Jeremy Lewin
Wrecker
, lawyer, age 28
Jeremy Lewin is unusual among the most prolific wreckers because he is a lawyer and not a programmer. He also came from a more progressive background than many of the DOGE crew, which makes his recent heel turn all the more astonishing. Since joining DOGE, Mr. Lewin has been part of some of the more odious aspects of DOGE’s takedown of USAID and attempted elimination of the CFPB. Under the wing of DOGE ally, he has been rapidly promoted upward in the eviscerated remnants of USAID and the remnants of a similar foreign-aid operation within the Department of State. Despite these new positions, he still finds time to participate in DOGE activities; recent documents from the NTEU’s lawsuit against Russell Vought include Lewin emailing instructions to Gavin Kliger on how to conduct an attempted reduction-in-force at the CFPB in April.
Positions
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1/20
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appointed ($167,000) «salary reported by Wired» Wired | |
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1/27-3/18
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detail to Senior Advisor / Director for Strategy & Programs (NTE 2025-07-25) court doc | |
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2/07
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detail court doc | |
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2/21
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likely detailed court doc | |
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2/24
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internal xfer Wired | |
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3/03
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internal xfer «date inferred from access to CMS CALM system» | |
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3/18
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appointed Deputy Administrator(Policy and Programming) / COO court doc | |
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4/15-7/11
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appointed Acting Head of Foreign Assistance | |
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7/11
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promoted to Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Affairs and Religious Freedom (supervisory) State Dept. |
Systems
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Grant Solutions
2/28
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2/28 | Grant Solutions
A shared-service provider tool for federal agencies to track grants across their entire lifecycles (HHS) read access granted by Deputy Director court doc |
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CALM
3/03-4/18
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3/03-4/18 | CMS Acquisition Lifecycle Management System
System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. (CMS) read access granted by CIO court doc |
Events
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1/20
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1/30
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Disruption:
Jeremy Lewin and Elon Musk order the acting head of USAID to comply with orders to lock every USAID employee worldwide out of all email and other communication systems. He refuses, stating that a sudden loss of access could get aid workers killed.
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2/03
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Access:
Multiple DOGE staff (Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Conor Fennessy and Jeremy Lewin) at CMS are granted read-only access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts.
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2/06
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Onboard:
A DOGE team consisting of Luke Farritor, Jeremy Lewin, Nikhil Rajpal, Gavin Kliger and Chris Young enters the CFPB headquarters and is given equipment and onboarded with a quick session on privacy policies in force at the CFPB.
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2/13
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Disruption:
The CFPB RIF team, including Adam Martinez meets with Jordan Wick, Jeremy Lewin, and OPM officials on a video call. Jeremy Lewin and Jordan Wick talk off screen with Acting Director Russell Vought, and Wick tells the group that they want formal RIF notices to go out no later than February 14. The team receives a template from OPM for firing 1200 employees “at night on the 13th.”
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2/24
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Directory:
Four DOGE staffers are indentified with email addresses linked to NIH. These are Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin and Clark Minor.
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3/03
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Access:
Jeremy Lewin is granted read access to the CMS Acquisition Lifestye Management System (CALM) which tracks CMS aquisitions and contracts.
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3/19
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Official:
Peter Marocco says that he will be succeeded at the agency by Jeremy Lewin and Kenneth Jackson, serving in deputy roles.
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3/20
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Directory:
Wired Magazine list DOGE staff stationed within GSA, all of whom were listed on GSA payroll on March 20, the same day Stephen Ehikian claimed there were no DOGE staff in the agency.
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3/26
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Directory:
Politico publishes a list of 10 lawyers that it says are linked to DOGE.
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3/28
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Disruption:
Almost all of the remaining 900 USAID employees are terminated by email from Jeremy Lewin with RIFs that will go into effect either in July or September.
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3/29
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3/29
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Legal:
In a legal filing, the DOJ identifies 4 DOGE staffers - Edward Coristine, Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Amy Gleason - as present at CMS. It omits the names of several other staffers with access to the CALM system.
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4/08
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Disruption:
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.
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4/12
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Interagency:
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.
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4/12
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Interagency:
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.
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4/12
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Interagency:
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.
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4/12
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Official:
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.
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4/13
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Interagency:
Jeremy Lewin has a followup Teams call with CFPB chief legal counsel Mark Paoletta to plan for the upcoming massive RIF at the CFPB
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4/13
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Interagency:
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
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4/16
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Interagency:
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.
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7/11
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Report:
Jeremy Lewin is promoted to Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Affairs and Religious Freedom in the State Department. This is the third highest rank in the agency and he is possibly the youngest person to ever hold it.
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7/21
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Directory:
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
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