Department of Government Efficiency
Department of Government Efficiency is named in 56 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 2025 to 2026.
Department of Government Efficiency on the timeline
56 events · 2016–2026 · click any marker
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-23 | Federal Judge Reverses Takedown Order, Rules DOGE Deposition Videos Can Stay Online
3 src federal court · Department of Government Efficiency · Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-22 | Trump Admin Altered SSA Inspector General Report to Hide DOGE Impact on Services
4 src SSA · SSA Inspector General · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | Government Executive Investigation Reveals DOGE Staffers Fabricated White House Pressure
2 src Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox · Michael McDonald · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-16 | DOGE Staffer Admits Under Oath Agency Did Not Reduce Federal Deficit
3 src Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-13 | DOGE Cuts Hobble Pentagon IT, FBI Counterintel, and VOA as War Costs Dwarf All Savings
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Pentagon · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Kash Patel | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-13 | Judge Orders Plaintiffs to Remove Viral DOGE Deposition Videos from YouTube
3 src Judge Colleen McMahon · Nate Cavanaugh · Justin Fox · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | DOGE Cuts 1,029 More NOAA Employees, Threatening Weather Forecasting and Disaster Response
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · U.S. National Weather Service · Elon Musk · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | USPS Postmaster DeJoy Signs DOGE Deal to Cut 10,000 Postal Workers
3 src Louis DeJoy · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · U.S. Postal Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Social Security Administration Inspector General Opens Formal Probe into DOGE Data Misuse
3 src U.S. Social Security Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · Robert Garcia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | DOGE Spending Cuts Leave U.S. Government Hollowed Out as Iran War Escalates
2 src Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of State · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Whistleblower Alleges Ex-DOGE Staffer Stole Social Security Database on Thumb Drive
4 src Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. Social Security Administration · Elon Musk · U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | OPM Data Confirms Federal Workforce Shrunk 12% Under DOGE, 386,000 Positions Eliminated
4 src Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Personnel Management · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-25 | Fired Inspectors General Testify to Congress That Trump Administration Dismantled Federal Oversight Ecosystem
4 src Donald Trump · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · House Oversight Committee Democrats | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-19 | Analysis Shows Congress Rejected Nearly All DOGE Spending Cuts in FY2026 Budget
4 src Department of Government Efficiency · Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-19 | Trump Issues DOGE Deregulatory Executive Order Requiring 60-Day Regulatory Review at All Agencies Including Independent Bodies
4 src Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-14 | Scott Shambaugh Firing Exposes DOGE's Indiscriminate Purge of Technical Expertise
3 src Scott Shambaugh · Department of Government Efficiency · National Institute of Standards and Technology · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-12 | One Year After DOGE Cuts, 322,000 Federal Workers Displaced in Largest Peacetime Workforce Reduction
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Russell Vought · Office of Personnel Management | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-05 | Federal Judge Orders Elon Musk Deposition Over USAID Dismantling, Rejects Apex Doctrine Claims
3 src Elon Musk · Theodore Chuang · United States Agency for International Development · Peter Marocco · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-05 | Russell Vought Tells Congress DOGE Affiliates Are "Institutionalized" as OMB In-House Consultants
3 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | Analysis Shows DOGE Savings Claims Fall Short of $1 Trillion Target, Cost Taxpayers Billions
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Russell Vought | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-27 | Federal Employment Hits Lowest Level Since 1966 as DOGE Reductions Take Hold
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Office of Personnel Management · Elon Musk · Scott Kupor | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-23 | NPR Report Reveals Trump Administration Admits DOGE Accessed Personal Social Security Data Beyond Legal Authority
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Social Security Administration · Chuck Borges · NPR | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-20 | DOJ Court Filing Confirms DOGE Shared Social Security Data to Unauthorized Server
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Department of Justice · Social Security Administration · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-17 | DOGE Claims $881M in Education Research Contract Cancellations
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · U.S. Department of Education · Institute of Education Sciences · Linda McMahon | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-16 | SSA Reveals DOGE Staffers Misused Social Security Data, Signed Secret Voter Roll Agreement While Under Court Order
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Steve Davis · Social Security Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-06 | National Weather Service Enters Winter With Critical Staffing Crisis After DOGE Purge
5 src National Weather Service · NOAA · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | Sahil Lavingia Re-Enters Government at IRS After DOGE Firing for Speaking to Press About Government Efficiency
5 src Sahil Lavingia · Sam Corcos · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-24 | DOGE Disbanded Eight Months Early After Musk Departure and Trump Feud
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Scott Kupor · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | Musk's DOGE Uploads Hundreds of Millions of Americans' SSA Data to Unsecured Cloud
2 src Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Charles Borges · Social Security Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-18 | Education Department Inspector General Probes DOGE's Illegal Access to Student Loan Data
2 src Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Education Department · Inspector General | reported | |
| 2025-09-15 | Wall Street Journal: FEMA Paralyzed by Noem's Approval Requirements as Disaster Victims Wait
2 src Kristi Noem · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Federal Judge Allows Trump to Eliminate 1,600 NSF Grants Worth $1 Billion
2 src Donald Trump · Department of Government Efficiency · National Science Foundation · Federal Judiciary | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | SSA whistleblower Charles Borges forced to resign after exposing data breach
3 src Charles Borges · Social Security Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · Aram Moghaddassi | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-26 | Whistleblower Reveals Unprecedented Social Security Database Security Breach
6 src Charles Borges · John Solly · Michael Russo · Aram Moghaddassi · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump Orders States to Hand Over Medicaid, Food Assistance, and Voter Roll Data for Federal Surveillance
3 src U.S. Department of Homeland Security · USDA · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-26 | DOGE Uses AI to Target Elimination of 50% of Federal Regulations
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Supreme Court lifts injunctions, enables mass firings at 19 federal agencies
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Federal Agencies · General Services Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | DOGE Pushes SEC to Loosen Wall Street Regulations on SPACs and Reporting
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | 128,709 federal workers laid off or targeted for layoffs
4 src Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-03 | Trump-Musk Feud Erupts Over 'Big Beautiful Bill' as Musk Suggests Impeachment
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Federal workforce shrinks by 59,000 jobs with 154,000 on paid leave
4 src Trump Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Office of Personnel Management · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Over 275,000 federal layoffs announced with 128,709 workers targeted
4 src Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Federal Workforce · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-29 | DOGE Aide Dismantling CFPB Owns Substantial Stock in Regulated Companies During Mass Layoffs
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Judge allows unions’ APA challenge to DOGE data access to proceed
4 src Judge John D. Bates (D.D.C.) · Department of Government Efficiency · AFL-CIO · American Federation of Government Employees · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Musk's DOGE Team Gains Control of Federal Payment System
3 src Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · David Lebryk · Chuck Schumer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | Challenger data shows DOGE drove 280,253 federal layoffs across 27 agencies
4 src Department of Government Efficiency · Challenger Gray & Christmas · Elon Musk · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | Judge Cooper rules DOGE subject to FOIA due to "unusual secrecy" and "substantial authority"
4 src Judge Christopher Cooper · Department of Government Efficiency · Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | It's 'shoot first and ask questions later' as DOGE tries to dismantle CFPB: Official
7 src Department of Government Efficiency · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-06 | Cabinet Meeting Explodes as Rubio and Duffy Clash with Musk Over DOGE Cuts
3 src Elon Musk · Marco Rubio · Sean Duffy · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-06 | Federal layoffs surge to 62,530 in first two months as DOGE cuts dominate
4 src Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Federal Agencies · Challenger Gray & Christmas | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-25 | FAA approves 4,000 Starlink terminals, considers canceling $2.4B Verizon contract
4 src Federal Aviation Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Starlink · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-25 | Trump Administration Introduces Expansive Special Government Employee Status for Private Sector Leaders
4 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Administration Terminates Critical Privacy Officials at OPM, Blocking Public Information Access
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-09 | CFPB Headquarters Shuttered as Staff Ordered to Stop All Work
5 src Russell Vought · Mark Paoletta · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Musk companies received $38 billion in government support over 20 years
3 src Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla · Starlink · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Ed Coristine, 19, given access to critical government systems despite cybercrime links
3 src Edward Coristine · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · State Department · +2 | confirmed |
Appears in curated timelines
Network neighbors
Elon Musk
36× shared
Donald Trump
16× shared
Trump Administration
9× shared
Russell Vought
7× shared
Office of Personnel Management
6× shared
Social Security Administration
6× shared
Justin Fox
4× shared
Nate Cavanaugh
4× shared
Charles Borges
3× shared
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
3× shared
Federal Agencies
3× shared
Office of Management and Budget
3× shared
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
3× shared
Aram Moghaddassi
2× shared
Challenger Gray & Christmas
2× shared
Federal Workforce
2× shared
Gavin Kliger
2× shared
Marco Rubio
2× shared
Ron Wyden
2× shared
Scott Kupor
2× shared
SpaceX
2× shared
Starlink
2× shared
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
2× shared
U.S. Department of Labor
2× shared
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