Officials from Elon Musk's DOGE have been active at USAID, Veterans Affairs, Treasury and elsewhere, but little is publicly known about their work.

Since taking office for his second term, President Donald Trump has issued a number of orders which included establishing the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE. This program, led by Musk, has caused a stir by going through government programs to validate funding.

They say it could lead to security risks or missed payments for programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

As DOGE throws out the rule book for government tech, it’s time we plan for the worst—and look to each other for courage and support.

The billionaire and his cronies continue to move fast and break things. Here are their boldest attacks thus far.

Trump has threatened to place a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, as well as a 10 percent additional tariff on all imports from China. Energy resources from Canada will have a lower 10 percent tariff.

Elon Musk’s team of Stasi programmers at DOGE are feeding highly sensitive data from the Department of Education through artificial intelligence tools, according to an extremely predictable, yet still shocking, report from the Washington Post. The plan, according to the Post, is for DOGE to do the same thing at every federal agency.

Two senior agency veterans focused on policy and operations are working with DOGE to review the agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid, which provide health insurance for about 1 in 4 Americans, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman.

F​rom accessing computers to halting spending and firing workers, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are testing the legal limits of executive branch power.