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The former leader of 18F speaks out on the digital services team’s ‘deletion’
Wed Jun 11, 2025 (FedScoop)Lindsay Young, executive director of 18F when it was shuttered, joins the podcast to talk about the appeal she and other 18F members filed with the Merit Systems Protection Board.
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Fired federal tech staffers file retaliation claim
Wed May 28, 2025 (AP News)A group of roughly 80 fired federal employees are appealing their terminations to an administrative body in charge of protecting the rights of federal employees from partisan political practices.
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Move fast and destroy things: 100 chaotic days of Elon Musk in the White House
Thu May 1, 2025 (The Guardian)From mass firings to unprecedented influence, Musk has left little of the federal government untouched in Doge role
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Former federal technologists highlight TMF, shared tech solutions amid DOGE push
Wed Apr 30, 2025 (FedScoop)While lawmakers and panelists agreed IT modernization should be bipartisan, DOGE loomed over the discussion.
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Leading the Field: Ron Bronson — Code for America
Tue Apr 29, 2025 (Cole Wolf for Code for America)A conversation with a critical service designer and scholar
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Digital service resilience
Tue Apr 22, 2025 (Hillary Hartley for Medium)What endures when government innovation units close
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Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing, AP sources say
Wed Apr 16, 2025 (AP News)The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program. That's the electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free.
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DOGE’s tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data
Mon Apr 14, 2025 (MIT Technology Review)Elon Musk may have run tech companies, but building technology for government is an entirely different beast.
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DOGE’s Data Grabs and Downsizing Jeopardize Our National Security
Mon Apr 7, 2025 (New America)By trying to seize control of federal digital systems, DOGE is undermining U.S. cybersecurity efforts and endangering national security.
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Hablan los purgados por Elon Musk. "Somos el canario en la mina de lo que va a ocurrir"
Tue Mar 25, 2025 (Manuel Ángel Méndez for El Confidencial)La agencia digital gubernamental 18F era pionera en EEUU en impulsar proyectos tecnológicos. Elon Musk ha despedido ahora a todos sus empleados, casi un centenar. Sus integrantes explican el caos que se está produciendo
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Musk is firing federal workers who prevent bloated tech contracts
Wed Mar 19, 2025 (Jessica Washington for The Intercept)Employees at the federal tech unit 18F say that their role in preventing overspending put a Musk-sized target on their back.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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‘It Feels Like It’s Chaotic on Purpose’
Sun Mar 2, 2025 (Matteo Wong for The Atlantic)Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency laid off a team whose purpose was to make the government more efficient.
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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."
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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.
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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