Jeremy Lewin
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- |
appointed ($167,000) «salary reported by Wired» Wired |
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1/28-3/18 |
likely detailed as Senior Advisor / Director for Strategy & Programs (replaced with new role) court doc |
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2/07- |
detail court doc |
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2/21- |
likely detailed court doc |
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2/24- |
internal xfer Wired |
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3/03- |
internal xfer «date inferred from access to CMS CALM system» |
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3/18- |
appointed Deputy Administrator(Policy and Programming) / COO court doc |
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4/15- |
appointed Acting Head of Foreign Assistance |
Systems
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Grant Sol.
2/28-
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Grant Solutions
read access granted by Deputy Director A shared-service provider tool for federal agencies to track grants across their entire lifecycles (HHS) court doc |
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CALM
3/03-4/18
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CMS Acquisition Lifecycle Management System
read access granted by CIO System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. (CMS) court doc |
Events
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2/24
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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
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3/20
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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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4/12
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Interagency:
Emailing from his USAID email account, Jeremy Lewin provides 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 for a massive RIF at the CFPB
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4/12
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Interagency:
Emailing from his CFPB account, Jeremy Lewin shares the documentation for the upcoming CFPB RIF with DOGE staff posted at several agencies. It's unclear if they are representing their agencies or DOGE in the communication
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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. 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 staff 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 for an "emergency" 30-day notice for a RIF at the CFPB
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