Jump to content

Network of the Department of Government Efficiency

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
c. 20 DOGE employees work at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.[1]

The network of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) consists of personnel, allies, and Elon Musk associates appointed during the second presidency of Donald Trump to implement his government efficiency initiative. DOGE's leadership is ambiguous: while Amy Gleason was named Acting Administrator[2] and Steve Davis reportedly manages daily operations,[3] Elon Musk (officially a special government employee with limited formal authority) has been described by Trump as being "in charge",[4] and the court has declared him the "DOGE leader".[5][6] Musk said in March 2025 that there are around 100 employees and that he planned to double the staff.[7]

Many of the employees, informally called "DOGE kids", are software engineers aged between 19 and 24 and without prior government experience.[8] The broader network also includes allies from Silicon Valley, the Trump administration and conservative legal circles.[9] DOGE's structure has not officially been published,[2] and the identity of DOGE members was revealed by investigative journalists, which Musk described as doxxing.[10] DOGE's workforce is controversial, with concerns over its transparency, potential conflicts of interest,[11][12] information security,[13] and members' past conduct or affiliations.[14][8]

Elon Musk's role

[edit]

In a February 17 affidavit, Office of Administration director Joshua Fischer told Judge Tanya Chutkan that Musk was not the administrator or an employee of DOGE but (like much of DOGE's workforce) a special employee with no "authority to make government decisions". Special government employees have an advisory role limited to a 130-day work period that can be paid or unpaid. Those who earn a substantial salary have to disclose it. Unlike federal workers, special employees are allowed to keep outside salaries and may not need to disclose conflicts of interest.[15][16] Nevertheless, Trump declared two days later to have put "Musk in charge" of DOGE.[4] At a February 24 hearing, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly questioned the constitutionality of USDS and asked the government attorney, Bradley Humphreys, about its structure. He said that he ignored Musk's role beyond that of Trump advisor.[17] On the next day, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Musk is "overseeing DOGE" but refused to identify its administrator after being asked repeatedly.[18][19]

Later the same day, the White House named Amy Gleason as the acting DOGE administrator; Gleason worked from 2018 through 2021 at US Digital Service.[20][21] On February 28, Justice Department lawyer Joshua Gardner told Judge Theodore D. Chuang that he was unable to identify the administrator of DOGE before Gleason.[22] In a filing submitted under seal but partly released in March, the Trump administration recognized that Gleason has been working at Health and Human Services at the same time that she said having worked full-time as an administrator of USDS.[23]

In his March 4 joint address to Congress, Trump repeated that DOGE "is headed by Elon Musk".[24][25] After being quoted in lawsuits days later, Trump reportedly told members of his Cabinet that they rather than Musk and DOGE were to make staffing decisions for their departments, but a few hours later remonstrated "If they don't cut, then Elon will do the cutting."[26] On March 18, the court determined that Musk was "the leader of DOGE" and that his actions in dismantling USAID violated the Appointments Clause.[27] In a separate lawsuit involving Musk's company X, his own lawyers stated that he is "in charge of" DOGE.[28] In late April, Musk told his investors that he planned to reduce his government work, but that he will "likely" continue for the remainder of Trump's term.[29]

In April, Elon Musk ceased basing his DOGE work from the White House, instead opting to work remotely.[30] During Tesla's earnings call on April 22, 2025, Musk said: "Starting early next month, in May, my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly [...] I will be allocating far more of my time to Tesla."[31][32] This has been widely interpreted as a response to drops in Tesla's stock and sales resulting from Musk's work with DOGE;[33] David Sacks attributed the pivot to Musk’s modus operandi and usual shifts in focus.[34] Musk clarified that he was not planning to step away from DOGE entirely, saying that he would “spend a day or two per week on government matters for as long as the president would like me to do so”.[35]

"DOGE Kids"

[edit]
Luke Farritor is one of the several engineers aged 19–24 working for DOGE with little to no prior experience in government.

DOGE hired software engineers aged 19–24 with no experience in government, including Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez, Gautier Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.[8] Reportedly, DOGE members conducted 15-minute video interviews with federal workers without identifying themselves, with queries such as "whom they would choose to fire from their teams if they had to pick one person",[36] and surprise code reviews, silently supervised by "extremely young men".[37] The team has been called "Doge Kids" by officials, reporters, and social media users.[38][39][40]

According to Brian Krebs, Edward Coristine's past poses security risks:[41] The 19-year-old son of the LesserEvil owner[42] leaked information from the data-security company where he was interning,[43] mingled with 'The Com', a cybercriminal network,[44] and owns web domains registered in Russia.[45] His online footprint also makes security clearance tough, according to some security experts.[45] As of February 19, Coristine is a staff member at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.[46] On March 27, documents resurfaced showing that Coristine has provided tech support to EGodly, a cybercrime group.[47] Coristine has gone by the name "Big Balls" on the internet, a nickname that has been widely used.[48][49]

Some members have been accused of previously amplifying extremist views. Gavin Kliger, 25, has an edgelord past,[50] crediting Ron Unz for his political awakening[51] and reposting internet personalities like Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate, along with white supremacist memes.[52][53] Elez has shared similar viewpoints, with posts such as "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity" or "Normalize Indian hate."[54]

On February 24, the Washington Post reported that Farritor and Kliger manually blocked payments for critical programs multiple times, programs that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had approved by decree.[55][56][57] Court documents filed on March 14 have revealed that DOGE staffer Marko Elez violated U.S. Treasury Department policy by mishandling personal information.[58] Kliger was accused of yelling at CFPB staff he kept for a 36-hour shift.[59]

Doxxing accusations

[edit]

After the February 2 Wired article, names of DOGE members started to circulate; Musk accused those who did so of committing a crime.[60] The next day, interim United States attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin released a statement on Musk's social saying that certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees.[61] Musk quoted that statement, adding "Don't mess with DOGE".[62] On February 7, Martin sent Musk and his deputy Steve Davis a letter (also posted on his social) announcing that he had opened an investigation into government employees Musk accused of stealing property and making threats.[63][64] According to New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger, Musk was attempting to describe traditional journalism as "doxxing" in order to invalidate the role of the media in government accountability.[10]

After the names of DOGE employees began circulating on Reddit—and some users suggested violence—site administrators posted that Reddit had "seen an increase in content in several communities that violate Reddit Rules. Debate and dissent are welcome on Reddit—threats and doxing are not." The popular subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter was subsequently banned for three days, and a small subreddit called r/IsElonDeadYet was permanently removed.[65]

On February 11, Musk reshared a post by Laura Loomer with screenshots that identified Judge John J. McConnell Jr.'s daughter, along with her financial disclosure forms from the department.[66] This reshare followed McConnell's order to unfreeze federal grants.[67] On February 12, Rep. Andrew Clyde announced that he was drafting "articles" of impeachment against McConnell, echoing Musk's claim that there "needs to be an immediate wave of judicial impeachments, not just one".[68]

The "We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon" protest, organized by MoveOn, was held at the Treasury on February 4, 2025.
Several US Congress members spoke against Musk's role in the government during the "We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon" protests.

Membership

[edit]

The concept of DOGE membership has been contested.[69] In a group chat, acting USDS administrator Amy Gleason argued that she has no control over DOGE team members hired by other agencies, nor any responsibility regarding their actions, including firings.[70] General Services Administration (GSA) administrator and DOGE member Stephen Ehikian stated "there is no DOGE team at GSA"[71] even though Steve Davis has taken up offices at GSA. In a legal case involving the Department of Labor, DOGE lawyers objected to the plaintiffs' meanings of "DOGE employee", "sensitive systems", "access", "records", and "authority", which they deemed "vague and ambiguous"; they restricted the concept of DOGE employee to "individuals who have a formal relationship" with USDS.[72][73] In a court case involving the "Fork in the road" mass email, DOGE member Jacob Altik has been presented as a lawyer from the White House Personal Office when trying to shut down USADF along with other DOGE members.[74]

Composition and structure

[edit]

TechCrunch sorts "Musk's universe" as inner circle, senior figures, worker bees, or aides;[75] The New York Times associates the "clear mandate" of shrinking and disrupting government" to DOGE leadership, staffers, and allies;[76] Wired maps three types of people "affiliated" with DOGE: conservative lawyers, Trump administrations, and Silicon Valley.[9] DOGE membership extends beyond employee status: many Musk allies are venture capitalists and startup founders.[77] Many DOGE members are embedded in other government units;[78] there are at least 23 employees hired between Jan. 20 and Feb. 20 that, according to Bloomberg, "have worked for DOGE in some capacity" at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).[79] Few have a known contractual status; some have tried to conceal their roles; the White House provides little information.[80]

Staff roles follow the DOGE teams mentioned in the first executive order: "at least four employees" with one "Team Lead, one engineer, one human resources specialist, and one attorney".[81] On February 2, 2025, Musk said on X that DOGE workers were putting in 120 hours a week.[82] This was questioned for leaving dangerously little time to sleep.[83]

On February 18, 2025, CNN sent FOIA requests for security clearance records of DOGE team members who were granted access to sensitive or classified government networks; the response, from an OPM email address, was: "Good luck with that they just got rid of the entire privacy team". Sources told CNN that employees from the communications staff and those who handle FOIA requests were also dismissed.[84]

List of members

[edit]
DOGE network
Name Role Unit Ties Notes Reference(s)
Daniel Abrahamson Senior advisor DOT Musk: Tesla counsel, Munck Wilson Mandala Requested access to various databases [85][80]
Justin Aimonetti Attorney Trump: first administration; Dechert LLP (Fox News case); FedSoc contributor Has a DOGE email; contacted the Vera Institute to send a DOGE team [86][76][87][88]
Baris Akis Recruiter OPM Musk: Human Capital co-founder; tied to Amanda Scales Hiring requested by Musk, and vetoed by Trump (Turkish citizen); recruited DOGE members [76][89][90][77]
Jacob "Jake" Altik Attorney OPM Trump: Neomi Rao clerk, Neil Gorsuch clerk; New Civil Liberties Alliance; Weil, Gotshal & Manges Involved in the USADF standoff; represented DOGE in the OPM mass email lawsuit [80][91][76][92][93][94]
Marc Andreessen Musk ally Musk: a16z backed SpaceX, xAI, and Twitter; Trump: transition team DOGE early recruitment [75][95]
Anthony Armstrong Senior advisor to the Director OPM Musk: Twitter purchase; Morgan Stanley Denied on Fox News that DOGE changes were radical [96][80][97]
Jennifer "Jehn" Balajadia Musk aide ED Musk: his confidant and assistant, Boring Company [80]
Sam Beyda DOL Used PuTTY to transfer and access data [98]
Alexandra T. Beynon Expert (coding) ED Musk: Mindbloom, ketamine-assisted therapy company was founded by her husband; Goldman Sachs [80][99][76]
Riccardo Biasini Senior advisor to the Director OPM Musk: Boring Company, Twitter, Tesla Contact point for the government-wide email system; disclosed 1–5M in Boring stocks and 1–5M in Boring options [80]
Brian Bjelde Senior advisor OPM Musk: early SpaceX employee, was on the committee that terminated 80% of Twitter's employees; NASA: vested interest in company making Black Hawk helicopters autonomous (Rain) Top DOGE lieutenant [80][76][100]
Akash Bobba Expert (coding) OPM, GSA Thiel: Palantir intern; Diversity Discovered CIO Onboarded to DOGE by Frank Bisignano; asked for every bit of data at SSA [8][76][101][102][103]
Ashley Boizelle Attorney GSA Trump: FCC, under Ajit Pai; Sandra S. Ikuta clerk; Gibson Dunn [104][76][87]
Emily Bryant Seen at the FTC; has an OEP and a GSA email [80]
James Burnham DOGE General Counsel EOP Trump: first administration, Neil Gorsuch clerk; FedSoc; Jones Day [105][80][91]
Nate Cavanaugh GSA Thiel fan; Brainbase; FlowFi (co-CEO) Led employee interviews; tasked with dismantling USADF and IAF; paid $120,500 by GSA; contacted the Vera Institute to send a DOGE team [77][80][16][88]
George Cooper Recruiter Thiel: Palantir engineer Hired Palantir talent [75][106]
Miles Collins DOL Named in GAO audit notes; has access to National Farmworker Jobs Program system [107][108]
Sam Corcos IRS Andreessen: Levels co-founder; health influencer; wife tied to Suleyman Kerimov Asked for detailed taxpayer and vendor IRS information; will develop an API for IRS data in Palantir's Foundry [109][110][111]
Edward "Big Balls" Coristine Expert (coding) CISA Musk: Neuralink intern; Tesla.sexy LLC owner; LesserEvil; Path Network fired intern; The Com; Valery Martynov grandson Interviewed by Jesse Watters [46][41][45][112]
Scott Coulter Chief Information Officer NASA, SSA Tiger Cubs: Cowbird Capital (now closed) Told SSA executives to take the fork; has wide access to NASA's database; relabeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead [113][80][114]
Steve Davis DOGE day-to-day deputy leader, Musk's second in command EOP, OPM, GSA Musk: SpaceX, Twitter, Boring Company; Atlas Society advisor Sleeps at GSA; pressured SSA to grant Bobba access to everything, including source code; represented DOGE on Fox News [97][96][80][115][75][76][116]
Stephen Duarte Expert (HR) OPM Musk: SpaceX, Bjelde colleague [80]
Leland Dudek Acting Commissioner SSA Mid-level manager at the SSA (cybersecurity) Placed on leave for breaking the chain of command to help DOGE, wrote and deleted a post on it, got promoted; threatened to shutdown SSA [76][40]
Stephen Ehikian Acting Administrator GSA Musk: spouse worked at X; Salesforce; AI startup ZBB fan [76][80][117]
Marko Elez Expert (coding) USDT Musk: SpaceX, X, xAI, Neuralink Fired from DOGE for past racist posts; re-hired after JD Vance's intervention [80]
Luke Farritor Executive Engineer in the Office of the Secretary HHS, DOS Musk: SpaceX; Thiel Fellowship Helped DOGE recruitment; accessed at least 12 databases [80][106]
Conor Fennessy Senior advisor ED, HHS [80]
Joshua ("Josh") Fox Attorney Trump: Court of Federal Claims (Ryan T. Holte); Charles Koch: Institute for Justice; Alston & Bird [118][87]
Justin Fulcher Adviser DOD Musk: longtime admirer; donated c. $40,000 to Republican lawmakers and political action committees; shady credentials according to Forbes; RingMD (bankrupt) Accessed VA's HR systems; promoted by Hegseth at DOD [80][119][120]
Joe Gebbia Musk ally, volunteer OPM Musk: Tesla board; Airbnb Supports Robert Kennedy Jr; said on Fox News he wants an "Apple Store-like experience" for federal retirement; interviewed by Jesse Watters, along DOGE kids [97][121][122][123][112]
Mattieu Gamache-Asselin Senior advisor HHS Health services: Alto co-founder Advises on budgeting, grants and financial management [80]
Derek Geissler DOL Used PuTTY to access and transfer data [98]
Brady Glantz FAA Musk: SpaceX engineer Special employee for 4 days; still has an FAA email [80]
Amy Gleason Acting Administrator USDS Brad Smith: Russell Street Ventures; Trump: US Digital Service Nominally oversees both USDS and USDSTO and reports to Susie Wiles [76][124][125]
Mike Gonzalez Senior advisor OPM David Sacks: Zenefits; TraceHQ Lamented the state and process of the federal budget [77]
Antonio Gracias Musk ally SSA Musk: old friend, Tesla and SpaceX early investor, America PAC funder Helped Trump transition; pushed anti-immigrants narratives in the media and on political platforms [76][126]
Michael Grimes DOC Musk: Twitter acquisition; Morgan Stanley Expected to lead the new sovereign fund [76][127]
Joshua A. Hanley Attorney NIH Trump: DOJ; Federalist Society; Williams & Connolly Authored grant termination notices [80][76][87]
Tyler Hassen Liaison DOI Former oil company CEO Unsuccessfully attempted to turn on water at the Jones Pumping Plant; sought access to DOI's databases; Fox News appearance [96][128][76]
Christina Hanna Expert (HR) OPM Musk: SpaceX HR manager [76]
Vinay Hiremath Recruiter DOGE Trump: transition team; Loom Quit DOGE to focus on himself [75][77]
Greg Hogan Chief Information Officer OPM Musk: Comma.ai Named in a lawsuit vs OPM [76][80]
Nicole Hollander GSA Musk: Twitter, Married to Musk's lieutenant Initiated thousands of lease cancellations on federal buildings.[129][130] [75]
Stephanie Holmes DOGE Head of human resources DOI Federalist Society; Jones Day lawyer; Oklo chief people officer; BrighterSideHR: anti corporate DEI (closed) Involved in the three-phase DEI purge plan; sought write permissions to DOI's HR resources and credentialing systems [80][76][131]
Jared Isaacman Administrator (next) NASA Musk: SpaceX Awaits senate confirmation [132]
Anthony Jancso Recruiter Thiel: Palantir software engineer; AccelerateX Told Palentir alumni DOGE was recruiting to "deploy AI agents across live workflows in federal agencies" [75][106][133]
Erica Jehling EPA, GSA Musk: SpaceX purchasing director [80]
Gautier "Cole" Killian Federal Detailee EPA, DOL Jump Trading (engineer) [134][135][8][98]
Thomas Kiernan FAA Musk: SpaceX software engineer Ethics waver; has an official email [80]
Gavin Kliger Senior advisor to the Director CFPB, OPM, USAID, IRS Musk: Tesla stock owner; Edgelord past; Ron Unz fan; Databricks; LinkedIn Disclosed 1–5M in Databricks; manually blocked USAID payments authorized by Rubio; shouted at CFPB employees he made work for 36h straight [8][51][80][136][137]
Keenan D. Kmiec Attorney EOP Federal circuit court (Samuel Alito); Supreme Court (John Roberts); InterPop (Tezos); Sidley Austin Son of former U.S. ambassador Douglas Kmiec; rejects the expression "judicial activism" [80][91][138]
Jon Koval Executive SSA Musk: Valor Equity Partners, co-founded by Gracias, invested in SpaceX and Tesla [139]
Tom Krause Acting Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury USDT Musk: Citrix and Twitter share underwriter; still CEO of Cloud Software Group, where he axed thousands of jobs, some leading to security weaknesses Has access to Treasury payment systems, with Elez; said on Fox News he wants to audit every federal payment; involved in USAID's dismantlement [97][96][80][140][75][141][142]
Michael Kratsios Recruiter DOGE Trump: Chief Tech Officer in the first administration, wrote the 2020 pro-AI investment executive order; Thiel: Thiel Capital Helped find the DOGE core members [75][139]
Scott Kupor Acting Director (planned nominee) OPM Andreessen: a16z; self-help author; National Venture Capital Association [76][143][77]
Scott Langmack Liaison HUD Real-estate: Kukun COO; wrote The Fast Track to Your Ideal Job; became a loan shark during the 2008 recession [76][144]
Sahil Lavingia Advisor to the Chief of staff VA Musk fan, brother was working at Twitter c. 2022; Gumroad CEO who fired most of his employees in 2015, to replace them with bots Wants to "digitize the agency" with vibe coding [145][146][147]
Jeremy Lewin Chief operating officer USAID Musk: Munger, Tolles & Olson (Tesla); Laurence Tribe collaborator; racism and violence issues Receives $167,000 from GSA; authorized USAID shutdown [148][149][150][151][16]
Kendall M. Lindemann Expert (HR) EOP, USDS Brad Smith: Russell Street Ventures associate; competitive swimmer [80][76]
Kathryn Armstrong Loving Federal detailee EPA Musk: Tesla; Brian Armstrong's sister; Y Combinator Looking for contracts contra Trump's agenda [152][80]
Shaun Maguire Trump: supporter; Musk: Sequoia Capital (through Roelof Botha) Helped screen DOGE candidates; vocal DOGE fan on Musk's social [77]
Ted Malaska FAA Musk: SpaceX software engineer Given an ethics waiver; holds an official email [80][77]
Tarak Makecha Senior advisor FBI Musk: Tesla; Software company (finance executive) Worked at the Justice Department on grant-making operations, and at the FCC [76][88]
Katie Miller DOGE Spokesperson Trump: Mike Pence press secretary during the first administration, wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller [80][153]
Clark Minor Chief Information Officer HHS Thiel: Palantir Bitcoin enthusiast, disclosed a $244,000 Palantir salary and between 1 and 5M in Palantir stocks [80]
Michael Alexander Mirski Liaison FHFA and HUD Real estate: on a six-month leave from TCC Management, a mobile-home park business with a possibly predatory model; mnemonist Gained access to HUD's Enforcement Management System [76][144]
Eliezer Mishory Attorney SEC Formerly an attorney for Kalshi, a prediction markets firm and official at Commodity Futures Trading Commission [154]
Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski Expert (HR) OPM Musk: SpaceX HR Manager [76]
Aram Moghaddassi USDT, DOL Musk: Neuralink, Twitter Appeared on Fox News with Musk [97][96][155]
Justin Monroe Expert (security) FBI Musk: SpaceX; US Navy information warfare officer First naval information warfare officer to be commissioned out of the Naval Academy in 2011 [80][156]
Brooks Morgan ED Podium Education [76]
Elon Musk DOGE leader, Senior Advisor to Trump Trump: spent $290 million to elect him, spent weeks at Mar-a-Lago "Head of DOGE" according to Trump; de facto DOGE leader; compared himself to Buddha [80][157]
Noah Peters Attorney, senior advisor OPM, Executive Office Trump: first administration; Project 2025 and Federalist Society collaborator; Jared Taylor lawyer; Authored the work-from-home termination memo [76]
Nikhil "Nik" Rajpal Expert (coding) CFPB, NOAA, OPM Musk: Twitter [80][158][159]
Adam Ramada Liaison EOP, DOL Musk: investment firm tied to a SpaceX alumnus Identified as team lead in two legal cases [80]
Austin Raynor Attorney, senior advisor OPM, Executive Office Federalist Society; clerk for Clarence Thomas; DOJ; Pacific Legal Foundation Condones Trump's Birthright Citizenship challenge [76][98][160]
Payton Rehling Expert (coding) SSA Musk: Valor Equity Partners, an early Tesla investor [161]
Ryan Riedel Chief Information Officer DOE Musk: SpaceX network security engineer; U.S. Army Cyber Command [80][76]
Rachel Riley Senior advisor in the Office of the Secretary HHS Brad Smith: colleague; McKinsey & Company Requested access to Medicare payment systems; declared a stake in Patriot Family Homes, owned by husband [80][162]
Michael Russo Chief Information Officer SSA Musk: Shift4 Payments executive, a company that process payments for Starlink [80][155][76]
Amanda Scales Chief of Staff OPM Musk: xAI; Baris Akis: Human Capital; Uber Worked on "Fork on the road" operation [80][77]
Frank Schuler Real estate executive GSA Real estate: syndicating easements specialist Worked with Nate Cavanaugh on interviews [76][163]
Kyle Schutt Software engineer GSA Trump: Revv and WinRed raise funds for the Republican Party; Outburst, which hosts parts of the DOGE website Is paid $195,290 by GSA; accessed FEMA systems to deobligate funds; has access to UAC portal [80][16][77]
Riley Sennott Senior advisor NASA Musk: Tesla; Thiel: Palantir Conducted DOGE interviews [164]
Bryton Shang Senior advisor NOAA Unsuccessfully attempted to turn on water at the Jones Pumping Plant [128][165]
Ethan Shaotran Expert (coding) GSA, ED Musk: xAI hackathon runner-up; OpenAI grantee with Energize.ai, on "democratic methods to decide the rules that govern AI systems" Requested access to a decade's worth of GSA data; interviewed by Jesse Watters [8][77][166][112]
Gary Shapley Acting administrator IRS Trump: first administration Put into the role by Musk without having consulted with Trump or Scott Bessent; fired, and replaced by Michael Faulkender [167]
Thomas Shedd Chief Information Officer, Acting Director GSA (TTS) Musk: Tesla engineer Outlined an 'AI-first strategy' to GSA employees; worked at DOL [80][76][168]
Alexander Simonpour NASA Musk: Tesla Helps NASA's reduction in force [132]
Brad Smith DOGE Chief of staff HHS Trump: FEMA, CMMI, Jared Kushner friend; Musk: met with him and Lutnick at Mar-a-Lago Medicaid and Medicare privatization advocate; requested access to the Medicare payment system; appeared on Fox News [96][80][23][77][169]
Sam Smeal FAA Musk: SpaceX software engineer Has an official email [80]
Branden Spikes OPM Musk: PayPal, Zip2 Tesla, SpaceX; Spikes Security; California Russian Association Left after two months [170]
Christopher Stanley Musk aide OPM Musk: SpaceX principal engineer, Twitter security engineer; Trump: assisted January 6 rioters; leaked LizardStresser's database Named on Fannie Mae board, resigned; installed Starlink terminals on the Whitehouse [80][76][171]
Christopher Sweet Coding (expert) HUD Uses AI to deregulate housing; has read access to the Public and Indian Housing Center Information Center data; focuses on Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) [172]
Katrine Trampe Advisor to Doug Burgum DOI Sought access to the Federal Personnel and Payroll System [173]
Russell "Russ" Vought Acting Director OMB Trump: same role under the first administration; Project 2025; Heritage Action; Center for Renewing America Named himself the CFPB acting administrator to shut it down [76][174][175]
Cary Volpert OPM Musk: SpaceX [9]
Jordan M. Wick Expert (coding) CFPB, DOL Thiel: Accelerate SF; Waymo Granted extensive access to CFPB data; posted firing bot snippets on GitHub; suspected of having extracted NLRB data [80][76][77][176][177]
Joanna Wischer Policy analyst Trump: speech writer [76][98]
Ryan Wunderly Special advisor USDT Thiel: Anduril [76][80]
Chris Young Musk's top political advisor CFPB, Executive Office Trump: America PAC's director and treasurer; Bobby Jindal staffer; PhRMA lobbyist; Republican National Committee [75][178][80]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Where will Elon Musk's DOGE team work? Not in the Oval Office, Trump says". Business Standard. 2025-01-28. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  2. ^ a b Kelly, Makena (2025-02-18). "Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who's Legally Running DOGE". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-05-04.
  3. ^ Bing, Christopher; Asher-Schapiro, Avi; Waldman, Annie (2025-03-14). "Who's Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World's Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat?". ProPublica. Retrieved 2025-05-04.
  4. ^ a b Shalal, Andrea; Bose, Nandita (February 20, 2025). "Trump appears to contradict White House, says Elon Musk in charge of DOGE". Reuters. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  5. ^ Lee, Ella (March 18, 2025). "Judge finds Elon Musk likely acted unconstitutionally in shuttering USAID". The Hill. Retrieved March 18, 2025. It marks the first time a judge has ruled that Musk is likely exercising enough independent authority to require him to be confirmed by the Senate under the Appointments Clause. "The record of his activities to date establishes that his role has been and will continue to be as the leader of DOGE, with the same duties and degree of continuity as if he was formally in that position,'" wrote Chuang, an appointee of former President Obama. Chuang rejected the Trump administration's argument that Musk is not the DOGE administrator and is instead merely a senior adviser to the president who has no independent authority.
  6. ^ Tanis, Fatma (2025-03-18). "A federal judge says the USAID shutdown likely violated the Constitution". NPR. Retrieved 2025-04-28. In a 68-page opinion Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang, an Obama appointee, wrote that "the Court finds that Defendants' actions taken to shut down USAID on an accelerated basis, including its apparent decision to permanently close USAID headquarters without the approval of a duly appointed USAID Officer, likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways, and that these actions harmed not only Plaintiffs, but also the public interest, because they deprived the public's elected representatives in Congress of their constitutional authority to decide whether, when, and how to close down an agency created by Congress."
  7. ^ "Musk says DOGE is in almost every federal agency and plans to double staff". NBC News. 2025-03-10. Retrieved 2025-05-04.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g Elliott, Vittoria. "The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-02-17.
  9. ^ a b c Elliott, Vittoria. "We Mapped DOGE's Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  10. ^ a b Bensinger, Ken (February 12, 2025). "How Elon Musk and the Right Are Trying to Recast Reporting as 'Doxxing'". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  11. ^ "What is Doge and why is Musk stepping back?". BBC. 2025-04-30. Retrieved 2025-05-04.
  12. ^ "Musk touts DOGE transparency but downplays his own potential conflicts of interest". CNN. 2025-02-11. Retrieved 2025-05-04.
  13. ^ Chow, Andrew R. (2025-03-19). "Cybersecurity Experts Are Sounding the Alarm on DOGE". TIME. Retrieved 2025-05-04.
  14. ^ "Who is part of Elon Musk's DOGE, and what are they doing?". NPR. Retrieved 2025-05-04.
  15. ^ Picchi, Aimee (2025-02-18). "Musk is not an employee of DOGE and "has no actual or formal authority," White House says". CBS News. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  16. ^ a b c d Knibbs, Kate. "Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-03-14.
  17. ^ Stratford, Michael (2025-02-24). "Judge questions constitutionality of DOGE, Musk's role". POLITICO. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  18. ^ Woodward, Alex (2025-02-25). "White House refuses to reveal the name of the DOGE administrator". The Independent. Retrieved 2025-02-25.
  19. ^ "WATCH: White House refuses to 'reveal' DOGE administrator during briefing". PBS News. February 25, 2025.
  20. ^ Bose, Nandita (February 25, 2025). "White House names Amy Gleason the administrator for Musk's DOGE program". Reuters.
  21. ^ Foley, Ryan J. (February 25, 2025). "Who is Amy Gleason, the person named DOGE's acting leader by the White House?". Associated Press. Associated Press. Retrieved February 25, 2025.
  22. ^ Kalmbacher, Colin (2025-03-01). "Judge upbraids Trump admin lawyer for lack of knowledge about how DOGE operates". Law & Crime. Retrieved 2025-03-01.
  23. ^ a b "The person the White House says is leading DOGE has also been working at HHS". POLITICO. 2025-03-18. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
  24. ^ Lebowitz, Megan (March 5, 2025). "Lawyer submits 'new evidence' in case against DOGE, using Trump's own words". NBC News. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
  25. ^ "Read Full Transcript of Trump's 2025 Speech to Congress". TIME. 2025-03-05. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  26. ^ Egwuonwu, Nnamdi (March 6, 2025). "Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk's authority amid backlash to DOGE cuts". NBC News.
  27. ^ Lee, Ella (March 18, 2025). "Judge finds Elon Musk likely acted unconstitutionally in shuttering USAID". The Hill. Retrieved March 18, 2025. It marks the first time a judge has ruled that Musk is likely exercising enough independent authority to require him to be confirmed by the Senate under the Constitution's Appointments Clause. "The record of his activities to date establishes that his role has been and will continue to be as the leader of DOGE, with the same duties and degree of continuity as if he was formally in that position,'" wrote Chuang, an appointee of former President Obama. Chuang rejected the Trump administration's argument that Musk is not the DOGE administrator and is instead merely a senior adviser to the president who has no independent authority.
  28. ^ Sneed, Tierney (2025-03-30). "Is DOGE actually an agency? The answer could have major ramifications". CNN. Retrieved 2025-04-06. The group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), noted in its Thursday discovery request that lawyers for Musk told a judge last week, in a case concerning his company X, that he was too busy to sit for a deposition because the White House had put him "in charge of Establishing and implementing" DOGE.
  29. ^ Grace Eliza Goodwin; John L. Dorman. "Elon Musk is stepping back, but DOGE's work is far from over". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-04-25.
  30. ^ Nelson, Steven; Glebova, Diana (2025-04-29). "Elon Musk no longer working from White House: 'Talking to him on the phone'". Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  31. ^ Subramanian, Pras (2025-04-23). "Tesla stock rises after Musk says time at DOGE will drop 'significantly'". Yahoo Finance. Archived from the original on 2025-04-28. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  32. ^ Goodwin, Grace Eliza; Griffiths, Brent D.; Altchek, Ana (April 22, 2025). "Elon Musk says he's stepping back from DOGE". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  33. ^ "As Tesla's sales and profit tumble, investors ask Elon Musk to ditch DOGE and return to automaker - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. 2025-04-22. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
  34. ^ "'This is how Elon operates': David Sacks on Musk gradually stepping away from DOGE". The Times of India. 2025-04-27. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
  35. ^ Domonoske, Camila (April 22, 2025). "As Tesla profits plunge 71%, Elon Musk says he'll spend less time on DOGE". NPR. Retrieved 2025-04-29.
  36. ^ Schleifer, Theodore; Nehamas, Nicholas; Conger, Kate; Mac, Ryan (February 7, 2025). "Young Aides Emerge as Enforcers in Musk's Broadside Against Government". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 15, 2025. Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  37. ^ Zakrzewski, Cat; Siddiqui, Faiz (2025-02-05). "How Elon Musk's deputies took over the government's most basic functions". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 6, 2025. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  38. ^ Leloup, Damien; Szadkowski, Michaël (2025-02-07). "Who are Elon Musk's 'DOGE kids,' tasked with 'hacking' the US federal government?". Le Monde. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  39. ^ Tangermann, Victor (2025-02-06). "One of Elon Musk's DOGE Kids Just Had an Explosive Screaming Tantrum". Futurism. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  40. ^ a b Hager, Eli (2025-03-12). ""The President Wanted It and I Did It": Recording Reveals Head of Social Security's Thoughts on DOGE and Trump". ProPublica. Retrieved 2025-03-12. [T]he full recording reveals that [Leland Dudek] went much further, citing not only the actions being taken at the agency by the people he repeatedly called "the DOGE kids "
  41. ^ a b Krebs, Brian (2025-02-07). "Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from 'The Com'". Krebs on Security. Retrieved 2025-02-07. Experts say it is extremely difficult for former members of violent street gangs to gain a security clearance needed to view sensitive or classified information held by the U.S. government [...] The Com is the English-language cybercriminal hacking equivalent of a violent street gang.
  42. ^ Sauer, Megan; Shamo, Lauren (2024-09-07). "52-year-old quit his job, bought a failing snack company for $250,000—now it brings in $103 million a year". CNBC. Retrieved 2025-02-11.
  43. ^ Leopold, Jason; Murphy, Margi; Alexander, Sophie; Bleiberg, Jake; Cormier, Anthony (7 February 2025). "DOGE Teen Was Fired by Cyber Firm for Leaking Company Secrets". Bloomberg Law. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  44. ^ Otto, Greg; Winter, Jana (2024-12-04). "Feds are probing 764, The Com's use of cybercriminal tactics to carry out violent crimes". Cyberscoop. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  45. ^ a b c Greenberg, Andy. "DOGE Teen Owns 'Tesla.Sexy LLC' and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-03-23. Davi Ottenheimer, a longtime security operations and compliance manager, says many factors about Coristine's employment history and online footprint could raise questions about his ability to obtain security clearance.
  46. ^ a b Zetter, Kim. "DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
  47. ^ Satter, Raphael (2025-03-26). "OGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show". Reuters. Retrieved 2025-03-28.
  48. ^ Greenberg, Andy. "DOGE Teen Owns 'Tesla.Sexy LLC' and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-04-23.
  49. ^ "Who is 'Big Balls'? Teen DOGE engineer Edward Coristine". Newsweek. 2025-02-07. Retrieved 2025-04-23.
  50. ^ Fiallo, Josh (February 18, 2025). "Meet the Gen-Z DOGE Minion Set to Access Taxpayers' Secrets". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
  51. ^ a b McShane, Julianne; Rosenberg, Jacob (February 16, 2025). "DOGE Worker Says He Was Radicalized by Reading Writer Who Later Denied Holocaust". Mother Jones. Retrieved 16 February 2025.
  52. ^ Alper, Alexandra; Satter, Raphael. "Staffer with Elon Musk's DOGE amplified white supremacists online". reuters.com. Reuters. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  53. ^ Klee, Miles (2025-02-06). "What We Know So Far About the Young Techies Working for DOGE". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2025-02-17.
  54. ^ Allyn, Bobby (2025-02-07). "Member of Elon Musk's DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface". NPR. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
  55. ^ Bai, Matt (2025-02-24). "The blinding contempt of the DOGE bros". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  56. ^ Mathis-Lilley, Ben (2025-02-26). "I Think It's Bad That Nazi-Adjacent Youths Might Be Overruling the President and Secretary of State". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  57. ^ "Emergency Humanitarian Waiver to Foreign Assistance Pause". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  58. ^ Davis, Wes (2025-03-15). "A DOGE staffer broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted personal data". The Verge. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  59. ^ "DOGE Goon Accused of Screaming at Workers on 36-Hour Shift". The Daily Beast. 2025-04-19. Retrieved 2025-04-19.
  60. ^ "Musk Slammed for Claiming It's Unlawful to Publicly Identify DOGE Personnel". Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  61. ^ Hsu, Spencer S.; Marley, Patrick (2025-02-03). "U.S. attorney hints at prosecutions over 'targeting' of DOGE employees". The Washington Post.
  62. ^ Conger, Kate (2025-02-04). "Elon Musk's X Becomes Weapon in Government Cost Cutting". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  63. ^ Martin, Edward (7 February 2025). "Letter dated 7 February 2025 to Elon Musk and Steve Davis". x.com. Archived from the original on 12 February 2025. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  64. ^ Lynch, Sarah N. (February 7, 2025). "Top Trump prosecutor in DC opens probe based on referral from Elon Musk". Reuters.
  65. ^ Gerkin, Tom (2025-02-05). "Reddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifies". BBC News. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  66. ^ Staff, Distractify (2025-02-13). "Elon Musk Accused of Doxxing After Reposting Judge John McConnell's Daughter's Job on X". Distractify. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  67. ^ "Trump administration ordered by judge to unfreeze federal spending". Newsweek. 2025-02-10. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  68. ^ "Judge John McConnell Jr faces impeachment for obstructing Trump". Newsweek. 2025-02-13. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  69. ^ Schiffer, Zoë. "'Who Is Doge?' Has Become a Metaphysical Question". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
  70. ^ Stein, Shira (April 8, 2025). "DOGE head denies responsibility for mass firings in private group chat message". San Francisco Chronicle. I currently serve as acting administrator of the U.S. Doge Service (formerly U.S. Digital Service). That's separate from (1) the embedded agency Doge teams — who are hired directly into each agency — and (2) the broader Doge policy agenda that Elon Musk advises the President on
  71. ^ Heckman, Jory (2025-03-20). "Hiring freeze to extend 'at least' through 2025, GSA tells employees". federalnewsnetwork.com. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
  72. ^ Fowler, Stephen; McLaughlin, Jenna (March 31, 2025). "DOGE staffer who shared Treasury data now has more access to government systems". NPR. Retrieved April 1, 2025.
  73. ^ "AFLCIO v Labor DOGE Employee Access Exhibit". DocumentCloud. United States District Court for the District of Columbia. March 30, 2025. Retrieved April 1, 2025.
  74. ^ Mitchell, Billy (2025-03-17). "Lawyer linked to DOGE is defending OPM mass email system lawsuit". FedScoop. Retrieved 2025-04-03. Kel McClanahan, counsel for the plaintiffs, wrote in the Monday notice that with the relevant information about Altik, "it has become apparent that [Department of Justice attorney] Ms. [Elizabeth] Shapiro may have misrepresented — knowingly or unknowingly — his affiliation to the Court on 6 February — perhaps to preserve the illusion that OPM's counsel were ignorant of what OPM was doing with the Government-Wide Email System, or perhaps to obscure the role of DOGE and the White House in this case."
  75. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Korosec, Kirsten; Whittaker, Zack; Rollet, Charles; O'Kane, Sean; Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (2025-02-18). "Donald Trump picks Elon Musk for US government cost-cutting role". Techcrunch. Archived from the original on 2025-02-18. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
  76. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak "Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government". The New York Times. 2025-02-28. Archived from the original on February 28, 2025. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  77. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Rollet, Charles; Bellan, Rebecca; Davis, Dominic-Madori; Bort, Julie; O'Kane, Sean (2025-03-26). "19 founders and VCs working with Elon Musk's DOGE". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-04-03.
  78. ^ Grumbach, Gary (2025-03-20). "Acting DOGE head pulls back the curtain on parts of the group's structure in a court filing". NBC News. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
  79. ^ "Here Are the Job Titles and Salary Ranges of Some DOGE Staffers". Bloomberg.com. 2025-05-02. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
  80. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax Asher-Schapiro, Avi; Bing, Christopher; Waldman, Annie; et al. (19 March 2025). "Elon Musk's Demolition Crew". ProPublica. Archived from the original on 19 March 2025. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
  81. ^ "Establishing and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency"" (PDF). Federal Register. 90 (14). Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration: 8441–8442. 29 January 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 29, 2025.
  82. ^ Elon Musk [@elonmusk] (2025-02-02). "DOGE is working 120 hour a week. Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours a week. That is why they are losing so fast" (Tweet). Twitter. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
  83. ^ Smith, Dave (March 17, 2025). "Elon Musk says his DOGE team works 120 hours a week. If they used all their remaining time for sleep, they still wouldn't come close to 8 hours a night". Fortune. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  84. ^ Cohen, Zachary; Treene, Alayna; Gold, Hadas (2025-02-18). "'Good luck with that.' Trump administration terminates privacy officials at agency overseeing government hiring and firing". CNN. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  85. ^ contentpilot (2022-07-15). "Munck Wilson Mandala Welcomes Litigation Attorney Daniel Abrahamson". Munck Wilson Mandala. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  86. ^ "Justin Aimonetti". 2023-11-30. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  87. ^ a b c d Musgrave, Shawn (March 5, 2025). "Leaked List Shows DOGE Is Lawyering Up". The Intercept.
  88. ^ a b c Musgrave, Shawn (April 18, 2025). "DOGE Installs a Former Tesla Employee at the FBI". Retrieved 2025-04-20.
  89. ^ "Trump Smacked Down Elon Musk's Request to Bring Foreign Ally to DOGE". The Daily Beast. February 5, 2025. Retrieved 2025-03-09.
  90. ^ Crook, Jordan (2020-04-22). "Human Capital is an engineering talent agency and a VC fund all in one". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
  91. ^ a b c Elliott, Justin; Asher-Schapiro, Avi; Kroll, Andy (2025-02-07). "These Are Some of the Lawyers Working for Elon Musk's DOGE". ProPublica. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
  92. ^ "How A Tiny Federal Agency's Lawsuit Could Provide The Smoking Gun Against DOGE". HuffPost. 2025-03-07. Retrieved 2025-04-03.
  93. ^ Mitchell, Billy (2025-03-17). "Lawyer linked to DOGE is defending OPM mass email system lawsuit". FedScoop. Retrieved 2025-04-03.
  94. ^ "Jake Altik". New Civil Liberties Alliance. 2022-02-24. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  95. ^ Dwoskin, Elizabeth; Stein, Jeff; Bogage, Jacob; Siddiqui, Faiz (2024-11-24). "Musk and Ramaswamy race to build a 'DOGE' team for war with Washington". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2024-11-25. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
  96. ^ a b c d e f Shapero, Julia (2025-03-28). "Here's who's on Elon Musk's DOGE team: 7 names" (Text). The Hill. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  97. ^ a b c d e "Elon Musk's DOGE tries to put new faces on its reclusive federal office". NBC News. 2025-03-28. Retrieved 2025-04-03.
  98. ^ a b c d e "DOGE software approval alarms Labor Department employees". NBC News. 2025-02-13. Retrieved 2025-03-18.
  99. ^ Noor Al-Sibai (2025-02-10). "One of Elon Musk's DOGE Staffers Used to Sell Ketamine Professionally". Futurism. Retrieved 2025-02-13.
  100. ^ Boyle, Alan (2016-08-02). "SpaceX's HR guy addresses tales of overworked engineers and more on Reddit". GeekWire. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
  101. ^ Andrea Suozzo; Alec Glassford; Ash Ngu; Brandon Roberts (2013-05-09). "Diversity Discovered A Nj Nonprofit Corporation, Full Filing - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
  102. ^ "Ron Wyden Accuses Trump Social Security Nominee Of Lying About DOGE Contacts". HuffPost. 2025-03-25. Retrieved 2025-03-26.
  103. ^ "DOGE's Social Security takeover risked data of Americans 'leaking into wrong hands'". The Independent. 2025-03-10. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
  104. ^ "Ashley Boizelle '08 Named FCC Deputy General Counsel". 2017-10-30. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  105. ^ "James M. Burnham". January 29, 2025. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  106. ^ a b c Elliott, Vittoria. "The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk's DOGE Army". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-03-09.
  107. ^ Feiger, Leah. "US DOGE Service Agreement With Department of Labor Shows $1.3 Million Fee—and Details Its Mission". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
  108. ^ Feiger, Leah. "DOGE Has Access to Sensitive Labor Department Data on Immigrants and Farm Workers". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  109. ^ Kelly, Makena. "Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  110. ^ admin (2025-03-21). "Sam Corcos Net Worth, The Health Startup CEO Turning Followers Into Business Growth". UOU Music Magazine. Retrieved 2025-04-03.
  111. ^ Bogage, Jacob; Stein, Jeff (March 1, 2025). "DOGE presses to check federal benefits payments against IRS tax records". Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 7, 2025.
  112. ^ a b c "'Big Balls' speaks out as DOGE Staffers give first interview". Newsweek. 2025-05-02. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
  113. ^ Natanson, Hannah; Rein, Lisa; Kornfield, Meryl (April 12, 2025). "Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 13, 2025. Retrieved April 13, 2025.
  114. ^ Saacks, Bradley. "Alums of $16 billion Tiger Cub Lone Pine have struggled to hack it on their own — with one notable exception". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-04-03.
  115. ^ "Meet Steve Davis, Elon Musk's cost-cutting crusader at Doge". Firstpost. 2025-02-11. Retrieved 2025-02-26.
  116. ^ "Meet the cost-cutting engineer who runs the day-to-day operations of DOGE". The Independent. 2025-03-20. Retrieved 2025-03-27.
  117. ^ Kelly, Makena. "Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-03-09.
  118. ^ "Josh Fox". Institute for Justice. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  119. ^ Jeans, David. "A Top Pentagon DOGE Official's Success Story Doesn't Always Add Up". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-04-04. [A] closer examination of Fulcher's career also suggests his accomplishments don't always add up, according to internal company documents and interviews with 10 people who have worked with him. Fulcher's Singapore-based telehealth company, RingMD, for instance, went bankrupt after he raised more than $10 million from investors. His attempt to restart it in the U.S. led to litigation with a business partner, who claims Fulcher owes him hundreds of thousands of dollars. And the half-billion-dollar manufacturing facility promoted by the Biden administration appears to be one of a few claims that never materialized.
  120. ^ "'Tale of 2 Petes': Fired adviser describes Pentagon chief consumed by image". POLITICO. 2025-04-28. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
  121. ^ Schleifer, Theodore; Nehamas, Nicholas (2025-02-13). "Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk's Government Initiative". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  122. ^ Baio, Ariana (14 February 2025). "Airbnb's co-founder is joining Elon Musk's DOGE". The Independent. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  123. ^ "Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia joins growing DOGE team under Elon Musk". Newsweek. 2025-02-17. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
  124. ^ Watson, Kathryn; Kaplan, Michael (February 25, 2025). "This is who the White House says is the DOGE acting administrator". CBS News.
  125. ^ Stephenson, Cassandra. "Former Aspire Health CEO Brad Smith launches firm to create, grow healthcare companies". The Tennessean. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
  126. ^ Fowler, Stephen (2025-04-11). "How DOGE may have improperly used Social Security data to push voter fraud narratives". NPR. Retrieved 2025-04-11.
  127. ^ "US to Name Morgan Stanley Banker Michael Grimes to Lead Sovereign Wealth Fund - Bloomberg". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2025-03-09.
  128. ^ a b Nilsen, Ella (March 7, 2025). "Inside Trump and DOGE's chaotic effort to release billions of gallons of California's water". CNN.
  129. ^ "A New Home for GW Hillel". Giving to GW. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  130. ^ Kinnard, Meg; Goodman, Joshua (2025-02-04). "Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration". Associated Press News. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  131. ^ "Stephanie Holmes". 2023-03-07. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  132. ^ a b "The Musk Associates Running the Government — Even After He's Gone". Bloomberg.com. 2025-04-08. Archived from the original on April 8, 2025. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
  133. ^ Haskins, Caroline. "A DOGE Recruiter Is Staffing a Project to Deploy AI Agents Across the US Government". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on May 2, 2025. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
  134. ^ "Musk's DOGE team reportedly includes 24-year-old former Canadian university student". National Post. February 5, 2025.
  135. ^ Klee, Miles (2025-02-03). "Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Divulge Identities of DOGE Staff". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  136. ^ Goodwin, Grace Eliza. "A former Silicon Valley engineer wrote on Substack about why he left behind 'staggering' stock grants to work for DOGE". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  137. ^ "DOGE Aide Dismantling CFPB Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From Cuts — ProPublica". Retrieved 2025-04-30.
  138. ^ Kmiec, Keenan (2009-05-12). "Ever been a 'judicial activist'?". POLITICO. Retrieved 2025-04-01.
  139. ^ a b Bort, Julie; Zeff, Maxwell (2024-11-27). "Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale, and all the other VCs reportedly in the running for DOGE and other Trump committees". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
  140. ^ Elliott, Vittoria. "Elon Musk's man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO". wired.com. Wired. Retrieved February 14, 2025.
  141. ^ "Ex-employees say Tom Krause, tapped by Musk to overhaul Treasury, was a 'hatchet man'". ABC News. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
  142. ^ Tkacik, Maureen (2025-02-06). "The Private Equity Hatchet Man Leading the Lost Boys of DOGE". The American Prospect. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
  143. ^ "Trump Nominates Scott Kupor For OPM Director". 2025-01-13. Retrieved 2025-03-09.
  144. ^ a b Quinlan, Adriane (2025-03-03). "The Real-Estate Operators at DOGE Might Know Where You Live". Curbed. Retrieved 2025-03-09.
  145. ^ Elliott, Vittoria. "Inside DOGE's AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  146. ^ "Indie Hackers | #256 – Debate: Elon Musk, Billionaires, Ethics, and Role Models with Sahil Lavingia and Justin Jackson". Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  147. ^ Reddy, Naveen (2022-10-25). "Sahil Lavingia - Detailed Biography". Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  148. ^ "Elon Musk's New USAID Stooge Once Threatened to Gut a Girl". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2025-04-02.
  149. ^ Sweet, Jacqueline (2025-01-22). "New DOGE staffer appears to be rising legal star with surprising bio". The Handbasket. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  150. ^ Epstein, Jake. "Harvard Law professor says US should liquidate Russia's foreign reserves and use the money to fund military aid to Ukraine". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
  151. ^ "Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks". Rolling Stone. 2025-04-01. Retrieved 2025-04-02.
  152. ^ Bing, Christopher; Asher-Schapiro, Avi; Kroll, Andy (2025-02-20). "DOGE's Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion". ProPublica. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  153. ^ Chalfant, Morgan (September 19, 2019). "Pence taps former DHS press aide as new press secretary". The Hill. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  154. ^ "US SEC officials push back as Musk's DOGE seeks broad access, source says". Reuters. 2025-04-15.
  155. ^ a b Duehren, Andrew; Rappeport, Alan; Schleifer, Theodore (6 February 2025). "Treasury Sought to Freeze Foreign Aid Payments, Emails Show". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  156. ^ Carroll, Chris (October 24, 2011). "Cyberwarfare joins the curriculum at service academies". Stars and Stripes. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  157. ^ "Elon Musk finally meets the press and compares himself to Buddha | CNN Business". Retrieved 2025-05-04.
  158. ^ Ngo, Madeleine (2025-02-07). "Members of Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency..." The New York Times. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  159. ^ Marchman, Tim; Giles, Matt (2025-02-05). "This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration". Wired. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
  160. ^ "Austin Raynor '13 to Clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas | University of Virginia School of Law". 2016-11-16. Retrieved 2025-04-04. I have enormous respect for Justice Thomas, both as a person and a judge, and I think he's one of the most principled justices ever to sit the bench.
  161. ^ Schleifer, Theodore; Conger, Kate; Mac, Ryan (2025-03-14). "A Close Elon Musk Friend Joins His Effort on Social Security". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 March 2025.
  162. ^ "UVA Grad Joe Riley Works to House Military Families". 2020-09-21. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  163. ^ Elkind, Peter (2025-02-18). "Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the "Worst of the Worst"". ProPublica. Retrieved 2025-02-18.
  164. ^ Newsham, Jack; Tecotzky, Alice. "We found a DOGE guy at NASA because his Google Calendar was public". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
  165. ^ "Bryton Shang | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration". Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  166. ^ Wilson, Jason (2025-02-04). "He's working on Elon Musk's 'plutocratic coup.' Last year, he won a $100,000 grant to promote 'democratic governance' in AI". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2025-04-04.
  167. ^ "Trump is replacing the acting IRS commissioner, part of a dispute between Treasury and Elon Musk". NBC News. 2025-04-18. Retrieved 2025-04-19.
  168. ^ "GSA announces new Commissioners, TTS Director, and General Counsel". U.S. General Services Administration. 2025-01-24. Retrieved 2025-02-08.
  169. ^ "Whistleblower on Jared Kushner's coronavirus task force admits he was pressured to 'fudge' death data model". The Independent. 2020-09-23. Retrieved 2025-04-05.
  170. ^ "Who is the DOGE and X Technician Branden Spikes?". Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  171. ^ "SpaceX engineer abruptly resigns from Fannie Mae board". The Mercury News. 2025-03-19. Retrieved 2025-03-25.
  172. ^ Gilbert, David. "DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
  173. ^ Marchman, Tim. "Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2025-03-31.
  174. ^ Egan, Matt (2025-02-08). "OMB head Russell Vought takes over as CFPB as acting head, DOGE team deletes X account". CNN. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  175. ^ "The Real Mastermind Behind Trump's Imperial Presidency". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on April 26, 2025. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
  176. ^ Sullivan, Mark (2025-03-04). "This DOGE staffer's GitHub posts might help us understand how Elon Musk wants to bring AI into the government". Fast Company. Retrieved 2025-04-04. Wick posted the code for a tool that automatically downloads DMs from Twitter accounts. The code specifies Twitter accounts, which existed only until the social platform rebranded to "X" in October 2023, suggesting the possibility that the tool could be used to search through the digital past of government employees looking for disagreeable opinions or references. Another tool appeared to be designed for collecting sensitive data from government agency org charts. The tool contained fields for capturing the employee's office, a 1-5 satisfaction rating, union status, and whether or not their position is statutorily mandated.
  177. ^ McLaughlin, Jenna (2025-04-15). "A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data". NPR. Retrieved 2025-04-15. Berulis said he noticed five PowerShell downloads on the system, a task automation program that would allow engineers to run automated commands. There were several code libraries that got his attention — tools that he said appeared to be designed to automate and mask data exfiltration. There was a tool to generate a seemingly endless number of IP addresses called "requests-ip-rotator," and a commonly used automation tool for web developers called "browserless" — both repositories starred or favorited by Wick, the DOGE engineer, according to an archive of his GitHub account reviewed by NPR.
  178. ^ Schleifer, Theodore (2024-08-28). "Elon Musk, Eyeing Edge for Trump, Hires Republican Political Adviser". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 February 2025.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Network_of_the_Department_of_Government_Efficiency&oldid=1289113417"