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

May 28, 2025 by Sahil Lavingia In August 2014, President Obama and Congress created the United States Digital Service (USDS). In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to rename and reorganize it as the United States DOGE Service. In consultation with USDS, each Agency Head shall establish within their respective Agencies a DOGE Team of at least four employees, which may include Special Government Employees, hired or assigned within thirty days of the date of this Order. Agency Heads shall select the DOGE Team members in consultation with the USDS Administrator. Each DOGE…

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