DOGE’s Hit List

Last updated: March 17, 2025

While members of Congress try to obtain an official list of personnel working for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the media has been keeping tabs on Musk and his team as they sweep through the federal government. Along with our list of individuals reportedly affiliated with DOGE, we’ve compiled a list of the agencies reportedly visited by DOGE in the first weeks of the Trump administration.

We will be updating this list as more reporting comes out. If any of these reports are unreliable, or you spot additional information, please email us at [email protected]. 

Treasury

• January 31, 2025: “The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department left the agency after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks. […] Officials affiliated with Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” have been asking since after the election for access to the system, the people said — requests that were reiterated more recently, including after Trump’s inauguration. Tom Krause, a Silicon Valley executive who has now been detailed to Treasury, is among those involved, the people said. Krause did not respond to requests for comment.” (Source: Washington Post)

Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• February 4, 2025: “Staffers with Elon Musk’s ‘department of government efficiency’ (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns of downsizing at the agency.” (Source: The Guardian)

Department of Veteran Affairs

• February 5, 2025: “A representative from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency now works at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where they have been given access to contracting systems as well as information on VA operations and information technology systems.” (Source: Military.com)

USAID

• February 3, 2025: “The U.S. Agency for International Development is on the cusp of being shuttered, according [to] the Trump administration’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk — who has been wrestling for control of the agency in recent days. ”

• “USAID, whose website vanished Saturday without explanation, has been one of the federal agencies most targeted by the Trump administration in an escalating crackdown on the federal government and many of its programs.” (Source: Associated Press)

Health and Human Services/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

• February 5, 2025: “Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency representatives are at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week examining payment and contracting systems of federal health agency.”

• “Two senior agency veterans focused on policy and operations are working with DOGE to review the agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid, which provide health insurance for about 1 in 4 Americans, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman.” (Source: USA Today)

National Institutes of Health

• February 5, 2025: “Reports are that DOGE staffers are now at NIH.” (Source: Sam Stein)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• February 5, 2025: “Representatives of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fanned out across several agencies Wednesday, sending representatives to the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and meeting with the Labor Department, seeking access to sensitive data.” (Source: Washington Post)

Department of Labor

• February 5, 2025: “On Wednesday, Musk’s team also reached out to engage with the Labor Department. Senior department leaders told staffers who handle sensitive data that they would begin working with DOGE in the coming weeks, beginning with an in-office meeting Wednesday, according to an agency staffer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. DOGE assignments would override the team’s normal duties, the staffer said.”

• “But senior leadership moved Wednesday’s meeting from in-person to virtual after labor unions, including the AFL-CIO, announced a protest of DOGE outside the Labor Department […] Hundreds of union activists gathered outside the department’s headquarters Wednesday afternoon holding signs that said ‘Hands Off Workers Data’ and chanting ‘Elon Musk has got to go.’” (Source: Washington Post)

Office of Personnel Management

• February 6, 2025: “Records obtained by The Post show that several members of Musk’s DOGE team — some of whom are in their early 20s and come from positions at his private companies — were given ‘administrative’ access to OPM computer systems within days of Trump’s inauguration last month. That gives them sweeping authority to install and modify software on government-supplied equipment and, according to two OPM officials, to alter internal documentation of their own activities.”

• “The DOGE team’s demand for access to OPM files and networks came as Musk deputies arrived at the agency promising to wipe out 70 percent of its staff, officials said. A senior OPM official, during a team meeting Wednesday, said that core units focused on modernizing the agency’s network and improving accountability are ‘likely to go away,’ according to a recording of the session obtained by The Post. Those who have been reassigned at the agency include the chief information officer and the chief financial officer.” (Source: Washington Post)

General Services Administration

• February 4, 2025: “Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have homed in on the GSA. An email sent last week from GSA headquarters in Washington instructed regional managers to begin terminating leases on roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide.” (Source: Associated Press)

Department of Education

• February 5, 2025: “A top U.S. Department of Education official confirmed to employees during a virtual meeting Tuesday that the team working for the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been reviewing the agency’s operations, according to two staffers on the call who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it.”

• “During the meeting, Trainor, a new political appointee, introduced himself to the civil rights division, which is in charge of enforcing antidiscrimination laws on most school and college campuses. Just weeks after the Trump administration selected him for the role, the office’s direction has taken a sharp rightward turn from its work during the Biden years: It has halted all investigations related to book bans, opened a probe into a high school in Denver that created a gender-neutral restroom, and ordered schools across the country to be less LGBTQ-inclusive when enforcing sex discrimination laws.” (Source: USA Today)

Federal Aviation Administration

•  February 5, 2025: “On the heel of a deadly plane crash outside of Washington, DC, Elon Musk says the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ will be making changes to the country’s air traffic control system.”

• “Musk wrote on X that he and DOGE had President Donald Trump’s support and ‘will aim to make rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system.’” (Source: Business Insider)

Environmental Protection Agency

• February 4, 2025: “A person said to be associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is listed in EPA’s staff directory. Gautier Cole Killian appears in the directory on EPA’s website as a ‘Federal Detailee,’ a designation usually used for someone temporarily working at the agency on assignment from elsewhere in the federal government. (Source: E&E News)

Federal Bureau of Investigation

• January 29, 2025: “A person who has been affiliated with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and a former aide to one of the FBI’s toughest congressional critics are working as advisers to the bureau’s director, four current and former FBI officials told NBC News.” (Source: NBC News)

• February 6, 2025: “[Justin] Monroe is working as an adviser within the office of the director of the FBI, according to three people familiar with the matter. NBC News previously reported that an unnamed SpaceX employee has been placed in the FBI director’s office but said it could not confirm the individual’s identity. Monroe is a seasoned information security professional who previously served in the U.S. Navy as an information warfare officer.” (Source: ProPublica)

Department of Energy

• February 6, 2025: “A representative from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was granted access to the Energy Department’s IT system on Wednesday by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, two people with knowledge of the situation told CNN. ”

• “Wright granted access to DOGE representative Luke Farritor — a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern — even over objections from members of the department’s general counsel and chief information offices, the people told CNN. The DOE chief information office is the department’s IT and cybersecurity office. ” (Source: CNN)

Social Security Administration

• February 6, 2025: “[Michael] Russo is a top-ranking technology official at the SSA, which disburses over $1.5 trillion in benefits annually. Russo spent over seven years as an executive and senior adviser with Shift4 Payments, a payment processing company that is both an investor in SpaceX and a payment processor for StarLink, according to his Linkedin. The CEO of Shift4 Payments, Jared Isaacman, has been nominated by Trump to lead NASA and is a friend of Musk’s who has purchased multiple spacewalks with Musk’s SpaceX company. Russo’s office will oversee the SSA’s over $2 billion IT budget.” (Source: ProPublica)

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

• February 7, 2025: “In an email early Friday morning, CFPB staff were told that several people from DOGE—including Nikhil Rajpal and Gavin Kliger (along with Chris Young, who has been described as a Republican political adviser connected with Elon Musk)—entered the agency building Thursday evening. The email stated that they would require access to CFPB data, systems, and equipment, following a message sent Thursday by CFPB chief operating officer Adam Martinez confirming that the DOGE employees were to receive ‘read-only’ access.” (Source: WIRED)

• Musk, 11/26/24: “Delete CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies.”

Department of Housing and Urban Development

• February 7, 2025: “In the past week, his aides have descended upon the Education, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs Departments, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to people familiar with their activities.” (Source: NYT)

Federal Emergency Management Agency

• February 7, 2025: “In the past week, his aides have descended upon the Education, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs Departments, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, according to people familiar with their activities.” (Source: NYT)
• February 7, 2025: “Less than two weeks after President Donald Trump said his administration would consider making the Federal Emergency Management Agency ‘go away,’ representatives of Elon Musk’s U.S. Doge Service were at the agency and reviewing the grant programs it uses to help communities prepare for and respond to disasters, according to four current and two former FEMA officials.” (Source: Washington Post)

State Department

• February 10, 2025: “A 19-year-old acolyte of Elon Musk known online as ‘Big Balls’ has taken on new roles as a senior adviser at the State Department and at the Department of Homeland Security, raising concerns among some diplomats and others about his potential access to sensitive information and the growing reach of his tech billionaire boss into America’s diplomatic apparatus, said U.S. officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.” (Source: Washington Post)

Department of Homeland Security

• February 10, 2025: “A 19-year-old acolyte of Elon Musk known online as ‘Big Balls’ has taken on new roles as a senior adviser at the State Department and at the Department of Homeland Security, raising concerns among some diplomats and others about his potential access to sensitive information and the growing reach of his tech billionaire boss into America’s diplomatic apparatus, said U.S. officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue.” (Source: Washington Post)

NASA

• February 13, 2025: “NASA’s acting administrator Janet Petro said on Wednesday that Elon Musk’s government efficiency panel planned to examine the space agency’s spending, and noted hundreds of agency employees had accepted a government buyout proposal. ‘We are going to have DOGE come. They’re going to look – similarly (to) what they’ve done in other agencies – at our payments and what money has gone out,’ Petro, who was previously the head of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, told reporters on the sidelines of a space industry conference in Washington.” (Source: Reuters)

Internal Revenue Service

• February 13, 2025: “My office is hearing that DOGE is now at the IRS. That means Musk’s henchmen are in a position to dig through a trove of data about every taxpayer in America. And if your refund is delayed, they could very well be the reason.” (Source: Sen. Ron Wyden)
• February 13, 2025: “Gavin Kliger, one of the top staffers working with Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the federal government, arrived at the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday to examine the agency’s operations, according to two people familiar with the matter. Kliger was meeting with senior executives at the tax-collecting agency, marking the first time that a member of the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has shown up at its headquarters in Washington, the people told Reuters.” (Source: Reuters)

Department of Agriculture

• February 14, 2025: “‘I welcome DOGE’s efforts at USDA because we know that its work makes us better, stronger, faster, and more efficient. I will expect full access and transparency to DOGE in the days and weeks to come,’ said Secretary Rollins.” (Source: USDA)

Department of Defense

• February 14, 2025: “[Defense Secretary] Hegseth told reporters in Germany that Musk’s team has been ‘working in collaboration with us. There are waste redundancies and head counts in headquarters that need to be addressed,’ he said, suggesting that there may be ‘billions’ of dollars to be saved.” (source: Defense One)

Securities and Exchange Commission

• February 17, 2025: “Elon Musk has repeatedly clashed with the Securities and Exchange Commission over the last decade. Now, his cost-cutting crusade is about to hit the regulator. The Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency is expected to arrive at the SEC in the coming days, according to two people briefed on the matter.”

• “On Monday, in a post on X, a DOGE-affiliated account focused on the SEC asked for ‘insights on finding and fixing waste, fraud and abuse’ relating to the agency. It was one of several such calls made on X in recent days by DOGE-affiliated accounts. An SEC spokesperson declined to comment.” (Source: Politico)

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

• February 19, 2025: “Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old engineer with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) known as ‘Big Balls,’ is now on staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, WIRED has confirmed. He is joined by another member of the DOGE team, 38-year-old software engineer Kyle Schutt, who is now also on the CISA staff, according to a government source.” (Source: WIRED)

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• February 22, 2025: “Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has cut a ‘modest’ amount of positions, according to a statement from the agency. Musk has accused NHTSA of holding back progress on self-driving technology with its investigations and recalls.” (Source: Associated Press)

Department of the Interior

• February 26, 2025: “The DOGE delegation was led by Tyler Hassen, a Princeton and Deerfield Academy graduate turned energy company CEO. An X (formerly Twitter) account under Hassen’s name has him following key figures in the Trump orbit, including Trump himself, David Sacks, the official DOGE account, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, the official Interior Department account as well as right-wing influencers like Libs of TikTok and Catturd. It is unclear how Hassen was recruited into DOGE service, but he is now embedded at the Interior Department.” (Source: Public Domain/Jimmy Tobias/Chris D’Angelo)

United States Postal Service

• March 14, 2025: “U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress he signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s DOGE government reform team to provide assistance to the money-losing agency as it works to address ‘big problems.’ USPS, an independent government agency with 635,000 employees that lost $9.5 billion last year, has been exempt from DOGE-directed federal employee reductions. DeJoy told Congress in a letter seen by Reuters that USPS plans to reduce its workforce by 10,000 workers in the next month through a voluntary early retirement program first announced in January. The Post Office has cut 30,000 jobs since 2021.” (Source: Reuters)

United States Institute For Peace

• March 15, 2025: “On the afternoon of Friday, March 14, 2025, several members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arrived at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) unannounced accompanied by two FBI agents. They were met at the door by the Institute’s outside counsel who informed them of USIP’s private and independent status as a non-executive branch agency. Following that discussion, the DOGE representatives departed.” (Source: USIP)
• March 17, 2025: “‘DOGE just came into the building — they’re inside the building — they’re bringing the F.B.I. and brought a bunch of D.C. police,’ Sophia Lin, a lawyer for the institute, said by telephone as she and other officials were being escorted out. George Moose, who was fired as the institute’s acting president last week but is challenging his dismissal, accused Mr. Musk’s team of breaking in. ‘Our statute is very clear about the status of this building and this institute,’ he told reporters. ‘So what has happened here today is an illegal takeover by elements of the executive branch of a private nonprofit corporation.’” (Source: Washington Post)

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