Deposition videos released by the American Historical Association against former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees made rounds online. For a bunch of appointed personnel, it didn’t seem like they had an understanding of the budgets they wanted to slash.
“How do you interpret DEI?” Justin Fox, a former DOGE staffer, was asked on record. A long sigh later, he responded, “There was the EO—explicitly laid out the details.” “That’s okay. I’m asking for your understanding of it.” “My understanding was what exactly was written in the EO,” Fox reasserted. He followed up and claimed he doesn’t remember the details.
