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175 matching recordsAid withdrawal collapsed trafficking and sexual-violence protection in Malawi2025-05-28Elon Muskterminated grants supporting anti-trafficking and survivor servicesU.S. Agency for International Development1 sourceDOGE used Meta's Llama 2 model to analyze federal workers' email responses2025-05-22Elon Muskused an AI model to review federal-worker responsesOffice of Personnel Management2 sourcesQatar supplied the luxury 747 Trump wanted as a replacement Air Force One2025-05-21Donald J. Trumphad administration accept presidential aircraft fromState of Qatar1 sourceSSA abandoned a DOGE anti-fraud check after it disrupted legitimate claims2025-05-16Elon Muskimposed and then withdrew a disruptive identity-control changeSocial Security Administration1 sourceA Musk-paid adviser helped dismantle the regulator overseeing Tesla and X payments2025-05-14Elon Muskused a dual-paid adviser in CFPB contract and layoff decisionsConsumer Financial Protection Bureau1 sourceA Musk-paid adviser helped dismantle the regulator overseeing Tesla and X payments2025-05-14Consumer Financial Protection Bureauheld consumer-finance jurisdiction overTesla, Inc.1 sourceNIH terminated research grants after a judge blocked the administration's policy2025-05-07Robert F. Kennedy Jr.continued grant terminations after a court restrictionNational Institutes of Health1 sourceNOAA's Great Lakes lab lost about 35 percent of its workforce2025-05-06Elon Muskcut the laboratory workforce protecting drinking waterNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration1 sourceVA clinicians warned more than 1,000 veterans could lose access to research treatment2025-05-06Elon Muskcut contracts and staff needed for research treatmentU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs1 sourceSSA data work expanded toward a national voter-eligibility system2025-05-01Elon Muskredirected benefits data toward voter-eligibility screeningSocial Security Administration2 sourcesTrump Organization partnered with Qatar's state-owned developer on a golf resort2025-04-30State of Qatarstate ownership through sovereign wealth fundQatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company2 sourcesTrump Organization partnered with Qatar's state-owned developer on a golf resort2025-04-30Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Companyjoint resort-development counterpartyThe Trump Organization2 sourcesTreasury's inspector general opened a review of Trump and DOGE taxpayer-data requests2025-04-25Elon Muskprompted oversight of data requests by DOGE, the White House, and DHSInternal Revenue Service1 sourceNIOSH cuts halted a first-of-its-kind firefighter cancer study2025-04-21Robert F. Kennedy Jr.cut staff supporting the firefighter cancer studyNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health1 sourceHHS laid off seven of eight federal firefighter-death investigators2025-04-21Robert F. Kennedy Jr.eliminated nearly the entire fatality-investigation teamNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health1 sourceCFPB leadership prepared to eliminate roughly 90 percent of the bureau2025-04-17Russell Voughtapproved a plan to dismiss most bureau employeesConsumer Financial Protection Bureau2 sourcesCDC eliminated a team as it prepared health work for Hurricane Helene survivors2025-04-15Elon Muskeliminated staff assigned to post-Helene health workCenters for Disease Control and Prevention1 sourceFDA scientists were asked to volunteer for contracting work after procurement layoffs2025-04-15Elon Muskshifted contracting tasks to scientific staff after layoffsFood and Drug Administration2 sourcesAn NLRB whistleblower alleged a large outbound transfer after DOGE arrived2025-04-15Elon Musktriggered a whistleblower complaint over possible data extractionNational Labor Relations Board1 sourceForeign-IP login attempts followed the NLRB access changes, a whistleblower alleged2025-04-15Elon Muskintroduced privileged accounts before reported foreign login attemptsNational Labor Relations Board1 sourceThe NLRB whistleblower alleged DOGE accounts bypassed normal logging2025-04-15Elon Muskoperated privileged accounts allegedly shielded from normal loggingNational Labor Relations Board1 sourceDOGE received accounts capable of reaching sensitive NLRB case systems2025-04-15Elon Muskplaced DOGE accounts inside labor-enforcement systemsNational Labor Relations Board1 sourceDOGE entered NLRB while the agency was litigating against Musk's SpaceX2025-04-15Elon Muskgained agency access while Musk's company challenged that agencyNational Labor Relations Board1 sourceSEC leaders resisted DOGE demands for broad internal data access2025-04-15Elon Musksought broad access over career-official objectionsSecurities and Exchange Commission1 sourceSix million seniors live roughly 50 miles round-trip from a Social Security office2025-04-08Elon Muskshifted verification burden onto geographically distant beneficiariesSocial Security Administration1 sourceAn appeals court temporarily restored DOGE access at Education and OPM2025-04-07Elon Muskresumed contested data access under a procedural stayOffice of Personnel Management1 sourceSocial Security's website repeatedly crashed during DOGE IT cuts2025-04-07Elon Muskdemanded IT reductions during repeated service outagesSocial Security Administration1 sourceHHS restructuring eliminated about 3,500 FDA positions2025-04-01Elon Muskimplemented DOGE-backed staffing reductions at FDAFood and Drug Administration2 sourcesA federal court blocked Vought's plan to dismantle CFPB2025-03-28Russell Voughthad its dismantling plan enjoinedConsumer Financial Protection Bureau1 sourceThe Fourth Circuit stayed the USAID Appointments Clause injunction2025-03-28Elon Muskcontinued restructuring during appellate reviewU.S. Agency for International Development1 sourceFDA layoffs put drug and device review deadlines at risk2025-03-27Elon Muskcut staff needed to complete drug and device reviewsFood and Drug Administration1 sourceDOGE review froze billions in FEMA recovery reimbursements2025-03-27Elon Musksubjected disaster payments to DOGE reviewFederal Emergency Management Agency1 sourceSSA narrowed its in-person mandate after access warnings2025-03-26Elon Muskpartially reversed a DOGE-backed access restrictionSocial Security Administration2 sourcesA court blocked Education and OPM from disclosing personal records to DOGE2025-03-24Elon Muskprovided or sought to provide sensitive records to DOGEU.S. Department of Education1 sourceSBA announced 2,700 cuts, about 43 percent of its workforce2025-03-21Elon Muskcut the workforce before expanding the agency's workloadSmall Business Administration1 sourceA shrunken SBA was assigned a $1.6 trillion student-loan portfolio2025-03-21Elon Muskexpanded SBA's mission after cutting its staffSmall Business Administration1 sourceA district court restricted DOGE access to Social Security records2025-03-20Elon Muskgranted DOGE access later restricted by a courtSocial Security Administration2 sourcesA judge found Musk likely exercised officer-level power without constitutional appointment2025-03-18Elon Muskdirected or ratified actions dismantling USAIDU.S. Agency for International Development1 sourceDOGE pushed millions of Social Security applicants toward in-person identity checks2025-03-18Elon Muskrestricted remote access to benefit applicationsSocial Security Administration2 sourcesThe USAID shutdown halted Agent Orange cleanup at a major Vietnam contamination site2025-03-17Elon Muskterminated environmental cleanup tied to U.S. wartime contaminationU.S. Agency for International Development1 source