While members of Congress try to obtain an official list of personnel working for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the media have 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].
Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (source: The Guardian)
- “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.”
Department of Veteran Affairs (source: Military.com)
- “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.”
USAID (source: Associated Press)
- “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.”
Treasury (source: NBC News)
- “With a cadre of engineers as young as 19 years old, and with the encouragement of Trump, Musk has demanded and been given access to sensitive government databases and the Treasury Department’s payment system with an unprecedented series of bureaucratic maneuvers.”
- NBC News: “Attorneys for the Justice Department have agreed to temporarily restrict staffers associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing information in the Treasury Department’s payment system.”
Health and Human Services/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services/National Institutes of Health (source: USA Today)
- “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.”
- Sam Stein, 2/5/25: “Reports are that DOGE staffers are now at NIH.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (source: Washington Post)
- “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.”
Department of Labor (source: Washington Post)
- “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.’”
Office of Personnel Management (source: Washington Post)
- “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.”
Department of Education (source: USA Today)
- “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.”
General Services Administration (source: Associated Press)
- “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.”
Federal Aviation Administration (source: Business Insider)
- “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.’”
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (source: WIRED)
- “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.”
- Musk, 11/26/24: “Delete CFPB. There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies.”
Department of Energy (source: CNN)
- “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. ”
Environmental Protection Agency (source: E&E News)
- “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.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (source: NBC News)
- “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.”
- ProPublica: “[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.”
Social Security Administration (source: ProPublica)
- “[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.”
Department of Housing and Urban Development (source: NYT)
- “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.”
Federal Emergency Management Agency (source: NYT, Washington Post)
- NYT: “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.”
- WaPo: “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.”
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