A Federal Worker Was Fired for Filming DOGE. Now She’s Running for Congress | WIRED
Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency.
It was February 2025, and DOGE was conducting a wholesale assault on the US government. The operatives arrived at the CFPB on February 6. Goldstein whipped out her phone and started documenting the intruders; they turned out to be members of DOGE
I started filming and asking them their names and whether they’d had the proper training to handle our sensitive information
So when there was all this reporting before the inauguration about Elon Musk coming in with DOGE, and he wants to launch X Money, which is a payments platform—I was worried they were going to get essentially all of the trade secrets of every one of Elon’s potential competitors