DOGE

2024 November

2024-11-12 Trump appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to DOGE. The White House later alternated between claiming Musk was and was not leading DOGE. Musk was sending out his “What did you do last week” emails.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33972/trump-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-doge-government-efficiency-deep-state

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463/gov.uscourts.dcd.277463.24.1.pdf

2025 February

2025-02-17 The Trump administration stated Elon Musk was not DOGE’s leader, calling him a “Special Government Employee” without formal authority.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/17/doge-administrator-elon-musk-00204639

2025 June

2025-06-24 The Trump administration scrambled to rehire federal workers fired by DOGE. Those DOGE cuts cost taxpayers an estimated $135B.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/doge-fired-workers-rehired

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/doges-big-illusion-the-heavy-costs-of-the-trump-administrations-so-called-efficiency/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-cuts-cost-135-billion-analysis-elon-musk-department-of-government-efficiency/

2025 July

2025-07-15 The Trump administration defunded CISA, accusing it of spreading misinformation and combating foreign disinformation. Interesting sidenote, the former director Chris Krebs was one of Trump’s direct targets when he announced the 2020 presidential election was conducted securely and without significant voter fraud.

https://www.meritalk.com/articles/trump-budget-slashes-cisa-science-funding-boosts-space-mission/

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-stakeholder-engagement-division-layoffs-critical-infrastructure-international/803433/#

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366625236/US-cyber-agency-CISA-faces-stiff-budget-cuts#

2025 August

2025-08-05 Critics accused DOGE of indiscriminate cuts to agriculture, education, science, infrastructure, and environmental programs despite promises of “surgical” reductions.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/doge-cuts-by-city-state-and-congressional-district/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-threatens-federal-control-dc-attack-doge-staffer-coristine-rcna223293

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_federal_agencies_targeted_by_DOGE