An 18F worker told Wired, “18F was a people’s technical store.” “A giant hole left with 18F closure. Requests from across the country to help very far from 18F before closing.”
Like the 18F, the US digital service, which the Trump administration re -introduced to DOGE, has seen firing and resignation waves. On February 14, about 50 USD employees ended, which primarily affect project managers and designers. Last week, 21 others resigned and obtained in a free letter obtained by Wired that destroys the “burnt land approach” and dispels those who actually have the skill to solve government problems.
ITIR COLE, a USDS project with Disease Control and Prevention Centers (CDCs) resigned last week after the majority of his team was fired and left their computers.
They are destructive and toxic. I didn’t want to be in touch with it or get involved with it because of the deferred resignation. “” The job changed. I did not sign up for work for Elvan. I registered to work for the American people. And when this changed, I decided to leave. “
For more than a year, Cole has helped manage the development of the CDC disease monitoring system, which helped track and prevent dangerous pathogens and diseases such as Antrox and Zika throughout the country.
“This vulnerable population is in a more vulnerable condition,” says Cole. “The program probably died. There are not enough people to work on it,” he said.
Inside the GSA (TTS) technology transformation services, formerly 18F, the recent shooting has deceived the remaining technicians. Some employees tell Wired to more public projects such as login.gov, where Americans have been re -appointed to access benefits such as VA services, social security and cloud.gov, which offers cloud hosting services to other agencies.
“The big change in how people think about things is this, why if they only disappear in all TTS extensions, did everyone interview their skills?” A current TTS worker says. In early February, young DOGE engineers, such as Edward’s Coristine, met with TTS workers and demanded information about their work and sometimes requested a review.
At a Thursday meeting, former Tesla engineer Thomas Shade, who is now at the head of TTS, announced that the workforce in the agency has not been completed. “Four inch of the screen was sitting down from the screenplay all the time, and seemed to be hostage and seemed to record a life proof of life,” said Shaid, a TTS employee.
In the next few weeks, Shade said the GSA technology arm would drop by 50 %. Any project that is not required by law will be extinguished, and the agency will be more prioritized than public services such as login.gov, cloud.gov and Fedramp, which makes cloud services safe throughout the government.
DOGE’s executive guidelines have allowed this group to operate only at the beginning of July, so it is unclear what will happen to these projects and teams at the time.
