DOGE Days
In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to rename and reorganize it as the United States DOGE Service. — Executive Order 14123: Establishing and Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency (Federal Register) On March 17 2025, I joined DOGE as a software engineer working for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The Friday before starting, I went to the VA Medical Center in Manhattan to get fingerprinted. While filling out forms, I left the "employee/contractor/volunteer" field blank because I didn't know the answer. I just knew I wanted to write code for the federal government. VA's impact is around $350 billion a year, with 473,000 employees. In 2016, I canvassed for Bernie Sanders. I spent my first day in Nevada walking door-to-door in the desert heat with a dying phone battery and a stack of printed papers delineating potential voters, thinking "there really should be an app for this." There, I ended up writing some Google Apps code for cau
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