Author Archive
Avi Asher-Schapiro
Reporter, ProPublica
Avi Asher-Schapiro is a reporter for ProPublica who covers the Trump administration and Big Tech in Washington, D.C.
Avi Asher-Schapiro is a reporter for ProPublica who covers the Trump administration and Big Tech in Washington, D.C.
Management
IRS is building a vast system to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
- William Turton, Christopher Bing and Avi Asher-Schapiro, ProPublica
Management
The DOGE 100: Musk is out, but more than 100 of his followers remain to implement Trump’s blueprint
The world’s richest man is leaving a network of acolytes embedded inside nearly every federal agency.
- William Turton, Christopher Bing, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Al Shaw and Jake Pearson, ProPublica
Management
DOGE’s millions: As Musk and Trump gut the government, their ax-cutting agency gets a cash infusion
The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines the group and expands a list of DOGE workers.
- Avi Asher-Schapiro, Andy Kroll and Christopher Bing, ProPublica