Jun 2025

Brady Glantz leaves role as Senior Advisor at FAA (exits govt. service)

Thomas Kiernan leaves role as Senior Advisor at FAA (exits govt. service)

Ted Malaska leaves role as Senior Advisor at FAA (exits govt. service)

Sam Smeal leaves role as Senior Advisor at FAA (exits govt. service)

In a meeting shortly after Trump signed executive orders relating to the NRC, DOGE staffer Adam Blake reportedly told the chair and top staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that they would be expected to “rubber stamp” any reactor designs which might be tested by the Department of Energy or the Department of Defense.

In the budget for next year, the White House requests $45 million total for DOGE, forecasting 150 employees would work for the agency. From this amount, it allocates $10 million for a “software modernization initiative,” with $35 million being provided to DOGE through reimbursement from agencies where DOGE staff will be embedded.

NIH staff are forced to send all grant proposals through an AI tool that looks for topics banned by the Trump administration. This includes topics like “DEI, transgender, China, or vaccine hesitancy.” Staff are also ordered to check that medical research grants aren’t being awarded to certain schools like Harvard or Columbia which are seen as enemies of Trump.

James Burnham leaves role as General Counsel at DOGE (exits govt. service)

HHS employees from multiple agencies who were fired in the recent Reduction-in-Force at the agency file a class action lawsuit claiming that the data used for the retention register was fatally flawed and DOGE practiced no due diligence in correcting for that.

Steve Davis walked into DOGE’s weekly meeting at the GSA, asserting he was still in charge even though he was no longer a government employee. The acting director of the GSA, Stephen Ehikian, reportedly responded “Steve Davis remains in charge until he says he’s not” to DOGE members confused by this turn of events.

Field representatives for the Census surveys share that the public is growing increasingly distrustful of participating in government surveys due to concerns that their data might be used against them by DOGE. This is especially true for minority and vulnerable populations, increasing the real risk of skewed statistics.

In an appendix for next year’s budget request, the White Houre reports that approximately 89 staffers have worked for DOGE this fiscal year, and this number includes direct employees as well as staff on reimburable details. It’s unclear if this count includes remaining members of the USDS, but that seems likely.

Testifying to Congress, Russell Vought says the White House is in “the midst of … establishing the leadership on an ongoing basis.” But he also says more DOGE staff will be embedded directly in agencies to report to leadership there. Amy Gleason is not mentioned.

A $47 million dollar contract for expanding a major immigration facility in Georgia is paused pending review by DOGE under a new policy that requires review for any DHS contract worth more than $20 million. Previously, DHS had been exempt from such spending controls by DOGE.

Aram Moghaddassi promoted to Chief Information Officer at SSA

Scott Coulter leaves role as Chief Information Officer at SSA

Concerned by Steve Davis’ attempts to stay involved with DOGE despite no longer being employed by the agency and instructions to not interact with him, DOGE staffers Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos, Ryan Shea, and Adam Blake privately questioned Davis about his involvement. They also reportedly contacted DOGE general counsel Austin Raynor about the legality of his continued involvement.

Frank Bisignano is granted permission to remove any DOGE staff at his agency. According to the report, “Bisignano parted ways with one DOGE staffer from SSA, who in June moved to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.” The date and person isn’t named, but the CIO replacement at SSA and NASA connection suggest it’s Scott Coulter who was removed in early June.

Concerned by people questioning his continued authority, Steve Davis reportedly taps Anthony Armstrong, Josh Gruenbaum and Stephen Ehikian to assess the loyalty of DOGE staffers and assert they are the leadership of DOGE now, acting under the authority of JD Vance and Susie Wiles in the White House. This is a bluff, and staffers in the White House counter that their authority is only within GSA itself.

Despite having left DOGE a week prior, Steve Davis reportedly holds a meeting with DOGE staff hosted on the sixth floor of the GSA headquarters. At the meeting, he reportedly proposes a “DOGE 2.0” which would be more collaborative with agency heads.

EO 14306: Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation's Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144

Anthony Armstrong leaves role as Expert at OPM

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

Justin Monroe leaves role at OPM

Chris Young leaves role as Expert at OPM (exits govt. service)

Chris Young ends detailed position at DOGE (exits govt. service)

Chris Young ends detailed position at CFPB (exits govt. service)

Several senior staff write a memo to agency leadership reporting that California, Washington and Illinois had cooperated with EO 14243 requesting info on their state’s Medicaid programs. They strenously object to a plan to share this data with DHS, noting that it would violate the privacy act and other laws as well as agency practices, and that it could be used to identify and target immigrant communities in those states.

Despite the departure of Elon Musk and several key leaders below him, DOGE is actively recruiting for new hires, promising pay of up to $195,200 (the maximum for a GS-15) and a two year excepted term. DOGE is reportedly hiring for both the USDS and the DOGE Temporary Organizations that embed in other agencies.

In a 6-3 ruling on an emergency application, the US Supreme Court overturned rulings from lower courts that DOGE would have to comply immediately with records requests from CREW in their lawsuit. This rejection does not terminate the case, but it allows for an indefinite pause as cases are being considered.

Wired reports that TTS Administrator Thomas Shedd is in urgent need of in-house developers and is looking to revamp and restart the Presidential Innovation Fellows program months after it was eliminated due to the hiring freeze and mass layoffs that were initiated by TTS Administrator Thomas Shedd.

Ruling in ALA v. Sonderling, Judge Richard Leon declines to grant the preliminary injunction sought by plaintiffs, suggesting that the US Court of Federal Claims might be the more appropriate venue for the case, since it involves federal contracts.

The SSA website takes down for maintenance a page that provided service metrics. When it is restored after several weeks, certain metrics that would have shown the impact of DOGE like average phone wait times are no longer provided.

A report in the New York Times suggests that Mike Russo and Aram Moghaddassi have essentially been acting as joint CIOs at the agency.

ProPublica analyzes public code by Sahil Lavingia for an AI-powered tool to evaluate contracts at the VA and determine which ones are “munchable” (meaning they should be canceled). The analysis finds the AI was given poor instructions and lacks context to correctly make these decisions.

Analysis by a USAGM grantee based on public data reveals that China has expanded its own propaganda and programming to counter the void left by the closure of Radio Free Asia.

In a 6-3 ruling on an emergency application, the Supreme Court rejected an injunction that prevented DOGE from accessing Social Security data. In a setback for privacy advocates, this will allow for SSA to share data with DOGE and other agencies, while the case about the legality of that proceeds.

Medicaid staff at CMS are ordered by CMS and HHS leadership to immediately share with DHS data from Medicaid program in certain states that allow non-US citizens to be enrolled. This information could be used by ICE to target and deport immigrants who are legally collecting state benefits.

Ryan Shea ends detailed position at HHS (exits govt. service)

Ryan Shea leaves role at GSA (exits govt. service)

Steve Davis removed DOGE staffers that he considered disloyal from shared Signal chats that DOGE had continued to use for coordination. He also used his influence at GSA to have Ryan Shea removed from his position. Other Davis targets – Yinon Weiss, Sam Corcos and Adam Blake – were able to remain at their posts but were shut out from DOGE communications.

Edward Coristine ends detailed position at DOGE

Nikhil Rajpal ends detailed position at DOGE

Senator Elizabeth Warren sends a letter to the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Education urging them to investigate DOGE’s “infiltration” of systems and databases related to the Federal Student Aid (FSA) program.

More than 60 employees at NIH sign their names to a public letter condemning the degradation of the agency under the Trump Administration.

Judge Cote, presiding over AFGE v. OPM, grants a preliminary injunction against DOGE having access to systems at OPM and orders them to destroy any information they have copied. She finds that OPM failed to follow proper procedures for granting access.

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, the new head of SSA, Frank Bisignano, states that “DOGE personnel, including eight engineers, are integral to getting the job done”

Despite having left government service, Elon Musk, Steve Davis and Katie Miller reportedly tell top DOGE staff at an all-hands meeting that Musk continues to back their work and they should continue to stay the course.

The Trump administration leadership at NEH conducts a Reduction-in-Force (RIF) and lays off an estimated 100 employees at NEH. All total, approximately two-thirds of the agency staff are estimated to have lost their jobs by this point, with only 60 or so remaining at the agency.

John Solly asks staff in the Social Security Administration’s CIO office (then possibly under the leadership of Scott Coulter or Aram Moghaddassi) to create a cloud environment to upload the NUMIDENT data to. The stated reason was purported reason for the project was to improve the way that SSA exchanges data.

Ruling in Brehm v. Marocco, Judge Leon denies the plaintiff’s request for a temporary restraining order, finding that Trump was likely within the bounds of the law when he removed board members of the USADF.

Brad Smith leaves role as Senior Advisor at DOGE

John Solly modifies his request to instead ask to transfer NUMIDENT data to a test environment. This is not entirely unheard of, but it’s considered a very insecure practice to move production data into a testing environment that might not be authorized for that. DOGE then amends their request again to ask for full admin access to SSA’s cloud environment.

The plaintiffs in Rhode Island v. Trump et al file an amended complaint asking the court to rule that the IMLS closure was unconstitutional and violated the Administrative Procedures Act. As part of this filing, they issued summons to Keith Sonderling, Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick and Russell Vought. They have 60 days to respond, pushing the nest phase of the trial to August.

A career official writes up a Risk Acceptance Request Form to share with Aram Moghaddassi and another unnamed career official in the office of the CIO at Social Security about DOGE’s request to have administrative access to a separate Virtual Private Cloud within the Amazon Web Services infrastructure at SSA. The official classifies this as high-risk due a proposal to copy NUMIDENT data to a developer environment with looser access controls and security measures. DOGE developers would also be able to make this data publicly accessible without following the Authority to Operate (ATO) requirements for any new public services and install software not approved for operation in SSA infrastructure.

Alexandra Beynon leaves role as Senior Advisor at DOGE (exits govt. service)

DOGE staffers working with the Department of Commerce launch an informational site for the new proposed “Trump Card” gold visa, which would let people skip the lines for immigration visas by paying $5 million in fees. It is a single-page site with bold text and an email sign-up form for people who might be interested.

Surprised by Israel’s strikes on Iran and unable to counter Iranian programming, the Voice of America orders all of its Farsi-speaking members in the Voice of America’s Persian wing immediately back to work. All of them had been on enforced administrative leave for several months.

Citing “heavy workload and limited resources,” the FDA informs a drug manufacturer that it will be unable to meet a deadline to approve a new drug to treat a life-threatening hereditary condition. This is a first-time event for the agency, and some suggest it’s a direct result of DOGE-directed staff reductions at the FDA.

The GAO determines that the executive branch violated The Impoundment Act of 1974 when it prevented agency functions, including withholding funds that were not eligible for cancellation under any circumstances. The GAO general counsel Edda Emmanuelli Perez noted that GAO had reached out to IMLS for information, requesting responses on May 5 and May 12 but were not replied to.

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sends a letter to Microsoft requesting access and information about Jordan Wick’s now-private Github account, specifically requesting to see details about the NxGenBdoorExtract program.

White House Deputy Director Trent Morse sends a letter firing one of the five members of the board (and the only Biden appointee) for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for SSA sends an email to Aram Moghaddassi with his assessment that moving NUMIDENT data to the cloud would be at an unacceptably high risk for being hacked or stolen (computed on a 1-5 scale with a 3 for probability of risk and 5 for the impact of this risk)

Following the guidance in EO 14222, DHS head Kristi Noem demands that every contract and grant worth more than $100,000 must be explicitly reviewed and approved by her. This particularly alarms staff at FEMA who warn that it will destroy the agency’s ability to respond to disasters in a timely manner.

Kyle Schutt ends detailed position at DOGE

Edward Coristine starts at SSA.

Edward Coristine leaves role as Senior Advisor at GSA

Edward Coristine is reportedly sighted at the Woodlawn, MD location of the Social Security Administration alongside Aram Moghaddassi. It is later confirmed that he is now working as a Special Government Employee (SGE) for the agency after he had resigned his position at GSA.

Career staff in the Office of the CIO at Social Security approved DOGE’s request to setup their own separate cloud environment apart from the usual oversight and processes of cloud services at SSA. They deny a request by DOGE to transfer highly-sensitive NUMIDENT data to the cloud.

Jeremy Lewin signs off on an award to a Trump-backed aid group in Gaza, despite objections that the group failed to meet “minimum technical or budgetary standards” and waived mandatory counter-terrorism and fraud safeguards. The funding request was made by Kenneth Jackson, who ignored 58 objections raised by former USAID staff.

Jeremy Lewin overrides many objections by staffers reviewing the grant and rushes a grant of $30 million for the month of June to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation only five days after its funding request was submitted. The request was also handled by Kenneth Jackson and accumulated over 58 objections from USAID staffers that GHF failed both technical and financial requirements for aid recipients. GHF was hastily formed in February 2025 and has been faulted for forcing Palestinians to navigate crowded militarized zones to receive aid. This has resulted in multiple mass killings near GHF sites.

The acting counsel of the IRS, Andrew deMello, sends an email to DHS staff declining their request for data sharing. He cites that the request made from DHS lacked information mandated by the Memorandum of Understandng (MOU) between the two agencies, including why the disclosure is needed for a criminal case and the identities of ICE officers making the requests along with a sworn attestation that the info will only be used for judicial proceedings and not enforcement. DOGE staffers Anthony Armstrong and Jon Koval are included in this communication.

Jerome Powell, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, expresses public concerns that DOGE-directed staffing cuts at the Bureau of Labor Statistics have started to affect the quality of economic data used for forecasting and decisions. In a recent survey on prices, the rate of imputed prices jumped from 10% to 30% due to staffing shortfalls.

Reportedly acting as a joint CIO at Social Security, Mike Russo overrides the concerns of junior staff in the Office of the CIO at the Social Security Administration and approves a request by John Solly to transfer NUMIDENT data into the new DOGE-controlled cloud environment.

Democratic Congressman Mark Takano sends an angry letter to Secretary Collins of the VA demanding answers about DOGE activities including if they have installed spyware on agency machines, if they have been piloting AI, and if they have accessed medical records. He also asks for detailed information on DOGE staff at the agency.

In a surprise move, the Republican governor of Virginia, the head of public buildings service at GSA and the Commissioner for HUD announce that they will be kicking out the National Science Foundation (NSF) from its Virginia headquarters and moving HUD to that location. There are no details provided on where NSF is expected to relocate to.

Andrew DeMello, the acting general counsel for the IRS refuses to turn over the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers that had been requested by ICE. He declares there are multiple legal “deficiencies” with the request that do not meet the legal safeguards that were listed in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for this process, which declared that such data could only be shared for open criminal investigations.

The Department of Defense announced that it would immediately stop ingesting and sharing data from 3 microwave-imaging satellites with NOAA’s National Hurricane Center. This imaging is used to prevent “sunrise surprises” by allowing forecasters to monitor hurricanes at night. The change is expected to degrade the quality of hurricane forecasts.

In an email to agency partners, the operators of grants.gov declare that the revised mechanism added in April that routed all Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) through a DOGE email address has been reversed. Instead, agencies are to return to using the tool like that did previously. This doesn’t necessarily mean that DOGE or political appointees will not be reviewing grants, but they have no longer locked other users out of the system.

Cole Killian ends detailed position as Federal Detailee at EPA (exits govt. service)

Jacob Altik ends detailed position at DOGE (exits govt. service)

Cole Killian leaves role at DOGE (exits govt. service)

DOGE staff are reportedly detailed to work with the ATF General Counsel on revising or eliminating over 50 regulations by July 4th. This would likely make it easier to purchase firearms. They miss this deadline.

The head of acquisition for the Department of Defense orders that all new contract and task orders for IT consulting, management services, and advisory and assistance support must be approved by the DOGE team embedded within the DOD before they will be granted.

Two days after preventing a data sharing request from ICE due to concerns it would break the law, the acting counself for the IRS is fired and removed from his job. The Acting Counsel had replaced the prior agency counsel because he was considered more friendly to Trump’s interests.

The government of Kosovo announces that it has not received any notification about the shuttering of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, despite reports of its closure in April.

A federal appeals court issues a stay on a lower-court ruling that blocked DOGE from taking over the USIP. In their ruling, the appeals panel noted that President Trump would face “irreparable harm from not being able to fully exercise his executive powers,” should the injunction be allowed to stand. This restores Nate Cavanaugh as President of the USIP.

Ruling in the case AFL-CIO v. DOL, Judge Bates determines that he cannot issue a preliminary injunction that would prevent DOGE staffers from accessing sensitive systems at DOL and HHS. DOGE access was never suspended by this case.

Following up on the MOU between ICE and IRS that allowed for limited data sharing of current address information for use in criminal cases, the Acting Director of ICE sends a request for data on approximately 1.28 million individuals.

According to a page update on the Federal CIO site, Aram Moghaddassi is named the new CIO of the Social Security Administration, making him the third DOGE-affiliated CIO in a row at the agency. This follows on reports that he had been acting in a co-CIO role with former CIO Mike Russo. He replaces Scott Coulter who was the CIO as recently as late May.

Adam Ramada leaves role at DOGE

More than 270 employees at the EPA sign a public letter condemning the Trump administration and agency head Lee Zeldin for politicizing the agency and dismantling its effectiveness.

Due to staffing cuts, there is now an average of 1 SSA worker per 1480 benficiaries, or almost triple the ratio in 1967. This is a direct result of DOGE-driven cuts reducing agency staffing by 7000 since January

Ashley Boizelle mails the Chief of Staff (and head of the DOGE team) at FCC for information about their deregulation work at the agency.

Brian Burroughs and Yat Choi start as at GSA.

Dennis Li starts at OPM.

Seth Cohen detailed from DOE to NRC

Joshua Fox promoted to Associate General Counsel at EOP

Jacob Altik leaves role as Senior Advisor to the Director at OPM

Leland Dudek leaves role at SSA (exits govt. service)

Mike Gonzalez leaves role as Senior Advisor at OPM (exits govt. service)

Erica Jehling ends detailed position at EPA

Kathryn Armstrong Loving leaves role as Federal Detailee at EPA (exits govt. service)

Kyle Schutt leaves role at GSA (exits govt. service)

The White House Presidential Personnel Office contacts DOGE leads across the government to inform them that Steve Davis is no longer an employee of DOGE and they should cease all contact with him.

After several DOGE staffers expressed concerns that he should not have access to government information or continue to direct DOGE staff, Steve Davis reportedly pushes for their firing, calling it an attempted coup. Sam Corcos is named as one DOGE staffer who was given the silent treatment by Davis and allies.

A lawyer at ICE proposes expanding the original data sharing MOU between the agency to also support requesting data on US citizens and lawful permanent residents (it had been limited to undocumented immigrants previously). Anthony DeMello rejected this change at the IRS and insisted that senior leadership at Treasury would have to sign off on this due to possible legal risks.