Department of Government Efficiency

Let’s set the record straight here, since this OPINION story circulating doesn’t get the facts right. CLAIM: DOGE fired NASA employees and eliminated positions. TRUTH: DOGE didn’t fire a single employee at NASA. A total of 23 positions were RIF’ed following an executive order in February eliminating DEI and other positions. All other departures from the agency last year were voluntary. CLAIM: The Trump Admin is “talking a big game” about beating China to the Moon. TRUTH: The Trump Administration created the Artemis Program. The Artemis Accords that over 60 nations have signed. President Trump created the Space Force. And, President Trump enacted the Space Policy that will finally, after 35 years, return Astronauts to the lunar environment and begin construction of a Moon Base. CLAIM: NASA can’t intelligently work with industry without a chief economist. TRUTH: Pretty much every OIG report at NASA on commercial programs being behind schedule, over budget or outright cancelled was written during a time of a Chief Economist. Industry responds to common sense decisions, just look at the recent Artemis architecture update and the widespread, unanimous support from all the contractors. Not to mention the fact that the one person has funded the majority of commercial spaceflight to orbit is the current @NASAAdmin. There are currently more than 6 commercial companies looking to NASA to build a single space-station-as-a-service. It would appear that NASA is not the entity that requires an economist. CLAIM: DOGE was on a firing spree. TRUTH: Again, DOGE did not fire a SINGLE employee, let alone thousands. CLAIM: NASA’s being run on vibes alone. TRUTH: NASA is making common sense decisions to focus resources on the most pressing objectives in line with President Trump’s National Space Policy. The only thing running on vibes alone is this piece.

Today the HHS DOGE team open sourced the largest Medicaid dataset in department history. This dataset contains aggregated, provider-level claims data for a specific billing code over time. For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota. Download the data yourself: opendata.hhs.gov

First of Kind: The @jgebbia interview Why did Joe Gebbia go to Washington? I met with America’s first-ever Chief Design Officer last fall to find out. We met on the White House grounds to discuss his newly created role, the formation of @ndstudio, and how Joe plans to weave design into the fabric of U.S. federal government. 00:00 - Eisenhower Exec Office Bldg 01:34 - From Airbnb to Washington 04:39 - The Federal Retirement Problem 06:31 - The Mine in the Mountain 08:29 - Do Things That Don’t Scale 11:35 - The Julie Prototype 14:20 - Down to 60 Seconds 16:33 - Consumer-Grade Government 18:31 - Nixon’s Federal Beautification 20:22 - The National Design Studio 24:24 - Trust Through Design 27:43 - Building the Dream Team 31:22 - The Silicon Valley Coalition 35:33 - A Golden Age of Design Special thanks to Joe Gebbia and his team for making this conversation possible. S2:E1 Joe Gebbia, Designer-in-Chief Hosted by @soleio and produced by @room3nyc @firstofkind is powered by our sponsors: @framer @cursor_ai @vercel @tryprofound

To prevent fraud, we asked states to provide receipts before sending taxpayer money for child care.   Five blue states sued and an activist Biden-appointed judge just ordered us to stop asking. What are they afraid of?   We will comply with the court, but we will fight. We will appeal. We will keep asking questions. We will stop the fraud. @HHSGov @ACF_Adams @ACFHHS

Biden admin gave child care centers billions without verifying attendance — allowing ‘loopholes and fraud’ nypost.com/2026/01/05/us-…

Biden admin gave child care centers billions without verifying attendance — allowing ‘loopholes and fraud’ nypost.com/2026/01/05/us-…