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DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency

Elon Musk's DOGE accessed sensitive databases, fired 317,000 workers, shut down agencies, and triggered dozens of court battles. The largest dismantlement of federal capacity in US history.

15 records · Last updated March 27, 2026

From Day 1 to Musk's departure on Day 130, DOGE touched every corner of the federal government. These records document the scope of the operation.

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Updated March 27, 2026 Federal Dismantlement
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DOGE Guts National Weather Service: 30 Offices Lose Lead Meteorologists Ahead of Hurricane Season

DOGE fired over 600 National Weather Service employees including hurricane hunters, meteorologists, and storm modelers, leaving 30 forecast offices without lead meteorologists. The NWS Goodland, Kansas office became the first to abandon 24/7 operations. Five former NWS directors warned the cuts endanger lives heading into tornado and hurricane season.

  • On February 27, 2025, the Commerce Department and NOAA fired more than 600 probationary employees at the National Weather Service, including hurricane hunters, meteorologists, and storm modelers.
  • By May 2025, 30 of the NWS's 122 forecast offices lacked a lead meteorologist. Goodland, Kansas — normally staffed with 13 meteorologists — was down to 5 and became the first NWS office to stop 24/7 operations.
  • At least 8 NWS offices reduced hours or planned to, leaving gaps in overnight severe weather monitoring during the peak tornado and thunderstorm season.
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DOGE Fires 350 Nuclear Weapons Workers at NNSA, Including Pantex Warhead Assemblers

DOGE fired 350 NNSA nuclear weapons workers, including warhead assemblers at Pantex and radioactive waste managers at Savannah River, as part of a 2,000-person Department of Energy purge. Most firings were rescinded within 24 hours after bipartisan alarm over nuclear stockpile security, but the incident exposed DOGE's indiscriminate approach to agencies with critical national security functions.

  • On February 13, 2025, approximately 350 NNSA employees were abruptly terminated as part of a DOGE purge across the Department of Energy targeting roughly 2,000 workers. Some lost email access before being notified of their termination.
  • The Pantex Plant near Amarillo, Texas — where nuclear warheads are assembled and disassembled — absorbed about 30% of the cuts. Fired workers included those with the highest security clearances working on the most sensitive nuclear weapons tasks.
  • A key biochemist and an engineer responsible for enforcing safety and environmental standards at Pantex were among those fired, directly threatening the safety protocols for nuclear warhead handling.
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Updated March 27, 2026 Federal Dismantlement
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DOGE Shuts Down Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: 'CFPB RIP'

DOGE operationally shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a Congressionally-created agency protecting 330 million Americans from financial fraud — by ordering staff to cease all work, deleting social media accounts, and planning to fire nearly all 1,700 employees. Federal courts intervened but the agency remains gutted.

  • On February 8, 2025, CFPB Acting Director Russell Vought ordered all staff and contractors to 'not perform any work tasks,' effectively shutting down the agency. Elon Musk tweeted 'CFPB RIP.'
  • DOGE deleted the CFPB's X (Twitter) account and gained administrative access to the agency's internal computer systems, content management system, and personnel directory.
  • CNBC reported on February 28 that DOGE and CFPB leadership planned to fire nearly all 1,700 employees in three phases and permanently wind down the agency.
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Updated March 26, 2026 Federal Dismantlement
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HHS Dismantlement Under RFK Jr. Fuels Worst Measles Outbreak in 30 Years

RFK Jr.'s dismantlement of federal health agencies during an active measles crisis — including firing vaccine advisors, cutting thousands of positions, and clawing back billions — has resulted in the worst measles outbreak in 30+ years and threatens America's measles-elimination status.

  • RFK Jr. ordered approximately 10,000 HHS layoffs in March 2025, on top of 10,000 voluntary departures, shrinking the workforce by roughly 25% to 62,000 employees. This included over 1,000 CDC employees in a single 'Friday night massacre.'
  • Over $12 billion in COVID-era public health infrastructure grants were clawed back — funding that had been supporting measles surveillance, vaccination programs, and general public health capacity beyond pandemic needs.
  • RFK Jr. fired the entire 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the CDC's expert vaccine panel, in an unprecedented move. He also asked the CDC for new measles treatment guidance based on his unfounded claims about vaccines.
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USAGM and Voice of America Broadcasting Dismantlement

A coordinated attack on US government-funded international broadcasting placed 1,300 journalists on leave, terminated Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's grant, and attempted to gut Voice of America — until a federal judge ruled the actions illegal and ordered staff reinstated.

  • On March 15, 2025 — 'Bloody Saturday' — approximately 1,300 journalists, producers, and support staff at VOA, RFE/RL, and Radio Free Asia were placed on administrative leave by Kari Lake.
  • RFE/RL's federal grant agreement was terminated on March 15, 2025, threatening to end operations that broadcast to audiences in countries including Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
  • A federal judge ruled Kari Lake had illegally served as Acting CEO of USAGM and voided the mass layoffs, ordering hundreds of employees reinstated.
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DOGE Employees Matched Social Security Data with Voter Rolls to Pursue Voter Fraud Claims

DOGE employees at SSA secretly worked with a political advocacy group to match Social Security data with voter rolls to find 'evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results.' A signed data-sharing agreement and Hatch Act referrals followed. A whistleblower alleged DOGE copied 300+ million Americans' records into an unsecured virtual database.

  • In March 2025, a political advocacy group — believed to be True the Vote — contacted DOGE employees at SSA with a request to analyze state voter rolls, with the stated aim of finding 'evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States.'
  • One DOGE team member signed a 'Voter Data Agreement' with the advocacy group on March 24, 2025, in his capacity as an SSA employee, without authorization from SSA leadership.
  • Beginning March 7, 2025, DOGE team members used Cloudflare — a third-party server not approved for SSA data — to share data outside SSA's security protocols.
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Education Department Dismantlement: $881M in Contracts Slashed, IES Eliminated, 50% Workforce Cut

The systematic dismantlement of the Department of Education began with DOGE slashing $881 million in research contracts and eliminating IES, followed by cutting half the workforce, and culminated in an executive order to shutter the entire department.

  • On February 10, 2025, DOGE announced termination of 89 Education Department contracts totaling $881 million. The vast majority targeted the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the department's research arm.
  • IES was effectively eliminated — over 100 employees terminated, including research analysts specializing in K-12 studies, adult education, and career education. IES maintained the nation's largest database of education statistics.
  • In March 2025, the Department cut nearly 50% of its 4,100+ employees — approximately 1,700 positions — including staff in civil rights enforcement, student loan servicing, and special education oversight.
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CFPB Dismantlement While Musk Launches Competing XMoney Payment Service

Musk used his government role leading DOGE to dismantle the CFPB, the agency positioned to regulate his XMoney digital payments platform, while gaining access to competitors' confidential financial data — a textbook conflict of interest that multiple ethics bodies have flagged as potentially criminal.

  • DOGE shut down the CFPB on February 8, 2025, ordering all staff to stop work. The CFPB was the primary regulator that would have overseen Musk's planned XMoney payment platform.
  • X (formerly Twitter) announced XMoney, a peer-to-peer digital payments service with Visa debit card integration, which entered beta in March 2026 and is set for public launch in April 2026.
  • DOGE operatives gained access to all non-classified CFPB databases, including confidential data about competitors' unreleased products, trade secrets, and pending licenses.
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FDA Food Safety Collapse: 3,500+ Staff Cut and Outbreak Investigation Capacity Gutted

Mass layoffs at the FDA driven by the Department of Government Efficiency eliminated over 3,500 staff in 2025, causing foreign food safety inspections to drop by nearly half, outbreak investigations to go unsolved at record rates, and critical programs like avian influenza testing to be halted.

  • The FDA lost 3,859 employees in 2025 and 473 more in early 2026, driven by DOGE-mandated layoffs that included 70 outbreak investigators and the entire Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) editorial team.
  • Foreign food safety inspections fell by nearly half in March 2025 and remained approximately 30% lower through July compared to previous years.
  • The percentage of outbreak investigations that closed without identifying a food source nearly doubled — from 21% in 2024 to 41% in 2025.
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DOGE Unauthorized Access to Treasury, OPM, and Social Security Databases

DOGE accessed Treasury, OPM, and SSA databases containing millions of Americans' personal data without authorization or completed background checks. Federal judges ordered data disgorged and deleted, finding Privacy Act and APA violations, though the Supreme Court later partially reversed.

  • DOGE staff were granted access to Treasury's central payment system (handling trillions in tax refunds, Social Security benefits, and veterans' benefits), OPM personnel databases, and SSA systems containing Americans' most sensitive personal data.
  • A federal judge found DOGE staffers were given access before background checks were completed or inter-agency detail agreements were finalized, violating the Privacy Act and Administrative Procedure Act.
  • A court ordered DOGE to disgorge and delete all non-anonymized personal information obtained from SSA systems — the first 'disgorge' order of its kind against a federal entity.
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DOGE-Directed Mass Firings and Forced Resignations of Federal Workers

DOGE directed mass firings of probationary employees, coerced ~75,000 resignations through the 'Fork in the Road' program, and orchestrated reductions in force totaling ~300,000 federal positions. Courts found the probationary firings illegal, but the Supreme Court sided with the administration on appeal.

  • On January 28, 2025, OPM sent the 'Fork in the Road' email — modeled on Elon Musk's Twitter layoffs — offering federal employees paid leave through September 30 if they resigned by February 6. Approximately 75,000 accepted under pressure.
  • On February 14 ('Valentine's Day Massacre'), DOGE directed agencies to fire nearly 25,000 probationary employees, many falsely labeled as poor performers, across the VA, DOE, EPA, Interior, and other agencies.
  • Federal Judge William Alsup ordered reinstatement of thousands of fired workers, calling the OPM directive a 'sham.' The Supreme Court reversed on April 8, siding with the administration.
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DOGE Associates Gained Access to $6 Trillion Treasury Payment System

DOGE associates including Tom Krause (Broadcom executive) and Marko Elez (25-year-old with racist posts) accessed Treasury's $6 trillion payment system. Elez was mistakenly given write access to payment records. 19 AGs sued. A federal judge blocked access, calling it 'chaotic and haphazard,' but the 4th Circuit later reversed.

  • DOGE associates were granted access to the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which processes over $6 trillion in annual payments including tax refunds, Social Security benefits, veterans' benefits, and federal salaries.
  • Tom Krause, former Broadcom CFO and current CEO of Cloud Service Group, was made an unpaid 'senior advisor for technology and modernization' at Treasury. Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer, began working as a Treasury employee on January 21.
  • Elez was mistakenly given 'write' access — data-editing privileges — to a sensitive Treasury payments database. The error was discovered and revoked after one day, but it demonstrated the chaotic nature of access controls.
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DOGE-Directed Elimination of Federal DEI Programs and Mass Firings of DEI Workers

Executive Order 14151 directed elimination of all federal DEI programs. DOGE implemented a three-phase purge, firing thousands of workers — including many who had no current DEI role — using AI tools to identify targets. A December 2025 class-action lawsuit alleges the purge targeted minorities, women, and LGBTQ+ employees.

  • Executive Order 14151, signed January 20, 2025, directed agencies to terminate all DEI offices, positions, equity action plans, DEI-related grants and contracts, and DEI performance requirements within 60 days.
  • OPM gave agencies until noon on January 23 — just three days — to report all DEIA offices, employees, and contractors, and to develop written plans for reduction-in-force actions.
  • DOGE implemented a three-phase playbook: Phase 1 (Day 1) rescinded all DEI executive orders and dissolved offices; Phase 2 placed employees on leave and compiled termination lists; Phase 3 executed the firings.
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Musk's $38 Billion Government Contract Empire Untouched While Leading DOGE Cuts

The world's richest man led government cost-cutting while his companies held $38 billion in government funding. Zero Musk contracts were cut. SpaceX won new billions in Pentagon contracts during the cuts. No ethics forms were filed.

  • Musk's companies have received at least $38 billion in cumulative government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits. In 2024 alone, Musk's companies received $6.3 billion in federal and local contracts — more than any previous year.
  • SpaceX holds nearly $8 billion in Pentagon contracts and received approximately $5.9 billion in new National Security Space Launch contracts in 2025, even as DOGE slashed contracts for countless other vendors.
  • Under Musk's DOGE leadership, no contracts for any Musk-owned company were terminated, while contracts for emissions reduction programs, equity-focused research, and other government vendors were cut.
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OSHA Workplace Safety Dismantlement: 60+ Rules Rolled Back and 223 Inspectors Eliminated

A systematic dismantlement of OSHA's regulatory and enforcement capacity through mass deregulation, inspector cuts, and penalty reductions that experts warn will lead to preventable worker deaths across construction, manufacturing, and agricultural sectors.

  • OSHA proposed eliminating or revising over 60 workplace safety regulations on July 1, 2025, targeting respiratory protection, construction illumination standards, asbestos exposure rules, and the General Duty Clause.
  • The FY2026 budget proposes cutting OSHA funding from $632.3 million to $582.4 million and eliminating 223 inspector positions, reducing the agency's already strained enforcement capacity.
  • Penalty reductions expanded: businesses with up to 25 employees now qualify for 70% penalty reductions, previously limited to those with 10 or fewer employees.
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