Category: DOGE is Four Letters

Congress effectively gave us this job: fighting for people who are treated poorly at work. We make work fairer and safer, and we do it without charging a cent.

If there were massive waste, we’d see it, and we’d know it.

Records are essential to government functioning.

I worked in rangeland ecosystems. I went out and collected field data on ecological processes, plant, wildlife, etc. I looked at grazing and the benefits or degradation that occurred.

From the time I was young, I wanted to do work that helped others, helped my community, or helped my country.

I made the money happen for a near-billion-dollar coastal wetland restoration program called CWPRPA, or the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act, that shores up South Louisiana.

I’m fairly high up at HUD, still work there, and I’m absolutely terrified about what the planned staffing cuts mean for the literally millions of vulnerable people on rental assistance.

If the IRS sends you a notice that you owe money, you can contest that in the Tax Court. I work for the office of attorneys that represents the government in that court.

I work in nuclear command and control at STRATCOM, NC2. We track missions, operations, and status of the US arsenal.

I worked in USAID’s South and Central Asia office, supporting 4 countries over 3 years.