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Months after the Department of Government Efficiency's attack on the federal government began, WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as DOGE tore through their offices.

Employees said it was a time of chaos—that mass reductions in staff and extreme cost-cutting measures like the $1 spending limit on credit cards meant that entire departments were lacking basic resources. www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Workers say morale tanked. Instead of working in service of departmental missions and the American people, some say they felt their work during this time ran contrary to their own values and those of the agency that had hired them. www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

It was a time of unprecedented change, when the world’s most powerful man unleashed the world’s richest one on the world’s most complex institution. Read more stories from federal workers here: www.wired.com/story/oral-h...