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Inside DOGE’s early days of pressure campaigns, rule breaking and ‘chaos’

  • Eric Katz and Natalie Alms--GovExec.com
  • published date: 2026-03-17 22:37:24 UTC

Twenty-three hours of court testimony offer a rare glimpse into the Trump cost-cutting group that officials say “felt more like a club” than the agencies they were breaking.

In the span of 77 minutes on a late-March Monday in 2025, an associate of the government-slashing Department of Government Efficiency sent Michael McDonald, the acting head of the National Endowment … [+17013 chars]