Luke Farritor
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Although he doesn’t have the same brash presence as his collegues Edward Coristine or Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor has proven to be one of the most ruthless operatives among the DOGE wreckers. From the start, he has been dispatched to multiple agencies from the GSA with the sole purpose of seizing control of their spending mechanisms (through grants or direct expenditures). At HHS, he has admin control of Grants.gov, which is used by 18 agencies to issue grants. And, at USAID, he worked with Gavin Kliger to completely lock out agency staff from being able to disburse funds, freezing millions in grants and making him directly responsible for likely hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide.
Positions
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Systems
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PMS
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A shared-services program provided by HHS for managing payments for grants admin access granted by CTO |
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Grant Solutions
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A shared-service provider tool for federal agencies to track grants across their entire lifecycles read access granted by Deputy Director |
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eRA
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FIXME read access granted by CIO |
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HCAS
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This appears to be a system used at HHS for tracking acquisition and procurement efforts across the agency. admin access granted by Deputy Director |
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ICE
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A system for tracking contracts at CDC read access granted by CIO |
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HIGLAS
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A single, integrated dual-entry accounting system that centralizes accounting for CMS programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. read access granted by CIO |
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CALM
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System for tracking CMS acquisitions, contracts, milestones and audits. read access granted by CIO |
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APEX
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A relatively new (~2022) system for tracking procurement at the CDC read access granted by CIO |
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Office365
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Microsoft Office 365 is used for agency email and knowledge management systems. unknown access |
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AD
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A system for controlling access to other systems within an agency unknown access granted by CIO |
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Microsoft Entra ID
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A centralized identity provider used to support single-sign-on (SSO) and centralize access control for agencies. admin access granted by CIO |
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IDR
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A data warehouse that receives all Medicare claims after they have been approved for payment read access granted by CIO |
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EHCM
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This system is used at HHS for managing all aspects of human-capital related tasks, including staffing notes and performance plans. admin access granted by ISSO |
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EBS
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Oracle E-Business Suite is a comprehensive suite of applications for finance, order management, logistics, procurement, projects, manufacturing, asset lifecycle, and human capital management. read access granted by CIO |
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PRISM
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System for tracking procurement and contracting read access granted by CIO |
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Grants.gov
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A system run and administered by HHS that is used at 18+ agencies for publishing grants, finding recipients and delivering funds admin access granted by Deputy Director «The govt reported he had blocked all access a week earlier, so I doubt it» |
Events
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| 12/05 DOGE |
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Sighting:
Luke Farritor posts a recruitment message for DOGE in a Discord server for SpaceX interns stating that he is looking for volunteers to work at DOGE for 6 months.
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| 1/20 GSA |
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Directory:
Multiple DOGE staffers start working within GSA in the office of the Administrator with the title Senior Advisor
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| 1/27 USAID |
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Onboard:
Still convinced that USAID is deliberately committing insubordination against the executive order, Peter Marocco arrives at USAID with DOGE staffers Luke Farritor, Edward Coristine and Clayton Cromer to audit USAID’s accounts.
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| 1/27 USAID |
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Disruption:
After the arrival of DOGE in the agency, senior staff are summoned to a meeting with Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor. The DOGE team then presented agency leadership with a list of 57 employees involved with payments to be placed on immediate administrative leave and locked out of system access. The list reportedly made little sense and involved many staff not involved with payments.
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| 1/30 USAID |
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Disruption:
Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger demand that all senior managers at USAID be stripped of their power to authorize payments - and that they alone become the only authorizers.
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| 1/30 CDC |
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Access:
Luke Farritor is granted read-only access to the CDC’s Integrated Contract Expert (ICE) system for contracts.
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| 1/30 USAID |
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Report:
DOGE presents their evidence that the employees should be placed on leave based on a single email analysis made by Luke Farritor and sent to other DOGE members. “I could be wrong. My numbers could be off.” he writes, but the conclusions are not to be questioned or checked.
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| 1/30 DOGE, GSA |
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Interagency:
Elon Musk reportedly visits GSA to meet with staff, several of whom are identified from their appearances in the internal directory for the agency. These include Steve Davis, Nicole Hollander, Thomas Shedd, Stephen Ehikian and Luke Farritor.
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| 1/31 CMS |
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Access:
Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System (HIGLAS) which centralizes payments for CMS medical claims
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| 2/03 CMS |
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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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| 2/04 CDC |
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Access:
Luke Farritor is given read access to the CDC’s Acquisition Performance and Execution (APEX) system that tracks procurements at the CDC.
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| 2/06 CFPB |
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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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| 2/07 DOE |
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Sighting:
DOGE staffers Luke Farritor and Adam Ramada arrive at the Department of Energy and are onboarded.According to Dept. of Energy spokesperson, DOGE staff departed the agency within a few days of arrival, but other reporting suggests they were still active and granted access to sensitive systems in the coming months.
(fuzz: Date is approximate and unknown. Report is unconfirmed)
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| 2/09 USAID |
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Disruption:
Using their admin access, Gavin Kliger and Luke Farritor completely disable accounts for all other USAID staff on the agency’s system for creating and tracking payments. They now have absolute control.
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| 2/10 DOE |
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Sighting:
Adam Ramada shows up in the Department of Energy’s online directory, along with Luke Farritor. There also is reportedly a third DOGE staffer at the agency.
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| 2/10 State |
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Sighting:
Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor are both listed in the State Department’s directory as Senior Advisors within the Bureau of Diplomatic Technology.
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| 2/24 NIH |
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Access:
Three DOGE staffers – Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley and Clark Minor – are listed as part of the NIH Business System Department. This would grant them access to NIH’s central electronic business system, which includes finance, budget, procurement, a property-management system, and a grant-tracking system
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| 2/24 NIH |
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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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| 3/04 GSA |
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Directory:
Wired reports that some DOGE staff (Kyle Schutt, Nate Cavanaugh) are being paid as full-time GSA employees, but other staff are listed as volunteers for that agency.
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| 3/04 CFPB |
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Offboard:
Luke Farritor officially offboards from the CFPB and all of his system access is revoked. The reason given is that his detail had ended.
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| 3/05 CMS |
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Access:
Luke Farritor is granted read access to the Integrated Data Repository (IDR), a data warehouse of all Medicare claims.
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| 3/05 DOGE |
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Directory:
The Intercept receives a list of 30 DOGE staffers working within the Executive Office of the President (EOP), including 4 lawyers previously not listed
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| 3/13 SSA |
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Directory:
Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are currently visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA
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| 3/13 HHS |
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Directory:
As later reported in a declaration in AFL-CIO et al. vs. Department of Labor, HHS employee Mark Samburg finds DOGE staff at the agency listed in an online directory as Executive Engineers (and Rachel Riley as a Senior Advisor).
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| 3/20 GSA |
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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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| 3/29 HHS |
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Directory:
In response to a discovery request made in AFL-CIO vs. DOL, the government provides an incomplete list of DOGE staff who have worked at HHS.
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| 3/29 CMS |
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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/XX GSA |
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Sighting:
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.
(fuzz: only month is given in report)
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| 4/XX NIH |
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Disruption:
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.
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| 4/08 GSA |
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Directory:
A partial copy of the GSA’s A-Suite access list includes multiple DOGE personnel who are listed as based in GSA.
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| 4/11 Commerce, DOD, DOJ, DOL, DOT, EPA, Education, DOE, HHS, HUD, NARA, NASA, NEH, NSF, SBA, State, USDA, VA |
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Disruption:
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.
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| 4/12 CFPB |
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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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| 4/14 NSF |
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Sighting:
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.
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| 4/22 NSF |
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Directory:
Three DOGE staffers are now at the National Science Foundation reviewing grants. Luke Farritor has a “Budget, Finance, and Administration” clearance, which a source said allows him to view and modify the agency’s funding opportunity system.
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| 4/28 DOE |
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Access:
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.
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| 5/01 NSF, OMB |
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Interagency:
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a “connect” with OMB about the National Science Foundation
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| 5/09 DOL |
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Action:
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a Microsoft Teams meeting with Thomas Shedd (the acting CIO and fellow GSA employee) as well as another DOL staffer to discuss grants to the agency.
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| 5/19 DOGE, DOL |
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Interagency:
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a quick sync with a finance department deputy at the agency and a DOGE liasion.
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| 5/27 DOJ, DOL, FBI |
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Interagency:
A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a meeting with a representative from the Department of Justice and another from the FBI.
(fuzz: It’s unclear what agency Farritor is representing here, but assuming it’s DOL since other events were there.)
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| 5/31 GSA |
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Report:
Edward Coristine and Luke Farritor’s roles are both converted into regular positions at the GSA at the GS-15 level, which would mean an annual salary of $167,603 - $195,200 in Washington, DC. This is the maximum level possible for a general government worker, and it often takes years or decades to reach. It would not normally be granted to staff with such limited work experience.
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| 6/26 Commerce, DOD, DOJ, DOL, DOT, EPA, Education, DOE, HHS, HUD, NARA, NASA, NEH, NSF, SBA, State, USDA, VA |
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Official:
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.
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| 7/21 GSA |
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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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