Aug 2026

As part of a blog post hailing the 10-year anniversary of the launch of login.gov, GSA announces that it will be collaborating with the National Design Studio to revamp the design and interface of the site. This post does not mention that Greg Hogan had been detailed from NDS to run login.gov in GSA.

Wired Magazine reports on how recruiting efforts for the National Design Studio are being led by Edward Coristine. Unlike other federal roles which have rigorously defined interview processes, an engineer candidate described the NDS interview as “casual to the point where I don’t think there was any process established.”

The GAO releases an analysis of the reported savings on DOGE’s wall of receipts. It finds that 96% of the claimed savings cannot be verified and that several contracts and leases were already being phased out when DOGE claimed credit for them. It recommends that the DOGE website should be updated to present the issues with the data.

The Center for Economic Studies within the Census Bureau publishes an unsigned and thinly sourced white paper that claims that 24,000 noncitizens voted in the 2020 election. The analysis was made by joining together two separate datasets and extrapolating on counts. Researchers who work with Census data uniformly describe the paper’s methodology as deeply flawed and that the counts are likely due to misunderstanding the data itself. Wired later reports that one of the authors of the reports was Dan Sweeney, a DOGE member at EPA who is now a general counsel at Commerce as well as two staffers from the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute with backgrounds in law and policy. Only one other staffer at Census had the actual demographer background that would be expected from reports of this type, but was appointed to the role only two months ago. The Trump Administration cites the report as justification for its election meddling.

A judge ruled that the government has not been fully forthcoming in sharing materials about how the IRS communicated with DHS on a plan to share confidential tax information on immigrants. He gave the government a deadline of September 14th to also provide communications from the Social Security Administration and DOGE related to the effort. This data sharing has been a key part of DOGE’s effort to build a surveillance system within ICE.

Sam Corcos starts as Acting Administrator, Technology Transformation Services at GSA.

Jeremy Lewin promoted to Director of Policy Planning at State

Greg Barbaccia leaves role as Acting Administrator, Technology Transformation Services at GSA

Kyle Schutt starts as Acting CIO at DHS.

Greg Barbaccia leaves role as Federal Chief Information Officer at OMB (exits govt. service)

Antoine McCord leaves role as Chief Information Officer at DHS