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WOODLAWN, MARYLAND – MARCH 19: A sign in front of the entrance of the Security Administration’s main campus on March 19, 2025 in Woodlawn, Maryland. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has announced plans to eliminate thousands of agency positions as well as numerous regional and local Social Security offices. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Judge blocks DOGE access to Social Security systems, calls for deletion of data

Under the order, all DOGE team members associated with the organization's work at SSA must disgorge and delete all non-anonymized personal information they obtained from SSA systems.
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an education event in the East Room of the White house in Washington, DC, March 20, 2025. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

Trump executive order consolidates federal IT contracting under GSA

GSA will be given authority to "defer or decline" being the executive agent of IT governmentwide contracts "when necessary to ensure continuity of service or as otherwise…
Former federal workers protest against Trump administration policies in front of the Hubert Humphrey Health and Human Services building in Washington D.C. on Feb. 19, 2025. (Photo by DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Agencies that fired 25,000 federal workers comply with court-ordered reinstatements

Roughly 15,500 reinstatements were a direct result of the district court order, while roughly 6,000 workers were already reinstated, per court documents.
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An organizational flag flies outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 as demonstrators gather to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo by Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)

Lawyer linked to DOGE is defending OPM mass email system lawsuit

Counsel for the plaintiffs in the case flagged Monday that an attorney who played a role in efforts to shutter the U.S. African Development Foundation is also…
SILVER SPRING, MD – MARCH 03: Hundreds of demonstrators gather to protest against Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts outside the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on March 03, 2025 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Last week the Trump administration fired about 800 probationary staff at NOAA, one of the world’s premier centers for climate science. The layoffs are on top of about 500 employees who left the agency after taking the so-called deferred resignation offer. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

NOAA firings spark concerns for agency’s data-centric mission 

Terminations could threaten the weather and climate agency’s public safety work and make existing staffing issues worse, former workers said.
A Department of Homeland Security logo is seen inside a press conference room on May 11, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

DHS picks Marine, intelligence veteran as new CIO

Antoine McCord spent 18 years in a variety of cyber and national security roles, according to the agency.
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