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Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., speaks to supporters at the Nevada Democratic Party’s election results watch party at Aria Resort & Casino early on Nov. 6, 2024 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Senate Democrat wants answers on HHS technology staff cuts

Sen. Jacky Rosen is asking HHS Secretary Kennedy to provide information about staffing levels in department CIO offices and IT shops.
FDA Building 21 stands behind the sign at the campus’s main entrance and houses the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. The FDA campus is located at 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20993. (FDA / Wikimedia Commons)

FDA tech officials complied with DOGE’s requests for data. The staff reductions still came.

Officials at the Food and Drug Administration who spoke to FedScoop believe that information from a recent “data call” on critical and essential systems informed staff reductions.
Elon Musk shows off a shirt that says “DOGE” as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 2025. (Photo by Oliver Contreras / AFP) (Photo by OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Judge OK’s labor groups’ challenge to DOGE data work at DOL, CFPB, HHS

A lawsuit seeking relief from DOGE’s accessing of PII at the agencies can move forward on claims that the Administrative Procedure Act may have been violated.
Protesters gather outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 03, 2025 in Washington, DC. The group of federal employees and supporters are protesting against Elon Musk, tech billionaire and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his aids who have been given access to federal employee personal data and have allegedly locked out career civil servants from the OPM computer systems. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Agencies take cautious approaches to OPM email asking for list of accomplishments

Federal agency responses included giving workers a template and warning to write responses as if they’re going to “be read by malign foreign actors.”
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