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 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
Federal judge rules Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle US Institute of Peace are ‘unlawful’ Politico Pro DOGE, Institute of Peace, Kenneth Jackson, Lawbreaking, Marco Rubio, National Defense University, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Pete Hegseth, Peter Garvin, Politico Pro, Ben Johansen DOGE
Federal judge overturns Trump’s efforts to take over and cripple US Institute of Peace CNN Beryl Howell, CNN, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, fear, Institute of Peace, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Legislative Branch, Devan Cole, Jennifer Hansler DOGE
UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE v. KENNETH JACKSON United States District Court, District of Columbia (Venue) Beryl Howell, Court Document, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, Institute of Peace, Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, unitary executive, United States District Court, District of Columbia (Venue), United States District Court for the District of Columbia DOGE
Judge deems DOGE takeover of US Institute of Peace ‘null and void’ The Hill Beryl Howell, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, Institute of Peace, News and Analysis (Mainstream), The Hill, Ella Lee DOGE
NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION, ET AL., APPELLEES v. RUSSELL T. VOUGHT, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU AND CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU, APPELLANTS United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Venue) Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Court Document, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Venue), Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, Unions DOGE
DOGE Attempts Takeover of GAO Talking Points Memo access, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, Government Accountability Office, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall DOGE
Russ Vought: key Project 2025 figure set to continue Trump cuts after Musk exit Guardian DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, Guardian, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Office of Management and Budget, Project 2025, Russell Vought*, Rachel Leingang DOGE
DOGE went looking for phone fraud at SSA — and found almost none NextGov Aram Moghaddassi, DOGE, Elon Musk, Mendacious, News and Analysis (Mainstream), NextGov, Social Security Administration, Executive Branch, Natalie Alms DOGE
There’s Apparently Some Serious Drama Brewing Between Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s MAGA Futurism Copyright Office, DOGE, Futurism, MAGA, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Power Grab, Shira Perlmutter, Noor Al-Sibai DOGE
National Labor Relations Board watchdog investigating DOGE, potential data breach FedScoop Data Exfiltration, DOGE, FedScoop, National Labor Relations Board, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Executive Branch, Rebecca Heilweil DOGE
Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired The Verge artificial intelligence, Brian Nieves, Carla Hayden, Copyright Office, Democratic Party, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, Jim Jordan, Joe Morelle, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Paul Perkins, Ron Wyden, Shira Perlmutter, The Verge, Tina Nguyen, Todd Blanche, training models, unitary executive DOGE
Musk Adviser May Make as Much as $1 Million a Year While Helping to Dismantle Agency That Regulates Tesla and X ProPublica 5 CFR 2635.502, Christopher Young*, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Corrupt, DOGE, News and Analysis (Mainstream), ProPublica, Executive Branch, Europa 100, Jake Pearson DOGE
What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved? Financial Times bond market, Cato Institute, DOGE, DOGE Legacy, Dominik Lett, Elon Musk, entitlements, Financial Times, Katherine Boyle, Medicaid, Medicare, National Nuclear Security Administration, News and Analysis (Mainstream), probation, regulations, Social Security number, The White House (Executive Branch), Andreessen Horowitz, Chris Cook, Joe Miller DOGE
Dozens of Pittsburgh-area federal workers at Bruceton Research Center to keep jobs Trib Chris Deluzio, DOGE, Elon Musk, News and Analysis (Mainstream), respirator, Sabotage, Tom Davidson, Trib DOGE
Undermined: A small federal agency was investigating dangers to miners. Then came DOGE Investigate West Anne Foreman, Annie Lewis, DOGE, Investigate West, Marshal Cummings, Multnomah County Library, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Sabotage, silica, trona, Genesis Alkali, Daniel Walters DOGE
What’s Going on at the IRS? Lawfare access, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, Data Exfiltration, DOGE, Ellis Chen, hackathon, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, impeachment, Internal Revenue Code, Internal Revenue Service, Lawfare, mass firings, Mega-API, Melanie Krause, National Labor Relations Board, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Personally Identifiable Information, political appointees, Project 2025, read and write access, resignations, Richard Nixon, Schedule F, Social Security Administration, tax morale, U.S. Code: Title 26 — INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, Vanessa Williamson, Integrated Data Retrieval System, Master Death File DOGE
Unions, advocacy group tell justices not to let DOGE access Social Security records SCOTUSblog access, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, John Sauer, News and Analysis (Mainstream), SCOTUSblog, Social Security Administration, Social Security Administration v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Amy Howe DOGE
Trump Installs Top Justice Dept. Official at Library of Congress, Prompting a Standoff New York Times Brian Nieves, Copyright Office, Department of Justice, DOGE, Library of Congress, Meg Williams, New York Times, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Paul Perkins, Power Grab, Robert Newlen, Todd Blanche, Devlin Barrett, Maya C. Miller DOGE
Exposing DOGE's Dark Dealings House Committee on Oversight and Accountability corruption, Democrat Party, DOGE, Gerald Connolly, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Legislative Document, Meretricious, Democrat, Legislative Branch DOGE
Two Men Claiming to Be Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office Wired Brian Nieves, Capitol Police, Copyright Office, DOGE, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Paul Perkins, Sabotage, Shira Perlmutter, Wired, Kate Knibbs DOGE
Two Trump appointees escorted out of Library of Congress amid White House takeover, report says Independent Brian Nieves, Data Exfiltration, Department of Justice, DOGE, Independent, Joe Morelle, library, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Office of Inspector General, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Paul Perkins, Shira Perlmutter, Todd Blanche, John Bowden DOGE
Letter from Joseph D. Morelle and Rosa L. DeLauro, Committee on Appropriations House Appropriations Committee (Venue) access, Congressional Research Service, Data Exfiltration, DOGE, House Appropriations Committee (Venue), Joe Morelle, Kimberly Benoit, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Office of Inspector General, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Rosa DeLauro DOGE
With their staffs cut to as low as 1 person, agencies push back on DOGE Christian Science Monitor Amy Berman Jackson, Christian Science Monitor, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, DOGE, Inter-American Foundation, Lawbreaking, Loren AliKhan, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Sara Aviel, unitary executive, National Treasury Employees Union, Henry Gass DOGE
Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library Rolling Stone access, artificial intelligence, Carla Hayden, Copyright Office, Data Exfiltration, DOGE, Library of Congress, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Robert Newlen, Rolling Stone, Shira Perlmutter, Andrew Perez, Asawin Suebsaeng, Nikki McCann Ramirez DOGE
Trump’s Budget Hawk Takes Over the DOGE Agenda. First Up: The Military. Wall Street Journal DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Office of Management and Budget, Power Grab, Russell Vought*, Steny Hoyer, Wall Street Journal, Ken Thomas, Lindsay Wise, Scott Patterson DOGE
The DOGE Timeline DOGE Track DOGE, DOGE Track, Miscreants, Tracker, Executive Branch, Jacob Harris DOGE
DOGE Is Bringing Back a Deadly Disease The Atlantic Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program, Department of Labor, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, DOGE, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mine Safety and Health Administration, N95, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Occupational Safety and Health Administration, respirator, Sabotage, silica, social murder, The Atlantic, Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, David Michaels, Gregory Wagner DOGE
How Elon Musk built a button to shut off the government The.Ink administrative state, DOGE, Elon Musk, Extra-Constitutional, libertarianism, Nathan Tankus, National Automated Clearing House Association, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Oligarch, payment system, Signal, Silicon Valley, The.Ink, Automated Clearing House DOGE
The Actual Math Behind DOGE’s Cuts The Atlantic Department of the Treasury, DOGE, Mendacious, News and Analysis (Mainstream), The Atlantic, Wall of Receipts, Executive Branch, Jessica Riedl DOGE
DOGE staffer TELLS ALL: WTF was going on? David Pakman Show David Pakman Show, DOGE, Merici Vinton, neoliberal playbook, Thuggish, United States Digital Service, Video (Long Form), Direct File, Executive Branch, David Pakman DOGE
Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA Fast Company DOGE, Fast Company, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Sahil Lavingia, True Confessions, Founder, Firms, Executive Branch, Gumroad, Ernie Smith DOGE
Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Initiative for a Modernized, Efficient, and Expedient Retirement Process Office of Personnel Management (Venue) Charles Ezell, DOGE, Executive Document, Meretricious, Office of Personnel Management (Venue), retirement, EO 14222 DOGE
Exclusive: DOGE member identified as jiu-jitsu blackbelt Sports Politika Brazilian jiu-jitsu, DOGE, Donald Park, martial arts, Miscreants, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Royler Gracie, Sports Politika, Venture Capital/Private Equity (Investor) DOGE
DOGE aims to pool federal data, putting personal information at risk Washington Post Albert Cahn, DOGE, Leland Dudek*, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Panopticon, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, Washington Post, Executive Branch, Hannah Natanson, Joseph Menn, Lisa Rein, Rachel Siegel DOGE
A ‘Trump Card Visa’ Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms Wired Citizenship and Immigration Services, Customs and Border Protection, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of State, DOGE, DOGE Legacy, Edward Coristine*, Electronic Immigration System, Global Entry, Howard Lutnick, Marko Elez, National Foundation for American Policy, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Stuart Anderson, Wired, Louise Matsakis, Zoë Schiffer DOGE
Trump is enabling Musk and DOGE to flout conflicts of interest Economic Policy Institute (Venue) "Golden Dome", access, conflict of interest, contracting, Corrupt, data broker, DOGE, Donald Trump, Economic Policy Institute (Venue), Elon Musk, identity theft, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Request for Information, Request for Proposals, Social Security number, Special Government Employee, National Directory of New Hires, Ben Zipperer, Ford, Cassandra Robertson, Celine McNicholas, SpaceX, Tesla, Verizon StarLink, xAI, Patrick Oakford DOGE
Philadelphia tutoring program focused on student literacy cut by DOGE Chalkbeat AmeriCorps, Anna Shurak, Chalkbeat, DOGE, News and Analysis (Other), Philadelphia, PA, Sabotage, Teach for America, NGOs, Carly Sitrin DOGE
The DOGE Payoff The Paul Story Congressional Budget Office, DOGE, federal deficit, Mendacious, News and Analysis (Other), The Paul Story, waste, fraud, and abuse, Paul Guth DOGE
NLRB whistleblower’s attorney speaks on DOGE, the shedding of federal IT leaders FedScoop Andrew Bakaj, Chief Information Officer, Daniel Berulis*, Data Exfiltration, DOGE, FedScoop, Inspectors General, National Labor Relations Board, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Whistleblower Aid, Whistleblower, Executive Branch, Rebecca Heilweil DOGE
How DOGE cuts, Trump actions are already affecting Greene County Bleeding Heartland Bleeding Heartland, DOGE, Greene County, IA, Margaret Hamilton, National Endowment for the Humanities, News and Analysis (Mainstream), reforestation, Sabotage, State of Iowa, Trees Forever, The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Rick Morain DOGE
Nathan Tanks the Economy: An Oral History of 100 Days of DOGE w/ Nathan Tankus Death Panel Bureau of the Fiscal Service, business logic, COBOL, Data Exfiltration, David Lebryk, Death Panel, DOGE, fear, payment system, read access, read and write access, system administrator, Transcript, Software Engineer, Executive Branch, Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Nathan Tankus DOGE
DOGE urges Fourth Circuit to open vault on federal employees' personal info Courthouse News access, Courthouse News, Data Exfiltration, Deborah Boardman, DOGE, Julius Richardson, News and Analysis (Mainstream), standing, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, The Privacy Act of 1974, Joe Dodson DOGE
Federal judge blocks Donald Trump’s attempt to dismantle Inter-American Foundation Times of India Appointments Clause, DOGE, Lawbreaking, Loren AliKhan, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Peter Marocco*, Sara Aviel, Times of India, TOI World Desk DOGE
DOGE TRACK GitHub (Venue) DOGE, GitHub (Venue), Miscreants, Ruby, Tracker, YAML, Executive Branch, Jacob Harris DOGE
xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs Krebs on Security artificial intelligence, Carole Winqwist, chatbot, Data Exfiltration, DOGE, Eric Fourrier, General Services Administration, GitGuardian, Krebs on Security, Large Language Model, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Grok, Brian Krebs, xAI DOGE
Lawsuits involving the Department of Government Efficiency Wikipedia constitutional crisis, DOGE, Extra-Constitutional, Round-Up, Wikipedia, Federal Information Security Modernization Act, Internal Revenue Code, The Privacy Act of 1974 DOGE
Judge 'inclined' to block DOGE takeover of Institute of Museum and Library Services WUSA9 Abigail Stout, American Library Association, Department of Justice, DOGE, mass firings, News and Analysis (Mainstream), Richard Leon, Sabotage, WUSA9, Jordan Fischer DOGE
House Committee Aims to Gut Key Financial Regulators Americans for Financial Reform (Venue) Americans for Financial Reform (Venue), Carter Dougherty, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Corrupt, DOGE, Gavin Kliger*, House Financial Services Committee, mass firings, News and Analysis (Mainstream), The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act DOGE