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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.

Workers complained of a lack of transparency and a bewildering array of new faces in their offices—some much less friendly than others. www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

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...