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Scoop: House Dems shrug off delay tactics to stall DOGE vote (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/17/npr-pbs-cuts-doge-democrats-johnson
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p132#a250717p132

Minister proposes Ukrainian version of Trump's DOGE to 'reduce costs and evaluate efficiency': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/minister-proposes-ukrainian-version-of.html

Researcher: a DOGE staffer inadvertently published a private API key for xAI on GitHub on July 13, exposing access to 52 LLMs, including "grok-4-0709" (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge-denizen-marko-elez-le…

American Oversight Sues More Than 20 Federal Agencies for Withholding Records on Secretive DOGE Teams - American Oversight
https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-more-than-20-federal-agencies-for-withholding-records-on-secretive-doge-teams/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge-denizen-marko-elez-leaked-api-key-for-xai/
“Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) …

Some reporting on #nasa getting the #doge in #nyc
https://www.fastcompany.com/91333946/this-iconic-nasa-office-changed-climate-science-forever-doge-plans-to-kill-it
I put up some history here in happier times.
https://fediscience.org/@atthenius/110991531387943903

Absolutely fucking useless. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4xepeetzgz3xn6ss2ty45ta5/post/3lu6wopovs227

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-direct-file-chopping-block/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p26#a250717p26

"We are NIH people and we are horrified about the takeover of US scientific and medical research and the damage to future cures for Alzheimer’s and cancer.
But we also believe in human rights and keeping people from starving. The DOGE kids are in far over their heads and they will pay for this." From:
https://bsky.app/profile/altnih4science.bsky.social/post/3lpiquozhsk22

So far the Social Security agency’s core functions — like sending monthly checks to 74 million Americans — have remained largely intact.
But under pressure from Musk’s team, nearly half of the Social Security Administration’s 140 senior executives, and thousands of employees overall, have taken buyouts or retired.
As many as 12 percent of staff members, out of a bureaucracy that numbered around 57,000 people, are expected to depart their jobs as part of DOGE’s cost-cutting plan.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

In announcing her resignation from the National Science Board, Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social details #DOGE interference in National Science Foundation #NSF grant making. «

@… DOGE will hire him any day now

The evidence here is very simple: if you go into DOGE actually trying to improve efficiency, and then try to work transparently and report the truth that existing government teams are functioning very efficiently already, they will can you. https://sahillavingia.com/doge

DOGE Days
My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.

"Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to personal information on millions of Americans."
Gift link.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

Data Exfiltration in plain sight.
“Internet dead zones”, of course!
NOT!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-goons-surreptitiously-transmitted-reams-of-white-house-data/

Trump Scores DOGE Win in Senate; Clock's Ticking in House (Ed Morrissey/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/07/17/trump-gets-win-as-senate-agrees-to-cut-spending-clocks-ticking-in-house-n3804871
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p67#a250717p67

Here’s a reason to never use Gumroad.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91330297/doge-sahil-lavignia-gumroad

Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA
The creator economy pioneer Sahil Lavingia on his eyebrow-raising decision to embrace DOGE—and, after thinking it over, open source.

Not what you think, but mildly amusing nonetheless.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01K08Q51FAF1XS9KM8NW9Y67BD

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"DOGE NETWORK LTD" transferred 185.217.5.0/24 to "DODO Inc." (Estimated Market Value: $8.19 K)

I had set up a Gumroad account years ago to experiment with some digital sales and subscription stuff but after reading that the CEO of Gumroad worked for DOGE and Musk I deleted that fucking account.
Most of us don't have a lot of power individually but we can still make choices about the platforms we use (and don't use).
➡️

WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge
Sahil Lavingia, who says he was fired from DOGE after speaking out about his experiences there, told WIRED about how he communicated with the group, who appears to be in charge, and what might be coming next.

#Musk 's record at DOGE seen from French newspaper #LeMonde - pretty good summary..
Musk's questionable record at DOGE
Some quote…

Musk's questionable record at DOGE
Inexperience and a lack of understanding of how government operates led the teams at the Department of Government Efficiency to implement a cost-cutting drive that was primarily ideological and produced only superficial results.

DOGE employees are being booted from offices: As Musk exits, DOGE employees are being booted from offices; many fired staff now being rehired - The Economic Times
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/as-musk-exits-doge-employees-are-being-booted-from-offices-many-fired-staff-now-being-rehired/articleshow/121730883.cms

Voice of America’s Farsi-language broadcast,
dismantled under Trump and DOGE,
was abruptly reactivated today,
recalling dozens of staff from paid leave
as tensions between Israel and Iran escalated.
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social…

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite - The Washington Post #USA #Trump

DOGE vowed to make government more ‘efficient’ — but it’s doing the opposite
New procedures and requirements — some implemented in the name of improving operations — are slowing down federal agencies.

Congratulations to all the "Elon's reign of terror is over" article writers from last week, great jorb
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/

‘Big Balls’ Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee
The first wave of DOGE staffers was supposed to be gone after 130 days. Instead, core members of the team have signed on for the long haul.

Don't miss today's packed Metacurity for a ton of critical infosec developments you should know, including
--UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
--DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs,
--US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services,
--Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang,
--OMB readies post-quantum standard,
--MSFT'…

UK to spend $1.1 billion relocating Afghan helpers following data breach
DOGE worker published the private key for four dozen-plus LLMs, US gov't IT contractor to pay $14.75m fine for overstated cyber services, Italian cops arrest Romanian behind 'Diskstation' ransomware gang, OMB readies post-quantum standard, MSFT's 'digital escorts' leave DoD vulnerable, much more

"DOGE had by fiat the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications which had been systematically vetted by layers of subject matter experts" https://time.com/7285045/resigning-national-science-foundation-library-congress/

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

Trump says "We might have to put DOGE on Elon", "DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon", and "We'll have to take a look" at deporting Musk (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/trump-deporting-el…

Trump says DOGE may "go back and eat Elon"
Trump posted to Truth Social overnight that DOGE may need to take a "good, hard look" at Musk's companies.

Hegseth lashed out at DOGE official in tense Pentagon confrontation (Dan Lamothe/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/15/hegseth-doge-justin-fulcher-yinon-weiss/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p137#a250715p137

PBS station WNET removed at least three educational TV episodes that discuss transgender identity and drag expression, following a DOGE subcommittee hearing (Nikita Mazurov/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/29/drag-trans-pbs-wnet-censorship-d…

PBS Station Wipes Drag and Trans Content After DOGE Outcry
PBS producer WNET quietly erased episodes containing a drag queen and a trans character from its platforms.

I was worried DOGE would try to pillage today’s #Strands.
#Strands498
“Won't you be my neighbor?”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵

The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE's Chaotic Takeover of Social Security (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p20#a250616p20

I'd be interested in how well "hand over all the data or be fired" will work in a country without a presidential override for legislation.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/02/reform-uk-to-pilot-doge-…

Le DOGE a le soutien des Américains. Arrêtez de vous faire des illusions, les gens.
Source : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/polls/doge-elon-musk.html

As Flood Deaths Rise, Texas Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by DOGE-Gutted National Weather Service
https://flip.it/BJQ-oD

As Flood Deaths Rise, Texas Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by DOGE-Gutted National Weather Service | Common Dreams
"Experts warned for months that drastic and sudden cuts at the National Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability and endanger lives during the storm season," said one critic.

Oh, my. How interesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/28/trump-tax-bill-weakens-doge-cost-cutting-efforts-elon-musk

Oh, my. How interesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/28/trump-tax-bill-weakens-doge-cost-cutting-efforts-elon-musk

DOGE Cuts: House approves Trump's request to cut funding for NPR, PBS and foreign aid - ABC7 New York
https://abc7ny.com/post/doge-cuts-house-approves-trumps-request-cut-funding-npr-pbs-foreign-aid/16734522/

Sources: before installing Starlink at the White House in February, DOGE ignored security concerns that the service bypasses traditional WH security controls (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
The U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House experts worried about potential security breaches when they installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex this year, three people said.

“I’ve never hurt anyone!” – Elon Musk
Kills 300,000 children. https://mas.to/@bascule/114598860129053617

DOGE's push from tape archives to cloud-based "permanent modern digital records" (not a thing) opens the door to increased software obsolescence, hacking, and climate impact. Greater transparency? Maybe—or these wannabe nerds just plan to surveil and monetize govt data

Hilarious Jon Stewart on the Mollusk #DOGE 😅 https://youtu.be/WIhlC3L99x8?si=K-R2z4kZGwHyZaqT

Facing Painful Cuts, the V.A. Reported Dubious Savings to DOGE (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/politics/va-savings-cuts-doge.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p59#a250714p59

VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24 deals; Lavingia says "mistakes were made" (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contra…

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.

Elon Musk’s goons at the Department of Government Efficiency
transmitted a large amount of data
—all of it undetected
—using a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal they installed on top of the White House, according to a new report.
Starlink is a satellite Wi-Fi service owned and operated by Musk’s SpaceX.
The DOGE goons installed it in mid-March with the sign-off of Donald Trump’s administration,
but against concerns raised by security officials, according to The Washing…

Musk’s DOGE Goons Surreptitiously Transmitted Reams of White House Data
Musk’s team installed a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal on top of the White House, allowing them to bypass data-tracking security measures.

DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/doge-denizen-marko-elez-leaked-api-key-for-xai/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p48#a250715p48

White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
Those who were managing White House communications systems were not informed in advance
when DOGE representatives went to the roof of the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building in February
to install a terminal connecting users in the complex to Starlink satellites,
which are owned by Musk’s private SpaceX rocket company.

The people said those managing the systems weren’t able to monit…

White House security staff warned Musk’s Starlink is a security risk
The U.S. DOGE Service and allies in the Trump administration ignored White House experts worried about potential security breaches when they installed Musk’s Starlink internet service in the complex this year, three people said.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit

Paul Krugman's critique of Elon Musk at #DOGE:
"[A] zillionaire who knew nothing about government marched in claiming that he could cut $2 trillion from the $6 trillion federal budget by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse. This was obvious nonsense […]."
"Seriously, would any of Musk’s tech-bro friends have invested in a venture run by someone with such a record of …

Senate takes step forward on foreign aid, public broadcasting clawback (Stef W. Kight/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/16/senate-republicans-early-vote-doge-cuts-trump-rescissions-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p145#a250715p145

DOGE employees are 'being pushed out' without Musk to protect them: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-staffers-purge/

Since January, the NWS—a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—has reduced its workforce by nearly 600 people as a direct result of staffing cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as part of Trump’s mission to eviscerate numerous federal agencies.
This policy is in line with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-led blueprint for a far-right overhaul of the federal government that calls for “dismantling” NOAA. Trump has also cal…

As flood deaths rise, Texas officials blast faulty forecast by DOGE-gutted National Weather Service
"Experts warned for months that drastic and sudden cuts at the National Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability and endanger lives during the storm season," said one critic.

How DOGE's reckless cuts created chaos at the Social Security Administration (Zeeshan Aleem/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/social-security-administration-phone-benefits-wait-doge-trump-rcna218252
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p25#a250713p25

You won't want to miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Trump cyber EO reverses some parts of Biden, Obama orders
--Starlink endangers WH security,
--Nigeria convicts Chinese cybercriminals,
--US sentences Nigerian hacker,
--ICE arrests Oz hacker,
--Italy ends contract with spyware company Paragon,
--Supreme Ct. gives DOGE social security data,
--BADBOX 2.0 …

Trump cyber EO reverses some parts of Biden, Obama orders
Starlink endangers WH security, Nigeria convicts Chinese cybercriminals, US sentences Nigerian hacker, ICE arrests Oz hacker, Italy ends contract with spyware company Paragon, Supreme Ct. gives DOGE our social security data, BADBOX 2.0 infects 1m+ devices, EU issues cyber blueprint, much more

US DOGE Service Agreement With Department of Labor Shows $1.3 Million Fee—and Details Its Mission
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.wired.com/story/department-of-labor-doge-usds-payment/

GOP leaders say they are pressing forward with vote on DOGE cuts (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/12/congress/gop-leaders-say-they-are-pressing-forward-with-vote-on-doge-cuts-00403197
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p110#a250612p110

History shows that once a vanguard of rogues and lawless individuals gets a hold on government, it is difficult to eject them.
Rather, the changes in government applied with force by this vanguard become normalized.
And that is what is happening here.
https://

“The Whole Government is DOGE Now”: The Coup's Second Wave Begins
A lawless vanguard infiltrated the U.S. government; now they are being institutionalized and will work with Project 2025's own democracy destroyers

Sources: 19-year-old Edward Coristine, who has gone by "Big Balls" online and was one of the first technologists hired as part of DOGE, has resigned (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristine-doge-resigned-us-government/…

‘Big Balls’ No Longer Works for the US Government
The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency who's gone by the name "Big Balls" online, has resigned, the White House tells WIRED.

DOGE Wants to Make Your Baby’s Crib Unsafe - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-06-doge-wants-to-make-your-babys-crib-unsafe-cpsc/

HHS facing billion-dollar backlog of delayed grants after DOGE (Alexander Tin/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hhs-facing-billion-dollar-backlog-of-delayed-grants-after-doge/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p57#a250711p57

In 'Serious Blow to Our Democracy,' Supreme Court Allows Trump Mass Firing Order
The high court's decision to "release the Trump's wrecking ball at the outset of this litigation," said Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, "is not only truly unfortunate but also hubristic and senseless
https://www.

In 'Serious Blow to Our Democracy,' Supreme Court Allows Trump Mass Firing Order | Common Dreams
The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a block on U.S. President Donald Trump's February executive order directing federal agency leaders to craft plans to gut the government—a decision blasted by one liberal justice and a coalition of labor unions, local governments, and nonprofits.

DOGE used flawed AI tool to “munch” Veterans Affairs contracts - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/doge-used-flawed-ai-tool-to-munch-veterans-affairs-contracts/

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.
The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.
As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon
to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget,
the number of deaths on Nichols’…

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths — most of them children
Elon Musk’s tenure running Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has, according to the academic Brooke Nichols, caused thousands of ‘preventable deaths’

Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/06/doge-staff-cuts-rehiring-federal-workers/

Social Security Chief Says Musk's DOGE Figures Heavily in Agency's Plans (Anne Tergesen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/social-security-chief-says-musks-doge-figures-heavily-in-agencys-plans-45cc0f35
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p72#a250609p72

The investor and engineer
(who was employee No. 2 at Pinterest)
is ready to talk about his DOGE days.
Last week, he published a blogpost detailing his brief stint in government.
And in a 30-minute call with The Standard on Monday, Lavingia expanded on his life inside Musk’s controversial cost-cutting machine, from attending the DOGEfather’s awkward all-hands meeting to expediting the government’s use of AI.  

‘America is bigger than Elon’: Fired former DOGE employee speaks out
Sahil Lavingia opens up about his chaotic 53-day stint inside Elon Musk’s secretive task force.

They're in the Social Security records.
Supreme Court sides with Trump in two DOGE suits - SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-in-two-doge-suits/

'DOGE has consequences': Fingers pointed at Trump admin after Texas flood deaths - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doge-has-consequences-flood/

DOGE employees are 'being pushed out' without Musk to protect them: report (Tom Boggioni/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-staffers-purge/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p64#a250608p64

Trump on DOGE cuts: 'I would have done it differently' (Ben Johansen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/08/trump-on-doge-cuts-i-would-have-done-it-differently-00442255
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p96#a250708p96

Scam PAC: Send Money To Get Your $5000 DOGE Check - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/scam-pac-send-money-get-your-5000-doge-check/

The chief executive of the
United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency
left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray,
full of water damage, rats, and roaches, according to a new sworn statement first reported by Court Watch.
The statement from the executive, George Moose, comes just a few days after a federal judge ruled that DOGE’s takeover of the nonprofit was illegal.
And this week, Mu…

DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches | TechCrunch
The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk's DOGE left the nonprofit's Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray.

Capitol agenda: GOP turns toward DOGE cuts and a shutdown cliff (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/07/congress/trump-doge-rescissions-npr-pbs-shutdown-collins-00441079
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p24#a250707p24

Two prosecutors from former special counsel Jack Smith's office fired (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-texas-floods-tariffs-canada-immigration-doge-live-updates-rcna217076/rcrd84828?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p110#a250711p110

’130 days of Elon Musk’: Report cites more than 100 times DOGE boss benefited self, business
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/elizabeth-warren-elon-musk-doge-report.html

DOGE Is on a Recruiting Spree (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-recruiting-spree-elon-musk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p116#a250606p116

Elon Musk’s DOGE Goons Surreptitiously Transmitted Reams of White House Data
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-goons-surreptitiously-transmitted-reams-of-white-house-data/

Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill
a ‘disgusting abomination’
The former head of Doge said the ‘outrageous’ tax bill will cause the deficit to grow to $2.5tn
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

A DOGE architect leaves the movement after Musk feuds with Trump (Sophia Cai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/a-doge-architect-leaves-the-movement-after-musk-feuds-with-trump-00391651
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p38#a250606p38

DOGE Once Again Takes Over US Institute of Peace (USIP) with Appeals Court Stay of Favorable District Court Ruling : r/fednews
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1lq9z2y/doge_once_again_takes_over_us_institute_of_peace/

Supreme Court Gives DOGE Access to Social Security Data (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/supreme-court-gives-doge-access-to-social-security-data
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p120#a250606p120

Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to "Munch" Contracts Related to Veterans' Health (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p48#a250606p48

Trump admin must rehire immigrant advocates fired by DOGE
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/cannot-just-simply-disregard-it-judge-orders-trump-admin-to-uphold-biden-era-agreement-over-family-border-separation-policy/

This Is DOGE 2.0 -- Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing ... (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/next-stage-doge-elon-musk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p7#a250710p7

Hundreds of CDC staff rehired by HHS after earlier layoffs from DOGE | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hhs-brings-back-hundreds-staff-following-force-reduction-latest-rehiring-move

Musk’s DOGE took control of the U.S. Institute of Peace. It brought roaches and rats to D.C. headquarters, court docs say | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-institute-of-peace-headquarters-b2761367.html

Republican senator says hiring freeze resulted in key meteorologist vacancies (Ben Johansen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/09/republican-senator-says-doge-hiring-freeze-resulted-in-key-meteorologist-vacancies-in-his-state-00444507
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p77#a250709p77

Sen. Ruben Gallego announces Iowa stops amid 2028 speculation (Alex Tabet/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-tariffs-hegseth-netanyahu-doge-immigration-live-updates-rcna217068/rcrd84676?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p68#a250709p68

Veterans are rallying against Trump over VA cuts
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-veterans-june-6-rally-va-worker-doge-cuts-rcna211416

Trump threatened to bomb Moscow and Beijing to deter potential invasions, audio shows (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-tariffs-hegseth-netanyahu-doge-immigration-live-updates-rcna217068/rcrd84666?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p69#a250709p69

DOGE loses access to $500b government grants website, in latest blow to cost-cutting effort after Elon Musk exit | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-elon-musk-grant-website-b2778877.html

Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE (Josh Boak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-spending-cuts-rescissions-doge-699a224a72d025537df03629eb1a06df
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p148#a250603p148

Russell Vought: DOGE will ‘be far more institutionalized’ at agencies | FedScoop
https://fedscoop.com/russell-vought-doge-will-be-far-more-institutionalized-at-agencies/

The shrewd startup founder who led DOGE's cost-cutting at HHS (Tara Bannow/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/02/brad-smith-doge-little-known-architect-67-billion-hhs-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p121#a250602p121

Trump wins as judge allows DOGE to access 'sensitive' info
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/still-cannot-step-in-trump-admin-scores-victory-as-judge-denies-labor-unions-injunction-and-allows-doge-to-access-stockpile-of-extremely-sensitive-information/

DOGE Flacks Work To Ax Dozens Of Gun Regulations - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/doge-flacks-work-to-ax-dozens-of-gun-regulations/

Trump says DOGE 'monster' may have to 'eat Elon' as Musk vows primary ads for lawmakers who cross him on BBB (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-doge-monster-may-have-eat-elon-musk-vows-primary-ads-lawmakers-who-cross-him-bbb
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p47#a250701p47

Elon Musk on DOGE and why he doesn't want to "take responsibility for everything the administration's doing" (David Pogue/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-on-doge-trump-administration-and-responsibility-for-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p48#a250601p48

Judge rules DOGE can access personal data as unions claim invasion of privacy | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rules-doge-can-access-personal-data-as-unions-claim-invasion-of-privacy/

Veterans Affairs reverses course on large-scale layoffs (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/07/veterans-affairs-layoffs-doge-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p100#a250707p100

White House security staff warned Musk's Starlink is a security risk (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/07/starlink-white-house-security-doge-musk/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5MjY4ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUwNjUxMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDkyNjg4MDAsImp0aSI6IjFkMjZiM2ZmLWI1NWUtNDNiYS1iZDY4LWMyMWY3YWFhYTJhZCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjUvMDYvMDcvc3Rhcmxpbmstd2hpdGUtaG91c2Utc2VjdXJpdHktZG9nZS1tdXNrLyJ9.HUMCoxKyZvfEtXsaid9wL2eW6I6JPvmH_8-vp_Yeoz4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p15#a250607p15