Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring: FOIA Files (Correct)

Welcome back to FOIA Files! I hope you had a spectacular end to 2025. Just a week into 2026 and it’s already clear the news cycle will keep me very busy filing Freedom of Information Act requests. But writing about 2025 will be unavoidable because government agencies are still responding to the requests I filed last year. With the FOIA, the past is always present. Case in point: Last March, I requested from the Office of Personnel Management a list of all the employees hired by the federal government, including a description of their duties, job titles, salaries, and the ...