Congressional Democrats ask Trump administration to stop DOGE employees from moving into permanent positions

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

August 7, 2025 / 6:00 AM EDT


Washington — A group of Democrats in Congress is seeking to stop Department of Government Efficiency employees from moving into permanent positions in the federal government, penning a letter asking for more information on DOGE's presence within agencies after Elon Musk's exit earlier this year.

"Although Elon Musk has departed, his influence remains, as DOGE and its employees attempt to become a permanent part of the federal government, scattered across agencies where they can continue to sabotage key functions from within," Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, along with Rep. Robert Garcia of California, wrote in a letter late Wednesday.

Writing to Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, the Democratic senators and ranking member on the House Oversight Committee sought more information on how DOGE has embedded itself in the federal government.

The lawmakers called DOGE's continued presence in federal agencies "alarming," outlining in the letter, obtained exclusively by CBS News, that "employees are embedding themselves in the federal government in key agency positions" which they argue threatens the government's ability "to serve the American people."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democrats-trump-doge-federal-government/

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Link to Sen. Warren PRESS RELEASE - Warren, Blumenthal, Garcia Launch Investigation into DOGE Employees Embedding Into Top Government Roles

Link to LETTER (PDF viewer) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ebv7HW-DAFS0c-aIr2_MNLdvyKyZlxI1/view

Link to LETTER (PDF) - https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/letter_from_senator_elizabeth_warren_to_opm_omb_on_doge_embedding.pdf

[Bayard]

1. "Asking," trump for anything is a waste of time

DOGErs are embedded to keep siphoning off our information, and using it nefariously.

Paranoid? No, just paying attention.

[vapor2]

2. TOTALLY a continued data heist

and I still want to know why doge goons are in FDIC buildings AND social security???

[hannah]

5. Absentee Voting

I fear they will fill out absentee ballots with our info and signatures.
Please don’t pummel me for saying this. Just adding to the discussion.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. "Oh, please sir, don't do these horrible things."

Pathetic.

[FakeNoose]

4. Were those DOGE employees given background checks before they were hired?

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It's standard practice for any new hires in federal government to be given background checks by FBI or other investigators. Did any DOGE employees get checked out, including Elon Musk? I sincerely doubt it. But NOW they want to scoot directly into the "deep state" since there mission at DOGE is coming to an end.

These people engineered the terminations of so many worthy government professionals, and now they want to come in and take over.