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• Musk is firing federal workers who prevent bloated tech contracts

  Wed Mar 19, 2025 (Jessica Washington,The Intercept)

  Employees at the federal tech unit 18F say that their role in preventing overspending put a Musk-sized target on their back.

• How an obscure US government office has become a target of Elon Musk

  Sun Mar 16, 2025 (the Guardian)

  Billionaire uses misinformation campaign to sow confusion around 18F’s “deletion.”

• Trying to make sense of the elimination of 18F

  Tue Mar 11, 2025 (FedScoop)

  Former GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini discusses the termination of the GSA tech team.

• Turmoil within DOGE spills into public view as Musk’s group confronts a PR crisis

  Mon Mar 10, 2025 (The Washington Post)

  DOGE sees an urgent need to champion “wins,” as Elon Musk’s group finishes slashing federal bureaucracy and moves to building digital tools for the government.

• DOGE shutters the government’s in-house tech consultancy

  Thu Mar 6, 2025 (The Economist)

  Political loyalty appears to be more important than tech skills

• A federal efficiency team was axed. They were working on one of Trump's goals

  Tue Mar 4, 2025 (NPR)

  The Trump administration is firing some 80 people focused on making government digital services more efficient. Members of the 18F team say they did exactly what the DOGE unit says it's trying to do.

• General Services Administration shutters its technology unit

  Sun Mar 2, 2025 (CBS News)

  The GSA's tech unit, known as the 18F office, employed a team of researchers, website designers and product managers.

• Fresh Musk emails to workers lead to renewed pushback at federal agencies

  Sun Mar 2, 2025 (Washington Post)

  A fresh directive to workers ordering them to justify their employment weekly is still being met with resistance at the highest levels.

• 'They've radicalized me': Federal workers fight back as Trump dismantles their work

  Sun Mar 2, 2025 (NBC News)

  While protests against Trump and Musk’s cuts are happening around the country, much of the organizing has been happening online.

• ‘It Feels Like It’s Chaotic on Purpose’

  Sun Mar 2, 2025 (Matteo Wong,The Atlantic)

  Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency laid off a team whose purpose was to make the government more efficient.

• Musk's DOGE fires federal tech team that built free tax-filing site

  Sat Mar 1, 2025 (Reuters)

  Elon Musk earlier this month responded to a post on X that called the 18F team a "far left government-wide computer office" by saying the group has been "deleted."

• Trump administration shutters Obama-era technology office 18F

  Sat Mar 1, 2025 (Bloomberg.com)

  Dismissal notices went out Saturday to about 85 employees of 18F, a federal agency that works on improving government technology — effectively shutting down an office hailed a decade ago as Uncle Sam’s new tech startup.

• Email shows that Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS

  Sat Mar 1, 2025 (The Guardian)

  Program is apparently being closed according to email from former Tesla engineer installed in GSA