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Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

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Activists participate in a rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on March 24, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Activists held a rally to support federal workers affected by DOGE cuts. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Opening CFPB databases to Elon Musk is ‘deeply anticompetitive’

House Democrats and a former top CFPB official warn that DOGE’s access to agency systems threatens competition and capitalism.
CLEVELAND, OHIO – JULY 31: Cuyahoga Councilwoman and Congressional Candidate Shontel Brown speaks during Get Out the Vote campaign event at Mt Zion Fellowship on July 31, 2021 in Cleveland, Ohio. Cuyahoga Councilwoman and Congressional Candidate Shontel Brown was joined by Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) and members of the Congressional Black Caucus for a GOTV event on the final weekend of early voting before Tuesdays Primary Special Election for Ohio’s 11th Congressional District primary where Councilwoman Brown and Congressional Candidate Nina Turner are the frontrunners ahead of 11 other Democratic candidates in the race. The special election was triggered after former Rep. Marcia Fudge, joined the Biden administration to become the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

House Oversight passes executive reorganization bill as GOP blocks data privacy amendment

Republicans advanced a bill out of committee that would let the administration reorganize the federal government through amending rules, regulations and requirements.
Frank Bisignano, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration, appears at his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 25, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Social Security nominee vows to protect personal information amid DOGE data dives

Frank Bisignano, who previously called himself “fundamentally a DOGE person,” said PII in SSA systems “needs the highest level of scrutiny and protection.”
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