Day 2

January 21, 2025

7 documented events

  1. Serious Rights Violation Corruption & Self-Dealing

    Treasury official Lebryk denied access, overruled, and resigns

    Treasury official David Lebryk denies DOGE access to sensitive payment systems. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent overrules the decision, and Lebryk resigns rather than comply with the directive to grant access.

    From: DOGE Unauthorized Access to Treasury, OPM, and Social Security Databases

  2. Serious Rights Violation Deportation & Immigration

    Reimposition of 'Remain in Mexico' Migrant Protection Protocols

    The Trump administration reinstated the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), known as 'Remain in Mexico,' on January 21, 2025, forcing asylum seekers to wait in dangerous Mexican border cities while their cases are processed. Doctors Without Borders has documented extreme rates of kidnapping, sexual violence, and extortion targeting those waiting under the policy.

    From: Reimposition of 'Remain in Mexico' Migrant Protection Protocols

  3. Serious Rights Violation Deportation & Immigration

    Haitian families stranded in Tijuana

    Reports emerge of Haitian families who traveled to Tijuana specifically for CBP One appointments now stranded in limbo, with no alternative pathway and no means to return to their countries of origin.

    From: CBP One App Shutdown: 30,000 Asylum Appointments Cancelled, 270,000 Stranded

  4. Major Abuse of Power Civil Rights

    OPM issues 72-hour compliance directive

    OPM directs all agencies to report lists of DEIA offices, employees, and contractors by noon on January 23. Agencies must develop written plans for reduction-in-force actions targeting DEI employees. Federal DEI workers across government are immediately placed on administrative leave.

    From: DOGE-Directed Elimination of Federal DEI Programs and Mass Firings of DEI Workers

  5. Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern Corruption & Self-Dealing

    Marko Elez begins work at Treasury

    Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer, begins working as a Treasury employee with access to payment systems. He is later discovered to have been mistakenly granted 'write' access to a sensitive payments database — the ability to alter payment records in a system handling $6 trillion annually.

    From: DOGE Associates Gained Access to $6 Trillion Treasury Payment System

  6. Serious Rights Violation Rule of Law

    Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders released from prison

    Stewart Rhodes is released from federal prison in Cumberland, Maryland shortly after midnight, and Enrique Tarrio is released from prison later that day. Both had been serving sentences of 18 and 22 years respectively for seditious conspiracy.

    From: Blanket Clemency for January 6 Defendants, Including Violent Offenders

  7. Serious Rights Violation Rule of Law

    DOJ begins dismissing pending January 6 cases

    The Department of Justice moves to dismiss all pending January 6 cases in accordance with the clemency proclamation, ending prosecutions of defendants whose cases had not yet gone to trial.

    From: Blanket Clemency for January 6 Defendants, Including Violent Offenders