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  "updated": "2026-10-22",
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    {
      "name": "USAID / State",
      "area": "Aid",
      "impact": "Rubio announced about 5,200 canceled programs; remaining aid responsibilities moved toward State.",
      "status": "Emergency-food cancellations were reversed; the independent agency was dismantled.",
      "date": "March–July 2025",
      "sourceIds": [
        "RUBIO_CANCELLATIONS",
        "USAID_FINAL_STAFF",
        "LEWIN"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "CDC / NIH",
      "area": "Health",
      "impact": "HHS’s workforce restructuring removed staff alongside a wider assault on research funding.",
      "status": "Kennedy said 722 CDC and 220 NIH employees had been brought back.",
      "date": "June 24, 2025",
      "sourceIds": [
        "HHS_PLAN",
        "HHS_REHIRED"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "NIOSH",
      "area": "Health",
      "impact": "Workplace-safety researchers were sidelined for months.",
      "status": "All reduction-in-force notices rescinded; departed specialists were not automatically recovered.",
      "date": "January 13, 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "NIOSH_RETURN"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "FDA",
      "area": "Health",
      "impact": "Medical-device scientists received dismissal notices.",
      "status": "Reuters verified return offers to at least 11; completed returns were not established by that report.",
      "date": "February 22, 2025",
      "sourceIds": [
        "FDA_REHIRED"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Veterans Affairs",
      "area": "Health",
      "impact": "An early proposal sought roughly 83,000 cuts. It was not implemented as announced.",
      "status": "VA abandoned a department-wide layoff and instead projected nearly 30,000 reductions through attrition, retirement and other departures.",
      "date": "July 7, 2025",
      "sourceIds": [
        "VA_PLAN"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Veterans Health Administration",
      "area": "Health",
      "impact": "All 139 facilities surveyed reported severe occupational shortages; 97% cited physicians and 86% nurses.",
      "status": "These are survey findings, not a count of vacancies caused by DOGE. Longstanding shortages remain part of the picture.",
      "date": "September 11, 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "VA_SHORTAGES"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "IRS",
      "area": "Services",
      "impact": "Workforce fell from about 102,000 to 74,000 in 2025.",
      "status": "June 2026 recruitment targeted taxpayer assistance and tax-examining staff.",
      "date": "January / June 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "nta-annual",
        "irs-hiring"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Education: civil rights",
      "area": "Services",
      "impact": "Roughly half the office’s staff were placed on leave.",
      "status": "December recall followed by January rescission of layoff notices.",
      "date": "December 2025–January 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "gao-education"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "National Endowment for the Humanities",
      "area": "Culture",
      "impact": "More than 1,400 grants canceled in April 2025.",
      "status": "Court ordered cancellation notices withdrawn in May 2026; agency appealed in July.",
      "date": "May–July 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "neh-court",
        "neh-appeal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Social Security Administration",
      "area": "Data",
      "impact": "Court record disclosed inaccurate accounts of data handling and use of an unauthorized server.",
      "status": "Appeals court vacated an injunction; that did not settle every question about data handling.",
      "date": "April 10, 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "ssa-appeal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Treasury payments",
      "area": "Data",
      "impact": "A DOGE employee accessed three payment systems. GAO found security controls were not all followed.",
      "status": "Temporary create/modify/delete permission was also granted by mistake. GAO found no evidence it was used to change data.",
      "date": "April 28, 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "gao-treasury-data"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "GSA: Public Buildings Service",
      "area": "Operations",
      "impact": "Staffing fell 45%; workforce planning followed the cuts.",
      "status": "Reduced estimating capacity delayed disposal of unwanted space, according to a tenant agency.",
      "date": "April 14, 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "gao-gsa"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Office of Personnel Management",
      "area": "Operations",
      "impact": "Workforce down 35%, or 1,052 employees; ten offices eliminated.",
      "status": "GAO warned that reductions could aggravate capacity gaps.",
      "date": "July 20, 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "gao-opm"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Homeland Security contracts",
      "area": "Operations",
      "impact": "438 contracts fully or partly terminated; $10.5 billion potential avoidance reported.",
      "status": "Net deobligations exceeded $92 million; equivalent needs were also purchased through other contracts.",
      "date": "September 3, 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "gao-dhs-contracts"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Nuclear Security Administration",
      "area": "Safety",
      "impact": "Nearly 180 dismissals in the February 2025 account.",
      "status": "All but 28 were rescinded.",
      "date": "February 21, 2025",
      "sourceIds": [
        "NUCLEAR_BIRD_FLU"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "USDA: animal health laboratories",
      "area": "Safety",
      "impact": "Three laboratory-network workers were dismissed during the bird-flu response.",
      "status": "The three were rehired.",
      "date": "February 21, 2025",
      "sourceIds": [
        "NUCLEAR_BIRD_FLU"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "NOAA: National Weather Service",
      "area": "Safety",
      "impact": "Workforce cuts left critical positions to refill.",
      "status": "Permission to hire up to 450 staff; permission is not a completed hiring total.",
      "date": "August 6, 2025",
      "sourceIds": [
        "NWS_HIRING"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Aviation weather services",
      "area": "Safety",
      "impact": "69 active meteorologists against 81 agreed positions; only eight of 21 centers fully staffed.",
      "status": "GAO called for workforce-risk assessment; recommendation remained open in June 2026.",
      "date": "August 2025 / June 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "NWS_AVIATION"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "FEMA",
      "area": "Safety",
      "impact": "A proposed plan sought a 50% workforce cut.",
      "status": "Judge Susan Illston ruled the plan unlawful. The proposed reduction was blocked.",
      "date": "September 12, 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "fema-order"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Environmental Protection Agency",
      "area": "Safety",
      "impact": "Spending above $50,000 required DOGE review and a written justification under a March 2025 process.",
      "status": "Another approval layer was inserted into the agency’s work.",
      "date": "March 2025",
      "sourceIds": [
        "epa-approvals"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Consumer Financial Protection Bureau",
      "area": "Services",
      "impact": "Proposed workforce reductions faced a continuing legal challenge.",
      "status": "The parties obtained a litigation pause pending confirmation of a new director. The workforce case remained unresolved.",
      "date": "July 13, 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "cfpb-case"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "National Park Service",
      "area": "Land",
      "impact": "About 1,000 newer staff were fired in February 2025. NPCA’s July analysis found permanent staffing down 24%.",
      "status": "Dozens of jobs restored; seasonal hiring promised. NPCA reported maintenance workers covering cleaning after custodial staff were dismissed at Black Canyon of the Gunnison.",
      "date": "February–July 2025",
      "sourceIds": [
        "parks-0",
        "parks-1",
        "parks-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Forest Service",
      "area": "Land",
      "impact": "GAO found staffing down about 20% in fiscal 2025, even as Trump demanded more timber production. Officials said losses strained capacity.",
      "status": "By March 2026, the agency was transferring remaining staff into priority roles and recruiting seasonal forestry technicians.",
      "date": "June 4, 2026",
      "sourceIds": [
        "forest-0"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Housing and Urban Development",
      "area": "Services",
      "impact": "HUD’s inspector general warned of sharply reduced staffing while many offices were still developing fraud-risk controls.",
      "status": "Longstanding oversight weaknesses and diminished staffing intersected in the inspector general’s management-challenges review.",
      "date": "Fiscal 2026 review",
      "sourceIds": [
        "hud-1"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "number": 1,
      "id": "gao-receipts",
      "title": "DOGE savings claims: limitations in Wall of Receipts",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108615",
      "publisher": "Government Accountability Office",
      "date": "August 6, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "id": "cpac-video",
      "title": "Musk wields chainsaw at CPAC",
      "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-elon-musk-wields-chainsaw-for-bureaucracy-on-stage-before-speaking-at-cpac",
      "publisher": "PBS News",
      "date": "February 20, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "id": "doge-order",
      "title": "Establishing and implementing the President's DOGE",
      "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/",
      "publisher": "White House",
      "date": "January 20, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 4,
      "id": "workforce-order",
      "title": "Workforce optimization executive order",
      "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative/",
      "publisher": "White House",
      "date": "February 11, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 5,
      "id": "promises-ap",
      "title": "Musk's departure leaves DOGE's ambitious promises unfulfilled",
      "url": "https://apnews.com/article/666f0c3f890354fe836230826d9faa85",
      "publisher": "Associated Press",
      "date": "May 29, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 6,
      "id": "doge-claims",
      "title": "DOGE Savings / Wall of Receipts",
      "url": "https://www.doge.gov/savings",
      "publisher": "U.S. DOGE Service",
      "date": "January 1, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 7,
      "id": "senate-costs",
      "title": "The $21.7 Billion Blunder",
      "url": "https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025-07-31-Minority-Staff-Report-The-21.7-Billion-Blunder.pdf",
      "publisher": "Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Democratic minority staff",
      "date": "July 31, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 8,
      "id": "gao-dhs-contracts",
      "title": "DHS contract terminations and potential savings",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-109096",
      "publisher": "Government Accountability Office",
      "date": "September 3, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 9,
      "id": "gao-leave",
      "title": "Federal workforce: administrative leave use and cost",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108477",
      "publisher": "Government Accountability Office",
      "date": "September 15, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 10,
      "id": "treasury-2025",
      "title": "Combined Statement of Receipts, Outlays and Balances FY 2025",
      "url": "https://fiscal.treasury.gov/system/files/files/reports-statements/combined-statement/cs2025/2025-cs-final.pdf",
      "publisher": "Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service",
      "date": "November 3, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 11,
      "id": "cbo-2026",
      "title": "Monthly Budget Review: September 2026",
      "url": "https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61985",
      "publisher": "Congressional Budget Office",
      "date": "October 8, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 12,
      "id": "receipts-early-errors",
      "title": "DOGE website offers error-filled window into Musk’s government overhaul",
      "url": "https://kelo.com/2025/03/04/doge-website-offers-error-filled-window-into-musks-government-overhaul/",
      "publisher": "Reuters, via KELO",
      "date": "March 4, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 13,
      "id": "treasury-fraud-audit",
      "title": "Fiscal Service’s Sensitive Payment Systems’ Controls Are Generally Adequate but Weaknesses and Deficiencies Exist",
      "url": "https://oig.treasury.gov/system/files/2026-06/Audit-of-Fiscal-Service-Sensitive-Payment-Systems-%28OIG-26-032%29---Locked.pdf",
      "publisher": "Treasury Office of Inspector General",
      "date": "June 8, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 14,
      "id": "doge-dividend-proposal",
      "title": "Could Trump really return DOGE savings to taxpayers?",
      "url": "https://apnews.com/article/7fb8b5b004faecc213c325fcbafc7ee9",
      "publisher": "Associated Press",
      "date": "February 20, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 15,
      "id": "doge-dividend-outcome",
      "title": "Trump $5,000 checks and $500 ACA rebates: What to know",
      "url": "https://www.kiplinger.com/taxes/trump-dividend-and-aca-rebate-checks-what-to-know",
      "publisher": "Kiplinger",
      "date": "October 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 16,
      "id": "ap-price",
      "title": "A year after Trump's DOGE cuts, workers whose lives were upended ask what was saved",
      "url": "https://apnews.com/article/ed82cbe516fbc527b0d8392e7b8098dc",
      "publisher": "Associated Press (also syndicated by PBS)",
      "date": "March 27, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 17,
      "id": "gao-workforce",
      "title": "Federal workforce changes across major agencies",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108583",
      "publisher": "Government Accountability Office",
      "date": "June 17, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 18,
      "id": "gao-opm",
      "title": "OPM workforce reductions and capacity",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108916",
      "publisher": "Government Accountability Office",
      "date": "July 20, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 19,
      "id": "gao-gsa",
      "title": "GSA Public Buildings Service workforce planning",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108155",
      "publisher": "Government Accountability Office",
      "date": "April 14, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 20,
      "id": "nta-annual",
      "title": "National Taxpayer Advocate 2025 annual report release",
      "url": "https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/national-taxpayer-advocate-delivers-annual-report-to-congress-finds-taxpayer-service-was-strong-in-2025-but-foresees-challenges-for-taxpayers-who-encounter-problems-in-2026",
      "publisher": "IRS / National Taxpayer Advocate",
      "date": "January 28, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 21,
      "id": "nta-midyear",
      "title": "Fiscal Year 2027 Objectives Report / Review of 2026 Filing Season",
      "url": "https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/JRC27_FullReport.pdf",
      "publisher": "National Taxpayer Advocate",
      "date": "June 24, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 22,
      "id": "irs-hiring",
      "title": "IRS announces nationwide hiring events",
      "url": "https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-announces-nationwide-hiring-events-for-customer-service-representatives-and-tax-examining-technicians",
      "publisher": "Internal Revenue Service",
      "date": "June 4, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 23,
      "id": "aid-crs-footprint",
      "title": "U.S. Agency for International Development: An Overview",
      "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF10261",
      "publisher": "Congressional Research Service",
      "date": "September 5, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 24,
      "id": "aid-gao-2026",
      "title": "Foreign Assistance: Agencies Made Broad Changes, but State Lacked Guidance for Decisions",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108607",
      "publisher": "Government Accountability Office",
      "date": "September 30, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 25,
      "id": "aid-amfar-pulse",
      "title": "amfAR PEPFAR Pulse Study: HIV Service Sites Closed by Funding Cuts",
      "url": "https://www.amfar.org/news/amfar-pepfar-pulse-study-hiv-service-sites-closed-funding-cuts/",
      "publisher": "amfAR",
      "date": "July 21, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 26,
      "id": "aid-kff-malaria",
      "title": "The Trump Administration's Foreign Aid Review: Status of the President's Malaria Initiative",
      "url": "https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/the-trump-administrations-foreign-aid-review-status-of-the-presidents-malaria-initiative-pmi/",
      "publisher": "KFF",
      "date": "September 22, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 27,
      "id": "USAID_OIG_WARNING",
      "title": "Oversight of USAID-Funded Humanitarian Assistance Programming Impacted by Staffing Reductions and Pause on Foreign Assistance",
      "url": "https://oig.usaid.gov/node/7439",
      "publisher": "USAID Office of Inspector General",
      "date": "February 10, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 28,
      "id": "MARTIN_FIRED",
      "title": "USAID watchdog fired after critical report on the bid to dismantle the agency",
      "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/general-news/head-of-usaid-watchdog-removed-from-position-official-says-3863284",
      "publisher": "Reuters, via Investing.com",
      "date": "February 11, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 29,
      "id": "RUBIO_CANCELLATIONS",
      "title": "Operation Enduring Sentinel quarterly report, January–March 2025",
      "url": "https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/OES_Q2_Mar2025_Final_508.pdf",
      "publisher": "USAID Office of Inspector General",
      "date": "June 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 30,
      "id": "USAID_FINAL_STAFF",
      "title": "USAID terminates nearly all its remaining employees",
      "url": "https://www.ideastream.org/2025-03-28/usaid-terminates-nearly-all-its-remaining-employees",
      "publisher": "NPR / Ideastream",
      "date": "March 28, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 31,
      "id": "NEPAL_AP",
      "title": "USAID cuts and maternal and child deaths in Nepal",
      "url": "https://apnews.com/article/usaid-nepal-maternal-child-death-trump-aid-cuts-43fb5e8aff8a4f65b7f18781455c3f91",
      "publisher": "Associated Press",
      "date": "August 13, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 32,
      "id": "MYANMAR_AP",
      "title": "Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar",
      "url": "https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0",
      "publisher": "Associated Press",
      "date": "2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 33,
      "id": "SUDAN_REUTERS",
      "title": "South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says",
      "url": "https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/South-Sudan-cholera-patients-died-walking-to-clinic-after-US-cut-aid-charity-says-49566687/",
      "publisher": "Reuters, via MarketScreener",
      "date": "April 9, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 34,
      "id": "aid-mercy",
      "title": "The Human Toll of U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts, Six Months On",
      "url": "https://www.prosperglobal.org/press-room/releases/the-human-toll-of-us-foreign-aid-cuts-six-months-on",
      "publisher": "Mercy Corps (now Prosper Global)",
      "date": "July 17, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 35,
      "id": "aid-cgd-spending",
      "title": "USAID Spending at the Country and Sector Level: What Happened in Fiscal 2025?",
      "url": "https://www.cgdev.org/blog/usaid-spending-country-and-sector-level-what-happened-fiscal-2025",
      "publisher": "Center for Global Development",
      "date": "April 23, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 36,
      "id": "aid-who-tb",
      "title": "Impact of 2025 funding cuts",
      "url": "https://www.who.int/teams/global-programme-on-tuberculosis-and-lung-health/tb-reports/global-tuberculosis-report-2025/featured-topics/Impact-of-2025-funding-cuts",
      "publisher": "World Health Organization, Global Tuberculosis Report 2025",
      "date": "2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 37,
      "id": "aid-wfp-uganda",
      "title": "Funding shortfalls push Uganda's refugees deeper into hunger",
      "url": "https://www.wfp.org/stories/funding-shortfalls-push-ugandas-refugees-deeper-hunger",
      "publisher": "World Food Programme",
      "date": "March 23, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 38,
      "id": "aid-dhs",
      "title": "The end of the DHS Program and the future of gender data: What's at stake?",
      "url": "https://data.unwomen.org/features/end-dhs-program-and-future-gender-data-whats-stake",
      "publisher": "UN Women",
      "date": "August 5, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 39,
      "id": "BELGIUM_OIG",
      "title": "Family Planning Commodities: Final Disposition Instructions Needed for $8 Million in Unusable Items and $1.7 Million in Belgium",
      "url": "https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2026-06/Management%20Advisory_Family%20Planning%20Commodities%20in%20Belgium%20Need%20Final%20Disposition%20Instructions%20(1).pdf",
      "publisher": "USAID Office of Inspector General",
      "date": "June 10, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 40,
      "id": "INTEREST_OIG",
      "title": "USAID’s Interest Payments to Vendors in Calendar Year 2025",
      "url": "https://oig.usaid.gov/node/8119",
      "publisher": "USAID Office of Inspector General",
      "date": "May 5, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 41,
      "id": "LEWIN",
      "title": "DOGE staffer appointed acting head of State Department foreign assistance office",
      "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/doge-staffer-appointed-as-acting-head-of-us-state-dept-foreign-assistance-office-3986546",
      "publisher": "Reuters, via Investing.com",
      "date": "April 15, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 42,
      "id": "HOUSTON_OIG",
      "title": "Emergency Food Assistance: USAID Stored Over $18 Million of Food in Houston Warehouses, but Deficiencies May Increase Risk of Waste",
      "url": "https://oig.usaid.gov/node/8163",
      "publisher": "USAID Office of Inspector General",
      "date": "June 16, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 43,
      "id": "LANCET_MODEL",
      "title": "Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673625011869",
      "publisher": "The Lancet",
      "date": "June 30, 2025"
    },
    {
      "number": 44,
      "id": "SPOKANE_NIOSH",
      "title": "After 9 months of uncertainty, NIOSH brings back workers at Spokane Research Lab",
      "url": "https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/jan/25/after-9-months-of-uncertainty-federal-workplace-sa/",
      "publisher": "The Spokesman-Review",
      "date": "January 25, 2026"
    },
    {
      "number": 45,
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