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Federal Judge Orders DOGE to Turn Over IRS Taxpayer-Data Communications by September 14
DOGE must turn over its internal communications about the IRS taxpayer-data sharing deal by September 14 — a federal judge has ordered it. After more than a year in which DOGE’s ro...
The Man Who Ran the IRS Says the Bill for DOGE's Cuts Hasn't Come Due Yet
The IRS workforce has fallen from about 100,000 employees to an expected 74,000 by year's end after DOGE's cuts — and the man who ran the agency says the bill has not come due yet....
Your Weather App Is Not Broken. The Federal Data Behind It Was Cut.
If your weather app has stopped being able to tell you whether it will rain, the app is not the problem — the federal weather data underneath it is. Almost every forecast in this c...
A FEMA Contractor Was Paid Through a DOGE Staffer's Company. Her Deposition Is Now Public.
The rule against using contracts for inherently governmental functions is one of the least discussed protections in the federal workplace, and a newly public deposition in the FEMA...
GAO Audited DOGE's Ethics Paperwork. Most of It Could Not Be Verified.
Every federal employee knows the annual routine: ethics training, records management training, and — for many positions — a financial disclosure form with a certification block som...
GAO Clears DOGE at NLRB — But the Agency Deleted the Access Logs First
A new Government Accountability Office report on DOGE's activity at the National Labor Relations Board reads, at first glance, like an all-clear. But a footnote buried in that same...
DOGE Is Dead. The Damage to the Federal Workforce Isn't.
DOGE — the Department of Government Efficiency — officially shut down on July 4, but the damage to the federal workforce it leaves behind is only now coming into focus. When Congre...
DOGE Alumni, AI Contracts, and Federal Ethics
Federal employees have spent the last year living through workforce reductions, reorganizations, and shifting directives justified in the name of efficiency. Now, according to Vani...
DOGE Whistleblower Retaliation and Federal Rights
Dan Berulis, an IT staffer at the National Labor Relations Board, reportedly raised serious concerns that DOGE had accessed agency systems and moved sensitive data out. The agency ...
GAO, DOGE, and Federal Employee Data Rights
Federal employees have reason to pay close attention when the Government Accountability Office investigates access to agency databases. GAO is not a political commentator. It is Co...
The Washington Post's Coverage on DOGE Wins Pulitzer Prize
A Pulitzer Prize may sound like a media story, but this one belongs in every federal workplace conversation. On May 4, 2026, The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize for Public S...
USAID Contractor Ruling: Why “Bad Faith” Matters
A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Federal Claims should get the attention of every federal employee watching ongoing agency restructuring. In Dan Zieger v. United States (Ap...
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