Network of the Department of Government Efficiency
The network of the Department of Government Efficiency consists of affiliates and allies associated with the Department of Government Efficiency in the second presidency of Donald Trump.
While Elon Musk promised full transparency, the identity of DOGE personnel has not been publicly disclosed; staffers revealed by investigative journalists were young coders without government experience. Roughly 40 affiliates are tied to Musk; others come from Silicon Valley, the Trump administration, and conservative law. In July 2025, ProPublica tracked down more than 100 DOGE members, of whom at least 23 made cuts at agencies regulating where they previously worked.
DOGE's structure has not been published. Leadership was also blurred: while Amy Gleason was named Acting Administrator and Steve Davis reportedly managed daily operations, Trump has described Musk as being "in charge", and a court has declared him de facto leader. Musk and his inner circle left DOGE at the end of May.
Background
Allies
On December 6, 2024, New York Times investigative journalists named Silicon Valley billionaires who tried to influence the Trump transition team toward deregulation of AI, crypto, and space industries: Marc Andreessen, Jared Birchall, Michael Kratsios, Shaun Maguire, and other Musk allies. On January 12, they reported that "an unpaid group of billionaires, tech executives and some disciples of Peter Thiel, a powerful Republican donor, are preparing to take up unofficial positions in the U.S. government in the name of cost-cutting". Communication between them was encrypted through Signal; Baris Akis, James Fishback, and Brad Smith were introduced, along with Matt Luby, Rachel Riley, and Joanna Wischer; Vinay Hiremath was the only one to comment."DOGE Kids"
On February 2, Wired revealed that DOGE hired six coders aged 1924 with no experience in government: Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez, Gautier Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. They reportedly conducted 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", and surprise code reviews, silently supervised by "extremely young men". They have been called "Doge Kids" by officials, reporters, and social media users.Coristine has gone by the name "Big Balls" on the internet. According to Brian Krebs, his past poses security risks: the 19-year-old son of the LesserEvil owner leaked information from the company where he was interning, mingled with 'The Com', owned domains registered in Russia, and provided tech support to another cybercrime group. Kliger credited Ron Unz for his political awakening, reposting Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate, along with supremacist memes. Elez too has an edgelord past, with posts such as "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity" and "Normalize Indian hate."
In February, Farritor and Kliger manually blocked payments for programs approved by Marco Rubio. Court documents filed on March 14 have revealed that DOGE staffer Marko Elez violated Treasury policy by mishandling personal information. In May, Kliger was said to have coerced Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff into a 36-hour shift.
Doxing accusations
On February 4, Musk accused of doxing those who circulated the names of the DOGE kids. The next day, Ed Martin stated this violated the law, According to New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger, Musk was attempting to describe traditional journalism as doxing in order to invalidate the role of the media in government accountability.Lists
On February 4, Wired identified Rajpal at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The next day, The Guardian said Kliger, Farritor entered USAID with Jeremy Lewin and Pete Marocco. On February 7, NPR noted the opacity of the scope of DOGE's work and the identities of its members; it named four with senior roles: Ricardo Biasini, Tom Krause, Amanda Scales, and Thomas Shedd, all with Musk ties; CNN also said Farritor has been granted access to Department of Energy's information systems despite their chief information officer's objections, and Kliger, Rajpal, and Chris Young were reported by Wired at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; later Bloomberg also revealed Lewin, Young, and Jordan Wick in that operation.Days after it identified three lawyers tied to the Supreme Court, ProPublica published on February 8 a list of who is involved in DOGE; it last updated its list on June 10, reaching 109 names; few have a known contractual status; some have tried to conceal their roles; the White House provided little information. On February 11, Business Insider listed more than 30 DOGE members, and four new names: Kendall Lindemann, Adam Ramada, Kyle Schutt, and Austin Raynor; ProPublica also disclosed new names: Jenn Balajada, Nicole Hollander, and Ryan Riedel. Wired revealed the next day that the new chief information officers of the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of personal Management, and the Department of Energy were tied to Palantir or SpaceX. The Washington Post published on the same day that DOGE overtook 15 agencies with 30 DOGE operatives ; of the few it named, only Noah Peters and Alexandra Beynon were not known.
On February 18, TechCrunch published a list of DOGE staffers, and the senior advisors coming from Musk's inner circle; that list has been updated on May 20. On February 24, Wired identified Farritor, Lewin, Rachel Riley, and Clark Minor at the National Institute of Health. 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.
On March 6, Fortune issued its list of "top players" at DOGE. Bloomberg published the day after a list of DOGE members tied to Peter Thiel. Wired followed suit, naming three affiliates tied to Palantir. At the end of March, Politico listed names from DOGE's "legal army". Wired mapped DOGE's corporate connections as known by the end of March. Musk appeared at the end of the month on Fox News, along seven DOGE advisors, whom The Hill profiled. The Washington Post published its own comprehensive list on April 8. Bloomberg made a second list in mid-April, about Musk associates.
Obfuscation
While Musk promised "maximal transparency" and Trump revealed the size of DOGE, details about its operations were not made public by the administration. The structure of DOGE has not been published. USDS staffers reported that the DOGE team embedded isolated themselves from the other members of the agency. CNN sent Freedom of Information Act 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.Administration officials have contested DOGE membership in internal communications, in public, and in courts. 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. General Services Administration administrator and DOGE member Stephen Ehikian stated "there is no DOGE team at GSA" even though DOGE leadership occupied the sixth floor at GSA protected by security, with IKEA bedroom furniture, a child's play area and washing appliances. 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. In a court case involving the "Fork in the road" mass email, DOGE member Jacob Altik has been presented as an OPM lawyer when trying to shut down the African Development Foundation along with other DOGE members.
Few DOGE members spoke to the press. Musk appeared on Fox News multiple times and spoke to Joe Rogan, but declined challenging interviews.
Leadership
One month after being taken over by DOGE, Multiple legacy USDS employees could not identify its leadership. 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. 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. On the next day, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Musk is "overseeing DOGE" but refused to identify its administrator.Later the same day, the White House named Amy Gleason, who worked from 2018 through 2021 at US Digital Service, as acting administrator. 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. 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. At the end of February, neither the White House nor its lawyers could confirm who was running it.
In his March 4 joint address to Congress, Trump repeated that DOGE "is headed by Elon Musk". 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." On March 18, Chuang determined that Musk was "the leader of DOGE" and that his actions in dismantling USAID violated the Appointments Clause. In a May 21 Supreme Court filing, Solicitor General John Sauer told the court that Musk "is not part of" DOGE. In a separate lawsuit involving Musk's company X, his own lawyers stated that he is "in charge of" DOGE.
Departures
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. 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". Musk began working remotely around the same time, months after expressing his intent to ban remote work for federal workers. Musk's offboarding began on May 28 at the end of his scheduled time as a special government employee. Top Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, top DOGE advisor Katie Miller and DOGE general counsel James Burnham would be leaving as well. Trump officially thanked Musk during an Oval Office farewell on May 30, and said Musk was "not really leaving". During an interview with Brett Baier on June 1, Musk criticized the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for undoing DOGE's work. Shortly after, the Trump–Musk feud erupted.Composition
Type
DOGE members have been classified into leadership, staffers and allies; allies either have no formal affiliation with DOGE or joined the administration through other means. Types of staffer resemble DOGE teams mentioned in the first executive order: executive, tech, and lawyer. An "affiliate" is thus either a leader or a staffer.DOGE involvement extends beyond employee status: personnel consisted of volunteers at first. While the Office of Presidential Personnel made political loyalty to Trump a cornerstone of its hiring strategy, DOGE employees were onboarded through a separate Musk-led process. Musk said in March 2025 that there are around 100 employees and that he planned to double the staff. 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.
Roles
Many DOGE members are embedded in other government units under specific roles. At least 23 employees hired at the OPM between Jan. 20 and Feb. 20 worked for DOGE. By March, DOGE was installed at GSA and SSA. DOGE teams have been detailed to almost every executive branch agency; six members affiliated to GSA tried to embed DOGE teams in units outside of it.Ties
Wired mapped four connections: Musk, conservative lawyers, Trump, and Silicon Valley. 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 men with limited government experience. Bloomberg found connections between DOGE members and either Musk or Thiel.At least 23 DOGE officials are making cuts at agencies that regulate where they previously worked. Many DOGE members made financial contributions to the Trump campaign.
Involvement
Besides appearing in lists, DOGE affiliates were covered with specific news of their exploits. Five were named when NBC broke the news that DOGE transferred data out of the Department of Labor on February 13: Sam Beyda, Derek Geissler, Cole Killian, Adam Ramada and Jordan Wick. On June 16, the New York Times listed the key 8 DOGE official involved with SSA.Network
Table
| Name | Type | Roles | Ties | Involvement | See |
| Lawyer | DOT ; USDA senior advisor | LawMunck Wilson Mandala; MuskTesla lawyer | Worked at a department investigating Tesla | #ProPublica-list|#Politico-legal-army| | |
| Lawyer | EOP | LawDechert LLP, FedSoc contributor; Trumpfirst administration | Entered USIP and CCR; contacted the Vera Institute | #ProPublica-list|#Politico-legal-army| | |
| Ally#NYT-inside-plan| | OPM recruiter | MuskHuman Capital co-founder; | Directed e-meetings; assigned work to Lavingia at VA | #Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker|#NYT-inside-plan| | |
| Lawyer | OPM | LawNew Civil Liberties Alliance, Weil, Gotshal & Manges; TrumpNeomi Rao clerk, Neil Gorsuch clerk; | USADF standoff; OPM's Fork in the road trial | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#Politico-legal-army|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Ally | West Palm Beach meetings and strategy#NYT-inside-plan| | Muska16z backed SpaceX, xAI, and Twitter; Trumptransition team | Networked to hire talents; pushed for return-to-office | #NYT-inside-plan|#TechCrunch-universe| | |
| Executive | OPM senior advisor to the Director | MuskTwitter purchase; Morgan Stanley | Appeared on Fox News; | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Leadershipaide | EOP; ED | Muskconfidant and assistant, Boring Company|Boring] | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe| | ||
| Executive | DOT | StartupsHomelight; SnapSaves | Identified grants to be canceled | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Tech | DOL | Extracted DOL data; turned CDC deputy chief of staff | |||
| Techengineer | ED | MuskMindbloom, ketamine-assisted therapy company founded by her husband; Goldman Sachs | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | ||
| Executive | OPM senior advisor | MuskBoring, Twitter, Tesla; disclosed 1–5M in Boring stocks and 1–5M in Boring options | Involved in the "Fork" email | #ProPublica-list|#TechCrunch-universe|#NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Ally | DOGE | Muskwealth manager, Neuralink; Trumptransition team | Interviewed DOS candidates | #NYT-billionaires| | |
| Ally#NYT-tracker| | SSA commissioner | FintechFiserv, First Data Corp JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup | Described himself as "fundamentally a DOGE person". | #NYT-tracker| | |
| Executive | OPM senior advisor | Muskearly SpaceX employee, terminated 80% of Twitter workforce; NASARain | Instructed agencies to cut 70% of their workforces | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Executive | NRC DOGE team lead | Controlled NRC decisions; questioned Steve Davis's continued influence at DOGE as a non-employee | |||
| Techcoder | OPM, GSA | ThielPalantir intern; Diversity Discovered CIO | Worked on OPM's Online Retirement Application system; accessed "every bit of data" at the SSA | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Bloomberg-Thiel-network|#Wired-SSA-list|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Lawyer | GSA attorney advisor | TrumpFCC, under Ajit Pai; Sandra Ikuta clerk; Gibson Dunn | #ProPublica-list|#Politico-legal-army|#NYT-tracker| | ||
| OPM | #Bloomberg-OPM-list| | ||||
| CFPB | Entered the FTC | #ProPublica-list| | |||
| Lawyergeneral counsel | EOP; USIP | Trumpfirst administration, Neil Gorsuch clerk; FedSoc; Jones Day | Resigned on May 29, 2025 | #ProPublica-list|#Politico-legal-army|#NYT-tracker| | |
| Executive | USIP acting president | StartupsBrainbase, FlowFi | ICH; entered USADF, IAF, IMLS, NEH, MBDA; contacted the Vera Institute; misrepresented USAID on Fox News paid $120,500 by the GSA | #ProPublica-list|#TechCrunch-universe|#ProPublica-list| | |
| Techweb design | GSA | MuskDream Team | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Techengineer | OPM | GebbiaAirBnB engineer | Worked on OPM's Online Retirement Application system; | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Executive | DOE chief of staff | Mango Practice Management | Led DOGE efforts in the DOE | ||
| Brandon Mayhew | Senior Advisor | OPM | Musk Twitter | Facilitated restructurings | |
| Executive | USDA | StartupsShareholder Capital | Appeared on Fox News | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | |
| DOL | PronatalismFertility clinic, brother of Malcolm Collins | Named in GAO audit notes; has access to National Farmworker Jobs Program system | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Allyrecruiter | DOGE | ThielPalantir engineer | Hired Palantir talent | #TechCrunch-universe|#Bloomberg-Thiel-network| | |
| Advisor | USDT chief information officer | Andreessen Levels co-founder; health influencer; wife tied to Suleyman Kerimov | Initiated Direct File termination after meeting with lobbyists; accessed taxpayer and vendor information; planned to develop an API for IRS data in Palantir's Foundry; organized an IRS hackathon; appeared on Fox News; granted access to Bureau of Fiscal Services system | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Techcoder | SSA senior advisor; CISA; GSA | MuskNeuralink intern; Tesla.sexy LLC owner; LesserEvil; Path Network fired intern; The Com; Valery Martinov grandson | Appeared twice on Fox News; left in June 2025 to work for SSA; accessed CISA systems granted access to USCIS databases | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Hill|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe| | |
| Executive | SSA chief information officer ; NASA DOGE lead | Tiger CubsCowbird Capital | Involved in the SSA takeover; told SSA executives to take the fork; relabeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead access NASA databases | #ProPublica-list|#TechCrunch-universe|#Wired-SSA-list| | |
| Leadershipsecond in command | EOP, OPM, GSA | MuskSpaceX, Twitter, Boring; Atlas Society advisor | Occupied a GSA floor; involved in the SSA takeover; tried to hold a meeting after having left | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Hill|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Wired-GSA| | |
| OPM, USAID | Involved in USAID shutdown | #Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |||
| Executivehuman resources | OPM | MuskSpaceX, Bjelde colleague | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | ||
| AllyDOGE sherpa#NYT-tracker| | SSA acting commissioner | Facilitated DOGE entry at SSA | Threatened to shutdown SSA; placed on leave after contesting Trump's 40% claim; wrote an op-ed in the New York Post | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | |
| Ally and Executive#NYT-tracker| | GSA acting administrator | Muskspouse worked at X; Salesforce; AI startup | Transferred USIP building to GSA at no cost; replaced by Michael Rigas | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | |
| Techcoder | USDT | MuskSpaceX, X, xAI, Neuralink | Fired from DOGE for past racist posts; re-hired after JD Vance's intervention; accidentally published an API key for 52 xAI LLMs in a GitHub repository | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Wired-SSA-list| | |
| Techweb designer | GSA | MuskDream Team | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Operative | GSA senior advisor | MuskSpaceX; Thiel Fellowship | Helped DOGE recruitment; accessed at least 12 databases | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Bloomberg-Thiel-network|#Wired-SSA-list| | |
| Executive | ED, HHS | #ProPublica-list| | |||
| Ally | DOGE | TrumpLaunched his investment fund at Mar-a-Lago in December 2024 | Claimed to have advised DOGE, but Katie Miller disputed that he did. Suggested a "DOGE dividend"; distanced himself from DOGE during the Trump–Musk feud | #Fortune-top-players|#NYT-inside-plan| | |
| Lawyer | TrumpCourt of Federal Claims ; Charles Koch: Institute for Justice; Alston & Bird | #Politico-legal-army| | |||
| Executive | GSA | FinanceNexus Capital Management | Detailed: NLRB, USADF, IAF, NEH, USIP, the Wilson Center, MEC, etc | ||
| Executive | DOD, VA | Musklongtime collaborator. Tech entrepreneur. | Accessed VA's systems; resigned from DOGE, promoted by Hegseth at DOD; resigned in July | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Lawyer | GSA | LawClement & Murphy associate, clerked for Danny J. Boggs; National Review and Real Clear Politics author | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | HHS senior advisor | Startup Alto | Advised on budgeting, grants and financial management | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Ally | OPM ; National Design Studio chief design officer | MuskTesla board; Trumpsupports Robert Kennedy Jr | Appeared on Fox News rolled out OPM's fully digital retirement application system; left to lead new National Design Studio | #NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Tech | DOL | Extracted DOL data | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Staff Operations | DoD | #ProPublica-list| | |||
| Techengineer | FAA | MuskSpaceX engineer | Special employee for 4 days; still has an FAA email | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates| | |
| LeadershipDOGE leader | USDS acting administrator | SmithRussell Street Ventures; TrumpUSDS | Nominally overs both USDS and USDSTO and reports to Susie Wiles | #NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe| | |
| Executive | OPM senior advisor | David Sacks: Zenefits; TraceHQ | Lamented the state and process of the federal budget; left after his role has been revealed | #ProPublica-list| #TechCrunch-universe| | |
| Ally | SSA | Muskold friend, Tesla and SpaceX early investor, America PAC funder; Trumptransition | Involved in the SSA takeover; pushed anti-immigrants myths in media and townhall | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker|#Wired-SSA-list| | |
| Ally#NYT-tracker| | DOC advisor | MuskTwitter acquisition; Morgan Stanley | Expected to lead the new sovereign fund | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker| | |
| Ally#NYT-tracker| | GSA: Federal Acquisition Service commissioner | Law; private equity | GSAslashed its budget in half and ramped up monitoring of remaining staff; accused Harvard of "racial discrimination" | #NYT-tracker| | |
| Lawyer | NIH | TrumpDOJ; Federalist Society; Williams & Connolly | Authored grant termination notices | #ProPublica-list|#Politico-legal-army|#NYT-tracker| | |
| Executivehuman resources | OPM | MuskSpaceX HR manager | #NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | ||
| Executive | DOI principal deputy assistant secretary | John FitzgibbonsBasin Holdings | Failed to open the Jones Pumping Plant; Fox News appearance; sought access to the Federal Personnel Payroll System; presumably left in August | #Hill|#NYT-tracker| | |
| Staff Operations | DoD | Friend of Emil Michael | Left DOGE after Yinon Weiss joined | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Allyrecruiter | DOGE | Trumptransition team; StartupsLoom | Left DOGE to focus on himself | #TechCrunch-universe|#NYT-inside-plan| | |
| DOJ | MuskCitadel invested in X and Tesla; TrumpWhite House Council of Economic advisors | Accessed DOJ files on immigrants | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | OPM chief information officer | MuskComma.ai | Named in a lawsuit vs OPM | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Executivereal estate | GSA | MuskTwitter, Married to Steve Davis | Initiated thousands of lease cancellations on federal buildings; resigned on May 29, 2025 | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Wired-GSA| | |
| Executivehuman resources head | DOI | Federalist Society; Jones Day lawyer; Oklo chief people officer; BrighterSideHR: anti corporate DEI | Involved in the three-phase DEI purge plan; involved in the Fork email; sought write permissions to DOI's HR resources and credentialing systems | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | |
| Ally | NASA administrator | MuskSpaceX | Nomination pulled after the Trump–Musk feud then reupped | #Bloomberg-Musk-associates| | |
| Executive | USAID acting deputy administrator | Authored a memo about the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation | |||
| Allyrecruiter | ThielPalantir software engineer, AccelerateX | Recruited Palantir alumni to deploy AI in federal agencies | #ProPublica-list|#TechCrunch-universe|#Bloomberg-Thiel-network| | ||
| Techengineer | GSA | MuskTesla senior employee | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | EPA, GSA | MuskSpaceX purchasing director | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Techengineer | FAA | MuskSpaceX software engineer | Left on February 6; had an official email | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates| | |
| Techcoder | EPA, DOL | Jump Trading | Extracted DOL data | #NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Wired-SSA-list| | |
| Techengineer | CFPB senior advisor to the Director, OPM, USAID, IRS | MuskTesla stock owner; Edgelord past; Ron Unz fan; Databricks: disclosed 1–5M in Databricks; LinkedIn | Manually blocked USAID payments authorized by Rubio; CFPB: abuse toward other CFPB employees; potential conflict of interest | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| OPM | #Bloomberg-OPM-list| | ||||
| Lawyer | EOP | Lawfederal circuit court, Supreme court, InterPop, Sidley Austin; Douglas Kmiec's son | #ProPublica-list|#Politico-legal-army| | ||
| Executive | SSA | MuskValor Equity Partners, co-founded by Gracias, invested in SpaceX and Tesla | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Wired-SSA-list| | ||
| USDT acting Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury | MuskCitrix and Twitter share underwriter; still CEO of Cloud Software Group, where he axed thousands of jobs, some leading to security weaknesses #TechCrunch-universe| | Granted access to Bureau of Fiscal Services system; appeared on Fox News; involved in USAID's dismantlement; disclosed interests conflicting with USDT | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Hill|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe| | ||
| Michael Kratsios | Allyrecruiter | TrumpChief Tech Officer in the first administration, wrote the 2020 pro-AI investment executive order; ThielThiel Capital | Helped find the DOGE core members | #TechCrunch-universe|#Bloomberg-Thiel-network| | |
| Ally#NYT-inside-plan| | OPM director | Andreessena16z; self-help author; National Venture Capital Association | Replaced Charles Ezell | #NYT-tracker| #TechCrunch-universe| | |
| Executivereal estate manager | HUD senior advisor | 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; Pitching SweetREX deregulation AI to other agencies | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | |
| Allyvolunteer | VA advisor to the Chief of staff | Musk fan, brother was working at Twitter 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; suspected that DOGE will fizzle out after Musk's departure | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Lawyer | USAID chief operating officer; received $167,000 from GSA; DOS acting head of foreign assistance | MuskMunger, Tolles & Olson ; Trumpdefended Matt Gaetz | Authorized USAID shutdown; overrode 58 objections to grant the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation $30 million racism and violence issues | #ProPublica-list|#Politico-legal-army|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe| | |
| USDA senior advisor | Involved in terminating Harvard grants | ||||
| Executivehuman resources | EOP, USDS | SmithRussell Street Ventures associate | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#BI-squad| | ||
| EPA federal detailee | MuskTesla; Brian Armstrong's sister; Y Combinator | Looking for contracts contra Trump's agenda; resigned on May, 23 | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | DOI advisor | Ramaswamychief of staff and childhood friend; StartupsOutreach, Subsplash | Decided to approve new spendings; has requested access to GrantSolutions | #NYT-inside-plan| | |
| Allyrecruiter | DOGE | Trumpsupporter; MuskSequoia Capital | Screened candidates; vocal DOGE fan on Musk's social | #TechCrunch-universe|#NYT-inside-plan| | |
| Executive | FBI, DOJ, DOS senior advisor | MuskTesla | Fired by Rubio. Advised outside the executive government on grant cuts | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | |
| Techengineer | FAA | MuskSpaceX software engineer | Left on February 6, 2025, after being given an ethics waiver | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates| #TechCrunch-universe| | |
| Executivefinance | GSA, VA | MuskSpaceX senior financial analyst | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | GSA, OMB senior advisor | ThielPalantir | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | GSA, SEC senior advisor, USDT | Partner at Accel | Identified across multiple financial regulators | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Leadershipspokesperson | TrumpMike Pence press secretary during the first administration, wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller | SSA takeover; left to work with Musk on May 25, 2025 | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe| | ||
| Executive | HHS chief information officer | ThielPalantir: disclosed a $244,000 Palantir salary, and between 1 and 5M in Palantir stocks | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Thiel-network| | ||
| Executivereal estate | FHFA and HUD | Real estateTCC Management, a mobile-home park business with a possibly predatory model | Gained access to HUD's Enforcement Management System | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | |
| Lawyer | SEC | LawKalshi attorney; TrumpCommodity Futures Trading Commission official | SECspearheaded a DOGE team, sought access to email, personnel, contract and payment systems | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Executivehuman resources | OPM | MuskSpaceX HR Manager | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker| | ||
| Executive | SSA chief information officer | MuskNeuralink, Twitter | Detailed at DOL; appeared on Fox News; froze aid payments at USDT granted access to USCIS databases | #ProPublica-list|#TechCrunch-universe|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Techsecurity | FBI | MuskSpaceX; Navy information warfare officer | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | ||
| ED | Podium Education | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | |||
| Leadershipde facto leader | Senior advisor to the president | Trumpspent $290 million to elect him, spent weeks at Mar-a-Lago | Authored an op-ed; involved in the SSA takeover; appeared on Fox News five times; resigned in May | #ProPublica-list|#TechCrunch-universe| | |
| IRS | Encore Technology Group CEO; The Carlyle Group; Sovereign Intelligence | Declared holding Intuit stocks; granted access to Bureau of Fiscal Services system | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | SBA, GSA, VA | Private equity investor and gym owner | Sought access to SBA systems; appeared on Fox News | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | |
| GSA | #ProPublica-list| | ||||
| Lawyer | OPM, Executive Office senior advisor | LawJared Taylor lawyer, Federalist Society; Trumpfirst administration, Project 2025 | Authored the work-from-home termination memo; placed USAID officials on leave; pleaded in court to keep RIFs secret | #ProPublica-list|#Politico-legal-army|#NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| OPM | #Bloomberg-OPM-list| | ||||
| Techcoder | CFPB, NOAA, OPM | MuskTwitter | NOAA | #ProPublica-list|#TechCrunch-universe|#NYT-tracker|#Wired-SSA-list|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Executive | EOP, DOL, ED | Muskinvestment firm tied to a SpaceX alumnus | ED: planned to introduce AI | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker|#BI-squad| | |
| Leadershipco-leader | DOGE | StartupRoivant Sciences;ThielStrive Trumpendorsed his Republican nomination, endorsed by him | Authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed; recruited first candidates; lobbied Vought; left on January 20, 2025 | ||
| Lawyer | OPM, Executive Office senior advisor | Federalist Society; clerk for Clarence Thomas; DOJ; Pacific Legal Foundation | Condones Trump's Birthright Citizenship challenge | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#BI-squad|#Politico-legal-army|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Techcoder | SSA | MuskValor Equity Partners, an early Tesla investor | Granted access to USCIS databases | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Wired-SSA-list| | |
| Techengineer | DOE chief information officer | MuskSpaceX network security engineer; U.S. Army Cyber Command | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker| | ||
| Executive | HHS senior advisor | Smithcolleague; McKinsey & Company | Requested access to Medicare payment systems; declared a stake in Patriot Family Homes; resigned in March, 2025; replaced the admiral in charge of the Office of Naval Research in October | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker|#NYT-inside-plan| | |
| Executivehuman resources | VA advisor to the chief of staff | TechAllerVie Health, 24 Hour Fitness, Sequel Youth and Family Services | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | SSA chief information officer, special advisor | MuskShift4, Starlink, founded by Isaacman | Involved in the SSA takeover; | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Wired-SSA-list| | |
| Executive | OPM chief of staff | MuskxAI; Baris AkisHuman Capital; Uber | "Fork on the road" operation; returned to xAI by May 20, 2025 | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker| #TechCrunch-universe|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Executivereal estate | GSA senior advisor | Real estate: syndicated real estate deal, land development | OPM: Fork in the road email; collaborated with Nate Cavanaugh on interviews, Senior Advisor to Stephen Ehikian, Acting Administrator of GSA. | #NYT-tracker| | |
| Techengineer | GSA; CISA | StartupOutburst, DOGE web host; TrumpRevv and WinRed raised funds for the Republican Party; | Deobligated FEMA funds; accessed UAC portal; granted access to USCIS databases | #ProPublica-list|#TechCrunch-universe|#BI-squad| | |
| Executive | NASA, GSA senior advisor | MuskTesla; ThielPalantir | Conducted DOGE interviews | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Executive | NOAA senior advisor | Unsuccessfully attempted to turn on water at the Jones Pumping Plant | |||
| Techcoder | GSA, ED | MuskxAI 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; involved in the SSA takeover; interviewed by Jesse Watters | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Wired-GSA| | |
| IRS acting administrator | Trumpfirst administration | Put into the role by Musk without having consulted with Trump or Scott Bessent; fired, and replaced by Michael Faulkender | |||
| GSA | #ProPublica-list| | ||||
| Ally#NYT-tracker| | GSA, chief information officer | MuskTesla engineer | Lead ai.gov | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Wired-GSA| | |
| Techengineer | USDT | ThielRamp | |||
| Executive | NASA | MuskTesla | Involved in terminating Harvard grants; appeared on Fox News | #ProPublica-list|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates| | |
| Staff Operations | DoD | Andreessen Founder of company that received funding from a16z | Left after Yinon Weiss took over DOGE at DoD | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Techengineer | FAA | MuskSpaceX software engineer | Had an official email; left on February 6, 2025 | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Leadershipchief of staff | DOGE ; DOS | TrumpFEMA, CMMI, Jared Kushner friend; Muskmet with him and Lutnick at Mar-a-Lago | Requested access to the Medicare payment system at HHS; appeared on Fox News; left with Musk in June | #ProPublica-list|#Hill| #TechCrunch-universe|#NYT-inside-plan| | |
| SSA | Analyzed death data in Numident | ||||
| Tech | OPM | MuskPayPal, Zip2 Tesla, SpaceX; Spikes Security; California Russian Association | Left after two months | #TechCrunch-universe| | |
| Tech | OPM, Fannie Mae | MuskSpaceX principal engineer, Twitter security engineer; Trumpassisted January6 rioters; leaked LizardStresser's database | Named on Fannie Mae board, resigned; installed Starlink terminals on the Whitehouse | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe|#Bloomberg-Musk-associates|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| GSA | Salem Partners | Targeted USIP | |||
| Executive | DOT senior advisor | Muskformer Citadel quant | Has a DOT email address; introduced to employees as DOGE member | #ProPublica-list| | |
| OPM | OPM: Online Retirement Application system | ||||
| Techcoder | HUD | Developed an AI for deregulation accessed PIH data | |||
| Executive | DHH, NHS | Brian ArmstrongEarly Spindl employee | Has access to sensitive systems, including information about those receiving Medicare benefits; reviewed and vetoed NSF grants | #ProPublica-list| | |
| Executive | DOI advisor | Sought access to the Federal Personnel and Payroll System | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | GSA and HHS advisor | Proctor & Gamble | Worked on centralizing government acquisition systems | #ProPublica-list| | |
| OPM | GebbiaAirBnB engineer | OPM: Online Retirement Application system | #Bloomberg-Musk-associates| | ||
| VA | Recruited by Baris Akis | #ProPublica-list| | |||
| Allyinsider#NYT-inside-plan| | OMB acting director | Trumpsame role under the first administration; Project 2025; Heritage Action; Center for Renewing America | Named himself acting administrator of the CFPB to shut it down | #NYT-tracker| | |
| Executive | DOD | left DOGE in July | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | DOD | Trumpassistant secretary of defense in first administration; Goldman Sachs former financial analyst | Involved in push for US drone dominance | ||
| USDT | Declared holding Intuit stocks; granted access to Bureau of Fiscal Services system | ||||
| Techcoder | CFPB, DOL | ThielAccelerate SF; Waymo | Granted extensive access to CFPB data; posted firing bot snippets on GitHub; suspected of having extracted NLRB data; USDA: payment system access | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#TechCrunch-universe| | |
| Executivepolicy analyst | OPM | Trumpspeech writer | DOL | #NYT-inside-plan|#NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| GSA | Jefferies | DFC; USAGM: cancelled contracts | #ProPublica-list| | ||
| Executive | USDT special advisor | ThielAnduril | Granted access to Bureau of Fiscal Services system | #ProPublica-list|#NYT-tracker|#Bloomberg-Thiel-network| | |
| Leadershiptop political advisor | CFPB, Executive Office | TrumpAmerica PAC's director and treasurer; Bobby Jindal staffer; PhRMA lobbyist; Republican National Committee | Gets between 100K and 1M from Musk while at CFPB | #ProPublica-list|#TechCrunch-universe|#BI-squad|#Bloomberg-OPM-list| | |
| Ramp Charging, New Energy Capital | Asked to access Peace Corps' financial records | #ProPublica-list| |