President Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to shrink the federal workforce and slash programs have raised concerns over transparency and data access. Reports suggest DOGE, a team tasked with improving government efficiency, has requested access to sensitive HR data from agencies like the GSA and CMS, prompting questions about their authority and potential misuse of information.
On Monday, a team at IBM that is contracted to manage human resources data for more than 500,000 federal employees received an unusual request to provide “read-only” access for the HR records for all 14,000 employees of the General Services Administration, according to a source familiar with the contract. The email was from IBM’s regular contact at the GSA, the agency that manages federal property. But the request was odd since the agency already had “read and write” access to the data.
The order mandated that DOGE teams, including a DOGE team lead, an HR staffer, an engineer and a lawyer, begin working in every agency to “commence a Software Modernization Initiative to improve the quality and efficiency of government-wide software, network infrastructure, and information technology.” At the Defense Department on Thursday, officials had not responded to questions about who is on the Pentagon’s DOGE team.
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