DOGE

DOGE stands for “Department of Government Efficiency.” Like the Holy Roman Empire, it is neither a Department, nor about Government, nor Efficient. It sets a cancerous precedent for the separation of powers. Naturally, the Democrats have failed to oppose it in any meaningful way.

This table lists all the reports that contain this term: DOGE.

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DOGE layoffs may have compromised the accuracy of government data CNN Bureau of Labor Statistics, CNN, Data Exfiltration, DOGE, economic indicator, Gregory Daco, imputation, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Social Security, Consumer Price Index, Executive Branch, Alicia Wallace, EY-Parthenon DOGE
The US Institute of Peace Digs Out of Under DOGE’s Weed Stash and Tries to Rebuild Talking Points Memo DOGE, Institute of Peace, Lawbreaking, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Talking Points Memo DOGE
National Weather Service rehiring for positions gutted by DOGE cuts The National News Desk DOGE, Incompetent, mass firings, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, News and Analysis (Mainstream), The National News Desk, Federal Government, Jackson Walker DOGE
The Tech Fascist Axis Venture Capital Status Argentina, Brian Armstrong, DOGE, Elon Musk, Extra-Constitutional, garbage collection, Javiar Milei, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley, Venture Capital Status, Coinbase DOGE
The DOGE payoff – April update The Paul Story DOGE, Elon Musk, federal spending, Government Accountability Office, Inspectors General, Mendacious, News and Analysis (Other), The Paul Story, waste, fraud, and abuse, Paul Guth DOGE
Russell Vought: DOGE will ‘be far more institutionalized’ at agencies FedScoop DOGE, DOGE Metastasis, Executive Office of the President, FedScoop, House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought*, Steve Davis, Matt Bracken DOGE
Marijuana, roaches, graffiti & chaos: Inside Elon Musk’s DOGE takeover of USIP amid new claims about his drug use | Today News Live Mint Daniel Knowles, DOGE, DOGE Legacy, Institute of Peace, Live Mint, marijuana, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Ravi Hari DOGE
Written Expert Testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Venue) artificial intelligence, audit, compartmentalization, data consolidation, Data Exfiltration, DOGE, honeypot, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Venue), Legislative Document, Bruce Schneier, Oracle, Palantir DOGE
IRS Makes Direct File Software Open Source After Trump Tried to Kill It Gizmodo 18F, DOGE, Gizmodo, Incompetent, Internal Revenue Service, News and Analysis (Mainstream), AJ Dellinger, Direct File, Federal Government, TurboTax, Source code Harmonization And Reuse in Information Technology Act, Intuit DOGE
How DOGE's push to amass data could hurt the reliability of future U.S. statistics National Public Radio Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of the Census, Data Exfiltration, DOGE, Elon Musk, fear, Katharine Abraham, Nancy Bates, National Public Radio, News and Analysis (Mainstream), privacy, trust, University of Maryland, Executive Branch, Hansi Lo Wang DOGE
Steve Bannon Says Elon Musk's DOGE Cuts Went From $2 Trillion To $150 BilSteve Bannon Says Elon Musk's DOGE Cuts Went From $2 Trillion To $150 Billion And Now Nothing—'None Of This Makes Sense' Benzinga Benzinga, DOGE, Elon Musk, Mendacious, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Steve Bannon, Adrian Volenik, Executive Branch DOGE
Jobs for black lung screening are back, but questions remain over full capacity MetroNews Black Lung, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, coal, Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program, DOGE, Harry Wiley, Lawbreaking, MetroNews, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Sam Petsonk, Brad McElhinny DOGE
Did DOGE Staffers Leave Weed in the U.S. Institute of Peace? Rolling Stone Arrogant, DOGE, Elon Musk, General Services Administration, Institute of Peace, ketamine, mass firings, Nate Cavanaugh, News and Analysis (Mainstream), recreational drug use, Rolling Stone, weed, Nikki McCann Ramirez DOGE
Palantir: Peter Thiel’s Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil, Track Immigrants Democracy Now Amy Goodman, Customs and Immigration Services, Data Exfiltration, Democracy Now, Department of Homeland Security, DOGE, federated data, Internal Revenue Service, Makena Kelly, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Social Security Administration, Foundry, Amy Goodman, Palantir, Makena Kelly DOGE
NIOSH head: Workers back at black lung program, efforts continue to restore services cut by DOGE West Virginia Watch Black Lung, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, coal, Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program, DOGE, Harry Wiley, Irene Berger, John Howard, Lawbreaking, mass firings, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Reduction in Force, Respiratory Health Division, silica, West Virginia Watch, United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Caity Coyne DOGE
DOGE took over the US Institute of Peace. Now, the inside looks like a zombie movie, security chief reveals Independent Colin O’Brien, DOGE, DOGE Legacy, Independent, Institute of Peace, Legionnaires’ disease, McCarthyism, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Justin Rohrlich DOGE
In wake of deep cuts, NOAA says it will hire for 'mission-critical' weather service positions Associated Press Associated Press, DOGE, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Sabotage, Executive Branch, Alexa St. John, Matthew Daly DOGE
Even Trump started to doubt Musk and DOGE’s promise to cut $1 trillion, report claims: ‘Was it bulls***?’ Independent DOGE, DOGE Metastasis, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Independent, News and Analysis (Mainstream), waste, fraud, and abuse, Erin Keller DOGE
What is Doge and why has Musk left? BBC BBC, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Incompetent, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Executive Branch, Jennifer Clarke DOGE
Elon Musk counts the cost of his ‘government efficiency’ blitz Financial Times Corrupt, David Sacks, DOGE, Donald Trump, Financial Times, Howard Lutnick, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Sahil Lavingia, Alex Rogers, Neuralink, SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, X (Firm), Joe Miller DOGE
Elon Musk ‘not really leaving’ the US government, says Donald Trump Financial Times DOGE, DOGE Metastasis, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Financial Times, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Joe Miller DOGE
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans New York Times Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, DOGE, DOGE Metastasis, New York Times, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Personally Identifiable Information, Peter Thiel, Aaron Krolik, Foundry, Palantir, Sheera Frenkel DOGE
Elon Musk is leaving the federal government. What's next for DOGE? National Public Radio Data Exfiltration, DOGE, Elon Musk, National Public Radio, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Executive Branch, Stephen Fowler DOGE
For DOGE, it was all in the name Government Executive DOGE, DOGE Legacy, Elon Musk, Government Executive, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Tom Shoop DOGE
Musk bids goodbye to Washington — for now Politico DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Miscreants, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Oligarch, Politico, Executive Branch, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Irie Sentner DOGE
OPM ‘merit’ hiring plan includes bipartisan reforms, politicized new test Government Executive Charles Ezell, DOGE, Government Executive, Ignorant, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Office of Personnel Management, Vince Haley, Executive Branch, Erich Wagner DOGE
WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge Wired Anthony Armstrong, Antonio Gracias, Baris Akis, DOGE, DOGE metastasis, Lawbreaking, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Sahil Lavingia, Signal, Steve Davis, Vittoria Elliott, Wired, Signal, Human Capital, The Boring Company, X (Firm) DOGE
Musk Exits DOGE Leaving Threadbare Agencies and Strained Workers Bloomberg Al Dunlap, Bloomberg, chainsaw, Columbia Business School, DOGE, DOGE metastasis, Elon Musk, Firefighter Health Program, Jack Welch, mass firings, Micah Niemeier-Walsh, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Rita McGrath, Sabotage, Ted Mann, General Electric, Sunbeam DOGE
Elon Musk says his time as a government employee is coming to an end and thanks Trump Business Insider Business Insider, DOGE, DOGE Metastasis, Elon Musk, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Special Government Employee, Kelsey Vlamis DOGE
Attacks on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Threaten Workers and Families NRDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, DOGE, Irene Berger, mass firings, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, Reduction in Force, Robert Kennedy Junior*, Sabotage, social murder, Think Tank Report, Jennifer Sass DOGE
DOGE Days Sahil Lavingia Department of Veterans Affairs, DOGE, News and Analysis (Other), Sahil Lavingia, Sahil Lavingia, True Confessions, Founder, Executive Branch, Sahil Lavingia DOGE
Pension fund investors demand Elon Musk work 40-hour week at Tesla Financial Times asset management, DOGE, Elon Musk, Financial Times, institutional investors, Meretricious, New York City Comptroller, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Robyn Denholm, shareholder activism, Strategic Organizing Center, American Federation of Teachers, AkademikerPension, Tesla, Kana Inagaki, Stephen Morris, Sujeet Indap DOGE
DOGE Interference in Federal Grantmaking Adds Burden, Uncertainty, and Risk Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (Venue) Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (Venue), DOGE, grants, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Power Grab, “Defend the Spend”, Executive Branch, Grants.gov, Payment Management Services, Cristin Dorgelo, Jacob Leibenluft DOGE
The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE New York Times Adam Ramada, Akash Bobba, Alexander Simonpour, Alexandra Beynon, Amanda Scales, Amy Gleason, Anthony Armstrong, Antonio Gracias, Aram Moghaddassi, Austin Raynor, Baris Akis, Brad Smith, Brian Bjelde, Brooks Morgan, Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski, Cary Volpert, Chris Young, Christina Hanna, Christopher Roussos, Christopher Stanley, Clayton Cromer, Conor Fennessy, DOGE, Donald Park, Edward Coristine*, Elon Musk, Ethan Shaotran, Extra-Constitutional, Frank Bisignano, Frank Schuler, Gautier Killian*, Gavin Kliger*, Greg Hogan, Jacob Altik*, James Burnham, Jennifer Balajadia*, Jeremy Lewin, Joanna Wischer*, Jon Koval, Jordan Wick*, Joseph Gebbia*, Joshua Hanley*, Justin Aimonetti, Justin Fulcher, Justin Monroe*, Katie Miller, Katrine Trampe, Keenan Kmiec, Kendall Lindemann, Kyle Schutt, Leland Dudek*, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez, Michael Cole, Michael Grimes, Michael Mirski*, Michael Russo, Nate Cavanaugh, New York Times, Nicole Hollander, Nikhil Rajpal*, Noah Peters*, Payton Rehling, Rachel Riley, Riccardo Biasini, Round-Up, Russell Vought*, Ryan Riedel, Ryan Wunderly, Sahil Lavingia, Sam Corcos, Scott Coulter, Scott Kupor, Scott Langmack, Stephanie Holmes, Stephen Duarte*, Stephen Ehikian, Steve Davis, Tarak Makecha, Theodore Schleife, Thomas Krause*, Thomas Shedd, Todd Newnam, Tyler Hassen, Adam Liptak, Alan Rappeport, Executive Branch, Independent Agencies, Andrew Duehren, Brad Plumer, Chris Flavelle, Coral Davenport, Eli Murray, Eric Toler, Jon Huang, Kate Conger, Lazaro Gamio, Lisa Friedman, Madeleine Ngo, Nicholas Nehamas, Ryan Mac, Sarah Cahalan, Seamus Hughes, Zach Montague DOGE
UChicago Undergrad, Four Alums Hold Senior Positions at DOGE Chicago Maroon Antonio Gracias, Chicago Maroon, Christopher Sweet, DOGE, Donald Park, James Burnham, Joshua Fox*, Miscreants, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Social Security Administration, The University of Chicago, Lawyer, Software Engineer, Alston & Bird, Venture Capital/Private Equity (Investor), Executive Branch, Austin Ventures, Blackstone Group, Credit Suisse First Boston, East Edge Securities, Ionic Partners, Primus Capital Partners, Vista Equity Partners, Zachary Leiter DOGE
Here's what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department Associated Press Associated Press, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Data Exfiltration, Department of the Interior, DOGE, Doug Burgum, Elon Musk, Fish and Wildlife Service, Geological Survey, Jacob Malcom, John Fitzgibbons, Martin Heinrich, mass firings, National Park Service, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Tim Whitehouse, Tony Irish, Tyler Hassen, Basin Holdings, Martha Bellisle DOGE
Back at SpaceX, Musk says in interview DOGE became D.C.’s ‘whipping boy’ Washington Post Arrogant, DOGE, Elon Musk, Mars, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Starbase, TX, Washington Post, Christian Davenport, SpaceX DOGE
Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns Reuters Albert Cahn, artificial intelligence, Data Exfiltration, Department of Homeland Security, DOGE, Edward Coristine*, Kyle Schutt, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Reuters, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, Grok, Alexandra Ulmer, Marisa Taylor DOGE
Watchdog urges court to deny DOGE request to pause order for information in FOIA suit SCOTUSblog Christopher Cooper, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, DOGE, John Sauer, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Power Grab, SCOTUSblog, U.S. Doge Service v. Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, United States DOGE Service, waste, fraud, and abuse, Amy Howe DOGE
Elon Musk’s Fake Retreat From DOGE The American Prospect Antonio Gracias, Corrupt, DOGE, Elon Musk, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Oligarch, Revolving Door Project, The American Prospect, Will Royce, Federal Government, SpaceX DOGE
DECLARATION OF GEORGE E. MOOSE IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS’ OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ STAY MOTION United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Venue) DOGE, Miscreants, News and Analysis (Mainstream), United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Venue), United States Institute of Peace v. Kenneth Jackson, vermin, United States District Court for the District of Columbia DOGE
A court resurrects the United States Institute of Peace The Economist Beryl Howell, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, George Foote, George Moose, Institute of Peace, News and Analysis (Mainstream), The Economist, unitary executive DOGE
SECOND DECLARATION OF DAVID NESTING IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION United States District Court Southern District of New York (Venue) access, American Federation of Government Employees v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Court Document, Data Exfiltration, David Nesting, DOGE, Office of Personnel Management, Principle of Least Privilege, United States District Court Southern District of New York (Venue), The Privacy Act of 1974 DOGE
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to keep DOGE records secret Politico Amy Gleason, Christopher Cooper, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, John Sauer, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Politico, Social Security Administration, Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, Freedom of Information Act, Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney DOGE
DOGE efforts face pushback at Social Security Axios Axios, DOGE, Frank Bisignano, Jacob Leibenluft, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Sabotage, Social Security Administration, Executive Branch, Emily Peck DOGE
Trump asks high court to pause another suit against DOGE SCOTUSblog Amy Gleason, Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, John Sauer, News and Analysis (Other), SCOTUSblog, U.S. Doge Service v. Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, waste, fraud, and abuse, Freedom of Information Act, Amy Howe DOGE
Elon Musk on DOGE X (Venue) DOGE, DOGE, Elon Musk, Extra-Constitutional, Social Media, X (Venue), Federal Government, DogeDesigner DOGE
Government contractors are lining up to work with DOGE Axios artificial intelligence, Axios, DOGE, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Panopticon, Executive Branch, Independent Agencies, Sam Sabin DOGE
DOGE has tried to embed beyond the executive branch. Some targets have pushed back National Public Radio DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, Jack Stein, Jonathan Mendelson, Justin Aimonetti, Justin Fox, Marshall Wood, Nate Cavanaugh, National Public Radio, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Executive Branch, Independent Agencies, NGOs, Shannon Bond, Stephen Fowler DOGE
DOGE’s ‘brute force’ takeover of Institute of Peace was illegal and should be ‘null and void,’ judge says Independent Beryl Howell, DOGE, Independent, Lawbreaking, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Alex Woodward DOGE