In his post, Lavingia describes the kinds of projects he worked on at the VA and his overall impressions of working with DOGE. Musk, Davis, and Hollander did not reply to WIRED’s requests for comment. Experts and lawmakers have previously warned that using Signal for official government communications could violate laws that require government employees to maintain records of all communications. Davis, Lavingia says, would message priorities to whoever was the DOGE team lead at a given agency. At the VA, Lavingia tells WIRED, Davis instructed the DOGE team to prioritize reviewing contracts for cancellation.