02-05-2025
Here Are the Job Titles and Salary Ranges of Some DOGE Staffers
Welcome back to FOIA Files! On Jan. 29, a couple of weeks before Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (better known by its acronym, DOGE) began gutting the federal workforce, I tried to figure out who'd been hired to help execute the plans. I filed a FOIA request with the Office of Personnel Management, the government's human resources agency, asking for a list of all individuals hired since Jan. 20, along with their title and job description. I just received that document—keep reading to see what I was able to glean from it. If you're not already getting FOIA Files in your inbox, sign up here.
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