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A Government Accountability Office report found the federal government paid more than $9.5 billion in 2025 to employees on paid administrative leave under DOGE's deferred-resignation program -- a 435% increase in such...
Since February 2025, Trump has floated or ordered five rounds of direct payments to Americans, with sharply different outcomes. A DOGE-savings "dividend" of up to $5,000 per household, floated in February 2025 on Elon...
A Government Accountability Office report released Sept. 3, 2026, found DHS contract terminations pursued under the Department of Government Efficiency's mandate produced net savings of about $92 million, far below the...
The Government Accountability Office published a report on Aug. 5, 2026, identifying 206 people who held Department of Government Efficiency positions in the Executive Office of the President between Jan. 20, 2025, and...
At a June 30, 2026 House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said the administration has "no plans to do kind of a closing DOGE report," responding to a request...
In a brief filed March 6, 2026, in the Authors Guild's class action over National Endowment for the Humanities grant terminations, plaintiffs laid out discovery showing that DOGE staff used ChatGPT to decide which grants...
In a March 6, 2026 letter to House and Senate committee leaders, the Social Security Administration's inspector general said it was reviewing an anonymous complaint concerning the potential misuse of SSA data by a former...
On June 6, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's emergency application and stayed a district court order that had barred the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Social Security...