Congressional Democrats ask Trump administration to stop DOGE employees from moving into permanent positions [View all]
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/
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
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