Chase Ausley, a director within the U.S. DOGE Service and senior advisor at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, speaks on stage at AITalks on April 14, 2026. (Photo via Scoop News Group)
Chase Ausley, a director within the USDS stationed at CMS, told FedScoop the organization has roughly 90 employees across agencies and is “actively growing.”
The Health and Human Services seal on a door of the office building in downtown Washington DC on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Robb Hill for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The department again reported few uses slated for increased risk management practices, and demoted several systems it previously determined could have significant impact on the public.
Data on the screen as a technician uses a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry at the New York Nutrition and Obesity Research Center in New York, N.Y., on March 24, 2025. (Photo by Bryan Anselm For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Mehmet Oz speaks during an event on Health Technology in the East Room of the White House as U.S. President Donald Trump and Acting Administrator of the United States Department of Government Efficiency Amy Gleason listen on July 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON – AUGUST 15: The exterior of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is seen August 15, 2006 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)