Wired

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

In August, months after Elon Musk left the federal government, the director of the Office of Personnel Management offered the first hard estimate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s ...
Wired

DOGE Used a Meta AI Model to Review Emails From Federal Workers

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) used artificial intelligence from Meta’s Llama model to comb through and analyze emails from federal workers. Materials viewed by WIRED ...
NPR

Connecting the dots on DOGE

It's been six months since President Trump first announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative, which has dramatically shrunk parts of the federal government. And with ...
CNN

New careers, relocations and medical problems: How ex-federal workers’ lives have been upended since DOGE

For Ashley Garley, the past year has been “messy, challenging and heartbreaking.” Garley, a former contractor and malaria expert with the US Agency for International Development, was among the first ...
The Boston Globe

Elon Musk is gone, but DOGE still filled with his current and former employees

This story was originally published by ProPublica. In an effort launched shortly after DOGE’s creation, ProPublica has now identified more than 100 private-sector executives, engineers and investors ...
Business Insider

6 months after DOGE upended their lives, 6 former federal workers reveal their advice for others

When Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency took a chainsaw to the federal workforce this winter, the dust felt like it might never settle. The administration said the initiative was ...
CNBC

One year after DOGE cuts, former federal workers find new roles

Nonprofit Work for America is helping to place former federal workers in new roles in state and local government, after the largest reduction in the federal workforce in history. Recent data from the ...