’ed on the message

Luke Farritor detailed from GSA to NSF

Rachel Riley and Zach Terrell detailed from HHS to NSF

On the day that NPR published a story with the claims of a whistleblower at the NLRB, the Deputy CIO of the agency, Eric Mark, suspends administrative access for all employees, locking the IT staff out of their ability to continue monitoring DOGE’s actions at the agency.

Three unidentified DOGE staffers show up at NSF headquarters, forcing all approved grants to go through a “secondary review.” They were later identified as Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley and Zach Terrell.

The Trump Administration files a formal motion to protect the identities of DOGE staff at the agency in filings. This explains the redactions of DOGE names in filings.

EO 14271: Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts

EO 14275: Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement

Jeremy Lewin starts as Acting Head of Foreign Assistance at State.

Jack Stein starts at GSA.

Jon Koval and Payton Rehling detailed from SSA to DOJ

Christopher Sweet is reported to be using an AI model to analyze HUD regulations and suggest revisions. These are presented to HUD staff for review in a large spreadsheet. It is not clear how the AI system is making these determinations.

All 14 current members of the Pentagon’s pre-existing Defense Digital Service team announce a mass resignation after weeks of being sidelined and frustrated with DOGE’s efforts at the agency.

Claiming that he knew of warrantless wiretapping from the NSA, Justin Fulcher pressured Defense Secretary Hegseth’s Chief of Staff and personal legal counsel to let him run an investigation into leaking at the Pentagon. Once he was included, it was clear there was no such evidence, but it had led to several key roles being fired. Justin Fulcher denied this account when reached for comment.

Michael Mirski is named as leading a DOGE effort at HUD to identify and target households that include undocumented immigrants. These could then be referred to the surveillance system that is being built by DOGE at DHS for immigration enforcement.

Reports that SEC leadership has pushed back on DOGE requests to get admin access for staff emails, personnel data, contracts, and payments systems.

Nate Cavanaugh detailed from GSA to AmeriCorps

Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox detailed from GSA to NLRB

Joshua Fox detailed from DOGE to USDA

Agency staff at AmeriCorps are placed on immediate administrative leave and banned from accessing agency systems.

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.

Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh are reportedly detailed from the GSA to work at the NLRB over the next few months.

Three DOGE staffers – Marko Elez, Edward Coristine and Joe Gebbia – are reported to be working with staff from DHS, the State Department and USCIS on implementing an application process for a $5 Million “Gold Card” visa. It is unclear what agencies they are working for and how this partnership has been structured.

Keith Sonderling starts as Acting Undersecretary at MBDA.

Gavin Kliger ends detailed position at IRS

DOGE contacts the leadership of ACHP requesting a meeting for the following week with a new DOGE team that will be assigned to the agency.

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.

According to sworn testimony by Alex Doe, Gavin Kliger forces the entire CFPB team to work for 36 hours straight and subjects them to frequent verbal abuse in an attempt to eliminate most of the staff at the agency in mass layoffs.

The Washington Posts reports that both Tyler Hassen and Matt Luby are scrutinizing all grants at the Department of the Interior. They also requested a list of all grants going to Maine, perhaps to punish the state for its governor’s defiance of Trump.

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.

In his new role as CIO for the Department of Labor, Thomas Shedd announces goals to reduce the department by 30% through resignations and layoffs. He also claims that DOGE is not “tracking” staff at the agency, and that all changes will be determined by focusing on results.

Although it has not made the decision public, the DOGE team at the IRS reportedly formally decided to end the newly popular Direct File program, which provides a free filing alternative for income taxes.

According to a sworn declaration by an employee of MBDA, Nate Cavanaugh sends emails terminating MBDA grants under the authority of Keith Sonderling, who is the acting undersecretary of the MBDA

Social Security introduces a new AI chatbot to help with general agency tasks but built from general OpenAI models and not trained on SSA data or content.

Roland Shen starts at Treas..

Judge Amy Berman Jackson immediately blocks the RIF for CFPB employees. She expressed skepticism that CFPB leadership a particularized assessment and suggests that they seemed to be “thumbing their nose” at her and the appeals court.

DOGE is granted an administrative stay on replying to CREW’s FOIA requests while its appeal is being considered by an appeals court.

Multiple federal staffers who handle sensitive data related to migrant workers are placed on leave for raising objections about DOGE gaining access to those data systems to target that population for arrest and deportation.

DOGE staff reportedly meet with the leaders of the Smithsonian’s National Gallery of Art to discuss its legal status and funding. The National Gallery of Art is not an executive agency.

In retribution against Harvard University for rejecting demands from the Trump Administration on April 14th, the National Science Foundation begins rejecting scientific grants, stating they weren’t in alignment with current NSF priorities.

Some immigrants have been forced to prove they aren’t dead after being added to the Master Death File in an attempt to force them to “self-deport.” The White House had falsely claimed nobody was really declared dead.

In a meeting between HUD and DOGE, Jacob Altik says they are planning to use Christopher Sweet’s AI model analyzing regulations at HUD to review the entire Code of Federal regulations for regulations to review.

Marshall Wood starts at GSA.

Adam Hoffman detailed from DOGE to DOJ

IT staff at FSA report they were heavily targeted for layoffs despite complying with requests to provide information about critical systems, meaning much more of the FDA infrastructure is at risk of failure

OMB issues a new memo mandating that agencies must collect daily occupancy data on all workers by May 4th. To support this effort, GSA unveils a website outlining methods to track federal workers, including mandatory daily surveys, monitoring badge usage or even video surveillance.

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.

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.

THe U.S. Access Board reports that the agency had a cordial meeting with DOGE and that additional meetings are expected in the future

After an initial video call, DOGE representatives arrive at the agency offices of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

DOGE has reportedly added 10 million records into the Death Master File since March, both as part of addressing errors in the NUMIDENT files as well as deliberate effort to harm immigrants from being able to interact with the financial industry. As a reuslt, some very alive Americans have been declared dead by DOGE.

EO 14284: Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service

Raj Jegannathan and Dave Malcher start as Data Engineer at GSA.

NEH posts a public solicitation of up to $17 million in grants total for statues in a “National Garden of American Heroes.” Such grants would normally be made by the NEA, which is also offering similar separate grants for this project. This is also unusual, in that most NEH grants are dispersed broadly across many projects and are rarely for more than $500,000.

Justin Fulcher starts as Senior Advisor at DOD.

Dave Malcher detailed from GSA to VA

DOGE staff within AmeriCorps start terminating roughly $400 million in grants (roughly 41% of the total grant funding) to 1,031 organizations across America. The reason given is that the grant “no longer effectuates agency priorities.”

DOGE staff assigned to the FAA have reportedly enlisted government staff to work on a secret communications project named “Project Lift,” requiring them to sign NDAs. It is rumored to be about incorporating Starlink into FAA projects.

Nate Cavanaugh, Jonathan Mendelson, Ethan Shaotran, and Marshall Wood detailed from GSA to DFC

Three members of the board for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting receive an email from Trent Morse at the White House informing them that they have been fired. This renders the board inert without quorum.

Luke Farritor and Adam Ramada reportedly have had accounts for several weeks on systems and networks that handle classified material about nuclear weapons. This contradicts agency reports they had departed the agency within a few days of arrival.

Jordan Wick sends an email to the FCC General Counsel asking for data on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews for cell phone tower installations. He then asks to meet with a technical contributor about the feasibility of adding a new feature to their review tracking software. Narrowing environmental review is a Trump administration priority.

The head of a Peace Corps alumni group reports he had been told the agency is expecting large cuts in US staffing, as ordered by DOGE.

A team of 4 DOGE personnel – Nate Cavanaugh, Jonathan Mendelson, Ethan Shaotran and Marshall Wood – arrive at the headquarters of the US International Development Finance Corporation

Akash Bobba detailed from SSA to USDA

Nate Cavanaugh sends an email to the two remaining members of the CPB board requesting a meeting. He describes a DOGE team at GSA and cc’s several other members of DOGE

Citing as evidence the harm inflicted by DOGE against the USIP, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting receives a temporary restraining order from a judge until its case can be heard in May.

A letter is sent to all USDA staff informing them that DOGE staffers would be reviewing all farm loans above $500,000 as well as loans of any size to “formal entities,” which could mean everything from small farms to large corporations. Loans are already reviewed by highly qualified and experienced loan officers at the USDA.

Social Security introduces a new AI-based agent for handling phone calls to 350 field offices in the Southeast and Northeast regions. It frustrates many users attempting to reach an actual person for assistance.

FEC staffers receive an email stating they will be required to send daily updates of their location as part of a new Daily Occupancy Tool that will possibly be rolled out later across the entire government by the GSA.

Democratic members of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation send a letter to Keith Sonderling requesting details on his appointment as acting undersecretary of the MBDA and other information about DOGE’s takeover and destruction of the agency.

As part of a DOGE-driven effort to find ways to punish Harvard by pulling its grants from the federal govenment, Josh Gruenbaum emails Alexander Simonpour to ask if there are grants that can be revoked by NASA. The next day, Simonpour relayed the request to other NASA staffers and then followed up on May 8th stating that the White House had imposed a 5pm deadline for the information.

Yat Choi starts as Senior Technologist at OPM.

Allan Mangaser starts as Senior Advisor to the US Federal CIO at EOP.

Alexander Tullman starts as Senior Advisor at GSA.

Allan Mangaser detailed from OPM to DHS

Tyler Hassen promoted to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at DOI

Jordan Wick is granted high-level access to the National Payment Service (NPS) system, which would allow him to see and alter payments or even cancel loans to farmers and other agricultural producers. Concerningly, his activities are not logged or recorded.

A contractor at GSA states that he came across a list of staff at GSA who had not yet completed all of their mandatory security training. This included prominent DOGE staff that had been at the agency for several months like Thomas Shedd, Josh Gruenbaum, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Steve Davis.

A team of three DOGE staffers – Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor and Zach Terrell – meet with chief grant management officials at NIH to demand changes in how grants are issued under DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” authority over all grant disbursement.

Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour meet again with the acting Postmaster General as well as other senior staff. Reportedly, the topic of this meeting is potential price increases, which is outside the limitations on their work that had been set by former Postmaster DeJoy in the Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) he signed for their presence at the agency.