Nikhil Rajpal and Cole Killian start screening all preexisting USDS staff with short interviews, asking them their views of DOGE and to name who they think are underperformers that should be fired.

Jacob Altik and Nikhil Rajpal start working at the OPM

DOGE staffer Nikhil Rajpal reportedly enters NOAA facilities in Silver Spring, MD

DOGE staff enter CFPB facilities and are given equipment and onboarded

In a FOIA request, Democracy Forward names DOGE staff known to be at OPM at that time in their list of officials to FOIA communications for

Several DOGE staffers at the agency are identified by Social Security Works (a nonprofit advocacy group) as also working at SSA

In a sworn declaration, Florence Felix-Lawson notes "the SSA DOGE Team currently consists of ten SSA employees: four SSA special government employees (Employees 1, 4, 6, and 9) and six detailees to SSA from other government agencies and offices (Employees 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10)"

Wired reports that 10 DOGE staffers are visible in the Microsoft Teams directory of all employees at SSA

Nikhil Rajpal officially offboards from the CFPB

In a sworn declaration, Leland Dudek justifies access to PII in SSA records for Employee 1, Employee 5, Employee 8 and Employee 9 on the DOGE team. This access is through the SSA's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system. He claims DOGE staff are being granted only the minimum levels of schema access required.