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Nearly 1 in 5 Federal Workers Is Gone: What “Voluntary” Departures Mean Legally
The Washington Post reported on October 29, 2026, that nearly one in five federal workers has left government since January 2025, and that Black federal employees took the biggest ...
USAID Official Who Signed Mass Terminations Had No HR Record, Emails Show: Why Paperwork Matters
A new report from WIRED raises a pointed question about the USAID terminations: how did an official sign the letter ending the employment of thousands of career staff when, accordi...
FOIA Records: DOGE Affiliate Said the White House Sent a List of NSF Grants to Cut
Newly released records show a DOGE affiliate at the National Science Foundation writing that the White House had sent him a list of NSF grants to terminate, months before a top Whi...
OPM Broke the Privacy Act With DOGE Access. Will Federal Employees Get Paid?
A federal judge has ruled that OPM violated the Privacy Act when it gave DOGE agents access to the personnel records of millions of current, former, and prospective federal employe...
Federal Judge Rules OPM Violated the Privacy Act by Giving DOGE Access to Employee Records
A federal court has ruled that OPM violated the Privacy Act when it gave DOGE agents broad access to the personal information of tens of millions of past, current, and aspiring fed...
Supreme Court Takes DOGE Records Case: Did DOGE Ever Give a Binding Order?
Did DOGE ever actually order anybody fired? The government is telling the Supreme Court that the DOGE office at the White House never gave a single binding order to any agency and ...
DOGE Alumni Startups Raise Half a Billion Dollars: What Federal Ethics Rules Say
Startups founded or bankrolled by DOGE alumni have raised at least half a billion dollars, according to a Washington Post report published October 12, 2026. At least six DOGE alumn...
GAO's DOGE Report: Did DOGE Have Access to Your Federal Personnel File?
Did DOGE have access to your federal personnel file? A new GAO report on DOGE, released September 29, 2026, suggests the honest answer is that we may never fully know, and that for...
VA Told Congress It Cut $120 Billion in Contracts. The Inspector General Found $1.1 Billion.
A new VA Inspector General report on last year's VA contract terminations found that some staff had only hours, in some cases less than 11, to review hundreds of contracts marked f...
Should Musk Testify Under Oath? Two House Democrats Ask After GAO Finds DOGE Savings of $92 Million, Not $10.5 Billion
Two House Democrats have asked for Elon Musk and DOGE officials to testify under oath about DOGE's savings numbers, after a GAO audit found that DHS's claimed $10.5 billion in cont...
D.C. Circuit: IRS Data-Sharing With ICE "Indisputably Contravenes" Federal Tax Privacy Law
The lawsuit filed to keep DOGE out of IRS taxpayer data just won at the D.C. Circuit. On September 8, 2026, a unanimous panel in Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS, No. 26-5006 (D.C...
GAO Audit: DHS Claimed $10.5 Billion in DOGE Contract Savings. Auditors Found $92 Million.
A new GAO audit of DHS contract terminations has put a hard number on the DOGE savings claims that federal employees heard all year. The Department of Homeland Security publicly re...
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