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March 13, 2025
DOGE Agent: Anthony Armstrong
Musk Connections: Advised Musk’s Twitter purchase
Other Corporate Affiliations: Morgan Stanley; Credit Suisse; Qatar Holding
DOGE Deployment: Senior Advisor, Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
March 12, 2025
Wall Street Bankers Salivate Over Postal Privatization
Corporate profiteers want to ransack an institution older than America itself.
March 12, 2025
Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Housing and Urban Development
HUD’s enforcement power and ability to carry out federal programs have been weakened for years by staffing shortages. This blog overviews the key reasons why HUD needs more staff.
March 12, 2025
Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Federal Trade Commission
Even under a friendlier administration, the FTC has not been given a budget that would fully allow the agency to fulfill its mission. This blog overviews some of the enforcement responsibilities the FTC could better fulfill with more staff.
March 12, 2025
Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Environmental Protection Agency
During the Biden administration, EPA workers reported a staffing crisis at the agency. The Trump administration now wants to drastically decrease its work force. This blog overviews the impacts of an understaffed EPA on the health and wellbeing of our environment and communities.
March 12, 2025
Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Social Security Administration
The SSA has been in the midst of a severe staffing crisis for years. Even though SSA staffing had already been decreasing under Biden, Trump’s cost-cutting administration has moved to slash its staff even more than it has already been reduced. This blog overviews why the SSA needs more staff.
March 12, 2025
DOGE Agent: Noah Peters
Musk Connections: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Partner at Brewer Attorneys & Counselors, Counsel at Bailey and Ehrenberg PLLC
DOGE Deployment: Senior Advisor, Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
March 12, 2025
DOGE Agent: Stephen Duarte
Musk Connections: Human Resources at SpaceX
Other Corporate Affiliations: Client relations specialist at CMG Financial
DOGE Deployment: Office of Personnel Management
March 12, 2025
How Secretary Of Transportation Sean Duffy Is Crashing Inflation
February’s inflation report looks good at first glance. But dig deeper and you’ll see that Musk making flying dangerous is the cause.
March 10, 2025
DOGE Agent: Christina Hanna
Musk Connections: 8 years at SpaceX, currently the Senior Human Resources Manager
Other Corporate Connections: HR at Amazon from 2013 to 2016; 1 year in HR at Target
DOGE Deployments: OPM
March 10, 2025
DOGE Agent: Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski
Musk Connections: HR Director at SpaceX
DOGE Deployments: OPM
Other Affiliations:
She appears to own a metal working company called MB Custom Metal LLC. The Better Business Bureau lists her as a “managing member”.
March 10, 2025
DOGE & Co Set Their Sights on Americans With Disabilities
Cuts to the Social Security Administration will hurt Social Security beneficiaries, particularly the most vulnerable among them.
March 07, 2025
Trump’s Attacks on Weather and Climate Science Put Us All In Danger
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the backbone of climate and weather research and information in the United States. Its annual budget is under $7 billion, and the value of the weather information that it shares with the public is estimated to be over $100 billion annually. That means the American taxpayer gets a more than fourteen-fold return on investment. (Now that’s government efficiency, contrary to the claims of DOGE and its sympathizers about eliminating government bloat.)
March 06, 2025
Former Schumer Staffer Spins Crypto Revolving Door
Jen Brown, Senator Chuck Schumer’s former Banking Counsel, joins the cryptocurrency investment firm Paradigm in a clear conflict of interest.