This is Planet Money from NPR.
There's this story that seems to have repeated itself over and over the last five months.
In some federal agency,
longtime employees notice that somebody is inside the computer system,
requesting access to data, trying to publish new computer code,
possibly breaking a government website.
What the employees learn...
is that someone from the Trump administration's secretive cost-cutting effort,
known as the Department of Government Efficiency, has arrived.
I think there's so few details, right?
It's a big story, you know, Trump, Elon, Doge,
but you don't really know exactly, like, what are they doing?
And that's kind of scary, right?
Sahil Lavingia is able to fill in some of those details
because he was one of those people requesting access,
trying to push code, and terrifying federal employees as a member of DOJ.
We've all been watching this from afar,
the dramatic headlines, the lawsuits, the concerned members of Congress,
and today we are going to get to see DOJ from the inside,
from the software engineer who made the decision to join that group.