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175 matching recordsAbout 136,000 refugees in Kenya received no food in a ration cycle2025-08-01Elon Muskcut funding that supported refugee rationsU.S. Agency for International Development1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $152.3 million for CFPB administrative leave2025-07-31Russell Voughtpaid staff while suspending consumer-protection workConsumer Financial Protection Bureau1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $160,000 to destroy contraceptive supplies2025-07-31Elon Muskplanned destruction rather than delivery of purchased suppliesU.S. Agency for International Development1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $14.76 billion for deferred resignations2025-07-31Elon Muskpromised continued pay through deferred departuresOffice of Personnel Management1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $263.3 million in lost Energy loan interest and fees2025-07-31Elon Muskreduced or delayed federal loan-program receiptsU.S. Department of Energy1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $91.5 million for Education Department leave2025-07-31Elon Muskpaid employees kept from performing education workU.S. Department of Education1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $155.1 million in time spent on DOGE's weekly email2025-07-31Elon Muskrequired recurring employee status responsesOffice of Personnel Management1 sourceSenate minority staff documented plans to destroy 496 metric tons of food2025-07-31Elon Muskincurred disposal cost for stranded food aidU.S. Agency for International Development1 sourceSenate minority staff counted $4.49 million lost across three NIH grants2025-07-31Elon Muskstranded prior research spending through grant terminationNational Institutes of Health1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $41.8 million for OPM office relocations2025-07-31Elon Muskincurred relocation costs during organizational restructuringOffice of Personnel Management1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $443.9 million for probationary workers placed on leave2025-07-31Elon Musktriggered paid leave and litigation-driven reversalsOffice of Personnel Management1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $1.68 million from three purchase-card freezes2025-07-31Elon Muskfroze routine purchases and created administrative costNational Aeronautics and Space Administration1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $16.8 million to reinstate wrongly dismissed staff2025-07-31Elon Muskrequired agencies to reinstate workers after defective dismissalsOffice of Personnel Management1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $38.0 million for reduction-in-force planning2025-07-31Elon Muskrequired agencies to plan large reductions in forceOffice of Personnel Management1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $5.01 billion in severance exposure2025-07-31Elon Muskcreated modeled severance obligations through mass reductionsOffice of Personnel Management1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $66.5 million from unused SSA and park staff2025-07-31Elon Muskleft paid public-service capacity unusedSocial Security Administration1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $69.6 million for USAGM administrative leave2025-07-31Elon Muskpaid staff while disabling public broadcasting operationsU.S. Agency for Global Media1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $298.1 million for USAID administrative leave2025-07-31Elon Muskpaid staff while suspending aid administrationU.S. Agency for International Development1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $109.7 million in spoiled or stranded USAID commodities2025-07-31Elon Muskfroze delivery systems holding perishable aidU.S. Agency for International Development1 sourceSenate minority staff estimated $61.9 million for separation incentive payments2025-07-31Elon Muskused cash incentives to accelerate departuresOffice of Personnel Management1 sourceNational Park Service lost roughly one-quarter of its permanent staff2025-07-24Elon Muskreduced permanent park staffingNational Park Service1 sourceParks curtailed programs and maintenance after staffing cuts2025-07-24Elon Muskdegraded park services through workforce contractionNational Park Service1 sourceFCC dissent attributed the approval sequence to administration pressure2025-07-24Donald J. Trumpcommissioner dissent alleged administration pressureFederal Communications Commission1 sourceFCC granted the Paramount broadcast-license control transfers2025-07-24Donald J. Trumpdesignated chair before 2-1 media-transfer approvalFederal Communications Commission4 sourcesFCC order left the CBS complaint open and rejected an unsupported control claim2025-07-24Donald J. TrumpTrump-designated chair's order preserved separate CBS caseFederal Communications Commission2 sourcesMore than 4,500 Forest Service firefighting jobs remained vacant2025-07-22Elon Musklost firefighters through layoffs, resignations, and constrained hiringU.S. Forest Service1 sourceSkydance committed CBS to viewpoint and ombudsman measures2025-07-22Donald J. Trumprecognized CBS viewpoint and ombudsman commitmentsFederal Communications Commission2 sourcesSkydance filed employment-policy commitments during FCC review2025-07-22Donald J. Trumpaccepted applicant policy commitments in transfer recordFederal Communications Commission2 sourcesLancet researchers projected 14.05 million additional deaths by 2030 under full USAID defunding2025-07-19Elon Muskdismantled the programs used in the mortality counterfactualU.S. Agency for International Development1 sourcePentagon awarded Musk's xAI a contract with a $200 million ceiling2025-07-14xAIreceived a frontier-AI contract fromU.S. Department of Defense1 sourceFEMA left nearly two-thirds of Texas flood-survivor calls unanswered2025-07-11Elon Muskreduced call-center capacity before a major disasterFederal Emergency Management Agency1 sourceHHS accumulated a billion-dollar grant backlog after DOGE controls2025-07-11Elon Muskadded review and staffing constraints that stalled grantsU.S. Department of Health and Human Services1 sourceWeather privatization plans overlapped Lutnick family market interests2025-07-09BGC Group, Inc.private market potentially affected by public-service reductionsNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration3 sourcesA $100,000 signoff rule delayed federal Texas flood support more than 72 hours2025-07-08Kristi Noemdelayed response resources through a $100,000 signoff thresholdFederal Emergency Management Agency2 sourcesUSAID officially ceased independent operations and remaining work moved to State2025-07-01Marco Rubiocompleted the operational closure and transferU.S. Agency for International Development2 sourcesTrump ordered U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites2025-06-22Donald J. Trumpordered strikes on three nuclear facilities inIslamic Republic of Iran1 sourceIRS sought to rehire staff after cuts damaged filing and enforcement capacity2025-06-06Elon Muskcut and then sought to restore tax-administration personnelInternal Revenue Service2 sourcesWeather Service rehired forecasters after cuts left dangerous gaps2025-06-06Elon Muskreversed cuts after forecast-office staffing gapsNational Weather Service1 sourceThe Supreme Court paused restrictions and allowed DOGE to access Social Security systems2025-06-06Elon Muskresumed sensitive-data access during litigationSocial Security Administration1 sourceFederal outlays accelerated during Musk's DOGE tenure2025-05-30Elon MuskDOGE savings drive did not reverse aggregate outlay growthU.S. Department of the Treasury1 source