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DOGE Keeps Gaining Access to Sensitive Data. Now, It Can Cut Off Billions to Farmers
UNITED STATES, JUL 10 – DOGE staff gained ability to view and alter billions in farm payments, raising concerns about data privacy and possible loan cancellations affecting over 200 farmers, watchdogs say.
- Recently, Jordan Wick, a former Waymo software engineer and DOGE staffer, gained high-level access to the USDA's National Payment Service system, controlling billions in payments and loans.
- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins directed, `full access and transparency` to DOGE staff, with USDA Efficiency team reviewing numerous loans and payments, confirming her order.
- In late May, a USDA source explained the voided birthdate data of over 200 loan recipients, while Wick's activities are not logged or monitored, making unauthorized changes hard to detect.
- Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Democrat from Wisconsin, urged to revoke DOGE’s high-level access, calling it a breach of privacy that endangers food security and farmland consolidation.
- On Wednesday, nonprofit watchdog American Oversight filed lawsuits against over 20 federal agencies for failing to release records, highlighting transparency challenges. The lawsuits seek details about DOGE-affiliated individuals and their unprecedented access to sensitive data, raising concerns about privacy and accountability.
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Senator Demands Safeguard for Farmers’ Financial Information
Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) is demanding that the USDA safeguard farmers’ personal and financial information and rescind the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to USDA’s payment systems. Reports showed that DOGE has access to USDA databases containing farmers’ sensitive financial information. This intrusion breaches farmers’ privacy and raises serious concerns about the future of USDA payments, our nation’s food security, and the cons…
American Oversight Sues More Than 20 Federal Agencies for Withholding Records on Secretive DOGE Teams - American Oversight
On Wednesday, nonprofit watchdog American Oversight filed an expansive set of lawsuits against more than 20 federal agencies for failing to release records about groups of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees who have been installed across the federal government under a controversial executive order issued by President Trump earlier this year. The three lawsuits, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seek…
Investigation: Fewer gun regs, agents? Gun dealer, activist react to potential cuts at ATF
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — While the bromance of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk has fizzled, the Department of Government Efficiency that's most closely associated with Musk lives on. DOGE is now training its aim on ATF — the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as first reported by The Washington Post. DOGE will look at two main areas to target waste, fraud and abuse — the number of regulations surrounding gun owner…
'You Have an Enemy Within Right Now': Bannon Sounds Alarm on Musk’s DOGE Team, Urges Trump to 'Cut Them Off'
Steve Bannon issued a blunt warning to Donald Trump, telling him that parts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are working against him from inside the government — and they need to go. “You have an enemy within right now in the government,” Bannon said Thursday on Real America’s Voice. He pointed the finger directly at former DOGE administrator Elon Musk, calling him “Elmo” and claiming Musk used DOGE to get access to sensitive da…
DOGE Now Reportedly 'A Shell of Its Former Self'
AP Photo/Alex Brandon The “Department of Government Efficiency” once helmed by Elon Musk is now but a husk of the unofficial agency it once was. Shortly after taking office for the second time, President Donald Trump named Musk to lead the group, which soon got to work gutting staff and spending at various government agencies. Musk, who was named a special government employee after spending nearly $300 million to return Trump to the White House,…
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