It’s DOGE time at the U.S. Capitol.

The Biden administration is taking steps meant to strengthen protections for government employees as leading Republican presidential candidates, including Donald Trump, campaign on shrinking and remaking the federal workforce.

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(CNN) - House Democratic impeachment investigators have issued subpoenas to three Trump administration officials whose testimony was previously scheduled, in a sign the Democrats are trying to compel testimony from Trump officials who are apparently reluctant to appear. The subpoenas call for Duffey to appear on November 5 and Vought and Brechbuhl to testify on November 6. The committees leading the Democratic impeachment inquiry Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight have issued subpoenas to current State Department and Pentagon officials the morning of their testimony, in an effort to combat the Trump administration directing officials not to participate. It's not clear whether the subpoenas will prompt any of the three officials to participate. Both OMB and the State Department in addition to other federal agencies and the White House have already failed to comply with House subpoenas from the impeachment inquiry for documents.

Bob Kovach/CNN(CNN) - The House's impeachment inquiry is in full swing, and when lawmakers return this week, they've got several high-profile individuals from across the State Department, Pentagon and Office of Management and Budget whom they plan to interview in closed-door depositions. A list of depositions scheduled for this week provided by two congressional sources contained four names of individuals scheduled to testify. ThursdayDeputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura CooperCooper's purview as deputy assistant secretary includes Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia. State Department official Suriya JayantiJayanti, a State Department official and career foreign service officer, was stationed in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Tim Morrison, the National Security Council's senior director for Europe and RussiaMorrison replaced Fiona Hill on the National Security Council following her departure from the Trump administration over the summer.