Network of the Department of Government Efficiency

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 associates appointed during the second presidency of Donald Trump to implement his government efficiency initiative. DOGE membership has been consistently obfuscated by the administration. The identity of its members was revealed by investigative journalists, which Musk described as doxing.[2] Many of them were young coders without government experience.[3] Roughly 40 DOGE members worked for Musk; the broader network also includes allies from Silicon Valley, the Trump administration and conservative legal circles.[4] In July, ProPublica tracked down more than 100 DOGE members; at least 23 of them were making cuts at agencies that regulate where they previously worked.[5]

DOGE's structure has not officially been published.[6] Leadership was also blurred: while Amy Gleason was named Acting Administrator[7] and Steve Davis reportedly managed daily operations,[8] Elon Musk has been described by Trump as being "in charge",[9] and a court has declared him the "DOGE leader".[10] In April 2025, Musk declared he would work on DOGE remotely,[11] months after declaring his intent to ban remote work for federal workers.[12] Musk and Davis left DOGE at the end of May.[13][14]

Members of the network entered or joined various federal agencies.[15] DOGE took control of information systems to facilitate mass layoffs. Actions from its members have met various responses, including lawsuits.

Background

"DOGE Kids"

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

On February 2, Wired revealed that DOGE hired six coders aged 19–24 with no experience in government: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez, Gautier Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.[3] They reportedly 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",[16] and surprise code reviews, silently supervised by "extremely young men".[17] The team has been called "Doge Kids" by officials, reporters, and social media users.[18][19][20]

Coristine has gone by the name "Big Balls" on the internet, a nickname widely referenced in the media.[21] According to Brian Krebs, Coristine's past poses security risks:[22] The 19-year-old son of the LesserEvil owner[23] leaked information from the data-security company where he was interning,[24] mingled with 'The Com',[25] owned domains registered in Russia,[26] and provided tech support to another cybercrime group.[27] Kliger has an edgelord past,[28] crediting Ron Unz for his political awakening,[29] reposting Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate, along with supremacist memes.[30] Elez has shared similar viewpoints, with posts such as "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity" and "Normalize Indian hate."[31]

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.[32][33][34] Court documents filed on March 14 have revealed that DOGE staffer Marko Elez violated U.S. Treasury Department policy by mishandling personal information.[35] Kliger was accused of yelling at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) staff he kept for a 36-hour shift.[36] In June, Coristine resigned from DOGE and moved to SSA.[37]

Doxing accusations

On February 4, Musk accused of doxing those who circulated the names of the DOGE kids.[38] The next day, Ed Martin stated this violated the law,[39] 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.[2]

The "We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon" protest, organized by MoveOn, was held at the Treasury on February 4, 2025.

Toward a comprehensive list

On February 4, Wired identified Nikhil Rajpal at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.[40] Days later, CNN revealed that Farritor has been granted access to Department of Energy's information systems despite their Chief Information Officer's objections.[41] Days after it identified three laywers tied to the Supreme Court,[42] ProPublica published on February 8 a list of who is involved in DOGE; it last updated its list on June 10, reaching 109 names.[43] On February 12, Wired revealed that the new chief information officers of OMB, OPM, and DoE were tied to Palantir or SpaceX. [44]

On February 18, TechCrunch published a list of DOGE staffers, and the senior advisors coming from Musk's inner circle;[45] that list has been updated on May 20.[46]

On February 24, Wired identified Luke Farritor, Rachel Riley, Jeremy Lewin, and Clark Minor at the National Institute of Health.[47] Days later, the New York Times said much of DOGE's "operations are opaque, and most of its personnel have not been disclosed by the Trump administration"; they tracked the roles DOGE members officially took, and the agencies to which they were delegated, and also mapped the ties that could explain why the members were hired.[48]

Musk said in early March there were around DOGE 100 employees, and planned to double the staff.[49] On March 9, Wired reported that three DOGE members tied to Palantir were recruiting talent there,[50] and that Musk allies were installed at GSA.[51] On March 11, Business Insider found more than 12 DOGE members tied to Peter Thiel.[52] On March 26, Politico listed names from DOGE's "legal army".[53] Wired mapped DOGE's corporate connections as known by the end of March.[4] Musk appeared at the end of the month on Fox News, along seven DOGE advisors, whom The Hill profiled.[54] The Washington Post followed suit in April with its own lists.[55] Bloomberg made two lists: one about Musk associates,[56] the other about Peter Thiel network.[57]

Leadership

One month after being taken over by DOGE, Multiple legacy USDS employees could not identify its leadership.[7] 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 a special government employee with no "authority to make government decisions". Trump declared two days later to have put "Musk in charge" of DOGE.[58] At a February 24 hearing, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly questioned the constitutionality of retrofitting DOGE as the United States Digital Service and asked the government attorney, Bradley Humphreys, about its structure; he said that he ignored Musk's role beyond that of Trump advisor.[59] On the next day, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Musk is "overseeing DOGE" but refused to identify its administrator after being asked repeatedly.[60][61]

Later the same day, the White House named Amy Gleason as acting administrator; Gleason worked from 2018 through 2021 at US Digital Service.[62][63] 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.[64] 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 the US DOGE Service.[65] At the end of February, neither the White House nor its lawyers could confirm who was running it.[66]

In his March 4 joint address to Congress, Trump repeated that DOGE "is headed by Elon Musk".[67][68] 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."[69] On March 18, Chuang determined that Musk was "the leader of DOGE" and that his actions in dismantling USAID violated the Appointments Clause.[70] In a May 21 Supreme Court filing, Solicitor General John Sauer told the court that Musk "is not part of" DOGE.[71] In a separate lawsuit involving Musk's company X, his own lawyers stated that he is "in charge of" DOGE.[72]

Obfuscation

While Musk promised "maximal transparency" and Trump revealed the size of DOGE (c. 100 people), details about spendings, workforce or operations were not made public by the administration.[73] USDS staffers reported that the DOGE team embedded isolated themselves from the other members of the agency.[74] CNN sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in February for security clearance records of DOGE members who were granted access to sensitive or classified government data; 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.[75]

Administration officials have contested DOGE membership in internal communications, in public, and in courts.[76] Amy Gleason argued in group chat she had no control over DOGE members hired by other agencies, nor any responsibility regarding their actions, including firings.[77] General Services Administration (GSA) administrator and DOGE member Stephen Ehikian stated "there is no DOGE team at GSA"[78] even though Steve Davis had 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 the US DOGE Service.[79][80] In a court case involving the "Fork in the road" mass email, DOGE member Jacob Altik has been presented as a lawyer from the Office of Personnel Management when trying to shut down the African Development Foundation along with other DOGE members.[81]

Musk departure

During Tesla's earnings call on April 22, 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.[82][83][84] 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".[85] Musk began working remotely around the same time,[86][87][88] months after expressing his intent to ban remote work for federal workers.[89] Musk's offboarding began on May 28 at the end of his scheduled time as a special government employee.[90][91] Top Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, top DOGE adviser Katie Miller and DOGE general counsel James Burnham would be leaving as well.[92] Trump officially thanked Musk during an Oval Office farewell on May 30, and said Musk was "not really leaving".[93] During an interview with Brett Baier on June 1, Musk criticized Trump's "big beautiful bill" for undoing DOGE's work.[94] Shortly after, the Trump–Musk feud erupted.

After Musk left, DOGE affiliates started to integrate agencies as in-house colleagues, not as members of a separate organization embedded to them; legacy employees told Wired they were asked not to call them "DOGE". According to Sahil Lavingia and other sources, Davis was still involved after he officially left, through Signal.[15] In June, OMB director Russell Vought said that DOGE has become "far more institutionalized at the actual agency".[95] Multiple DOGE employees changed employment classifications. [96] DOGE has continued to recruit tech workers, promising up to $195,000.[97]

Composition

Status

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.[98][99]

Musk said in March 2025 that there are around 100 employees and that he planned to double the staff.[100]

Selection

While the White House Presidential Personnel Office made political loyalty to Trump a cornerstone of its hiring strategy, DOGE employees were onboarded through a separate Musk-led process.[101]

Many DOGE members made financial contributions to the Trump campaign.[102]

Units

Many DOGE members are embedded in other government units;[103] 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).[104] Few have a known contractual status; some have tried to conceal their roles; the White House provides little information.[105]

Roles

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".[106]

Ties

TechCrunch sorts "Musk's universe" as inner circle, senior figures, worker bees, or aides;[46] the New York Times associates the "clear mandate" of "shrinking and disrupting" government" to DOGE leadership, staffers, and allies;[48] Wired mapped four types of DOGE affiliation: Musk (roughly 40 DOGE members were tied to him), conservative lawyers, Trump, and Silicon Valley.[4] ProPublica found 29 executive managers, 28 engineers, 16 investors, and 12 lawyers; more came from finance than any other field; it also found that most staffers are young (60% under 40) men (83% male) with limited government experience.[107] Bloomberg found connections between DOGE members and either Musk or Thiel.[56][57]

Membership extends beyond employee status: many affiliates are venture capitalists and startup founders.[108]

At least 23 DOGE officials are making cuts at agencies that regulate where they previously worked.[5]

Deeds

This section is an excerpt from US federal agencies targeted by DOGE.[edit]
DOGE took control of the federal government information systems in order to downsize federal agencies. DOGE embedded units from the executive branch of the government, including cabinet departments and various types of independent agencies. It targeted regulatory agencies and units from the legislative branch. It also targeted quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations and organizations outside the federal government.

Members

Keys

  • [a]  – ProPublica's updated list[43]
  • [b]  – Bloomberg's Musk associates[56]
  • [c]  – The Hill's seven names[54]
  • [d]  – Wired's map[4]
  • [e]  – Politico's "legal army"[53]
  • [f]  – New York Times' tracker[48]
  • [g]  – TechCrunch's universe[46]
  • [h]  – Washington Post's list[55]
  • [i]  – Wired's six young coders
  • [j]  – Wired's GSA report[51]

Table

DOGE members
Name Role Unit Ties Deeds See
Daniel Abrahamson Senior advisor DOT Musk – Tesla counsel, Munck Wilson Mandala[109] Requested access to various databases [a][d][e]
Justin Aimonetti Attorney EOP Law – Dechert LLP (Fox News case), FedSoc contributor;[110] Trump – first administration[111][112] Vera Institute: contacted it to send a DOGE team[113] [a]
Baris Akis Recruiter OPM Musk – Human Capital co-founder;[114] tied to Amanda Scales Vetoed by Trump (non-citizen);[115] still in charge of recruitment[116] [g]
Jacob "Jake" Altik Attorney OPM Trump – Neomi Rao clerk, Neil Gorsuch clerk;[42] New Civil Liberties Alliance; Weil, Gotshal & Manges USADF standoff;[117] Fork in the road: represented OPM in trial[118][119] [a][f]
Marc Andreessen Musk ally Musk – a16z backed SpaceX, xAI, and Twitter; Trump – transition team DOGE early recruitment[120]
Anthony Armstrong Senior advisor to the Director OPM Musk – Twitter purchase; Morgan Stanley Denied on Fox News that DOGE changes were radical;[121] resigned in April, 2025[122] [a]
Jennifer "Jehn" Balajadia Musk aide ED Musk – his confidant and assistant, Boring [a]
Ankur Bansal DOT Homelight; SnapSaves Identified grants to be canceled [a]
Sam Beyda DOL DOL: Used PuTTY to transfer and access data[123]
Alexandra T. Beynon Expert (coding) ED Musk – Mindbloom, ketamine-assisted therapy company founded by her husband;[124][f]Goldman Sachs [a]
Riccardo Biasini Senior advisor to the Director OPM Musk – Boring, Twitter, Tesla Contact point for the government-wide email system; disclosed 1–5M in Boring stocks and 1–5M in Boring options [a]
Brian Bjelde Senior advisor OPM Musk – early SpaceX employee,[125] helped terminate 80% of Twitter's employees; NASA: vested interest in company making Black Hawk helicopters autonomous (Rain) Top DOGE lieutenant [a][f]
Adam Blake DOGE team lead NRC[126] Questioned Steve Davis's continued influence at DOGE as a non-employee[127]
Akash Bobba Expert (coding) OPM, GSA Thiel – Palantir intern; Diversity Discovered CIO[128] OPM: Online Retirement Application system[129] SSA: asked for every bit of data[130][131] [i][f]
Ashley Boizelle Attorney GSA Trump – FCC, under Ajit Pai;[132] Sandra S. Ikuta clerk; Gibson Dunn[111] [f]
Emily Bryant CFPB[133] Seen at the FTC[134] [a]
James Burnham General Counsel EOP Trump – first administration, Neil Gorsuch clerk;[42] FedSoc;[135] Jones Day Resigned on May 29, 2025[136] [a]
Nate Cavanaugh GSA ($120,500)[99] Thiel fan; Brainbase; FlowFi (co-CEO) Appointed: USIP, ICH; detailed: USADF, IAF, IMLS, NEH, MBDA; contacted: Vera Institute.[137] [g][a][112]
Alison Childs GSA Musk – Dream Team [a]
Yat Choi Engineer OPM Gebbia: AirBnB engineer OPM: Online Retirement Application system;[129] non-citizen (from Canada)[138]
Carl Coe Chief of Staff DOE Mango Practice Management[139] Led DOGE efforts in the DOE[140]
Michael Cole USDA [a]
Miles Collins DOL Brother of Malcolm Collins[141] Named in GAO audit notes; has access to National Farmworker Jobs Program system [142][143][a]
George Cooper Recruiter Thiel – Palantir engineer Hired Palantir talent[50] [g]
Sam Corcos Chief Information Officer USDT 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 [144][145][146][147]
Edward "Big Balls" Coristine Senior advisor SSA; Previously CISA; GSA ( GS-15)[148] Musk – Neuralink intern; Tesla.sexy LLC owner; LesserEvil; Path Network fired intern; The Com; Valery Martynov grandson Interviewed by Jesse Watters; left in June 2025 to work for SSA[149] [150][22][26][151]
Scott Coulter Formerly the SSA Chief Information Officer (replaced by Moghaddassi) 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 [152][a][153]
Steve Davis Day-to-day deputy leader, Musk's second in command (left on May 25, 2025) EOP, OPM, GSA Musk – SpaceX, Twitter, Boring; Atlas Society advisor[154] GSA: occupied a whole floor; SSA: pressured to grant Bobba access to everything, including source code; resigned on May 29, 2025[136][121] [a][c][g][f][j]
Stephen Duarte Expert (HR) OPM Musk – SpaceX, Bjelde colleague [a]
Leland Dudek Acting Commissioner (February to May, 2025) 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; placed on leave after contesting Trump's 40% claim;[155] replaced by Frank Bisignano; wrote an op-ed in the New York Post[156] [f][20]
Stephen Ehikian Acting Administrator GSA Musk – spouse worked at X; Salesforce; AI startup ZBB fan [a][f][j]
Marko Elez Expert (coding) USDT Musk – SpaceX, X, xAI, Neuralink Fired from DOGE for past racist posts; re-hired after JD Vance's intervention; accidentally published an API key for 52 xAILLMs in a GitHub repository [a][157]
Bee Elvy Web designer GSA Musk – Dream Team [a]
Luke Farritor Senior advisor GSA[148] Musk – SpaceX; Thiel Fellowship Helped DOGE recruitment; accessed at least 12 databases (HHS, DOS, etc.) [a][50]
Conor Fennessy Senior advisor ED, HHS [a]
Joshua ("Josh") Fox Attorney Trump – Court of Federal Claims (Ryan T. Holte); Charles Koch: Institute for Justice;[158] Alston & Bird [111]
Justin Fox GSA Nexus Capital Management Detailed: NLRB, USADF, IAF, NEH, USIP, the Wilson Center, MEC, etc.[137]
Justin Fulcher Senior advisor DOD, VA Musk – longtime admirer; donated c. $40,000 to Republican lawmakers and political action committees; shady credentials, bankrupted startup[159] Accessed VA's HR systems; fired by DOGE, promoted by Hegseth at DOD;[160] made false wiretap claims;[161] left government in July [a][162][163]
Nicholas Gallagher Lawyer GSA [a]
Mattieu Gamache-Asselin Senior advisor HHS Health services: Alto co-founder Advises on budgeting, grants and financial management [a]
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 [121][164][165][166][151]
Derek Geissler DOL Used PuTTY to access and transfer data [123]
Patrick George DOGE lead at US Navy DoD [a]
Brady Glantz FAA Musk – SpaceX engineer Special employee for 4 days; still has an FAA email [a]
Amy Gleason Acting Administrator USDS Brad Smith: Russell Street Ventures; Trump – US Digital Service Nominally overs both USDS and USDSTO and reports to Susie Wiles [f][167][168]
Mike Gonzalez Senior advisor OPM David Sacks: Zenefits; TraceHQ Lamented the state and process of the federal budget [g]
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 [f][169]
Michael Grimes DOC Musk – Twitter acquisition; Morgan Stanley Expected to lead the new sovereign fund [f][170][a]
Joshua A. Hanley Attorney NIH Trump – DOJ; Federalist Society; Williams & Connolly Authored grant termination notices [a][f][111]
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 [c][171][f][172]
Christina Hanna Expert (HR) OPM Musk – SpaceX HR manager [f]
Jim Hickey Senior advisor DoD [a]
Vinay Hiremath Recruiter DOGE Trump – transition team; Loom Quit DOGE to focus on himself [g]
Adam Hoffman DOJ Musk – Citadel invested in X and Tesla; Trump – White House Council of Economic Advisers Gained access to DOJ files on immigrants [a]
Greg Hogan Chief Information Officer OPM Musk – Comma.ai Named in a lawsuit vs OPM [f][a]
Nicole Hollander GSA Musk – Twitter, Married to Steve Davis Initiated thousands of lease cancellations on federal buildings;[173][174] resigned on May 29, 2025[175] [g][j]
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 [a][f][176]
Jared Isaacman Administrator NASA Musk – SpaceX Trump pulled his nomination[177] [b]
Kenneth Jackson Acting deputy administrator USAID Authored a memo about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation [178]
Anthony Jancso Recruiter Thiel – Palantir software engineer; AccelerateX Told Palantir alumni DOGE was recruiting to "deploy AI agents across live workflows in federal agencies" [a][g][50][179]
Rajasekar Jegannathan Data engineer GSA Musk – Tesla senior employee [a]
Erica Jehling EPA, GSA Musk – SpaceX purchasing director [a]
Gautier "Cole" Killian Federal detailee EPA, DOL Jump Trading (engineer) [180][i][123]
Thomas Kiernan FAA Musk – SpaceX software engineer Left on February 6; had an official email [a]
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 [i][29][a][181][182]
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"[183] [a][42]
Jon Koval Executive SSA Musk – Valor Equity Partners, co-founded by Gracias, invested in SpaceX and Tesla [184]
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 Had access to Treasury payment systems, with Elez; said on Fox News he wants to audit every federal payment; involved in USAID's dismantlement; resigned on June 6, 2025[185] [121][c][a][186][g][187][188]
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 [g][184]
Scott Kupor Director OPM Andreessen – a16z; self-help author; National Venture Capital Association [f][189][g][190]
Scott Langmack Senior advisor HUD Real-estate: Kukun COO; wrote The Fast Track to Your Ideal Job; became a loan shark during the 2008 recession Holds read and write access to two HUD core systems;[191] Pitching SweetREX deregulation AI to other agencies[192] [f][193]
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 Wanted to "digitize the agency" with vibe coding; "got the boot" in May, after the Fast Company interview;[194] suspected that DOGE will fizzle out after Musk's departure [195][196][197][198][199]
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; overrode 58 objections and 9 mandatory safeguards to approve $30 million for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation [200][201][202][99][178]
Kendall M. Lindemann Expert (HR) EOP, USDS Brad Smith: Russell Street Ventures associate; competitive swimmer [a][f]
Kathryn Armstrong Loving Federal detailee EPA Musk – Tesla; Brian Armstrong's sister; Y Combinator Looking for contracts contra Trump's agenda; resigned on May, 23 [203][a]
Shaun Maguire Trump – supporter; Musk – Sequoia Capital (through Roelof Botha) Helped screen DOGE candidates; vocal DOGE fan on Musk's social [g]
Tarak Makecha Senior advisor FBI, DOJ, DOS Musk – Tesla; Software company (finance executive) Worked at the Justice Department on grant-making operations, and at the FCC [f][112][a]
Ted Malaska FAA Musk – SpaceX software engineer Given an ethics waiver; held an official email; left on February 6, 2025 [a][g]
David Malcher GSA, VA Musk – SpaceX senior financial analyst [a]
Allan Mangaser Senior advisor GSA, OMB Thiel – Palantir [a]
Jonathan Mendelson Senior advisor GSA, SEC investor at Accel Started on April 9 [137]
Katie Miller DOGE Spokesperson Trump – Mike Pence press secretary during the first administration, wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller Left to work with Musk on May 25, 2025 [a][204][136]
Clark Minor Chief Information Officer HHS Thiel – Palantir Bitcoin enthusiast, disclosed a $244,000 Palantir salary and between 1 and 5M in Palantir stocks [a]
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 [f][193]
Eliezer Mishory Attorney SEC Formerly an attorney for Kalshi, a prediction markets firm and official at Commodity Futures Trading Commission [205][a]
Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski Expert (HR) OPM Musk – SpaceX HR Manager [f]
Aram Moghaddassi SSA Chief Information Officer USDT, DOL, SSA Musk – Neuralink, Twitter Appeared on Fox News with Musk [121][c][206][138]
Justin Monroe Expert (security) FBI Musk – SpaceX; US Navyinformation warfare officer First naval information warfare officer to be commissioned out of the Naval Academy in 2011 [a][207]
Brooks Morgan ED Podium Education [f]
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; officially resigned on May 25, 2025 [a][208][136]
Todd Newnam IRS Encore Technology Group CEO; The Carlyle Group; Sovereign Intelligence [a]
Donald Park SBA, GSA [a][209]
Matthew Parkhurst-Session GSA [a]
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 [f]
Nikhil "Nik" Rajpal Expert (coding) CFPB, NOAA, OPM Musk – Twitter [a][210][211]
Adam Ramada Liaison EOP, DOL, ED Musk – investment firm tied to a SpaceX alumnus Identified as team lead in two legal cases [a][212]
Brandon Mayhew Senior Advisor OPM Musk – Twitter acquisition [213]
Austin Raynor Attorney, senior advisor OPM, Executive Office Federalist Society; clerk for Clarence Thomas; DOJ; Pacific Legal Foundation Condones Trump's Birthright Citizenship challenge [f][123][214]
Payton Rehling Expert (coding) SSA Musk – Valor Equity Partners, an early Tesla investor[215]
Ryan Riedel Chief Information Officer DOE Musk – SpaceX network security engineer; U.S. Army Cyber Command [a][f]
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; resigned in March, 2025. [a][216]
Michael Russo Chief Information Officer SSA Musk – Shift4 Payments executive, a company that process payments for Starlink[206] [a][f]
Amanda Scales Chief of Staff OPM Musk – xAI; Baris Akis: Human Capital; Uber Worked on "Fork on the road" operation; returned to xAI by May 20, 2025[217] [a][g]
Frank Schuler Real estate executive GSA Real estate: syndicating easements specialist[218] Involved with the Fork in the road email; worked with Nate Cavanaugh on interviews; resigned on May 29, 2025 [f]
Kyle Schutt Software engineer GSA($195,290)[99] Trump – Revv and WinRed raise funds for the Republican Party; Outburst, which hosts parts of the DOGE website Accessed FEMA systems to deobligate funds; has access to UAC portal [a][g]
Riley Sennott Senior advisor NASA, GSA Musk – Tesla; Thiel – Palantir Conducted DOGE interviews[219] [a]
Bryton Shang Senior advisor NOAA[220] Unsuccessfully attempted to turn on water at the Jones Pumping Plant[171]
Ethan Shaotran Expert (coding) GSA,[148] ED Musk – xAI hackathon runner-up; OpenAI grantee with Energize.ai, on "democratic methods to decide the rules that govern AI systems"[221] Requested access to a decade's worth of GSA data; interviewed by Jesse Watters[151] [i][g][j]
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 [222]
Ryan Shea GSA [a]
Thomas Shedd Acting director (TTS), chief information officer (DOL)[223] GSA (TTS),[224] DOL Musk – Tesla engineer Leads ai.gov[223] [a][f][j]
Roland Shen Engineer USDT Thiel – Ramp [138]
Alexander Simonpour NASA Musk – Tesla Helps NASA's reduction in force [b]
Mike Slagh DoD Andreessen – Founder of company that received funding from a16z [a]
Sam Smeal FAA Musk – SpaceX software engineer Had an official email; left on February 6, 2025 [a]
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 [c][a][65][g][225]
John Solly SSA Analyzes death data in Numident [138]
Branden Spikes OPM Musk – PayPal, Zip2 Tesla, SpaceX; Spikes Security; California Russian Association Left after two months [226]
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 [a][f][227][228]
Jack Stein GSA Salem Partners Started April 15; targeted USIP [137]
Brian Stube Senior adviser to the Secretary DOT Musk – former Citadel quant Has a DOT email address; introduced to employees as DOGE member [105]
Jamie Sullivan OPM OPM: Online Retirement Application system[129]
Christopher Sweet Coding (expert) HUD Primary developer of AI tool "SweetREX", created to identify regulations not required by statute, draft new regulations, and group public comment on proposed regulatory changes;[192] has read access to the Public and Indian Housing Center Information Center data; focuses on Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) [229]
Zachary Terrell DHH, NHS Brian Armstrong: Early Spindl employee Has access to sensitive systems, including information about those receiving Medicare benefits; reviewed and vetoed NSF grants [a][230]
Katrine Trampe Advisor to Doug Burgum DOI Sought access to the Federal Personnel and Payroll System [231]
Andrew Vilcsak OPM Gebbia: AirBnB engineer OPM: Online Retirement Application system[129]
Cary Volpert OPM Musk – SpaceX
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 [f][232][233]
Yinon Weiss DOGE team leader DOD Accused of reporting Justin Fulcher to law enforcement; left DOGE in July [a][162]
Owen West DOGE team leader DOD Trump – assistant secretary of defense in first administration; Goldman Sachs former financial analyst Involved in push for US drone dominance [162]
Jordan M. Wick Expert (coding) CFPB, DOL Thiel – Accelerate SF; Waymo Granted extensive access to CFPB data; posted firing bot snippets on GitHub;[234] suspected of having extracted NLRB data;[235] USDA: payment system access[236] [a][f][g]
Joanna Wischer Policy analyst Trump – speech writer [f][123]
Marshall Wood GSA (April 21-)[137] Jefferies DFC;[237] U.S. Agency for Global Media: cancelled contracts [a]
Ryan Wunderly Special advisor USDT Thiel – Anduril [f][a]
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 Gets between 100K and 1M from Musk while at CFPB [a][g][238][239]
Bridget Youngs Peace Corps Ramp Charging, New Energy Capital [a]

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