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DOGE March 2025 Timeline: Key Updates...
March 28 - USAID Financial Cuts: A federal appeals court lifted an order blocking DOGE from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). (Source: Associated Press)
March 26 - DOGE Staffer Background: Edward Coristine, a DOGE team member, once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data and cyberstalking an FBI agent. (Source: Reuters).
March 26 - Judge Order: A federal appeals court paused an order that would have forced DOGE to turn over records and answer questions under oath about its efforts to slash bureaucracy under President Trump. (Source: Reuters).
March 26 - FMCS Shuttered: DOGE has essentially shut down the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), an independent federal agency that works to prevent and resolve work stoppages and disputes in the public and private sector. (Source: The Guardian.)
March 26 - Venture Capitalists Assist DOGE: Roughly 19 entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are working with DOGE, TechCrunch reported.
March 25 - Space Contracts Face Scrutiny: Musk appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, The Guardian reported.
March 25 - Treasury Layoffs: The U.S. Treasury Department is planning to lay off a “substantial number” amid DOGE's effort to reduce the size of the U.S., Bloomberg reported.
March 20 - Social Security Court Ruling: A federal judge temporarily blocked DOGE from Social Security Administration systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans, PBS reported.
March 18 - Illegal Shutdown?: A federal judge found that Musk and DOGE likely violated the Constitution when they unilaterally acted to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, CBS News reported.
March 17 - DOGE Enters U.S. Institute of Peace: DOGE personnel, accompanied by DC police officers, gained access to the US Institute of Peace after being turned away last week, CNN reported.
March 17 - U.S. States Pursue Federal Cyber Workers: The Trump administration’s job cuts, often driven by DOGE, offer state government tech recruiters a chance to build cyber teams in a tight labor market. (Source: The Wall Street Journal)
March 15 - Federal Firing Mistakes: Vice President JD Vance said Musk has made some “mistakes” with the DOGE firings of federal government workers, adding that he thinks there are “a lot of good people” who work in government (Source: The Hill)
March 13 - Proposed IRA Layoffs: The Trump administration and DOGE are proposing an IRS workforce reduction of 20% by May 15, 2025 — one month after Tax Day in the United States. (Source: CNN)
March 13 - Musk Visits NSA: Musk visited the National Security Agency, current and former U.S. officials said, meeting with leadership a week after saying the intelligence and cybersecurity outfit needed an overhaul. (Source: The Wall Street Journal)
March 11 - DOGE Transparency: A federal judge ruled that DOGE must comply with transparency laws and release its internal documents, finding the secretive operation exercises “substantial independent authority” that cannot be shielded from public scrutiny. (Source: The Guardian)
March 10 - DOGE Staffing: DOGE will grow to about 200 employees, up from 100, Elon Musk told FOX news. (Source: USA Today)
March 9 - DOGE Raises SBA Loan Concerns: DOGE said it identified that the Small Business Administration (SBA) granted nearly 5,600 loans for $312 million to borrowers whose only listed owner was 11 years old or younger at the time of the loan. While some such loans could be legal, it's unlikely that all were legal, DOGE alleged. (Source: Fox News)
March 8 - Buyout Offer for Health and Human Services (HHS): All employees in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were notified of the option to voluntarily resign in exchange for a $25,000 payment. Employees have until March 14 to reply, the report said. (Source: CBS News)
March 8 - Renewable Energy Lawsuit: An environmental nonprofit sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Citibank, seeking billions of dollars for solar and other projects frozen by the bank as the Trump administration slashes federal spending. (Source: Reuters)
March 7 - Texas Forms Its Own DOGE: The state of Texas has formed its own DOGE committee. But unlike the federal-level group, the Texas-focused group will focus on recommendations for reducing waste and spending -- rather than actually implementing real-time headcount reductions. (Source: Texas Tribune)
March 7 - Treasury Systems Ruling: A federal judge in Washington refused to block DOGE team members from accessing Treasury systems containing sensitive personal data for millions of Americans. (Source: The Associated Press)
March 7 - Social Security Payments: DOGE is analyzing $1.6 trillion worth of Social Security payments in an anti-fraud effort that has DOGE critics worried the Trump administration could start denying payments to vulnerable older Americans. (Source: ABC News)
March 5 - Republicans Push Back Against Musk: Republican senators told Musk at a closed-door that his aggressive moves to shrink the federal government will need a vote on Capitol Hill, sending a clear message that Musk needs to respect Congress’s power of the purse. (Source: The Hill)
March 5 - Who Leads DOGE?: Trump referred to Musk as heading DOGE in his speech to a joint session of Congress. In doing so, the president appeared to contradict government lawyers who have characterized Musk’s role as merely advisory. (Source: The Wall Street Journal)
March 5: Musk, speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, said the U.S. Postal Service and passenger railroad Amtrak should be privatized. (Source: Reuters)
March 2 - General Services Administration and IT Consulting: DOGE has instructed the General Services Administration to eliminate its technology consulting unit, known as 18F, Silicon Angle reported.
March 1 - IRS E-Filing Developers Fired: DOGE has fired civil servants who helped to build the Internal Revenue Service’s free tax-filing service and revamp websites across government, a spokesperson for the General Service Administration said, according to Reuters.
March 1 - Erroneous Financial Claims: Recent DOGE website updates contain inaccurate data, according to an NPR review, even as the group corrected prior errors.
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