DOGE Staffer Is Trying to Reroute FEMA Funds

DOGE has gained access to FEMA’s core financial management system, according to sources within FEMA, and “has been embedded for days now.”

On February 10, a representative of DOGE, Kyle Schutt, gained access to FEMA’s proprietary software that runs FEMA Grant Outcomes (FEMA GO), according to FEMA staff and communications reviewed by Drop Site.

FEMA GO is the system that “controls disaster grants as well as non-disaster grants throughout the country and territories.”

Schutt also asked for the source code to FEMA’s Integrated Financial Management and Information System (IFMIS), which all approved FEMA grant payments go through.

Though unconfirmed, sleuths on X found some evidence that Kyle Schutt is the programmer behind the DOGE application website for prospective employees. Sources within FEMA identified Kyle Schutt as the same person pictured in this GitHub profile, which is now a broken link.

In a meeting, Schutt asked employees about making deobligations in the FEMA system.

Once funds are appropriated to a federal agency by Congress, deobligating them would effectively terminate them.

The only way to get the money back, once deobligated, would be to go through the Treasury, sources within FEMA told Drop Site.

Now that the Trump administration and DOGE have been blocked by the courts from accessing the Treasury payment system, deobligating funds would be a new workaround—rendering appropriated funds unusable from within federal agencies.

At least four FEMA employees have been fired with letters that cite Article II of the Constitution, “executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America,” and “this termination is an exercise of that power.”

A source within FEMA told Drop Site: “the four people fired were just following instructions as required by Congress.”

One of the fired employees had even “achieved excellence” in a recent performance review.