January 20, 2025 - The Trump Administration sign an executive order provisioning security clearances without the need for background checks. This includes giving DOGE employees top-secret security clearances.

Note: This Executive Order blamed the Biden administration for creating a backlog of security clearance requests; however, the Trump administration intentionally delayed background check processes leading up to the election. Source: https://apnews.com/article/trump-transition-picks-signed-agreement-background-checks-5ea8fcde89ec2ea0549257a934dbb8a5

January 31, 2025 - Trump claims DOGE don't have any direct access to any government systems where money is dispersed.

January 31, 2025 - Katie Miller claims no classified material was accessed without proper security clearances.

February 1, 2025 - Elon Musk threatened to call the US Marshals on the Director of Security of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) if they didn't allow DOGE employees access to a Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), despite them not having top-secret security clearances.

February 1, 2025 - The USAID Director of Security and their Deputy were placed on administrative leave after they tried to prevent DOGE employees from accessing secure USAID systems.

February 1, 2025 - DOGE employees were given an unknown level of access to USAID systems after the Director of Security and their Deputy were placed on administrative leave.

February 2, 2025 - Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Cubio claiming security guards overseeing USAID offices were threatened when asking DOGE employees questions about their activities. This letter also requested full transparency on DOGE activities in USAID.

Feburary 2, 2025 - Elon Musk posted on X "We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper."

February 2, 2025 - Trump ordered the Treasury to grant DOGE expanded access to the Bureau of Fiscal Services (BFS) payment systems.

February 2, 2025 - Sensitive Treasury Department servers were observed being exposed to the internet on Shodan.

February 3, 2025 - AFL-CIO file a lawsuit against Musk & DOGE to protect the privacy of worker data.

February 3, 2025 - DOGE employees gain access to multiple internal systems at the Department of Education including financial aid datasets that contain the personal information of millions of students enrolled in federal student aid programs.

  This should be illegal & they're actively being sued over this. Violation of the Privacy Act of 1974. They also got access to the Department of Education's tax record information, which is a violation of the Confidentiality Provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

February 3, 2025 - Musk claims he & Trump are "shutting down" USAID.

This is illegal. The President doesn't have the powers to defund or destroy a department created and funded by Congress.

If Trump, Elon, or DOGE attempt to starve USAID, this is illegal and a violation of the Appropriations Clause as well as the Take Care clause of the Constitution.