This is the part that matters most and gets covered least. Money moving is one story. What happened to the people whose job was to notice is a different one.
Each card states a documented reduction in oversight capacity. Ratings work as elsewhere on this site.
The Government Accountability Office spent seventeen months trying to establish something basic: who was responsible for ethics vetting at DOGE. It could not find out — not because the answer was innocent, but because the requests went unanswered.
That's the pattern across every row above. The inspectors general who would review a no-bid contract were removed. The corruption prosecutors went from roughly 36 to 2. Foreign-bribery enforcement was paused. Hatch Act complaints sit for ten months. And when Congress finally passed a stock-trading ban, it exempted the executive branch entirely.
None of that proves wrongdoing on its own. It does mean that if wrongdoing occurred, far fewer people are positioned to find it — which is why a single federal judge insisting on a sworn statement produced more than the entire internal system did.