# yaml-language-server: $schema=../schemas/people-file.json --- - name: Daniel Abrahamson sort_name: Abrahamson slug: daniel-abrahamson age: 41 category: support blurb: >- Apart from his identification in a few Politico articles naming him as DOGE's lawyer at the Department of Transportation, Daniel Abrahamson has kept a relatively low profile. He was formerly a senior counsel at Tesla since 2022. linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-a-38574865/ tech_links: - Tesla skill: lawyer positions: - id: usda-abrahamson agency: USDA type: appointed sort_date: 2025-03-01 title: Senior Advisor on Government Efficiency title_type: advisor table_note: Not listed as a detailee, so suggests appointed source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998790-usda-records-concerning-doge-teams-at-the-agency/ - id: dot-abrahamson type: appointed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor sort_date: 2025-02-01 start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: reported table_note: start date unknown but ProPublica says "early February" office: Office of the Secretary of Transportation salary: "$185,000" source: - >- https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/03/26/doge-assembles-a-legal-army-00251903 - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: DOT - name: Jaylee Adams sort_name: Adams slug: jaylee-adams skill: designer category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayleeadams/ positions: - id: nds-adams type: appointed agency: NDS title: Producer start_date: 2025-12-XX start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayleeadams/ - name: Justin Aimonetti sort_name: Aimonetti slug: justin-aimonetti age: 31 skill: lawyer category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-aimonetti-16a50875 blurb: >- Identified as one of DOGE's growing army of lawyers, Justin Aimonetti has most recently been involved in DOGE's shutdown efforts against small independent agencies like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, acting as a point of contact between DOGE teams from the GSA and the White House through his Executive Office of the President (EOP) email address. govt_exit_date: 2025-07-30 govt_exit_truth: verified govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: gsa-aimonetti agency: GSA type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-07-30 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned office: Office of the General Counsel salary: "$167,503" fuzz: Report just says started sometime in February, end date from own LinkedIn table_note: start date reported as "some point in February" source: - https://theintercept.com/2025/03/05/leaked-list-musk-doge-lawyers/ - >- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/justin-aimonetti-16a50875_today-marks-the-end-of-a-chapter-an-unforgettable-activity-7356503593681670145-SO7T - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: detail-doge-aimonetti type: detail agency: DOGE from: GSA start_date: 2025-02-24 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-26 end_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - name: Baris Akis slug: baris-akis sort_name: Akis skill: recruiter category: leadership linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barisakis/ blurb: >- Baris Akis was a booster for DOGE before it even formally existed, and he has been linked to its activities at the IRS, Treasury and OPM by the _New York Times_. As a non-US citizen (he has a green card), Mr. Akis is not formally a part of DOGE, but he was identified as leading operations as recently as March alongside fellow Musk loyalists Anthony Armstrong and Steve Davis. He is the president and co-founder of the company Human Capital. tech_links: - Human Capital positions: [] - name: Jacob Altik sort_name: Altik slug: jacob-altik age: 32 skill: lawyer category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-altik-48a34b10b/ custom_path: "/wreckers/cavanaugh-cronies#jacob-altik" blurb: >- Jacob Altik is a 2021 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to joining DOGE, he clerked for DC Circuit Appeals Judge Neomi Rao, who was a protege of Russell Vought in the first Trump administration. As a lawyer, he is often responsible for backing up DOGE's actions with legal threats, and there are several reported cases of him attempting to browbeat independent agencies into compliance with administration policy. He has also been selected to be a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch this summer, so it's unclear how long his tenure with DOGE will last. govt_exit_date: 2025-06-27 govt_exit_truth: verified govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: opm-jacob-altik type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-24 start_date_truth: verified description: Provisional Appt NTE appt_type_code: 44 appt_type: Schedule C excepted: true pd_code: PMGS31263 title: Senior Advisor to the Director title_type: advisor salary: "$195,200" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director 2025-06-27 end_date_truth: reported source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring same_as: opm-jacob-altik name: Jacob Altik alias: OPM-16 end_date: 2025-06-XX end_type: resigned table_note: Start date guessed from system access. No longer in govt on 6/27 - id: detail-opm-doge-altik type: detailed from: OPM agency: DOGE start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-27 end_date_truth: verified table_note: End date might just be end of detail source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: detail-opm-usadf-altik type: detailed from: OPM from_truth: guessed agency: USADF start_date: 2025-02-21 start_date_truth: verified table_note: info in govt legal declation comment: Assuming detail from OPM source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf - id: detail-opm-fcc-altik type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-03-18 start_date_truth: verified title_type: advisor salary: "$0" source: https://frequencyfwd.com/files/motion-exhibit-1-08252025.pdf office: Office of the Chairman agency: FCC - name: Marc Andreessen sort_name: Andreessen slug: mark-andreesen skill: recruiter category: booster tech_links: - Andreessen Horowitz blurb: >- According to early reports, Marc Andreesen's only direct involvement with DOGE was interviewing potential candidates at Mar-a-Lago in December 2024. However, he continues to be a strident booster of the effort. positions: [] - name: Anthony Armstrong sort_name: Armstrong slug: anthony-armstrong age: 57 skill: executive category: leadership blurb: >- Anthony Armstrong comes to DOGE from the world of finance, where he worked on Musk's acquisition of Twitter as a bank executive at Morgan Stanley. Since joining DOGE at OPM, he has mostly operated quietly in a support role, but in April he was spotted at the FDIC, and I would expect him to be involved with DOGE's work against other independent financial entities. Although he has a relatively modest title, recently departed DOGE member Sahil Lavingia indicated that he was running operations for teams across government with Baris Akis and Steve Davis. Reportedly, he left his OPM position in April but continues to coordinate DOGE from within DHS. More recently, he was named to the position of CFO for Musk's xAI – just another example of the revolving door for Musk associates to cycle through DOGE and into reward positions in his companies. govt_exit_date: 2025-10-(07)~ govt_exit_type: resigned govt_exit_truth: reported positions: - id: detail-opm-dhs-armstrong type: detailed from: OPM from_truth: guessed agency: DHS source: - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/politics/airbnb-gebbia-musk-doge.html - https://www.cfodive.com/news/musk-taps-morgan-stanley-doge-alum-xai-finance-chief-reports/802262/ table_note: NYT reports he left OPM in April but stayed on a DHS. Unclear of timing, later appointed at DHS comment: Find more definitive info for DHS link - id: opm-anthony-armstrong type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-04-(30)~ end_date_truth: reported table_note: reportedly left OPM in April, but as at FDIC on 4/10, so maybe end of month source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39742 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 salary: "$0" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: From FOIA documents - id: detail-opm-fdic-armstrong type: detailed from: OPM from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-04-10 start_date_truth: reported table_note: reported by media source: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/doge-fdic agency: FDIC - name: Jennifer Balajadia sort_name: Balajadia slug: jennifer-balajadia age: 36 skill: administrator tech_links: - Musk family - Twitter blurb: >- An longtime personal assistant to Elon Musk – who reportedly once told a Twitter employee that "Elon is special in this world. It is our job to protect him and make sure what he wants to have happen" – Jennifer "Jehn" Balajadia has been linked to the Department of Education and possibly a few other agencies by the _New York Times_, but actual details of her activity have been scarce. category: leadership govt_exit_date: 2025-05-28 govt_exit_truth: inferred govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: education-balajadia type: detailed table_note: NYT links her to Education, but no other info found source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html sort_date: 2025-02-05 agency: Education from: DOGE from_truth: inferred - id: doge-balajadia type: appointed agency: DOGE start_date: 2025-01-24 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-05-28 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - name: Micaela Lopez Ballefin sort_name: Ballefin slug: micaela-lopez category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mica-lopez/ tech_links: - Twitter blurb: >- After she appeared in a listing of staff with Senior Advisor titles at the Small Business Association, Politico has identified her as a former employee of Twitter/X and also a Uruguayan citizen. As the latter, she would normally be ineligible to work for the US government, but she has been hired as a contractor at the GSA as a senior engineering manager working with Matthew Markhurst-Session and Thomas Shedd. positions: - id: sba-lopez-ballefin type: unknown agency: SBA title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998948-sba-response-to-american-oversight-foia-request/ - id: gsa-lopez-ballefin agency: GSA type: consultant supervisory: true start_date: 2025-05-XX start_date_truth: guessed source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/the-foreigners-working-for-doge-00525792 - name: Ankur Bansal sort_name: Bansal slug: ankur-bansal blurb: >- He is the president of Homelight, which makes software for the real estate industry. Prior to that, he founded SnapSaves, a startup that was later acquired. skill: executive category: wrecker positions: - id: dot-bansal agency: DOT type: appointed sort_date: 2025-05-15 table_note: Reportedly reviewing DOT grants to cancel source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - name: Greg Barbaccia sort_name: Barbaccia slug: greg-barbaccia category: enabler skill: executive linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gjbnyc/ tech_links: - Palantir blurb: >- Greg Barbaccia is not typically listed as a DOGE associate, but he checks enough of the boxes that it makes sense to include him here. Like many of the DOGE crew, he has an interest in AI and he worked at Palantir for ten years. He's also been placed into a highly-ranked role (Federal Chief CIO) for which he has very limited experience, but would allow him to coordinate and enable the work of other DOGE appointees to the CIO level. positions: - id: omb-cio-barbaccia type: appointed title: Federal Chief Information Officer title_type: cio agency: OMB start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: verified salary: "$195,200" source: - https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/01/gregory-barbacia-named-federal-cio/402501/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: usaid-cio-barbaccia type: appointed title: Acting Chief Information Officer title_type: cio agency: USAID start_date: 2025-09-(25)~ start_date_truth: verified source: https://www.cio.gov/about/members-and-leadership/ table_note: Not announced, just appeared on cio.gov page some time after 9/20 and before 9/30 - id: gsa-tts-barbaccia agency: GSA type: appointed start_date: 2026-02-19 start_date_truth: reported title: Deputy FAS Commissioner / Acting Administrator, Technology Transformation Services title_type: cio supervisory: true source: https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/02/federal-cio-tapped-dual-hatted-role-gsa/411543/ - name: Samuel Berry sort_name: Berry slug: sam-berry category: enabler skill: coder blurb: >- He was named as a member of the DOGE team at USDA in response to a FOIA request from American Oversight. Based on a name and image match from the USDA Flickr account of him being sworn in, he seems to be a software developer and founder of a small web company [Ten Five Engineering](https://tenfive.engineering/about/). positions: - id: usda-berry agency: USDA type: appointed title: Special Advisor title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: guessed source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998790-usda-records-concerning-doge-teams-at-the-agency/ - id: usda-berry-sr-advisor type: converted agency: USDA title: Senior Advisor on Government Efficiency office: Office of the Chief Information Officer start_date: 2025-05-19 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-09-12 end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced replaced_by: usda-berry-cio source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/54530624479/in/photostream/ - id: usda-berry-cio type: promotion agency: USDA title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio start_date: 2025-09-12 start_date_truth: reported supervisory: true source: >- https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/09/agriculture-taps-doge-associate-its-tech-lead-reassigning-previous-cio/408093/ - name: Sam Beyda sort_name: Beyda slug: sam-beyda blurb: >- Sam Beyda has been involved with DOGE's activities since at least early February, but he has managed to somehow stay under the radar, with only a single news report linking him to DOGE activities at the Department of Labor. More recently, however, he has taken on a prominent role as the Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC, after serving as a policy advisor in HHS. This is a pretty impressive move, considering he has no experience in public health and graduated from Columbia in 2023. Prior to DOGE, his only work experience was at a company (Day Three) that manufactured cannabinoids, whose parent organization is led by Beyda's father-in-law. category: enabler skill: analyst positions: - id: hhs-beyda type: appointed agency: HHS title: Policy Advisor title_type: advisor office: Deputy Secretary of HHS source: https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/ sort_date: 2025-08-10 - id: dol-sam-beyda type: unknown sort_date: 2025-02-13 start_date: 2025-02-(13)~ start_date_truth: reported comment: 3 other DOGE staff besides Ramada at agency on 2/5. table_note: No other info besides this report source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/doge-software-approval-alarms-labor-department-employees-data-security-rcna191583 agency: DOL - id: cdc-beyda type: promotion agency: CDC title: Deputy Chief of Staff title_type: dept_head supervisory: true sort_date: 2025-11-15 start_date: 2025-11-(15)~ start_date_truth: reported source: - https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-cdc-end-all-monkey-research - https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/ - name: Alexandra Beynon sort_name: Beynon slug: alexandra-beynon age: 36 skill: coder linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alybeynon/ blurb: >- Not much is known about Alexandra Beynon's work on behalf of DOGE at the Department of Education. Prior to that, she worked as the head of engineering at her husband's startup company which sold guided ketamine therapy for use in the home. Although she hasn't been publicly linked to DOGE work at other agencies, Alexandra was one of the recipients cc'ed in an email organizing mass layoffs at the CFPB sent by Gavin Kliger. It's unclear if she has a similar role in the staffing reducations at the Department of Education. category: wrecker govt_exit_date: 2025-06-13 govt_exit_truth: verified govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: doge-beynon type: appointed agency: DOGE sort_date: 2025-02-04 start_date: 2025-02-(04)~ start_date_truth: guessed end_date: 2025-06-13 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor series: '0301' pay_grade: AD-00 table_note: date guessed, reported as detailing from DOGE to Education source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.1.pdf - id: detail-doge-education-alexandra-beynon type: detailed start_date: 2025-02-05 start_date_truth: verified from: DOGE from_truth: verified agency: Education salary: "$0" comment: Details just provided in court testimony table_note: info from a govt legal filing source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028798-doge-staff-education-20250407/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Riccardo Biasini sort_name: Biasini slug: riccardo-biasini age: 39 skill: coder category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riccardobiasini/ tech_links: - Tesla - Boring Co. blurb: >- Riccardo Biasini is an executive and software engineer who has worked at both Tesla and the Boring Company, both of which are Musk-owned businesses. Since joining the DOGE staff at OPM on January 20th, he has largely been focused on personnel-related initiatives like modernizing an "AutoRIF" system for automating layoffs at agencies. As a software developer, he likely has been connected to other initiatives like the Fork in the Road or the Five Things emails, but he has kept a lower profile than other engineers. positions: - id: opm-employee-2 type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-07-18 nte_date_truth: verified description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39741 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 salary: "$0" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director table_note: info for alias SSA-2, who I've identified as him comment: I was able to confirm that OPM Employee 2 was Riccardo Biasini source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028787-onboard-opm-employee-2/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ name: Riccardo Biasini alias: OPM-02 - id: detail-opm-doge-biasini type: detailed from: OPM agency: DOGE start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - name: Jared Birchall sort_name: Birchall slug: jared-birchall category: booster skill: recruiter tech_links: - Musk family blurb: >- Identified recently in a WSJ story as Elon Musk's longtime "fixer" and the manager of Musk's family office, Jared Birchall was instrumental in organizing Musk's donations to the Trump campaign. He was part of the team in place before the Inauguration to interview DOGE staffers and build out the team. positions: [] - name: Frank Bisignano sort_name: Bisignano slug: frank-bisignano category: enabler blurb: >- Only recently appointed to the head of the Social Security Administration (SSA), Frank Bisignano has admitted to some back-channel coordination the DOGE-affiliated CIO Mike Russo, but he denies that he secretly gave direction to the DOGE team before his nomination was confirmed. skill: executive positions: - id: ssa-bisignano type: appointed agency: SSA start_date: 2025-05-06 start_date_truth: verified title: Commissioner title_type: director supervisory: true source: >- https://apnews.com/article/social-security-administration-bisignano-trump-doge-7ec043009064a58be57ce1465dec0481 - id: irs-ceo-bisignano type: appointed agency: IRS start_date: 2025-10-06 start_date_truth: reported title: Chief Executive Officer source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/06/irs-ceo-social-security/ table_note: Technically, position doesn't exist and Scott Bessent is acting commissioner, but will be in charge. - name: Brian Bjelde sort_name: Bjelde slug: brian-bjelde age: 44 skill: administrator category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianbjelde/ blurb: >- A SpaceX veteran who has spent 20 years at the company, Brian Bjelde also helped Elon Musk to drastically cut staff after his takeover of Twitter. It seems like Brian ia happy being a hatchet man, and he likely has been involved in the efforts to cut government staff, including a plan to eliminate 70% of the positions at OPM. He has been keeping a low profile, but the government recently reported that OPM-07 left working for the agency on 2025-05-16, so he's presumably no longer in government service. tech_links: - SpaceX - Twitter govt_exit_date: 2025-05-16 govt_exit_truth: inferred govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: opm-brian-bjelde type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39743 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.96.0.pdf same_as: opm-brian-bjelde end_date: 2025-01-31 nte_date: 2025-07-18 nte_date_truth: verified end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: opm-perm-employee-07 salary: "$0" table_note: likely Schedule C name: Brian Bjelde alias: OPM-07 - id: opm-perm-employee-07 type: converted agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-31 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-05-16 end_date_truth: verified source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.97.0.pdf - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.163.0.pdf table_note: permanent position approved title: Expert title_type: advisor office: Office of the Director pay_grade: ED-00 series: '0301' name: Brian Bjelde alias: OPM-07 - name: Adam Blake sort_name: Blake slug: adam-blake category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamrblake/ positions: - id: energy-blake type: unknown agency: Energy sort_date: 2025-03-15 start_date: 2025-03-XX table_note: Detailed from Energy to NRC, so assuming start there salary: "$167,603" source: - >- https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5397152-doge-staffer-trump-reforms-nrc-nuclear-regulatory-commission/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: detail-energy-nrc-blake type: detailed agency: NRC from: Energy office: Office of the Executive Director for Operations table_note: In charge of implementing EO 14300 sort_date: 2025-07-11 start_date: 2025-07-(11)? start_date_truth: reported source: >- https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5397152-doge-staffer-trump-reforms-nrc-nuclear-regulatory-commission/ - name: Akash Bobba sort_name: Bobba slug: akash-bobba age: 21 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abobba/ custom_path: "/wreckers/akash-bobba" blurb: >- Identified early in media reports as one of six engineers picked on Elon Musk's team, Akash Bobba was a prolific wrecker from the start, including an unusual detailing document where we as assigned to OPM, Education and Social Security simultaneously. Initially, he served as a volunteer, but he been on the payroll at the Social Security Administration since early February, where has been a trusted lieutenant of Mike Russo. tech_links: - Palantir positions: - id: detail-sba-bobba agency: SBA from: OPM from_truth: guessed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor type: detailed table_note: identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998948-sba-response-to-american-oversight-foia-request/ - id: opm-3 type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-07-18 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-18 end_date_truth: verified table_note: Testimony reports plan to convert position to permanent end_type: replaced replaced_by: opm-3-perm description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39740 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 salary: "$0" series: '0301' source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028792-onboard-opm-employee-3/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: I was able to confirm that OPM Employee 3 is Akash Bobba name: Akash Bobba alias: OPM-03 - id: detail-opm-doge-bobba type: detailed agency: DOGE from: OPM from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: detail-opm-education-akash-bobba type: detailed agency: Education from: OPM from_truth: verified signed_date: 2025-02-12 start_date: 2025-02-03 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-02-12 nte_date_truth: verified reimbursed: false source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028777-mou-20250212-opm-education-ed-1/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028810-mou-20250306-nasa-ssa-employee-2/ name: Akash Bobba alias: ED-01 - id: detail-opm-ssa-opm-3 type: detailed agency: SSA from: OPM from_truth: verified signed_date: 2025-02-12 start_date: 2025-02-03 start_date_truth: verified reimbursed: false source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028790-mou-20250212-ssa-opm-education-ed-1/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028790-mou-20250212-ssa-opm-education-ed-1/ name: Akash Bobba alias: OPM-03 - id: ssa-employee-1 type: appointed source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028785-onboard-ssa-employee-1/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25940536-25-hq-0774-f-resumes-redacted-3/ title: Expert title_type: advisor office: Office of the Chief Information Officer pd_code: KNX0350 start_date: 2025-02-09 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-02-08 nte_date_truth: verified description: EXC APPT NTE appt_type_code: 171 pay_grade: ED-00 series: '0301' supervisory: false salary: "$90,025" qualifications: >- Hands-on software engineer that is an expert in modern computer programming languages, cloud and other infrastructure, AI, etc. 5 years of experience using numerous computer code languages, leadership of teams in technical, software design, and infrastructure areas. agency: SSA name: Akash Bobba alias: SSA-01 - id: usda-bobba type: detailed agency: USDA from: SSA from_truth: verified reimbursed: false start_date: 2025-04-29 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-08-27 nte_date_truth: inferred source: >- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26071597-usda-records-reflecting-doge-economy-act-funding-transfers/ - id: opm-3-perm type: converted agency: OPM table_note: Court testimony reports conversion to permanent, restored access start_date: 2025-08-08 start_date_truth: verified salary: "$0" source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.148.0.pdf name: Akash Bobba alias: OPM-03 - name: Ashley Boizelle sort_name: Boizelle slug: ashley-boizelle skill: lawyer category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-boizelle-5836643b/ blurb: >- Ashley Boizelle most recently served as lawyer within Amazon, but she worked as a counsel within the FCC during the first Trump administration, making her one of the few DOGE staffers with previous government experience. She has been linked to both DOGE offices within the EOP as well as GSA. Most of her activities have been under the radar, but we was consulted by CFPB leadership as they planned for massive layoffs at the agency. govt_exit_date: 2026-01-XX govt_exit_truth: verified govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: gsa-boizelle agency: GSA type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-XX sort_date: 2025-02-16 start_date_truth: reported salary: "$167,603" fuzz: Just listed in March as someone on the GSA payroll replaced_by: eop-boizelle source: - https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-mystery-general-services-administration/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: doge-boizelle type: detailed agency: DOGE from: GSA from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-03-03 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-08-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced title: Deputy General Counsel table_note: reported by media as started in February, own LinkedIn says March fuzz: Report just says started sometime in February source: - https://theintercept.com/2025/03/05/leaked-list-musk-doge-lawyers/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-boizelle-5836643b/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: eop-boizelle type: appointed agency: EOP title: Senior Counsel to the President office: White House Counsel's Office start_date: 2025-08-XX start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2026-01-XX end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-boizelle-5836643b/ - name: Nate Brown sort_name: Brown slug: nate-brown skill: designer category: wrecker positions: - id: nds-brown type: appointed agency: NDS title: Creative Director start_date: 2025-10-XX start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/notnatebrown/ - name: Emily Bryant sort_name: Bryant slug: emily-bryant age: 23 skill: recruiter category: wrecker custom_path: "/wreckers/cavanaugh-cronies#emily-bryant" blurb: >- A relatively new arrival to DOGE. My only information on her is a sighting on the DOGE team at the FTC. ProPublica did report that she has an email address at both GSA and EOP, so I am assuming she started there and was detailed outward. In a recent podcast, Antonio Gracias said that "[Baris Akis] and Emily do the recruiting." Is it possibly her? positions: - id: doge-bryant type: appointed agency: DOGE start_date: 2025-02-24 start_date_truth: verified title: Senior Advisor for Technology and Efficiency title_type: advisor series: '0301' pay_grade: AD-00 source: - https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ljpyyjzfis2l - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.1.pdf - id: gsa-bryant type: appointed agency: GSA start_date: 2025-03-XX sort_date: 2025-03-25 table_note: linked to GSA by ProPublica, start date guessed comment: Not verified, but NYT links to her to GSA also, so assuming she started there source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: detail-doge-ftc-bryant type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-03-28 start_date: 2025-03-(28)~ start_date_truth: reported table_note: limited info, 2025-04-04 report stated she started "last week" source: https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025/04/04/doge-staffers-move-into-ftc-office agency: FTC - name: James Burnham sort_name: Burnham slug: james-burnham age: 41 govt_exit_type: resigned govt_exit_date: 2025-06-03 govt_exit_truth: verified skill: lawyer category: support blurb: >- James Burnham served in the previous Trump administration at both the White House and the Department of Justice. The New York Times mentioned his involvement with DOGE in an article from mid-January, and he has been listed in several subsequent media round-ups of DOGE's lawyers. He departed from his position a day after Elon Musk left his role. positions: - id: doge-burnham agency: DOGE type: appointed sort_date: 2025-01-24 start_date: 2025-01-24 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-06-03 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: General Counsel table_note: NYT reported in DOGE in January, ProPublica provided title source: - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-government-trump.html - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - name: Brian Burroughs sort_name: Burroughs slug: brian-burroughs skill: coder category: wrecker age: 40 blurb: >- Brian Burroughs was apparently introduced to GSA staff in June by Thomas Shedd and Stephen Ehikian. It apparently seemed “like they were looking for things for him to work on.” Before his time in DOGE, he was the CTO of Business Operational Concepts, a small contracting firm that does business with the federal government and GSA. Since then, ProPublica has linked his activities to other agencies. positions: - id: commerce-burroughs agency: Commerce sort_date: 2025-06-16 type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed table_note: Linked by ProPublica source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: opm-burroughs agency: OPM sort_date: 2025-06-16 type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed table_note: Linked by ProPublica source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: state-burroughs agency: State sort_date: 2025-06-16 type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed table_note: Linked by ProPublica source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: usda-burroughs agency: USDA sort_date: 2025-06-16 type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed table_note: Linked by ProPublica source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: gsa-burroughs type: appointed agency: GSA sort_date: 2025-06-15 start_date: 2025-06-XX start_date_truth: reported table_note: >- Not many details besides start date "in June." Because he is a former IT consultant, I'm not sure if he has been hired or is consulting. source: https://www.wired.com/story/next-stage-doge-elon-musk/ - name: Joshua Carter sort_name: Carter slug: joshua-carter linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-carter-cfa-caia-0a854b4b/ category: wrecker skill: analyst blurb: >- I don't have much info on this person yet, but they were named as being a Senior Advisor at the SBA, which was a title also assigned to known DOGE members at that agency. He seems to have come from an investment background at Morgan Stanley and his own firm, Sepio Capital. positions: - id: sba-carter type: appointed agency: SBA title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor sort_date: 2025-03-15 start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-08-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced replaced_by: sba-carter-oii table_note: Start month sourced from his LinkedIn source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998948-sba-response-to-american-oversight-foia-request/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-carter-cfa-caia-0a854b4b/ - id: sba-carter-oii type: promotion agency: SBA title: Associate Administrator title_type: dept_head office: Office of Investment and Innovation start_date: 2025-08-XX start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-carter-cfa-caia-0a854b4b/ - name: Nate Cavanaugh sort_name: Cavanaugh slug: nate-cavanaugh age: 28 skill: coder category: wrecker custom_path: "/wreckers/nate-cavanaugh" blurb: >- A former tech entrepeneur, Nate Cavanaugh was initially spotted as one of the DOGE staffers interviewing GSA federal staff to determine layoffs. Since March however, he has been the de facto leader of DOGE's [sustained attacks against multiple independent agencies](/agencies/independent) such as the NEH or IMLS. These attacks begin with Nate offering IT Modernization assistance from the GSA and then escalate through the White House firing agency leadership and naming Nate (or an associate) as the new acting agency head. Once in power, he quickly places all employees on administrative leave and starts firing staff and cancelling grants. Much like a vampire, if he shows up at the door of your agency, do not let him inside. govt_exit_date: 2025-08-06 govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: gsa-cavanaugh type: appointed agency: GSA start_date: 2025-02-03 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-08-06 end_type: resigned salary: "$120,509" comment: >- Introduces Frank Schuler on a video call at GSA in February; listed in ProPublica roundup on Feb 05; going to assume Monday start source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: detail-gsa-usadf-cavanaugh type: detailed from: GSA agency: USADF from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-02-21 start_date_truth: verified table_note: verified via court filing source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf - id: detail-gsa-iaf-cavanaugh type: detailed from: GSA agency: IAF from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-28 start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-04-04 end_date_truth: verified end_type: removed source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.2_1.pdf table_note: agency contact was earlier, but assuming MOU signed when Marocco seized power - id: detail-gsa-usip-cavanaugh type: detailed agency: USIP from: GSA from_truth: guessed table_note: verified via court filing comment: Assuming this based on reports and where he is based. Becomes president of USIP next start_date: 2025-03-04 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-03-24 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: usip-cavanaugh-president source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.2.pdf - id: detail-gsa-neh-cavanaugh type: detailed agency: NEH from: GSA from_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-03-13 start_date: 2025-03-(13)~ start_date_truth: verified table_note: Verified via court filing source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679.1.0.pdf - id: detail-gsa-mcc-cavanaugh type: detailed agency: MCC from: GSA from_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-03-22 start_date: 2025-03-(22)? start_date_truth: guessed source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute table_note: Linked to MCC by NPR, start date guessed from disruption there - id: usip-cavanaugh-president type: appointed start_date: 2025-03-25 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-25 end_date_truth: reported end_type: removed title: Acting President title_type: director table_note: >- After the rest of board was ousted, Nate was named President of the agency by Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth. Voided by court order on 2025-05-19 but restored by appeals court on 2025-06-27. Replaced by Darren Beattie on 7/25 comment: >- Nate Cavanaugh is named the new President of USIP by the two remaining members of the board, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, and he is authorized to transfer all assets to the GSA source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.14.1.pdf - >- https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/25/major-maga-media-figure-to-take-top-position-at-one-of-doges-biggest-targets/ agency: USIP - id: imls-cavanaugh from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-03-31 start_date_truth: reported type: detailed source: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3llowvghols2b table_note: Based on initial reports comment: DOGE put entire staff on admin leave and started cancelling grants, not many details. agency: IMLS - id: detail-gsa-commerce-cavanaugh type: detailed agency: Commerce from: GSA from_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-04-09 start_date: 2025-04-(09)~ start_date_truth: guessed source: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/F6A7EAB6-BACE-4A67-A64D-688BA38A0726 table_note: >- Senate Democrats note that Cavanaugh has a commerce email address. Guessing date is around detail to MBDA. - id: detail-gsa-mbda-cavanaugh type: detailed agency: MBDA from: GSA start_date: 2025-04-(09)~ sort_date: 2025-04-09 from_truth: inferred source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.35.4_1.pdf table_note: inferred from disruptions at MBDA starting - id: detail-gsa-nlrb-cavanaugh type: detailed agency: NLRB from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-04-16 table_note: Spotted by media start_date_truth: reported source: >- https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/labor-boards-doge-detailees-connected-to-agency-take-downs - id: detail-gsa-dfc-cavanaugh type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-04-28 start_date_truth: reported table_note: Spotted by media source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/28/doge-us-foreign-aid-agency-first-trump-administration-00314510 agency: USDFC - id: detail-gsa-exim-cavanaugh type: detailed agency: EXIM from: GSA from_truth: guessed table_note: Reported by media start_date: 2025-05-14 start_date_truth: reported source: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lp5iwrmfv22y - id: detail-gsa-mspb-cavanaugh type: detailed agency: MSPB from: GSA from_truth: guessed table_note: Email cited mentioned he was from DOGE, but assuming detail from GSA start_date: 2025-05-21 start_date_truth: reported source: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lpclnw3x7s2c - name: Alison Childs sort_name: Childs slug: alison-childs skill: designer category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonchilds/ tech_links: - Twitter blurb: >- According to ProPublica, she has been hired at GSA to work on [a website promoting use of AI within the government](https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/) positions: - id: gsa-childs agency: GSA type: appointed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor sort_date: 2025-03-15 start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: guessed table_note: Date guessed based on reporting from ProPublica and 404 Media on ai.gov salary: "$167,603" source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisonchilds/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring office: Technology Transformation Services - name: Yat Choi sort_name: Choi slug: yat-choi category: support skill: coder linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yat-choi/ blurb: >- An Airbnb engineer working with alumni Joe Gebbia and Andrew Vilcsak on the retirement modernization project at the OPM, Yat Choi is also reportedly a Canadian working on a temporary visa. It true, this circumstance would normally disqualify him from being a federal employee unless some special waiver were granted. tech_links: - Airbnb positions: - id: opm-choi type: consultant agency: OPM title: Senior Technologist start_date: 2025-04-XX start_date_truth: reported sort_date: 2025-04-15 table_note: >- a Canadian working on temp visa which would disqualify for federal role. LinkedIn reports he worked on the retirement processing modernization project. Wired reports still involved in OPM retirement work in December 2025 source: - https://www.wired.com/story/next-stage-doge-elon-musk/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/yat-choi/ - https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/ - id: gsa-choi type: consultant agency: GSA start_date: 2025-06-XX start_date_truth: reported sort_date: 2025-06-14 table_note: working for GSA as a contractor from MSI Consulting because a not an American citizen source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/the-foreigners-working-for-doge-00525792 title: Scientific Technologist title_type: advisor - name: Carl Coe sort_name: Coe slug: carl-coe category: enabler skill: executive linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-coe-912b82/ blurb: >- Carl Coe has been the leader of the DOGE team embedded within the EPA, where he has kept a remarkably low profile, even as other DOGE staffers like Cole Killian and Kathryn Armstrong Loving showed up in media reports. At the EPA, his primary focus would be on reducing the effectiveness of the agency through eliminating staff and whittling down regulations. positions: - id: coe-detail-epa type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-02-20 table_note: Carl Coe, who currently leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at DOE source: https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-new-leadership-tackle-challenges-growing-energy-demand agency: EPA - id: coe-doge type: appointed sort_date: 2025-02-01 start_date: 2025-02-XX agency: DOGE table_note: His linkedin reports Feb 2025 as start source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-coe-912b82/ - id: epa-coe-chief-staff type: promotion title: Chief of Staff title_type: dept_head supervisory: true agency: EPA start_date: 2025-05-02 start_date_truth: verified salary: "$167,603" source: - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-interior-epa.html - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Michael Cole sort_name: Cole slug: michael-cole category: wrecker skill: executive linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-cole-714288b9/ govt_exit_date: 2025-08-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: usda-cole type: appointed agency: USDA title: Senior Team Leader on Government Efficiency start_date: 2025-02-10 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-08-XX end_date_truth: reported office: Office of the Secretary of Agriculture table_note: LinkedIn profile reports August departure salary: "$170,000" source: - >- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25963272-cole-michael-appointees-2025-new-entrant-278-2025-2025-04-03/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-cole-714288b9/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Miles Collins sort_name: Collins age: 36 slug: miles-collins linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milesbcollins blurb: >- Before working for DOGE, Miles Collins worked for a financial firm and also ran a fertility clinic in Los Angeles. This might be his connection to Musk, who has had stridently pro-natalist politics. His focus at the Department of Labor has reportedly been on spending and obligations. Unlike other members of DOGE hired at the DOL – Marko Elez and Aram Moghaddassi – he does not seem to have been detailed to other agencies, and it's unclear what he has been doing recently. In April, he was given access to multiple sensitive databases focused on immigrant populations, likely in support of DOGE's anti-immigrant surveillance project. skill: executive category: wrecker govt_exit_date: 2025-08-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: dol-collins type: appointed appt_type: Schedule C start_date: 2025-02-18 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-08-XX end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned nte_date: 2025-06-17 nte_date_truth: verified pd_code: '66899121' series: '0301' pay_grade: GS-11/03 salary: "$90,239" title: Policy Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Secretary table_note: >- Describes self in LinkedIn as DOGE Lead at the agency and reports AI dereg effort and 20% headcount reduction. States he was there for a 6-month appointment. source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028806-onboard-dol-miles-collins/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/milesbcollins - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: DOL - name: George Cooper sort_name: Cooper slug: george-cooper category: booster skill: recruiter blurb: >- After Anthony Jancso posted his [initial recruitment messages for DOGE](https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-recruiting-palantir/) to a chat group for Palantir alumni, George Cooper chimed in to say he was also recruting for the organization. A Palantir engineer since 2019, it's unclear if he had any other involvement with DOGE since. positions: [] - name: Sam Corcos sort_name: Corcos slug: sam-corcos linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samcorcos/ blurb: >- Sam Corcos is the co-founder of lifestyle business Levels Health (with Casey Means, the nominee for Surgeon General) which sells metabolic tracking devices. It has received funding from Andreessen Horowitz, and that is probably the connection to DOGE. He has been embedded within the IRS since February as was named a CIO at the agency in March, giving him a large amount of power over how the agency allocates its IT resources. age: 36 skill: executive category: enabler tech_links: - Andreessen Horowitz positions: - id: irs-corcos type: consultant start_date: 2025-02-28 start_date_truth: reported title: Senior Advisor for Technology and Modernization title_type: advisor sge: true salary: "$0" end_date: 2025-05-(06)~ end_date_truth: inferred end_type: replaced replaced_by: irs-corcos-cio table_note: Start date inferred and likely earlier. comment: possibly earlier involvement, maybe when Gavin Kliger started there; ends when became CIO source: - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/01/doge-irs-tax-records-benefits/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.144.0.pdf agency: IRS - id: irs-corcos-cio type: promotion sort_date: 2025-05-06 start_date: 2025-05-(06)~ start_date_truth: reported title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio table_note: Date is approximate per reports. Will update as new details emerge. comment: Date is approximate source: https://fedscoop.com/doge-sam-corcos-treasury-chief-information-officer/ agency: IRS - name: Edward Coristine sort_name: Coristine slug: edward-coristine age: 19 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bigballs/ custom_path: "/wreckers/edward-coristine" tech_links: - Neuralink blurb: |- Perhaps the most famous of the DOGE wreckers, Edward "Big Balls" Coristine achieved early attention for joining DOGE at the young age of 19. Previously, he had been a camp counselor and a summer intern at Neuralink, who grew up in wealth and joined up with hacking groups online, before eagerly jumping on to the DOGE bandwagon. However, he has also accrued a large number of hits on his wrecking spree across the federal government, starting at the GSA on Day One and then detailing to OPM and a large number of other agencies within a short amount of time; for instance, he appears to have been DOGE's vanguard within the Department of Homeland Security. Most recently, he has been linked to a team developing an online application for a $5 Million "Gold Card" Visa that has been promoted by Trump as a new revenue stream for the US. positions: - id: detail-gsa-doge-coristine type: detailed agency: DOGE from: GSA from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-09 end_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: gsa-edward-coristine agency: GSA type: appointed salary: "$0" start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-05-23 end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced table_note: Start date and agency inferred from later reporting comment: >- Several documents have Coristine detailing from GSA, so assuming home agency. Also, not in FOIA release from OPM nte_date: 2026-01-19 nte_date_truth: verified description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true sge: true pd_code: X0A1614 title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor pay_grade: EF-00 series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Immediate Office of the Administrator same_as: gsa-edward-coristine replaced_by: gsa-edward-coristine-fulltime source: - >- https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-office-personnel-management-opm-neuralink-x-boring-stalin/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028768-onboard-opm-employee-4/ name: Edward Coristine - id: internal-dhs-tsa-coristine type: internal from: DHS from_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-02-14 agency: TSA table_note: NYT links him to TSA, but no other info public comment: No details, but in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-uscis-coristine type: internal from: DHS from_truth: inferred agency: USCIS sort_date: 2025-02-14 comment: NYT links him to USCIS, but no other info public source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: gsa-opm-coristine type: detailed start_date: 2025-01-24 agency: OPM from: GSA table_note: >- no MOU to confirm and SF-50 is for GSA, but I think he was detailed from GSA to OPM on this date based on appointment affadavit source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028768-onboard-opm-employee-4/ start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-07-23 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-05-14 end_date_truth: verified end_type: detail_ended description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true sge: true pd_code: X0A1614 title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor pay_grade: EF-00 salary: "$0" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Immediate Office of the Administrator comment: This is GSA appointment same_as: gsa-opm-coristine name: Edward Coristine alias: OPM-04 - id: detail-gsa-usaid-coristine type: detailed agency: USAID from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: reported title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the CIO table_note: Date at USAID reported by NYT source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/10/musk-doge-state-department-surrogate/ - id: detail-sba-coristine agency: SBA from: GSA from_truth: guessed title: DOGE Advisor title_type: advisor type: detailed start_date: 2025-02-03 start_date_truth: reported table_note: guessing detail date from system access request source: https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-big-balls-doge-federal-pay-roll-system/ - id: detail-gsa-dhs-coristine type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed agency: DHS title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor sort_date: 2025-02-04 start_date: 2025-02-(04)~ start_date_truth: reported table_note: Date unverified, but assuming predates sighting at FEMA comment: Reported by the Post, I'm going to assume this predated the FEMA access source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/10/musk-doge-state-department-surrogate/ - id: internal-hhs-fema-edward-coristine type: internal from: DHS from_truth: inferred agency: FEMA start_date: 2025-02-05 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/07/musk-trump-fema-doge/ - id: detail-gsa-state-coristine type: detailed agency: State from: GSA from_truth: reported start_date: 2025-02-10 start_date_truth: reported title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Bureau of Diplomatic Technology source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/10/musk-doge-state-department-surrogate/ - id: internal-dhs-cisa-coristine type: internal from: DHS from_truth: inferred agency: CISA start_date: 2025-02-19 start_date_truth: reported title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-cisa-coristine-cybersecurity/ comment: Likely assigned from DHS to here - id: detail-doge-education-coristine type: detailed agency: Education from: GSA from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-20 start_date_truth: verified source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028798-doge-staff-education-20250407/ - id: detail-gsa-hhs-edward-coristine type: detailed agency: HHS from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-03-05 start_date_truth: verified title: Executive Engineer title_type: advisor source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: No document provided, date reported in court filing table_note: Date verified in court document, assuming detail from GSA - id: internal-hhs-cms-coristine type: internal from_truth: inferred agency: CMS from: HHS start_date: 2025-03-05 start_date_truth: verified table_note: Granted access to CMS systems on same day as detail to HHS source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: Granted access to CALM system on the same day as his detail to HHS - id: gsa-edward-coristine-fulltime agency: GSA type: converted title: Senior Advisor pay_grade: GS-15 table_note: Salary range for GS-15 in DC salary: "$167,603 - $195,200" start_date: 2025-05-31 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-06-23 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned source: https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristine-doge-resigned-us-government/ - id: ssa-coristine agency: SSA type: appointed sge: true sort_date: 2025-06-23 start_date: 2025-06-(23)~ start_date_truth: verified fuzz: Exact start date not given by SSA spokesperson source: https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-social-security-administration/ - id: nds-coristine agency: NDS type: appointed start_date: 2025-08-(29)? start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-08-29 fuzz: Self-identified as NDS in November, but likely started earlier source: - https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-doge-doing-now/ - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-joining-national-design-studio/ - name: Scott Coulter sort_name: Coulter slug: scott-coulter age: 40 skill: executive category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-coulter-44959249/ blurb: >- Scott Coulter started his work for DOGE as a wrecker based in Social Security and detailed to NASA, but when Mike Russo was abruptly demoted as the CIO for Social Security, Scott stepped up into the role. Recently, however, the _New York Times_ reported that Aram Mohgaddassi and Mike Russo were acting informally as co-CIOs within Social Security, leading to questions if Scott Coulter is still there or if he's just occupying a figurehead role. positions: - id: nasa-coulter type: appointed agency: NASA start_date: 2025-02-XX sort_date: 2025-02-01 start_date_truth: inferred salary: "$120,579" table_note: Missing details source: - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: detail-nasa-ssa-employee-2 type: detailed from: NASA from_truth: verified agency: SSA start_date: 2025-02-18 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-02-18 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-23 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: ssa-employee-2-cio signed_date: 2025-03-06 reimbursed: true comment: Followed by Employee 2 being appointed the CIO reimbursement_amount: hourly, maximum of $120,579 source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028810-mou-20250306-nasa-ssa-employee-2/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028775-onboard-ssa-employee-2/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028810-mou-20250306-nasa-ssa-employee-2/ name: Scott Coulter alias: SSA-02 - id: ssa-employee-2-cio type: appointed agency: SSA title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio start_date: 2025-03-24 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-(05)~ end_type: removed table_note: >- Was listed as CIO on May 30, but Aram took over in June. WSJ reports on removal of SSA employee back to NASA in June. Aram/Russo listed as co-CIOs on 6/6 supervisory: true source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028775-onboard-ssa-employee-2/ - https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/doge-elon-musk-left-control-92770407 name: Scott Coulter alias: SSA-02 - name: Clayton Cromer sort_name: Cromer slug: clayton-cromer linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clayton-c-8442b4180/ skill: lawyer blurb: >- As one of the legal attack dogs within DOGE, Clayton Cromer was involved with the efforts to shut down USAID, including chasing down an administrator to suspend him for not agreeing to suspend other staff who were accused of subverting the administration's agenda just by doing their jobs. More recently, he has appeared at the DOJ, where he has been repoortedly badgering US Congressman (and former whistleblower) Vindman about a business that supplied assistance to Ukraine in their war. category: support govt_exit_date: 2025-07-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: opm-cromer type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-XX end_date_truth: reported description: SES Noncareer Appt appt_type_code: 55 appt_type: Senior Exec Perm pd_code: 6A38487 title: Deputy General Counsel pay_grade: ES-00 series: '0301' supervisory: true salary: "$195,200" office: Office of the Director comment: Sourced from a FOIA document source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clayton-c-8442b4180/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: detail-opm-usaid-cromer type: detailed agency: USAID from: OPM from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: reported table_note: NYT links to USAID, but need to find public reports of this source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/usaid-cuts-doge.html - id: opm-doj-cromer type: appointed agency: DOJ start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-XX end_date_truth: verified table_note: Rep. Vindman reported in early March being contacted by Cromer at the DOJ comment: Vindman in early March reports receiving contacts from Cromer at DOJ source: - >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dc-us-attorney-targets-ukraine-whistleblower-rep-vindman/ar-AA1AIUw3 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clayton-c-8442b4180/ - name: Ethan Damiano sort_name: Damiano slug: ethan-damiano category: unknown blurb: >- I don't have much info on this person yet, but they were named as being a Special Advisor at the SBA, which was a title also assigned to known DOGE member Aram Moghaddassi. His background does seem to be as a field organizer for the Trump campaign, so while he matches the "young, eager, doesn't ask questions" DOGE demographic, he probably isn't writing code, especially since he hasn't been granted the maximum salary and grade like most DOGE operatives. positions: - id: sba-damiano type: unknown agency: SBA start_date: 2025-01-(20)~ sort_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: inferred title: Special Advisor salary: "$69,923" title_type: advisor source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998948-sba-response-to-american-oversight-foia-request/ - https://www.signalhire.com/profiles/ethan-damiano/224958028 - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Steve Davis sort_name: Davis slug: steve-davis age: 45 category: leadership govt_exit_type: resigned govt_exit_date: 2025-05-28 govt_exit_truth: verified blurb: |- Reportedly so loyal to Elon Musk that associates have joked he would jump off a cliff if Musk asked him, Steve Davis has long been besides Musk's side at various companies, serving in senior executive roles at the Boring Company and Twitter. At Twitter, he was reportedly so dedicated to the work that he moved into the offices with his wife, Nicole Hollander, and their small child. And it is also reported that he was once so distressed by setbacks and failures that he started pulling out his own hair. It's been a thinly-veiled secret that Steve Davis was running the show at DOGE, well before Amy Gleason was publicly named as the administrator. And recent interviews with Sahil Lavingia and other insiders suggested he had continued to fill that role, until he abruptly departed after Elon Musk left. Despite no longer being in government, Steve Davis has reportedly stayed in contact with DOGE staffers and has directed their actions through back-channel communications. Reportedly, he has even called for the firing of DOGE staffers who expressed concerns about the legality of his continued involvement. tech_links: - Twitter - Boring Co. - SpaceX skill: executive positions: - id: doge-steve-davis type: appointed agency: DOGE start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-05-28 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor source: - https://www.wsj.com/us-news/steve-davis-leaves-doge-411a2d1b - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf table_note: assuming he started on 2025-01-20 - name: Stephen Duarte sort_name: Duarte slug: stephen-duarte age: 32 blurb: >- Like three other new DOGE staffers who started early t OPM, Stephen Duarte was previously a HR specialist at SpaceX. He reportedly has worked closely with Brian Bjelde. skill: administrator category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenduarteboisestateeastbay/ tech_links: - SpaceX govt_exit_date: 2025-03-05 govt_exit_truth: guessed govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: opm-stephen-duarte type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-02-03 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-05 end_date_truth: guessed end_type: resigned description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39749 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 salary: "$0" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: Sources from a FOIA document table_note: Likely 1 of 3 unidentified OPM aliases who started in Feb and left in March 2025 source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Leland Dudek slug: leland-dudek sort_name: Dudek skill: administrator category: enabler blurb: |- DOGE is only able to subvert agencies when it has the explicit cooperation and support of senior leadership there. Nobody better exemplifies than Leland Dudek, who was a relatively minor supervisor within Social Security before he was placed on leave for insubordination by giving DOGE access without authorization. Soon, he was rewarded for his defiance by being named Acting Commissioner for the agency after the Trump administration fired the existing commissioner. With the appointment of Steve Bisignano to the role of Commissioner, Leland Dudek has stepped aside out of the limelight and was dismissed by SSA in June. In a recent interview with ProPublica, Dudek has stated that some of his apparent blustering and stumbling in the role were deliberate to wake up people to what was happening, and that he often was the leaked source for articles critical of himself and DOGE. govt_exit_date: 2025-06-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: fired positions: - id: ssa-dudek-commissioner type: promotion title: Acting Commissioner title_type: director agency: SSA start_date: 2025-02-16 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-05-06 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: ssa-dudek supervisory: true source: >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e08aeb0c-ec70-4235-91a0-290da92067b5.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 - id: ssa-dudek type: demotion agency: SSA start_date: 2025-05-06 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-06-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: fired table_note: Replaced by Bisignano as confirmed commissioner, ProPublica reports dismissed in June source: - >- https://apnews.com/article/social-security-administration-bisignano-trump-doge-7ec043009064a58be57ce1465dec0481 - https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek - name: Stephen Ehikian sort_name: Ehikian slug: stephen-ehikian blurb: >- Stephen Ehikian is an executive from Silicon Valley, like so many of the DOGE leaders. His specific background involves stints at Salesforce and an AI-related startup. Since starting at GSA, he has been a prime supporter of DOGE's various efforts both within the agency (staffing up a team of wreckers, cancelling building leases) as well as ways in which GSA's central role can affect the wider government (canceling purchase cards, controlling shared services). He also has been a vocal booster to roll out an AI-based tool named GSAi to the whole workforce, despite it demonstrating lackluster results in pilot tests. age: 43 skill: executive category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sehikian/ govt_exit_date: 2025-09-03 govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: gsa-stephen-ehikian type: appointed title: Acting Administrator title_type: director agency: GSA sort_date: 2025-01-19 start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-07-21 end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced replaced_by: gsa-ehikian-deputy supervisory: true source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/01/gsa-announces-new-fas-tts-leadership/402485/ - id: gsa-ehikian-deputy type: demotion title: Deputy Administrator title_type: dept_head agency: GSA start_date: 2025-07-21 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-09-03 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned table_note: Had been in the Deputy Administrator role since 1/20 but serving as Acting Administrator supervisory: true source: - >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/21/trump-installs-new-gsa-acting-administrator-sidelines-doge-leaders-00465468 - >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2025/09/gsa-deputy-stephen-ehikian-to-transition-out-of-current-role/ - name: Marko Elez sort_name: Elez slug: marko-elez age: 25 skill: coder category: wrecker custom_path: "/wreckers/marko-elez/" tech_links: - Twitter - SpaceX blurb: >- Marko Elez first appeared as the only DOGE member who was authorized to access confidential systems at the Bureau of Fiscal Services within the Treasury Department, a development which was swiftly blocked for a while by lawsuits. During that time, he also became the only DOGE member to resign his position, when various past racist tweets of his were discovered by the _Wall Street Journal_. He was quickly reinstated by Elon Musk with the support of J.D. Vance, who saw nothing wrong with his speech; indeed, since then DOGE has added several other members linked to racist and extremist content online. Upon rejoning DOGE, Marko Elez was placed with Aram Moghaddassi on a team inside of the Department of Labor, and the two are frequently sent on reimburable details to other agencies like SSA or DHS. positions: - id: detail-dol-dhs-elez type: detailed agency: DHS from: DOL from_truth: guessed comment: No other info, just mentioned in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-cpb-elez type: internal agency: CBP from: DHS from_truth: inferred comment: No other info, just mentioned in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-ice-elez type: internal agency: ICE from: DHS from_truth: inferred comment: linked to ICE by NYT source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-tsa-elez type: internal agency: TSA from: DHS from_truth: inferred table_note: linked to DHS by NYT comment: No other info, just mentioned in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-uscis-elez type: internal agency: USCIS from: DHS from_truth: inferred comment: linked to DHS by NYT source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: treasury-marko-elez type: appointed description: EXC APPT NTE start_date: 2025-01-21 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-05-25 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-02-06 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned table_note: >- Abruptly resigned when past racist tweets were reported. I think the pay here is to the NTE date, since his later detail to SSA from DOL is reimbursed at $71k a quarter title: Special Advisor (IT&M) title_type: advisor pd_code: 66893097 C00424 office: Office of the Chief of Staff agency: Treasury pay_grade: GS-11/01 salary: "$84,601 (for 4 months)" source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028807-onboard-treasury-marko-elez/ - https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury - id: doge-elez type: appointed agency: DOGE start_date: 2025-02-10 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf table_note: >- Listed as Volunteer Employee. This seems like it was a way to keep Elez with access after resigned from Treasury but before starting at DOL - id: dol-elez type: appointed agency: DOL start_date: 2025-02-12 start_date_truth: inferred nte_date: 2025-06-11 nte_date_truth: verified title: Policy Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Secretary pd_code: '66899208' series: '0301' pay_grade: GS-11/01 salary: "$84,601" source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028796-onboard-dol-marko-elez/ - id: detail-dol-ssa-employee-7 type: detailed agency: SSA from: DOL from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-18 start_date_truth: verified reimbursed: true reimbursement_amount: up to $71,000 table_note: MOU signed by Mike Russo, was this followed by being hired at SSA source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028803-onboard-ssa-employee-7/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028769-mou-20250317-dol-ssa-employee-7/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028769-mou-20250317-dol-ssa-employee-7/ name: Marko Elez alias: SSA-07 - id: detail-dol-hhs-marko-elez type: detailed agency: HHS from: DOL start_date: 2025-03-05 start_date_truth: verified title: Executive Engineer title_type: advisor table_note: date/source in court filing source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: No documentation, reported in court filing - id: internal-hhs-cms-marko-elez type: internal agency: CMS from: HHS from_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-03-06 start_date: 2025-03-05 start_date_truth: verified table_note: granted access to CMS system on date source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: Granted access to CMS system same day as start of detail to HHS - name: Bee Elvy sort_name: Elvy slug: bee-elvy skill: designer linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beeelvy/ tech_links: - Twitter category: support blurb: >- According to ProPublica, he has been hired at GSA to work on [a website promoting use of AI within the government](https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/) positions: - id: gsa-elvy agency: GSA type: appointed sort_date: 2025-03-15 start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: guessed table_note: Date sourced from LinkedIn salary: "$167,603" source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beeelvy/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring office: Technology Transformation Services - name: Charles Ezell sort_name: Ezell slug: charles-ezell skill: executive category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-ezell/ blurb: |- Before the Trump inauguration, Charles Ezell's title was Branch Chief for OPM's Data & Analytics division located in Macon, GA. Through circumstances currently unknown, he was named the new Acting Director for the agency on January 20th. Since then, he has used his position to be the quintessential [enabler](/people/enablers/), providing cover (and sometimes firepower) to ensure the DOGE is able to get its way within the agency. Ths included such work as immediately replacing the CIO with Greg Hogan or issuing directives asking for data on probationary workers or other data calls with ridiculously tight deadlines. At some times, even Ezell seemed like he was caught flat-footed by DOGE's plans, including the confusing rollouts for the "Fork in the Road" or the "Five Things" emails. He also has wildly overstated the control that OPM has over federal hiring and firing. He certainly has done the most work for DOGE of any acting administrator. Perhaps this is why he was still in the role months later, with nominee Scott Kupor not being confirmed by the Senate until July 9th. govt_exit_date: 2025-10-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: opm-ezell type: promotion start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-09 end_date_truth: inferred end_type: replaced replaced_by: opm-ezell-advisor table_note: Replaced by Scott Kupor's appointment title: Acting Director title_type: director agency: OPM source: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500108/html/DCPD-202500108.htm - id: opm-ezell-advisor agency: OPM type: demotion start_date: 2025-07-09 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-10-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Director source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-ezell/ - name: Carter Farmer sort_name: Farmer slug: carter-farmer skill: coder category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carterfarmer/ blurb: >- A former director of IT Systems and Solutions at the USIP, he apparently joined up with DOGE after they took over and destroyed that agency. Since then, he has been named the new CIO of the Environmental Protection Agency, presumably providing access and support for DOGE teams within the agency. positions: - id: epa-cio-farmer type: appointed agency: EPA start_date: 2025-05-(08)~ start_date_truth: reported sort_date: 2025-05-04 title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cio-news/2025/05/federal-cio-outlines-16-operating-principles-for-it-leaders/ - name: Luke Farritor sort_name: Farritor slug: luke-farritor age: 23 skill: coder category: wrecker custom_path: "/wreckers/luke-farritor" linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-farritor/ tech_links: - SpaceX blurb: >- Although he doesn't have the same brash presence as his collegues Edward Coristine or Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor has proven to be one of the most ruthless operatives among the DOGE wreckers. From the start, he has been dispatched to multiple agencies from the GSA with the sole purpose of seizing control of their spending mechanisms (through grants or direct expenditures). At HHS, he has admin control of Grants.gov, which is used by 18 agencies to issue grants. And, at USAID, he worked with Gavin Kliger to completely lock out agency staff from being able to disburse funds, freezing millions in grants and making him directly responsible for likely [hundreds of thousands of deaths](https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/tracking-anticipated-deaths-from-usaid-funding-cuts/) worldwide. positions: - id: detail-gsa-dhs-farritor type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed agency: DHS table_note: linked to DHS by NYT, no other info comment: No details, but in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: gsa-luke-farritor type: appointed agency: GSA start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: inferred table_note: verified as detailed from GSA to HHS on 1/21, so assuming onboarded on 1/20 comment: Luke is detailed to HHS from GSA on 2025-01-21, so date here is inferred salary: "$0" - id: internal-dhs-ice-farritor type: internal from: DHS from_truth: inferred agency: ICE comment: No details, but in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-tsa-farritor type: internal from: DHS from_truth: inferred agency: TSA comment: No details, but in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-uscis-farritor type: internal from: DHS from_truth: inferred agency: USCIS comment: No details, but in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: detail-gsa-hhs-luke-farritor type: detailed agency: HHS from: GSA from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-01-21 start_date_truth: verified title: Executive Engineer title_type: advisor comment: Date found in a court filing source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf - id: detail-gsa-doge-farritor type: detailed agency: DOGE from: GSA from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-01-24 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-31 end_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: detail-gsa-usaid-farritor type: detailed agency: USAID from: GSA from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/24/musk-doge-usaid-cuts-dc/ - id: internal-hhs-cdc-farritor type: internal agency: CDC from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-01-30 start_date_truth: inferred table_note: date guessed from first system access at CDC source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: Guessing from first reported system access for ICE system - id: internal-hhs-cms-farritor type: internal agency: CMS from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-01-31 start_date_truth: inferred table_note: date guessed from first system access at CMS comment: Guessing from first reported system access for HIGLAS source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf - id: detail-gsa-energy-luke-farritor type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed agency: Energy sort_date: 2025-02-04 start_date: 2025-02-(04)~ start_date_truth: disputed comment: Start date was given by DOE spokesperson denying a news report - id: detail-gsa-cfpb-luke-farritor type: detailed agency: CFPB from: GSA from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-07 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-04 end_date_truth: verified end_type: detail_ended title_type: advisor source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: Details from court filing - id: detail-gsa-state-farritor type: detailed agency: State from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-02-10 start_date_truth: reported title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Bureau of Diplomatic Technology source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/10/musk-doge-state-department-surrogate/ table_note: info reported by news source - id: internal-hhs-nih-farritor type: internal agency: NIH from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-02-24 start_date_truth: reported office: NIH Business System source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-is-inside-the-national-institutes-of-health-nih/ - id: detail-gsa-nsf-farritor type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-04-14 start_date_truth: reported table_note: arrived at agency to do secondary round of grant reviews with other DOGE staff at HHS. comment: Showed up at the agency to do secondary round of grant reviews. Detail from HHS? source: https://fedscoop.com/national-science-foundation-nsf-doge-grants-data-systems/ agency: NSF - id: detail-gsa-dol-farritor type: detailed agency: DOL from: GSA from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-05-(09)~ start_date_truth: guessed table_note: >- Wired Magazine reported in June was detailed to DOL, but calendar reports meeting about DOL grants on 5/09, so guessing detailed around then. source: https://www.wired.com/story/next-stage-doge-elon-musk/ - id: gsa-farritor-fulltime agency: GSA type: converted title: Senior Advisor pay_grade: GS-15 table_note: Salary range for GS-15 in DC salary: "$167,603 - $195,200" start_date: 2025-05-31 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/ - name: Conor Fennessy sort_name: Fennessy slug: conor-fennessy age: 32 skill: analyst blurb: >- There aren't many public details about Conor Fennessy, except that he apparently has a background in finance. Whatever his story, he joined up early with DOGE, starting as a part-time consultant at the Department of Education before heading over to HHS and then the Department of the Interior. His main specialization seems to be reviewing grants for cancellation if they match certain _verboten_ topics like climate change or "DEI." category: wrecker custom_path: "/wreckers/conor-fennessy" positions: - id: detail-sba-fennessy agency: SBA from: Education from_truth: guessed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor type: detailed table_note: identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998948-sba-response-to-american-oversight-foia-request/ - id: education-ed-2 type: appointed agency: Education start_date: 2025-01-31 start_date_truth: verified appt_type_code: 44 appt_type: Regular C pd_code: DBGS61164 title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor pay_grade: GS-15/6 salary: "$195,200" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Secretary source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028781-onboard-education-employee-2/ name: Conor Fennessy alias: ED-02 - id: detail-education-hhs-fennessy type: detailed from: Education from_truth: verified agency: HHS start_date: 2025-02-20 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.80.5.pdf - id: internal-hhs-cms-fennessy type: internal agency: CMS from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-03-03 start_date_truth: inferred comment: Inferred from first reported access to CALM system source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf - id: detail-doi-fennessy type: detailed from: Education from_truth: guessed agency: DOI start_date: 2025-05-(01)? start_date_truth: inferred table_note: Guessed because created a spreadsheet at DOI on grant cancellations around 5/07 source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/climate/trump-park-service-grants-cuts.html - id: detail-usda-fennessy type: detailed agency: USDA from: Education from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-05-15 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-09-12 nte_date_truth: inferred source: >- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26071597-usda-records-reflecting-doge-economy-act-funding-transfers/ - name: Joshua Fox sort_name: Fox, Joshua slug: joshua-fox skill: lawyer age: 28 category: wrecker blurb: >- Apart from his appearance on a leaked list of DOGE's lawyers, there isn't much public information about Joshua Fox. In November, ProPublica added him to their list of DOGE staffers and linked him to several agencies but reported he transitioned to a General Counsel role in the White House in June govt_exit_date: 2025-09-13 govt_exit_type: resigned govt_exit_truth: verified positions: - id: eop-doge type: promotion agency: EOP title: Associate General Counsel office: Executive Office of the President end_date: 2025-09-13 end_type: resigned end_date_truth: reported table_note: Reported as left 9/13/25; does this mean just DOGE or EOP/govt? source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.1.pdf - id: mcc-joshua-fox agency: MCC sort_date: 2025-02-16 type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: guessed table_note: Linked to agency by ProPublica source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: noaa-joshua-fox agency: NOAA sort_date: 2025-02-16 type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: guessed table_note: Linked to agency by ProPublica source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: doge-joshua-fox type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-XX sort_date: 2025-02-14 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-06-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced replaced_by: eop-doge fuzz: Report just says started sometime in February source: - https://theintercept.com/2025/03/05/leaked-list-musk-doge-lawyers/ - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ agency: DOGE - id: usda-joshua-fox agency: USDA start_date: 2025-04-16 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-08-14 nte_date_truth: inferred type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: verified reimbursed: false source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - >- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26071597-usda-records-reflecting-doge-economy-act-funding-transfers/ - name: Justin Fox sort_name: Fox, Justin slug: justin-fox age: 27 skill: analyst category: wrecker custom_path: "/wreckers/cavanaugh-cronies#justin-fox" blurb: >- Joining GSA as a wrecker in mid-February, Justin Fox has mainly served as Nate Cavanaugh's sidekick for the destruction of several small independent federal agencies. Prior to his career as a visigoth, he worked as an analyst at several different investment firms. He was all friends in college with fellow wrecker Marshall Wood. positions: - id: gsa-justin-fox type: appointed agency: GSA sort_date: 2025-02-20 start_date: 2025-03-XX salary: "$167,603" table_note: No idea on GSA start but before 3/13 comment: No details, but just guessing office: Immediate Office of the Administrator source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: detail-neh-justin-fox type: detailed agency: NEH from: GSA from_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-03-13 start_date: 2025-03-(13)~ start_date_truth: verified comment: Guessing GSA based on some past reporting source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679/gov.uscourts.nysd.641679.1.0.pdf - id: detail-gsa-mcc-fox type: detailed agency: MCC from: GSA from_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-03-22 start_date: 2025-03-(22)? start_date_truth: guessed source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute table_note: Linked to MCC by NPR, start date guessed from disruption there - id: detail-gsa-wwics-fox type: detailed agency: WWICS from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-03-31 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute table_note: Linked to WWICS by NPR, date is first DOGE sighting at agency - id: detail-gsa-nlrb-fox type: detailed agency: NLRB from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-04-16 start_date_truth: reported source: >- https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/labor-boards-doge-detailees-connected-to-agency-take-downs - name: Justin Fulcher sort_name: Fulcher slug: justin-fulcher age: 32 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrjustinfulcher/ blurb: >- Justin Fulcher is a programmer and entrepeneur, whose last project was a telehealth startup called RingMD (although there are [some questions about its success and his life story](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2025/03/04/pentagon-doge-official-justin-fulcher/)). Justin started his work for DOGE as an employee working within the VA and keeping a low profile. More recently, he has moved over to the Department of Defense, where he is a Special Advisor in Pete Hegseth's office. govt_exit_date: 2025-07-20 govt_exit_truth: verified govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: va-fulcher type: appointed agency: VA sort_date: 2025-02-04 start_date: 2025-02-(04)~ start_date_truth: reported source: >- https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/05/elon-musk-aide-now-working-va-and-accessing-its-computer-systems.html table_note: reported in early Feb but named later - id: dod-fulcher type: detailed from: VA from_truth: guessed table_note: no info, but assuming detailed from VA start_date: 2025-03-04 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-04-24 end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced replaced_by: dod-fulcher-advisor comment: Assuming this position replace by Senior Advisor role source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2025/03/04/pentagon-doge-official-justin-fulcher/ agency: DOD - id: dod-fulcher-advisor type: appointed start_date: 2025-04-25 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-07-20 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Secretary source: - >- https://news.bloombergtax.com/international-trade/hegseth-taps-doge-staffer-as-senior-adviser-after-staff-exodus - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/politics/hegseth-aide-resigns-pentagon-justin-fulcher.html agency: DOD - name: Nicholas Gallagher sort_name: Gallagher slug: nicholas-gallagher category: support skill: lawyer age: 36 blurb: >- Nicholas Gallagher is a lawyer working within GSA. Prior to that, he worked at a law firm Clement & Murphy, "which specializes in arguing conservative causes before the U.S. Supreme Court" according to ProPublica. positions: - id: detail-gsa-doge-gallagher type: detailed agency: DOGE from: GSA from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-03-03 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: gsa-gallagher type: appointed agency: GSA start_date: 2025-05-XX start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-05-15 table_note: Named in ProPublica roundup, start date guessed source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - name: Mattieu Gamache-Asselin sort_name: Gamache-Asselin slug: mattieu-gamache age: 34 skill: coder category: unknown linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattieuga/ blurb: >- Reported as present in HHS in January by ProPublica, but there are no other details about his time there or what he was doing. govt_exit_date: 2025-01-XX govt_exit_truth: inferred govt_exit_type: unknown positions: - id: hhs-gamache agency: HHS type: unknown title: Senior Advisor - DOGE title_type: advisor office: Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources start_date: 2025-01-XX start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-01-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: unknown comment: ProPublica just reports he was there in January source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - name: Joe Gebbia sort_name: Gebbia slug: joe-gebbia age: 43 skill: executive blurb: >- Joe Gebbia is very much a known person – he is a co-founder of AirBnB and has appeared among the DOGE staff on several television interviews. He started in February at OPM, where he has worked to accelerate a Biden-era project to modernize retirement claims processing. More recently, he has been part of an inter-agency collaboration between DHS, State and USCIS to develop a $5 Million "Gold Card" immigration visa. category: wrecker tech_links: - Airbnb positions: - id: opm-joe-gebbia agency: OPM type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-18 start_date_truth: verified description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39752 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 series: '0301' supervisory: false salary: "$0" office: Office of the Director comment: Sourced from a FOIAed document source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: nds-gebbia agency: NDS type: appointed start_date: 2025-08-21 start_date_truth: reported title: Chief Design Officer title_type: dept_head office: National Design Studio table_note: Position created in EO 14338 source: >- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-appoint-airbnb-co-founder-gebbia-remake-government-websites-2025-08-21/ - name: Derek Geissler sort_name: Geissler slug: derek-geissler skill: coder blurb: >- Apart from a single report by NBC News placing him at the Department of Labor in mid-February, there are no public details about Derek Geissler. According to ProPublica, "Geissler has been working at the GSA since the beginning of the administration in close coordination with political leadership on DOGE special projects, including artificial intelligence and data sharing efforts." Despite his prominent position, Derek has done a good job of avoiding the spotlight. category: unknown positions: - id: gsa-geissler type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-XX start_date_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-01-20 salary: "$0" agency: GSA office: Immediate Officer of the Administrator source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: dol-derek-geissler type: detailed sort_date: 2025-02-13 start_date: 2025-02-(13)~ start_date_truth: reported comment: No other information besides this report. 3 other DOGE staff besides Ramada at agency on 2/5. source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/doge-software-approval-alarms-labor-department-employees-data-security-rcna191583 agency: DOL from: GSA - name: Patrick George sort_name: George slug: patrick-george age: 42 blurb: >- Patrick George is reportedly the DOGE lead in the US Navy, where he has been involved in reviewing contracts. He comes from a venture capital background, and was also a Marine. Pete Hegseth has claimed that all of the DOGE staff within the Department of Defense will be veterans. skill: executive category: wrecker positions: - id: dod-george agency: DOD type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-(18)? start_date_truth: inferred table_note: >- Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/doge-meets-with-pentagon-officials-to-plan-cuts-at-the-biggest-u-s-department/ar-AA1zjgby sort_date: 2025-02-18 office: U.S. Navy - name: Patricia Gibson sort_name: Gibson slug: patricia-gibson linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciagibsondc/ category: unknown blurb: >- I don't have much info on this person yet, but they were named as being a Senior Advisor at the SBA, which was a title also assigned to known DOGE members at that agency. I know that she worked at SBA as a Senior Advisor in the previous Trump administration, so this might be a false alarm, but her LinkedIn listed her current role just as "Organizational Development Consultant" which seems like DOGE's evasion. However, this is looking like a false alarm. positions: - id: sba-gibson type: unknown agency: SBA title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: verified salary: "$195,200" table_note: Start month sourced from her LinkedIn source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998948-sba-response-to-american-oversight-foia-request/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Brady Glantz sort_name: Glantz slug: brady-glantz age: 27 skill: coder tech_links: - SpaceX category: wrecker blurb: >- One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. That term was extended, only to be forcibly ended on June 2nd. govt_exit_date: 2025-06-02 govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: fired positions: - id: faa-glantz type: appointed agency: FAA start_date: 2025-02-16 start_date_truth: reported nte_date: 2025-02-20 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-02 end_date_truth: reported end_type: fired title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Administrator source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/08/doge-elon-musk-exit-trump/ - name: Amy Gleason sort_name: Gleason slug: amy-gleason age: 53 blurb: >- Amy Gleason was suddenly thrusted into the public spotlight on Feb. 18, 2025 when the White House Press Secretary identified her as the Administrator of DOGE. Conveniently, she was on vacation in Mexico at the time, so the press was unable to clarify if she was also blindsided by the news. Since then, she has gamely testified for a few times as the administrator of DOGE, but since early March she has largely resumed working full-time as an official employee within HHS, where she had started work in January 2025 for the US Digital Service. Nobody in DOGE seems to even be pretending anymore that she is running things. skill: coder category: leadership linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gleasonamy/ positions: - id: doge-amy-gleason start_date: 2024-12-30 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2024-02-18 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced series: '0301' pay_grade: AD-00 replaced_by: doge-amy-gleason-director type: appointed table_note: this is Amy's role in USDS until she was named the administrator of DOGE comment: >- Amy Gleason joins the USDS, according to her sworn testimony; not sure of her title for this before she is named Acting Director source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25564597-crewvdogereconmot031425/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.1.pdf agency: DOGE - id: doge-hhs-gleason type: detailed agency: HHS from: DOGE from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-02-15 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf table_note: assuming a detail from DOGE to HHS - id: doge-amy-gleason-director start_date: 2025-02-18 start_date_truth: verified type: promotion agency: DOGE title: Acting Administrator, US DOGE Service and the DOGE Temporary Organization title_type: director series: '0301' pay_grade: AD-00 source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.80.4.pdf - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.1.pdf - id: internal-hhs-cms-gleason type: internal agency: CMS from: HHS from_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-02-24 start_date: 2025-02-(24)~ start_date_truth: inferred source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: Start date is just her reported first access to CALM system at CMS - id: hhs-amy-gleason agency: HHS type: converted title: Expert/Consultant title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-03-04 start_date_truth: verified salary: "$0" comment: All I have is her SF-61 source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028802-onboard-hhs-amy-gleason/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Mike Gonzalez sort_name: Gonzalez slug: mike-gonzalez age: 36 skill: executive category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelvincentgonzalez/ blurb: >- Mike Gonzalez was included in a roundup by Techcrunch of 19 founders and VCs who are part of DOGE. He is linked to Trump administation AI czar David Sacks; both worked at the company Zenefits. He also founded another human resources startup. govt_exit_date: 2025-06-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: opm-gonzalez agency: OPM type: appointed sort_date: 2025-03-15 start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-XX end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelvincentgonzalez/ - name: Ross Graber sort_name: Graber slug: ross-graber category: enabler skill: executive blurb: >- After reportedly assisting DOGE at the State Department, Ross Graber was named into the position of Chief Information Officer at the Department of Energy when Ryan Riedel suddenly departed. And then after two months, he suddenly resigned from the role as well. Prior to DOGE, he had been a security manager at Yahoo, Google and then Twitter before moving into the role of Senior Director of Security Technologies at Procore Technologies (until leaving in February to join DOGE). tech_links: - Twitter positions: - id: state-graber type: appointed agency: State start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-03-13 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/energy-appoints-twitter-google-alum-new-cio/403717/ - id: energy-graber type: appointed agency: Energy start_date: 2025-03-13 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-XX end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned salary: "$195,200" table_note: Reported to have resigned on 4/18, but LinkedIN reports working into July title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio supervisory: true source: - https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/energy-appoints-twitter-google-alum-new-cio/403717/ - https://www.meritalk.com/articles/energy-department-cio-graber-resigns-sources-say/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rgsec/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: nnsa-graber type: appointed agency: NNSA start_date: 2025-07-XX start_date_truth: verified title: Chief Information Security Officer title_type: dept_head supervisory: true source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rgsec/ - name: Antonio Gracias age: 54 sort_name: Gracias slug: antonio-gracias skill: executive blurb: >- Antonio Gracias has had a longtime connection with Elon Musk as an early investor in both Tesla and SpaceX, and he has also sat on the boards of both companies. He also was involved with Musk's purchase of Twitter. He has been stationed as part of the DOGE team within Social Security Administration, since late February. Over the last few months, he has regularly appeared on friendly media outlets to describe alleged instances of fraud within SSA. category: leadership govt_exit_date: 2025-07-01 govt_exit_truth: verified govt_exit_type: resigned tech_links: - Tesla - SpaceX - Twitter positions: - id: ssa-antonio-gracias type: appointed agency: SSA pd_code: KNX0370 start_date: 2025-02-23 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-02-22 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-01 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: Expert pay_grade: ED-00 salary: "$0" series: '0301' office: Office of the Chief Information Officer qualifications: >- Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of [REDACTED]. Over 25 years of experience in private equity investing. comment: SF-50 is a correction source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028768-onboard-opm-employee-4/ name: Antonio Gracias alias: SSA-04 - name: Michael Grimes sort_name: Grimes slug: michael-grimes age: 58 skill: executive blurb: >- Michael Grimes is one of the two members of DOGE who came to the agency from Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that coordinated Musk's takeover of Twitter. At Commerce, he has kept a relatively low profile, but there were some reports of him subjecting staff in the [CHIPS for America program](https://www.nist.gov/chips) to DOGE-style interviews. category: leadership linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldgrimes/ tech_links: - Twitter positions: - id: commerce-michael-grimes type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-27 start_date_truth: verified title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor salary: "$167,603" agency: Commerce source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25969697-grimes-michael-d-278e278t-2025/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Josh Gruenbaum sort_name: Gruenbaum slug: josh-gruenbaum skill: executive linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-gruenbaum-942956102/ blurb: >- Josh Gruenbaum is another DOGE member who comes from the world of private equity and mergers & acquisitions, having worked at KKR & Co and Moelis. At the GSA, he was appointed as commissioner over the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) at GSA, giving him oversight over all the ways in which GSA procures _stuff_, whether it's office supplies or custom software. He is the direct supervisor of Thomas Shedd and he himself reports to Stephen Ehikian who also is in DOGE. category: enabler positions: - id: gsa-josh-gruenbaum start_date: 2025-01-24 start_date_truth: verified type: appointed agency: GSA salary: "$183,100" title: Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner title_type: dept_head source: - https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/01/gsa-announces-new-fas-tts-leadership/402485/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring supervisory: true - name: Gavin Hamrick sort_name: Hamrick slug: gavin-hamrick skill: analyst category: unknown blurb: >- He was identified as part of Nate Cavanaugh's crew in a raid on IMLS, but I want to confirm he's part of DOGE first. positions: - id: imls-hamrick start_date: 2025-03-31 start_date_truth: reported type: detailed source: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3llowvghols2b comment: DOGE put entire staff on admin leave and started cancelling grants, not many details agency: IMLS - name: Joshua Hanley age: 27 sort_name: Hanley slug: joshua-hanley blurb: >- Part of DOGE's army of lawyers, there isn't much public information about his activities, although his name did appear in the metadata for some grant cancellation documents that were sent out by NIH. This doesn't mean necessarily that he was detailed to that agency; but it does indicate some role in crafting the justifications given to agencies about these moves. skill: lawyer category: support positions: - id: doge-joshua-hanley type: detailed agency: DOGE from: GSA from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-02-24 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: gsa-joshua-hanley agency: GSA type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-(24)~ start_date_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-02-23 salary: "$167,603" office: Office of General Counsel pay_grade: GS-12 source: - https://theintercept.com/2025/03/05/leaked-list-musk-doge-lawyers/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Christina Hanna sort_name: Hanna slug: christina-hanna age: 39 skill: administrator category: support blurb: >- Before DOGE, Christina Hanna worked at both SpaceX and for Elon Musk personally as an HR manager. Her activities at OPM since her start have not been publicly disclosed. tech_links: - SpaceX - Musk family linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-hanna-75839b41/ govt_exit_date: 2025-03-05 govt_exit_truth: guessed govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: opm-christina-hanna type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-02-03 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-05 end_date_truth: guessed end_type: resigned description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39735 salary: "$0" title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: Sourced from FOIAed document table_note: Likely 1 of 3 unidentified OPM aliases who started in Feb and left in March 2025 source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Tyler Hassen sort_name: Hassen slug: tyler-hassen age: 42 skill: executive category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-hassen-802b4a12/ blurb: >- As a Texas oil executive with myriad investments in the field, it's clear why Tyler Hassen would want a senior role in the Department of the Interior even though his personal connection to Musk's orbit is unknown. At DOI, Hassen has been promoted into increasingly senior roles and responsibilities while being shunted into positions that do not require Senate confirmation or for him to address his vast conflicts of interest. govt_exit_date: 2025-11-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: doi-hassen type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-23 start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-03-07 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: doi-hassen-acting table_note: FOIA response includes email to him on first day salary: "$142,488" agency: DOI source: - >- https://apnews.com/article/hassen-burgum-musk-interior-energy-conflicts-830e9df68c7869e943f96c4b5e384f20 - https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2025/04/15/25-4034_Rel_575pgs_Redacted.pdf - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: doi-hassen-acting type: promotion start_date: 2025-03-07 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-04-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced replaced_by: doi-hassan-principal title: Acting Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget title_type: dept_head table_note: ended with title change to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary supervisory: true agency: DOI source: https://www.eenews.net/articles/doge-official-appointed-head-of-policy-at-interior/ - id: doi-hassen-principal agency: DOI type: promotion start_date: 2025-04-XX start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-09-03 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: doi-hassen-unknown title: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary title_type: director supervisory: true table_note: >- title change allows him to avoid Senate approval/ethics rules. He reported he was leaving the agency on 8/1, but was seemingly still in the role until 9/3 source: - >- https://apnews.com/article/hassen-burgum-musk-interior-energy-conflicts-830e9df68c7869e943f96c4b5e384f20 - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/climate/doge-interior-tyler-hassen.html - https://www.publicdomain.media/p/tyler-hassen-interior-doge-financial-holdings - id: doi-hassen-unknown agency: DOI type: unknown start_date: 2025-09-03 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-11-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned table_note: Working on layoffs / consolidation; LinkedIn reports left in November source: - https://www.publicdomain.media/p/tyler-hassen-interior-doge-financial-holdings - https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/09/interior-department-taking-steps-implement-layoffs/408342/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-hassen-802b4a12/ - name: Jim Hickey sort_name: Hickey slug: jim-hickey age: 42 skill: executive linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hickey-32840511/ blurb: >- Identified by ProPublica as one of the DOGE crew who have secretly been working at the Department of Defense, Jim Hickey was formerly a director at MITRE and before that a senior advisor for the Air Force category: wrecker positions: - id: dod-hickey type: appointed agency: DOD start_date: 2025-02-(18)? start_date_truth: inferred table_note: >- Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans. LinkedIn says Feb. source: - >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/doge-meets-with-pentagon-officials-to-plan-cuts-at-the-biggest-u-s-department/ar-AA1zjgby - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ sort_date: 2025-02-18 title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Undersecretary of Defense - name: Vinay Hiremath sort_name: Hiremath slug: vinay-hiremath skill: recruiter category: booster linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vhiremath4/ blurb: >- Identified by the New York Times as part of [DOGE's pre-inauguration recruitment push](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-government-trump.html), Vinay reportedly spent a month personally calling hundreds of people to recruit them for DOGE before he dropped out of the project in January. positions: [] - name: Adam Hoffman sort_name: Hoffman slug: adam-hoffman age: 24 skill: analyst category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-h-8a4b42105/ blurb: >- A former staffer at the Griffin's Citadel hedge fund, he joined DOGE sometime in April and was assigned to a team that is using DOJ databases to assemble information on immigrants. positions: - id: dhs-hoffman type: appointed agency: DHS start_date: 2025-03-(19)~ start_date_truth: reported salary: "$167,603" source: - >- https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/musks-doge-hires-ken-griffin-staffer-for-national-security-work - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: doj-hoffman type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-04-21 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/21/doge-ecas-justice-immigration-courts-trump/ agency: DOJ - name: Greg Hogan sort_name: Hogan slug: greg-hogan age: 42 skill: coder linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greghogan/ blurb: >- It's not surprising that there are reports that OPM has been training AI models with information on government personnel. Greg Hogan, the agency's CIO, previously worked for an AI company that was backed Marc Andreesen's firm Andreesen Horowitz. After leaving OPM abruptly in September 2025, he has reportedly moved over to the National Design Studio with the title Hacker In Residence. tech_links: - Andreessen Horowitz category: enabler positions: - id: greg-hogan-opm type: appointed name: Greg Hogan agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-01-20 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: opm-hogan-cio description: SES Noncareer Appt appt_type_code: 55 appt_type: SES Noncareer pd_code: 6A38081 title: Senior Advisor to the Director for Technology and Delivery title_type: advisor pay_grade: ES-00 salary: "$195,200" series: '0301' supervisory: true table_note: ended by promotion to CIO office: Office of the Director comment: details from FOIA documents source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028795-onboard-opm-greg-hogan/ - id: opm-hogan-cio type: promotion sort_date: 2025-01-21 start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-02-11 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: opm-hogan-cio-official table_note: testified he started as Senior Advisor but was made Acting CIO same day. Made permanent CIO on 2/11 title: Acting Chief Information Officer title_type: cio pay_grade: ES-00 salary: "$195,200" series: '0301' supervisory: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.98.0.pdf agency: OPM - id: opm-hogan-cio-official type: promotion name: Greg Hogan agency: OPM start_date: 2025-02-11 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-09-02 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned description: SES Noncareer Appt appt_type_code: 55 appt_type: SES Noncareer pd_code: 6A39566 title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio pay_grade: ES-00 salary: "$195,200" series: '0301' supervisory: true office: Office of the Director comment: details from FOIA doucments source: - https://fedscoop.com/greg-hogan-has-departed-his-role-as-opms-top-it-official/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028795-onboard-opm-greg-hogan/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.177.0.pdf - id: nds-hogan agency: NDS type: appointed start_date: 2025-10-XX start_date_truth: reported title: Hacker in Residence source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greghogan/ - name: Nicole Hollander slug: nicole-hollander sort_name: Hollander age: 42 skill: executive category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-h-472b9a6/ govt_exit_type: resigned govt_exit_date: 2025-05-29 govt_exit_truth: reported blurb: >- Nicole Hollander is married to fellow DOGE operative and ad hoc leader Steve Davis, and she has worked with Elon Musk at Twitter. She had reportedly been involved with securing an enclave for DOGE to work from and live within GSA HQ (complete with laundry facilities). Her biggest effort has been the ongoing march to cancel GSA leases across the country. Her conenctions to other DOGE projects have not be publicly documented yet, and she left the agency (and working for the government) where her husband also resigned. tech_links: - Twitter - Boring Co. positions: - id: gsa-hollander type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: guessed end_date: 2025-05-29 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned comment: Reportedly, has left the government in the wake of Steve Davis and Elon Musk leaving office: Office of the Administrator supervisory: true salary: "$0" source: - https://www.wired.com/story/nicole-hollander-top-musk-lieutenant-leaving-doge/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: GSA - name: Stephanie Holmes sort_name: Holmes slug: stephanie-holmes age: 43 skill: administrator blurb: >- Stephanie Holmes is an employment attorney and consultant who previously offered courses on "non-woke" HR and redefining DEI to be more "Christian," in a conventional conservative evangelical sense. After being an HR head at DOGE, she was detailed to the Department of the Interior, where she was named the acting Chief Human Capital Officer. At DOI, she had the CIO and other senior staff sidelined so she could be granted admin powers over a shared service that handles payroll for approximately half of the federal government. I'm sure it's fine. category: wrecker positions: - id: doge-holmes type: appointed title: Senior Advisor for Technology and Efficiency title_type: advisor sort_date: 2025-02-01 start_date: 2025-02-(01)~ start_date_truth: reported comment: First mentioned in reports on 2/1 table_note: First reported today, likely onboarded earlier in January source: - >- https://www.404media.co/musks-doge-brings-in-hr-consultant-focused-on-non-woke-dei-aligned-with-our-faith/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.1.pdf agency: DOGE - id: detail-doge-doi-holmes type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: reported start_date: 2025-02-24 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-09-(29)~ end_date_truth: verified table_note: reported on 7/29 as leaving DOI; but still at DOI in Sept; new Chief HCO appointed 9/29 title: Special Advisor / Acting Chief Human Capital Officer title_type: dept_head source: - >- https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/03/05/heres-the-people-connected-to-doge-at-interior-00213330 - >- https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/07/doge-and-other-day-one-trump-appointees-head-exits-multiple-agencies/407075/ - https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/09/interior-department-taking-steps-implement-layoffs/408342/ - >- https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.457131/gov.uscourts.cand.457131.62.11_3.pdf - https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2025/04/15/25-4034_Rel_575pgs_Redacted.pdf agency: DOI - name: Kenneth Jackson sort_name: Jackson slug: kenneth-jackson category: enabler positions: - id: state-jackson type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-XX start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-01-20 agency: State table_note: I know Kenneth Jackson started at State, but I haven't found more info of when and where - id: usip-jackson type: appointed start_date: 2025-03-17 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-03-25 end_date_truth: verified end_type: removed title: Acting President title_type: director agency: USIP supervisory: true source: - >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/18/doge-institute-of-peace-takeover-musk-trump/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529/gov.uscourts.dcd.278529.14.1.pdf - id: usaid-deputy-jackson type: appointed start_date: 2025-03-18 start_date_truth: verified title: Deputy Administrator (Management and Resources) title_type: dept_head supervisory: true source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293.77.2.pdf agency: USAID - name: Anthony Jancso sort_name: Jancso slug: anthony-jancso skill: recruiter category: booster tech_links: - Palantir blurb: >- In late November and early December, Jancso was actively recruiting for DOGE on message boards for Palantir alumni and other similar places he might find likely candidates. It's unclear what his involvement has been with DOGE since January, but in May he started recruiting for a project to ["deploy AI agents across live workflows in federal agencies"](https://www.wired.com/story/doge-recruiter-ai-agents-palantir-clown-emoji/). Prior to DOGE, he was a cofounder with Jordan Wick of a project called Accelerate SF which promised to deploy AI across the public sector. positions: [] - name: Raj Jegannathan sort_name: Jegannathan slug: raj-jegannathan age: 41 skill: executive linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raj-jegannathan-9b566242/ blurb: >- A relatively new addition to the DOGE staff based in GSA, Raj is also working for his job as the vice president of IT for AI infrastructure and vehicle support operations at Tesla. These dual-employment scenarios would be unthinkable in other presidential admininstrations; for DOGE, they're routine. Jegannathan is "working closely with senior political leadership at the GSA on federal acquisition efforts," according to [ProPublica](https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/#Rajasekar-Jegannathan) category: support positions: - id: gsa-jegannathan type: appointed sort_date: 2025-04-24 start_date: 2025-04-(24)~ start_date_truth: reported source: - https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-mystery-general-services-administration/ - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ title: Data Engineer agency: GSA - name: Erica Jehling sort_name: Jehling slug: erica-jehling age: 40 skill: administrator linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erica-jehling/ blurb: >- She is another SpaceX alumna; her most recent role before DOGE was as a purchasing director. She has been part of the EPA team and has also been linked to the GSA. category: wrecker tech_links: - SpaceX positions: - id: gsa-jehling type: appointed sort_date: 2025-02-01 start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: guessed agency: GSA source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ table_note: Assuming GSA start because linked there by ProPublica and at time, people were detailed from there - id: epa-jehling type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed salary: "$0" start_date: 2025-02-12 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-06-XX end_date_truth: guessed end_type: detail_ended table_note: Reported 9/25 had left agency, assuming around/near Loving exit source: - https://www.eenews.net/articles/doge-lands-at-epa/ - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - https://www.notus.org/policy/doge-environmental-protection-agency-mistakes - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: EPA - name: Thomas Kiernan sort_name: Kiernan slug: thomas-kiernan age: 30 skill: coder category: wrecker tech_links: - SpaceX blurb: >- One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. That short term was extended until June 4th, when it was revoked suddenly in the wake of Musk's departure. govt_exit_date: 2025-06-02 govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: fired positions: - id: faa-kiernan type: appointed agency: FAA start_date: 2025-02-16 start_date_truth: reported nte_date: 2025-02-20 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-02 end_date_truth: reported end_type: fired title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Administrator source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/08/doge-elon-musk-exit-trump/ - name: Cole Killian sort_name: Killian slug: cole-killian age: 24 skill: coder category: wrecker custom_path: "/wreckers/cole-killian" blurb: >- Gautier "Cole" Killian was identified early as one of the initial DOGE employees, and there are reports of him interviewing USDS staff about their roles as early as January 21st. He was also spotted in a few of the early wrecking crew raids, but he has largely fallen off the radar since the end of February, when he was detailed to the Social Security Administration. Perhaps he is one of the still-unidentified aliases there and more details of his involvement will become apparent in future court filings and FOIA releases. govt_exit_date: 2025-06-27 govt_exit_type: resigned govt_exit_truth: inferred positions: - id: doge-killian type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-27 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned table_note: reported as interviewing USDS staff about jobs, not found in GSA or OPM lists comment: Listed as interviewing USDS staff on 1/21, not in GSA or OPM crew source: - https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf agency: DOGE - id: detail-doge-epa-killian type: detailed from: DOGE table_note: Reported as ending in June and left DOGE on 6/27 start_date: 2025-02-04 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-06-(27)? end_date_truth: inferred end_type: detail_ended title: Federal Detailee source: - https://www.eenews.net/articles/doge-aide-pops-up-in-epa-staff-directory/ - https://www.notus.org/policy/doge-environmental-protection-agency-mistakes agency: EPA - id: detail-doge-dol-killian type: detailed from: DOGE sort_date: 2025-02-13 start_date: 2025-02-(13)~ start_date_truth: reported comment: No other information besides this report. 3 other DOGE staff besides Ramada at agency on 2/5. source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/doge-software-approval-alarms-labor-department-employees-data-security-rcna191583 agency: DOL - id: ssa-employee-5 type: detailed agency: SSA from: DOGE from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-18 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-07-04 nte_date_truth: verified table_note: limited onboarding docs, court docs about them comment: All I have is the date they completed training source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028773-onboard-ssa-employee-5/ name: Cole Killian alias: SSA-05 - name: Boris Kizenko sort_name: Kizenko slug: boris-kizenko age: 23 category: wrecker skill: political blurb: >- Boris Kizenko has reportedly worked on several projects at GSA and has also been associated with the SBA. Prior to DOGE, he worked as a legislative correspondent in the office of disgraced Rep. Matt Gaetz and claimed as a 16-year-old in 2019 that he was denied entry into the National Honor Society at his high school because he was a Trump supporter (the NHS uses GPA, leadership skills and volunteering hours to determine who will be inducted). positions: - id: gsa-kizenko agency: GSA type: appointed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor sort_date: 2025-02-01 source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: sba-kizenko agency: SBA type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-02-02 source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - name: Gavin Kliger sort_name: Kliger slug: gavin-kliger age: 25 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-kliger-5a339b157/ custom_path: "/wreckers/gavin-kliger" blurb: >- A poster boy for DOGE's wanton cruelty and destruction, Gavin Kliger is a software developer with five years of experience who has shown a particular flair for being the face of DOGE's abuse of federal personnel. At USAID, he was the one who locked staff out of the building. At CFPB, he vandalized the website and later returned to run a marathon 36-hour prep session for massive layoffs where he reportedly screamed at staff to work even harder at laying off their colleagues. Arriving at the IRS, he reportedly pulled out five different laptops from his bag to show the various agencies he had been granted access to. He has since left a few of those positions – or very possibly been fired – but he still has his fingers in a lot of pies, and the collection of laptops to prove it. positions: - id: detail-opm-dhs-kliger type: detailed from: OPM agency: DHS from_truth: guessed comment: No details, but listed in a NYT roundup and adding here. Assuming detail from OPM. source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-tsa-kliger type: internal from: DHS from_truth: inferred agency: TSA comment: No details, but listed in a NYT roundup and adding here. Assuming detail from OPM. source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: opm-05-gsa type: detailed agency: GSA from: OPM from_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.96.0.pdf table_note: detail in court doc name: Gavin Kliger alias: OPM-05 - id: opm-temp-employee-5 type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-05-20 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-02-18 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: opm-perm-employee-5 description: Provisional Appt NTE appt_type_code: 44 appt_type: Schedule C excepted: true pd_code: 6A38025 title: Senior Advisor to the Director for Information Technology title_type: advisor pay_grade: GS-15 salary: "$195,200" series: '0301' supervisory: true office: Office of the Director table_note: hired at maximum salary for GS federal employee in DC source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028815-onboard-opm-employee-5/ name: Gavin Kliger alias: OPM-05 - id: detail-opm-usaid-kliger type: detailed agency: USAID from: OPM from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/24/musk-doge-usaid-cuts-dc/ - id: detail-opm-usda-kliger type: detailed from: OPM agency: USDA from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-01-29 start_date_truth: verified office: Office of the Secretary comment: >- No details, but listed in a NYT roundup and adding here. On 2/14, USDA head said they'd been there a couple of weeks. An email from him has the label OSEC - DC source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.96.0.pdf - >- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26071597-usda-records-reflecting-doge-economy-act-funding-transfers/ - id: detail-opm-cfpb-kliger type: detailed agency: CFPB from: OPM from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-07 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-05-08 end_date_truth: verified end_type: fired title_type: advisor source: >- https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/doge-employee-leaves-cfpb-after-leading-trumps-mass-firing-plan - id: opm-perm-employee-5 type: converted agency: OPM start_date: 2025-02-18 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-12-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 44 appt_type: Schedule C excepted: true pd_code: 6A38025 title: Senior Advisor to the Director for Information Technology title_type: advisor pay_grade: GS-15 salary: "$195,200" series: '0301' supervisory: true office: Office of the Director comment: converted from provisional to excepted position source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028815-onboard-opm-employee-5/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-kliger-5a339b157/ name: Gavin Kliger alias: OPM-05 - id: detail-opm-irs-gavin-kliger type: detailed agency: IRS from: OPM from_truth: verified reimbursed: true start_date: 2025-02-19 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-06-19 nte_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-04-17 end_date_truth: reported end_type: fired signed_date: 2025-02-19 comment: he was forcibly removed from agency in purge by Bessent mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028809-mou-20250219-opm-irs-gavin-kliger/ source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028809-mou-20250219-opm-irs-gavin-kliger/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.144.0.pdf - id: opm-05-usagm type: detailed agency: USAGM from: OPM from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-03-(01)~ start_date_truth: reported source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.96.0.pdf table_note: detail in court doc, date from Kliger spotted at VOA around start of March name: Gavin Kliger alias: OPM-05 - id: detail-opm-ftc-kliger type: detailed from: OPM from_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-03-28 start_date: 2025-03-(28)~ start_date_truth: reported comment: Title is not given, reported as starting "last week" from 2025-04-04 source: https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025/04/04/doge-staffers-move-into-ftc-office agency: FTC - id: dod-kliger agency: DOD type: appointed start_date: 2025-12-XX start_date_truth: verified title: Chief Data Officer source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavin-kliger-5a339b157/ - name: Keenan Kmiec sort_name: Kmiec slug: keenan-kmiec age: 45 skill: lawyer category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keenan-kmiec-6a84aa274/ blurb: >- One of the DOGE team of lawyers, there aren't many public details about Keenan Kmiec's specific contributions, apart from testimony from Noah Peters that he discussed the idea of firing probationary employees before the administration began. Like a small number of the DOGE crew, he comes from a cryptocurrency company and would possibly be involved with any work or policy by DOGE related to that sector. govt_exit_date: 2025-02-05 govt_exit_type: resigned govt_exit_truth: inferred positions: - id: doge-kmiec type: appointed agency: DOGE start_date: 2025-01-24 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-02-05 end_date_truth: verified source: - https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-doge-lawyers-supreme-court - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - name: Kaitlyn Koller slug: kaitlyn-koller category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaitlyn-koller-7792a1228/ sort_name: Koller blurb: >- Kaitlyn Koller graduated from Marquette University in 2023 and had been involved in conservative youth political organizations and been an intern for Senator Jim Risch before working with Amy Gleason at USDS. More recently, she has been part of the National Design Studio, likely in a communications or political role. skill: political positions: - id: usds-koller agency: DOGE type: appointed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor series: '0301' pay_grade: AD-00 start_date: 2025-04-06 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-08-(26)~ end_date_truth: reported source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-joining-national-design-studio/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaitlyn-koller-7792a1228/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.1.pdf - id: nds-koller agency: NDS type: appointed title: Director of Operations start_date: 2025-08-(26)~ start_date_truth: reported sort_date: 2025-08-26 source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-joining-national-design-studio/ - https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/silicon-valley-government-websites-national-design-studio - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaitlyn-koller-7792a1228/ - name: Jon Koval sort_name: Koval slug: jon-koval age: 27 skill: executive linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-koval/ blurb: >- Jon Koval is a vice president at Valor Equity Partners, the private-equity firm operated by Antonio Gracias. He has been working alongside Gracias at the SSA, but recently he was detailed to the DOJ to help build up DOGE's immigrant-tracking panopticon. category: wrecker positions: - id: ssa-employee-6 type: appointed agency: SSA start_date: 2025-02-23 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-02-22 nte_date_truth: verified pd_code: KNX0360 pay_grade: ED-00 salary: "$0" title: Expert title_type: advisor office: Office of the CIO description: Excepted Appointment NTE source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028793-onboard-ssa-employee-6/ name: Jon Koval alias: SSA-06 - id: detail-ssa-doj-koval type: detailed from: SSA start_date: 2025-04-15 start_date_truth: reported table_note: assuming detail from SSA source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/doge-musk-social-security-justice-department.html agency: DOJ - name: Michael Kratsios sort_name: Kratsios slug: michael-kratsios category: enabler positions: - id: ostp-kratsios type: appointed agency: EOP title: Director, Office of Science and Technology Program start_date: 2025-03-25 start_date_truth: reported source: https://fedscoop.com/senate-confirms-michael-kratsios-white-house-ostp-director/ - name: Tom Krause sort_name: Krause slug: tom-krause age: 47 linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-h-krause/ blurb: >- Tom Krause is the CEO of Cloud Software Group, which sells the Citrix tool used for remote desktops in enterprise environments. He has been involved with DOGE's attempts to control all payments flowing through the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) department in the US Treasury. Due to ethics concerns, he onboarded as a volunteer part-time consultant, but in mid-February he was converted to a Schedule C appointment on the GS-15 payscale, which could mean he is being paid up to $195,200 a year. skill: executive category: enabler govt_exit_date: 2025-06-06 govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: onboard-treasury-thomas-krause type: consultant comment: Part-time start_date: 2025-01-23 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-02-12 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: appoint-treasury-thomas-krause nte_date: 2025-04-10 nte_date_truth: verified agency: Treasury office: Office of the Chief of Staff title: Senior Advisor for Technology and Modernization title_type: advisor sge: true salary: "$0" source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028786-onboard-treasury-thomas-krause/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.147.0.pdf - id: appoint-treasury-thomas-krause type: converted comment: Changed to a full-time position start_date: 2025-02-13 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-07-03 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-06 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned agency: Treasury source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.147.0.pdf - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring salary: "$167,603" appt_type: Schedule C sge: true - name: Scott Kupor sort_name: Kupor slug: scott-kupor skill: executive category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottkupor/ tech_links: - Andreessen Horowitz blurb: >- A managing partner at Andreesen Horowitz, Scott Kupor was advanced by a Senate committee as the nomination for the permanent head of the OPM to replace Charles Ezell. Now that he has finally been confirmed to the role in July, many expect him to be the new driver of the administration's efforts to decimate the federal workforce. positions: - id: opm-kupor type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-07-09 start_date_truth: verified title: Director title_type: director source: >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/07/senate-confirms-new-opm-director-to-take-the-reins-on-federal-workforce-overhauls/ - name: Nicholas Lahera sort_name: Lahera slug: nicholas-lahera category: unknown linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-lahera/ blurb: >- Named as a member of DOGE in a FOIA request to DOGE from the House Judiciary Committee, but I have no other details. He appears to be a Director of Marketing who is also the COO/Co-Founder of the conservative WinAmerica PAC. positions: [] - name: Scott Langmack sort_name: Langmack slug: scott-langmack age: 66 blurb: >- According to his LinkedIn, Scott Langmack is also continuing to serve as the CEO of Kukun, a real estate technology company, while he is also heading the DOGE team at HUD. At HUD, he seems to have been focused mostly on searching for fraud they're convinced is in the system and figuring out how to delete grants from HUD. It's no coincidence that both of these missions will impact the poor and vulnerable the most. More recently, he moved into a new role at OMB that is looking to apply the AI-driven approach to deregulation across multiple agencies skill: executive category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottlangmack/ positions: - id: hud-langmack type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-10 title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-07-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned table_note: assuming appointed, LinkedIn reports move to OMB source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hud-systems-access-ai-proptech-real-estate-mobile-home/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottlangmack/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring salary: "$167,603" agency: HUD - id: omb-langmack agency: OMB type: appointed start_date: 2025-08-XX start_date_truth: reported title: Executive Director, Deregulation AI source: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottlangmack/ - name: Sahil Lavingia sort_name: Lavingia slug: shail-lavingia age: 32 blurb: |- A tech founder who created the site Gumroad, Sahil Lavingia showed up late to DOGE, with the goal of helping veterans at the VA. Despite displaying a remarkable and sometimes frankly infuriating naivete about both DOGE's real mission and how civic technology operated before, his [blog post about his experiences](https://sahillavingia.com/doge) has given us the best view of how DOGE actually operated. Sadly, it's also what got him fired from the "most transparent organization in government." More recently, the IRS apparently hired him back into government in November, at the direction of Sam Corcos, reportedly as a career employee in the nonpartisan civil service. He reportedly is working on online accounts at the IRS. skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sahillavingia/ positions: - id: va-lavingia start_date: 2025-03-17 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-05-09 end_date_truth: verified end_type: fired table_note: fired for talking to media, dates from his blog type: appointed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Chief of Staff salary: "$27,444" source: - https://sahillavingia.com/doge - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: VA - id: irs-lavingia type: appointed start_date: 2025-11-XX start_date_truth: reported table_note: Reportedly a career employee at the IRS (not a political appointee) agency: IRS source: https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-sahil-lavingia/ - name: Jeremy Lewin sort_name: Lewin slug: jeremy-lewin age: 28 skill: lawyer category: wrecker custom_path: "/wreckers/jeremy-lewin" blurb: >- Jeremy Lewin is unusual among the most prolific wreckers because he is a lawyer and not a programmer. He also came from [a more progressive background than many of the DOGE crew](https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/doge-jeremy-lewin), which makes his recent heel turn all the more astonishing. Since joining DOGE, Mr. Lewin has been part of some of the more odious aspects of DOGE's takedown of USAID and attempted elimination of the CFPB. Under the wing of DOGE ally, he has been rapidly promoted upward in the eviscerated remnants of USAID and the remnants of a similar foreign-aid operation within the Department of State. Despite these new positions, he still finds time to participate in DOGE activities; recent documents from the NTEU's lawsuit against Russell Vought include Lewin emailing instructions to Gavin Kliger on how to conduct an attempted reduction-in-force at the CFPB in April. positions: - id: gsa-jeremy-lewin type: appointed agency: GSA start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: guessed salary: "$167,603" comment: I know he started at the GSA before 1/28 source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring table_note: salary reported by Wired - id: detail-usaid-jeremy-lewin type: detailed agency: USAID from: GSA reimbursed: false from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-18 nte_date: 2025-07-25 nte_date_truth: verified end_date_truth: inferred end_type: replaced replaced_by: usaid-jeremy-lewin-2 source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293.77.2.pdf - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028767-mou-20250127-gsa-usaid-lewin/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028767-mou-20250127-gsa-usaid-lewin/ title: Senior Advisor / Director for Strategy & Programs title_type: dept_head - id: detail-gsa-cfpb-jeremy-lewin type: detailed agency: CFPB from: GSA from_truth: verified title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-02-07 source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.80.5.pdf - id: detail-gsa-hhs-lewin type: detailed agency: HHS from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-02-21 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.80.5.pdf - id: internal-hhs-nih-lewin type: internal agency: NIH from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-02-24 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-is-inside-the-national-institutes-of-health-nih/ - id: internal-hhs-cms-lewin type: internal agency: CMS from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-03-03 start_date_truth: inferred table_note: date inferred from access to CMS CALM system comment: Inferring based on first reported access to CMS CALM system source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf - id: usaid-jeremy-lewin-2 type: appointed agency: USAID start_date: 2025-03-18 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293/gov.uscourts.mdd.576293.77.2.pdf title: Deputy Administrator(Policy and Programming) / COO title_type: dept_head - id: state-lewin-foreign type: appointed start_date: 2025-04-15 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-07-11 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: state-lewin-undersecretary title: Acting Head of Foreign Assistance title_type: dept_head agency: State - id: state-lewin-undersecretary agency: State type: promotion start_date: 2025-07-11 start_date_truth: verified title: Under Secretary for Foreign Assistance, Humanitarian Affairs and Religious Freedom source: https://www.state.gov/biographies/jeremy-p-lewin/ supervisory: true - name: Dennis Li sort_name: Li slug: dennis-li category: wrecker skill: coder linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lidennis/ blurb: >- A member of the National Design Studio who has been involved with the retirement modernization work at OPM. positions: - id: opm-li agency: OPM type: appointed start_date: 2025-06-XX start_date_truth: inferred table_note: >- Left prior job in May, December blog post said working past 6 months on OPM project to digitize paper retirements. Although lists job as NDS, this should be an OPM role. source: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lidennis/ - name: Jeremy Lichtman sort_name: Lichtman slug: jeremy-lichtman category: wrecker skill: analyst linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-lichtman/ blurb: >- He was named as a member of the DOGE team at USDA in response to a FOIA request from American Oversight. According to LinkedIn, he has held multiple positions related to shareholder activism and strategic investing. govt_exit_date: 2025-12-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: usda-lichtman agency: USDA type: appointed salary: "$142,488" title: Advisor on Government Efficiency start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-12-XX end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned sort_date: 2025-03-15 office: Office of the Secretary of Agriculture source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998790-usda-records-concerning-doge-teams-at-the-agency/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-lichtman/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Kendall Lindemann sort_name: Lindemann slug: kendall-lindemann age: 24 skill: analyst category: support blurb: >- Coming to DOGE from McKinsey, she has also been the person to testify in a deposition as a DOGE representative in a court case. linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendall-lindemann/ govt_exit_date: 2025-07-XX govt_exit_truth: verified govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: doge-lindemann type: appointed sort_date: 2025-02-10 start_date: 2025-02-(10)~ start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-07-XX end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: Senior Advisor for Technology and Efficiency title_type: advisor series: '0301' pay_grade: AD-00 table_note: Departure from own LinkedIn agency: DOGE source: - https://www.consulting.us/news/11397/former-mckinsey-business-analyst-hired-to-musks-doge-nerd-army - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendall-lindemann/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.1.pdf - name: Kathryn Armstrong Loving sort_name: Loving slug: kathryn-loving age: 44 skill: analyst category: wrecker blurb: >- There aren't many details about Loving's work for DOGE, apart from a brief sighting at the EPA, where she was reviewing contracts. She is a coder who has spent a decade or so working in biotech. She is also the sister of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who recently offered to hire any DOGE alumni, no questions asked. linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynarmstrongloving/ govt_exit_date: 2025-06-XX govt_exit_truth: inferred govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: epa-loving-transition agency: EPA type: consultant start_date: 2024-12-XX start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-01-20 end_type: replaced replaced_by: epa-loving table_note: LinkedIn reported being consultant/advisor to Zeldin from Dec 2024; assuming transition role here - id: epa-loving type: unknown start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-06-XX end_date_truth: verified salary: "$0" end_type: resigned table_note: Reported left EPA on LinkedIn. Likely at EPA from Day one based on NOTUS title: Federal Detailee source: - https://www.eenews.net/articles/doge-lands-at-epa/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynarmstrongloving/ - https://www.notus.org/policy/doge-environmental-protection-agency-mistakes - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: EPA - name: Matt Luby sort_name: Luby slug: matt-luby category: wrecker skill: administrator linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattluby/ blurb: >- A childhood friend and chief of staff for Vivek Ramaswamy, he has apparently stayed involved in DOGE even as Vivek departed. He is linked to DOGE in January 2025 and was spotted at the Department of the Interior in April, but it's unclear what he was doing in the interim for DOGE (or Vivek). positions: - id: doi-luby type: unknown start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: reported salary: "$142,488" comment: Tyler Hassen reported to be working with Matt Luby to scrutinize grants source: - https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/21/tyler-hassen-department-of-interior/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: DOI - name: Shaun Maguire sort_name: Maguire slug: shaun-maguire skill: recruiter category: booster blurb: >- Shaun Maguire is a partner at the investment firm Sequoia. In that position, he has been heavily involved with investments in several of Musk's companies like SpaceX, the Boring Company and xAI. He was heavily involved in setting up DOGE and planning its strategies in the months after the election, but he has not had a formal role in the agency, serving as a vocal booster and recruiter on social media instead. positions: [] - name: Tarak Makecha sort_name: Makecha slug: tarak-makecha age: 38 category: wrecker skill: analyst custom_path: "/wreckers/tarak-makecha" linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarakmakecha/ blurb: >- Tarak Makecha is the former head of stategic planning for Tesla Energy. Although he describes himself as a software engineer, he comes from a backgroun in finance. In that capacity, he has been reviewing and cancelling grants for the DOJ and FBI, but recent sources have also linked him to the US Agency for Global Media and grant cancellations there. His LinkedIn reports that he left working for DOGE in July and is now a vice president at Valor Equity Partners, the investment firm run by Antonio Gracias and the employer of Jon Koval and Payton Rehling. I'm sure that's just a coincidence. tech_links: - Tesla - Valor govt_exit_date: 2025-07-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: state-makecha agency: State type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-XX start_date_truth: verified sort_date: 2025-01-20 salary: "$167,603" table_note: Identified in FOIA as starting at State Dept. source: >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: opm-makecha type: appointed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-02-28 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-XX end_date_truth: reported source: - https://www.pogo.org/investigations/inside-the-shadowy-crew-leading-the-governments-hr-office - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarakmakecha/ comment: POGO has his resume and listing as an OPM staffer. ProPublica had financial disclosures on 2/28 agency: OPM - id: detail-usagm-makecha agency: USAGM from: OPM from_truth: guessed type: detailed sort_date: 2025-03-01 start_date: 2025-03-(01)~ start_date_truth: guessed table_note: Date unknown, but assuming with Kliger who was at USAGM in early March source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: detail-fcc-makecha type: detailed from: OPM from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-03-18 start_date_truth: verified source: https://frequencyfwd.com/files/motion-exhibit-1-08252025.pdf office: Office of the Chairman table_note: listed self as detailing from OPM agency: FCC - id: fbi-makecha type: detailed from: OPM title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Human Resources sort_date: 2025-03-30 start_date: 2025-03-(30)~ start_date_truth: guessed end_date: 2025-07-XX end_date_truth: inferred comment: >- Tarak Makacha has reportedly shown up in FBI directories as a Senior Advisor to the agency's executive assistant director for human resources. He reportedly has been there since the end of March source: https://theintercept.com/2025/04/18/doge-tesla-employee-justice-department-fbi/ agency: FBI - name: Ted Malaska sort_name: Malaska slug: ted-malaska skill: coder category: wrecker blurb: >- One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. It seems like that term was extended however, only to be revoked in the wake of Elon Musk's departure. Ted was also named in several reports where he promised to steamroll any federal staff who got in his way. tech_links: - SpaceX govt_exit_date: 2025-06-02 govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: fired positions: - id: faa-malaska type: appointed agency: FAA start_date: 2025-02-16 start_date_truth: reported nte_date: 2025-02-20 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-02 end_date_truth: reported end_type: fired title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Administrator source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/08/doge-elon-musk-exit-trump/ - name: Dave Malcher sort_name: Malcher slug: dave-malcher age: 31 skill: analyst linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-m-a5314791/ tech_links: - SpaceX blurb: >- Previously a financial analyst at SpaceX, he apparently has been detailed from GSA to the VA in recent months. category: wrecker positions: - id: gsa-malcher type: appointed sort_date: 2025-04-24 start_date: 2025-04-(24)~ start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-mystery-general-services-administration/ agency: GSA - id: detail-gs-va-malcher type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: inferred title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor agency: VA sort_date: 2025-04-25 start_date: 2025-04-(25)~ source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-m-a5314791/ - name: Allan Mangaser sort_name: Mangaser slug: allan-mangaser category: wrecker skill: analyst tech_links: - Palantir age: 44 blurb: >- According to [ProPublica](https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/#Allan-Mangaser), he previously worked for Palantir and Theorem, a financial services startup. They report he has met with officials from the TSA and CISA positions: - id: detail-opm-dhs-mangaser type: detailed agency: DHS from: OPM start_date: 2025-04-XX start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-04-16 table_note: Based on reports talked to TSA and CISA, assuming detail to DHS - id: internal-dhs-cisa-mangaser type: internal agency: CISA from: DHS start_date: 2025-04-XX start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-04-17 table_note: Reportedly met with CISA source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: internal-dhs-tsa-mangaser type: internal agency: TSA from: DHS start_date: 2025-04-XX start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-04-17 table_note: Reportedly met with TSA source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: opm-mangaser type: appointed agency: EOP title: Senior Advisor to the US Federal CIO title_type: advisor office: Office of Management and Budget start_date: 2025-04-XX sort_date: 2025-04-15 start_date_truth: verified table_note: LinkedIn says he started there in April source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allanmangaser/ - name: Peter Marocco sort_name: Marocco slug: peter-marocco category: enabler blurb: >- A veteran of the first Trump administration, he was reportedly placed on administrative leave in 2020 for establishing a pattern in a division of USAID that he ran where he would unilaterally freeze or revoke grants that he felt didn't reflect administration priorities. When employees spoke up about it, he would then accuse them of insubordination and attempt to get them suspended or fired. He sounds like a really nice guy, so it's probably not surprising that placing him in charge of USAID this year led to the rapid destruction of the agency. And it's also possibly why he himself was reportedly ousted from the State Department after the damage was complete. It would be comically ironic, if it didn't mean the loss of hundreds of valuable people in USAID and [hundreds of thousands of deaths](https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/tracking-anticipated-deaths-from-usaid-funding-cuts/) worldwide. positions: - id: state-marocco type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-04-13 end_date_truth: reported end_type: fired agency: State title: Director of Foreign Assistance salary: "$195,200" title_type: director source: - >- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-official-who-oversaw-closure-usaid-has-left-state-department-wsj-reports-2025-04-13/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: usaid-marocco agency: USAID type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-01 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-03-19 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/usaid-doge-leadership.html - id: iaf-marocco type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-28 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-04-04 end_date_truth: inferred end_type: removed table_note: Assuming removed with Sara Aviel reinstatement by court order title: President/CEO source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf agency: IAF - id: usadf-marocco type: appointed agency: USADF title: Acting Chair of the Board start_date: 2025-02-28 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118/gov.uscourts.dcd.278118.7.3.pdf - name: Antoine McCord sort_name: McCord slug: antoine-mccord category: enabler blurb: >- A former Marine with a background in intelligence, McCord was named as the CIO for DHS the same week as the DOGE delegation started there. He has been a frequent enabler of their access to various systems and is reportedly also very excited about the application of AI at the agency. positions: - id: dhs-mccord type: appointed title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio agency: DHS start_date: 2025-03-11 start_date_truth: reported salary: "$195,200" source: - https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/dhs-taps-antoine-mccord-top-tech-post/403727/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Paul McInery sort_name: McInery slug: paul-mcinery category: enabler skill: executive tech_links: - SpaceX blurb: >- Another alumn of SpaceX, Paul McInery left the company in 2020 to be the VP of Engineering at a lawncare-oriented startup named Lawn Love. Despite no experience at being either in government, he was tapped to be the new CIO of the Department of the Interior, after the previous one was forced out of the position for not granting Stephanie Holmes admin access to the FPDS system that manages payroll for half of the federal government. positions: - id: doi-mcinery type: appointed agency: DOI title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio start_date: 2025-05-05 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/05/spacex-alum-tapped-interior-cio/405060/ supervisory: true - name: Jonathan Mendelson sort_name: Mendelson slug: jonathan-mendelson blurb: >- An April addition to the DOGE lineup, Jonathan Mendelson has been part of Nate Cavanaugh's wrecking crew that visits small independent executive agencies to subvert and destroy them. He has been spotted at the SEC and the USDFC so far, which is concerning considering he comes from a background in venture capital and investment banking. Prior to DOGE, he was an investor in the Silicon Valley VC firm Accel. category: wrecker skill: analyst custom_path: "/wreckers/cavanaugh-cronies#jonathan-mendelson" positions: - id: gsa-mendelson type: appointed start_date: 2025-04-09 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute agency: GSA - id: detail-gsa-dfc-mendelson type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-04-28 start_date_truth: reported source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/28/doge-us-foreign-aid-agency-first-trump-administration-00314510 agency: USDFC - id: detail-gsa-sec-mendelson type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-05-02 start_date: 2025-05-(02)~ start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-10-31 end_date_truth: reported title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Chairman of the SEC table_note: title sourced from ProPublica, reportedly not seen at agency for last few months of official station source: - >- https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/doge-expands-presence-wall-st-regulator-sources-say-2025-05-02/ - >- https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/doge-leave-top-us-markets-regulator-sources-say-2025-10-30/ agency: SEC - name: Katie Miller sort_name: Miller slug: katie-miller age: 33 govt_exit_date: 2025-05-29 govt_exit_truth: verified govt_exit_type: resigned category: booster skill: administrator blurb: >- The wife of Stephen Miller, Katie is in some sort of communications role for DOGE, but it's unclear what her day-to-day responsibilities for his entail. Sharing the virulent anti-immigrant politics of her husband, she likely has been a conduit for coordinating DOGE's anti-immigration focus. Recently, she notably left DOGE along with Elon Musk to go work for him instead. positions: - id: doge-miller type: appointed agency: DOGE start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-05-29 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned table_note: no public details on when she started with DOGE, but date inferred - name: Clark Minor sort_name: Minor slug: clark-minor age: 35 skill: coder category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarkminor/ tech_links: - Palantir blurb: >- A former head of cloud strategy at Palantir, Clark Minor was named the CIO for Health and Human Services in February. in that position, he is able to grant access for DOGE staff to many systems. positions: - id: hhs-minor-cto type: appointed agency: HHS title: Chief Technology Officer title_type: cto start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: verified sort_date: 2025-02-01 end_date: 2025-02-14 end_date_truth: inferred end_type: replaced salary: "$195,200" replaced_by: hhs-minor-cio source: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/clarkminor/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: hhs-minor-cio type: promotion agency: HHS title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio start_date: 2025-02-14 start_date_truth: reported salary: "$195,200" table_note: Salary inferred source: https://orangeslices.ai/hhs-it-office-recruits-new-chief-from-palantir/ - id: detail-hhs-nih-minor type: internal agency: NIH from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-02-24 start_date_truth: reported table_note: date inferred from system access office: NIH Business System source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-is-inside-the-national-institutes-of-health-nih/ - id: transfer-hhs-fda-minor type: internal agency: FDA from: HHS from_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-02-25 start_date: 2025-02-(25)~ start_date_truth: inferred table_note: mentioned as meeting with FDA staff in late Feb/early March source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.281208/gov.uscourts.dcd.281208.1.0_3.pdf - name: Michael Mirski sort_name: Mirski slug: michael-mirski age: 32 skill: coder category: wrecker positions: - id: hud-mirski type: unknown start_date: 2025-02-10 start_date_truth: reported salary: "$162,682" source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hud-systems-access-ai-proptech-real-estate-mobile-home/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: HUD - name: Eliezer Mishory sort_name: Mishory slug: eli-mishory age: 41 skill: lawyer blurb: >- A perfect enacapsulation of the ethical quagmires surrounding DOGE. Prior to his current assignement, he was the chief regulatory officer at a prediction and betting company, for whom Donald Trump Jr. is an advisor. Now he gets to undo the SEC! category: wrecker custom_path: "/wreckers/cavanaugh-cronies#eli-mishory" linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliezer-mishory/ positions: - id: sec-mishory type: unknown sort_date: 2025-04-05 start_date: 2025-04-(05)~ start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-10-31 end_date_truth: reported title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Chairman comment: Reporting on 4/15 just says he arrived "earlier this month" source: - >- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-sec-leaders-push-back-musks-doge-seeks-broad-access-source-says-2025-04-15/ - >- https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/doge-leave-top-us-markets-regulator-sources-say-2025-10-30/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliezer-mishory/ agency: SEC - name: Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski sort_name: Mlodzianowski slug: mlodzianowski age: 40 skill: administrator category: support blurb: >- The DOGE member who did HR at SpaceX. Nope, not that one. Not that one either. She actually is one of four HR specialists who came from SpaceX to OPM, presumably to work on ways to reduce the federal workforces. All of which leaves me wondering how HR is for employees at SpaceX. tech_links: - SpaceX govt_exit_date: 2025-03-05 govt_exit_type: resigned govt_exit_truth: guessed positions: - id: opm-bryanne-mlodzianowski agency: OPM type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-03 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-05 end_date_truth: guessed end_type: resigned description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39750 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 salary: "$0" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: Sourced from a FOIAed document table_note: Likely 1 of 3 unidentified OPM aliases who started in Feb and left in March 2025 source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Aram Moghaddassi sort_name: Moghaddassi slug: aram-mohghaddassi age: 26 skill: coder custom_path: "/wreckers/aram-moghaddassi" tech_links: - Neuralink - Twitter blurb: >- A former employee at both X and Neuralink, Aram Moghaddassi arrived as a hire at the Department of Labor in February and has been detailed to other agencies like Social Security or DHS to work at important projects for Musk, whether it's trying to detect fraud at SSA or building a surveillance state for immigration. His hiring arrangements at DOL were finally made public, revealing that he was hired and then immediately detailed to SSA, where he has continued to work past his original projected end of term in June. So, there are still a lot of questions about what he has been up to. category: wrecker positions: - id: detail-dol-dhs-mohgaddassi type: detailed agency: DHS from: DOL from_truth: guessed comment: No details, but reported in NYT roundup. Assuming detailed from DOL source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: detail-sba-moghaddassi agency: SBA from: DOL from_truth: guessed title: Special Advisor title_type: advisor type: detailed table_note: identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998948-sba-response-to-american-oversight-foia-request/ - id: internal-dhs-cpb-mohgaddassi type: internal agency: CBP from: DHS from_truth: inferred comment: No details, but reported in NYT roundup. Assuming detailed from DOL source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-ice-mohgaddassi type: internal agency: ICE from: DHS from_truth: inferred comment: No details, but reported in NYT roundup. Assuming detailed from DOL source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-tsa-mohgaddassi type: internal agency: TSA from: DHS from_truth: inferred comment: No details, but reported in NYT roundup. Assuming detailed from DOL source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-uscis-mohgaddassi type: internal agency: USCIS from: DHS from_truth: inferred comment: No details, but reported in NYT roundup. Assuming detailed from DOL source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: dol-moghaddassi type: appointed agency: DOL start_date: 2025-02-18 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-06-17 nte_date_truth: verified appt_type: Schedule C pd_code: '66899120' pay_grade: GS-11/01 salary: "$84,601" title: Policy Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Secretary source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028779-onboard-dol-aram-moghaddassi/ - id: detail-dol-ssa-employee-3 type: detailed agency: SSA from: DOL from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-22 start_date_truth: verified reimbursed: true reimbursement_amount: up to $71,000 table_note: MOU signed by Mike Russo, was this followed by being hired at SSA source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028813-onboard-ssa-employee-3/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028784-mou-20250222-dol-ssa-employee-3/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028784-mou-20250222-dol-ssa-employee-3/ name: Aram Moghaddassi alias: SSA-03 - id: detail-dol-hhs-mohgaddassi type: detailed agency: HHS from: DOL start_date: 2025-03-05 start_date_truth: verified title: Executive Engineer title_type: advisor source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: No documentation, reported in court filing - id: internal-hhs-cms-mohgaddassi type: internal agency: CMS from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-03-05 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: Reported access to system same day as start of detail to HHS - id: ssa-cio-moghaddassi type: promotion agency: SSA start_date: 2025-06-(05)? start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-09-03 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced fuzz: Listed as co-CIO on 6/6 in news report source: https://fedscoop.com/social-security-administration-doge-chief-information-officer/ title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio supervisory: true - id: ssa-co-cio-moghaddassi agency: SSA type: promotion start_date: 2025-09-03 title: Chief Information Officer (Technology and Customer Products) title_type: cio supervisory: true table_note: Had reportedly been in an informal co-CIO role with Mike Russo since June, now made official source: https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/2025-09-03.html - name: Justin Monroe sort_name: Monroe slug: justin-monroe age: 36 skill: coder category: wrecker blurb: >- Justin Monroe started at the OPM about a week after the Inauguration and was dispatched to the FBI the following day as a Senior Advisor to the Director. It's unclear what role he might be playing in the Attorney General's own "JUST-US" project to bring DOGE-style interventions to the DOJ. Prior to DOGE, he was a SpaceX employee. tech_links: - SpaceX positions: - id: opm-justin-monroe type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-28 start_date_truth: verified description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39734 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 series: '0301' salary: "$0" supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: Sourced from FOIA documents source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: detail-opm-fbi-monroe start_date: 2025-01-29 start_date_truth: reported type: detailed agency: FBI from: OPM from_truth: guessed comment: >- Reported as an unidentified SpaceX employee is reported to be working as an advisor to the Director of the FBI, but alias figured out later office: Office of the Director source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/people-ties-musk-top-fbi-critic-are-advising-fbi-director-rcna189567 - name: Brooks Morgan sort_name: Morgan slug: brooks-morgan age: 39 skill: administrator category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooksmorgan/ blurb: >- The CEO of an educational startup, Brooks Morgan joined the DOGE team working within the Department of Education in early February. Unlike most DOGE staff who served as special government employees, he was instead hired as a part-time consultant working for free. It's likely he was later formally appointed to a role, since he has been detailed from Education to both the Department of the Treasury and FDIC in early April. govt_exit_date: 2025-08-04 govt_exit_truth: inferred govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: education-employee-4 type: consultant comment: Part-time start_date: 2025-02-04 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-08-04 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-08-04 end_date_truth: guessed end_type: resigned agency: Education salary: "$0" table_note: likely Brooks Morgan who does report starting a new role in August source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028771-onboard-education-employee-4/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooksmorgan/ name: Brooks Morgan alias: ED-04 - id: detail-education-treasury-morgan type: detailed agency: Treasury from: Education from_truth: verified reimbursed: false title: Senior Treasury Advisor title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-04-09 start_date_truth: verified mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028801-mou-20250408-education-treasury/ source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028801-mou-20250408-education-treasury/ - id: detail-education-fdic-morgan type: detailed from: Education from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-04-10 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/doge-fdic agency: FDIC - name: Trent Morse sort_name: Morse slug: trent-morse category: enabler skill: lawyer linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trent-morse-44b7401b/ blurb: >- Technically not a member of DOGE, Trent Morse has often coordinated with them on their operations against smaller independent agencies. In several examples, when the Trump Administration has moved to fire board members and executives of independent agencies, that email has always come from Trent Morse. positions: - id: eop-morse type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-23 start_date_truth: reported agency: EOP title: Deputy Assistant to the President / Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel title_type: dept_head supervisory: true - name: Elon Musk sort_name: Musk slug: elon-musk skill: executive category: leadership govt_exit_type: resigned govt_exit_date: 2025-05-28 govt_exit_truth: reported blurb: >- Elon Musk was certainly the face and inspiration of DOGE, but it will likely be some time before we know the exact nature of his activities there. According to the official record, he was merely a humble advisor and DOGE was actually run by Amy Gleason. In actuality, it appears that Musk was setting the high-level direction of DOGE, with the daily operations conducted by deputies like Steve Davis, Anthony Armstrong or even Baris Akis. Musk was particularly preoccupied with finding instances of waste and fraud that he was certain was rampant everywhere in the government, and a lot of DOGE's early involvement at the Treasury and SSA was in chasing down false alarms and misinformation triggered by DOGE's poor understanding of data or even how the government worked. After his relationship soured with Trump, Musk left DOGE in late May, followed by multiple resignations of other DOGE allies leaving before the winds shifted. This didn't mark the end of DOGE however, and the remaining staff are largely still carrying forward the same mission they started with. positions: - id: musk-doge type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-05-28 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned agency: DOGE - name: Todd Newnam sort_name: Newnam slug: todd-newnam skill: executive blurb: >- One of the newer DOGE staffers who have been assigned to the IRS, Todd Newnam was the CEO of an IT Consulting firm located in South Carolina. Prior to that, he was associated with the Carlyle Group. His financial disclosure reveal that he also owns shares of Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, which is concerning form someone being given oversight powers at the IRS. age: 42 category: wrecker positions: - id: treasury-newnam type: appointed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-03-06 start_date_truth: verified sge: false appt_type: Schedule C pay_grade: GS-15 salary: "$167,603" fuzz: Identity is only revealed in a court filing, using ethics training date for start date comment: NYT says he is a Senior Advisor source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.147.0.pdf - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: Treasury - id: internal-treasury-irs-newnam type: internal title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-04-XX start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2026-01-20 end_date_truth: inferred end_type: replaced replaced_by: irs-newnam-cfo fuzz: Identity is only revealed in a court filing comment: NYT says he is a Senior Advisor source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055/gov.uscourts.dcd.277055.61.2.pdf agency: IRS from: Treasury from_truth: inferred - id: irs-newnam-cfo agency: IRS type: promotion title: Chief Financial Officer title_type: deputy start_date: 2026-01-20 start_date_truth: reported supervisory: true source: >- https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/irs-criminal-head-exits-trump-friendly-faces-in-new-org-chart - name: Michael Novia sort_name: Novia slug: michael-novia skill: designer category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mnovia/ positions: - id: nds-novia type: appointed agency: NDS start_date: 2025-10-XX start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mnovia/ title: Creative Director - name: Donald Park sort_name: Park slug: donald-park age: 45 skill: analyst category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldkpark/ blurb: >- Mr. Park is the cofounder of a private equity company named Ionic Partners and located in Austin, Texas. He has been involved in efforts to discover fraud in SBA loans. custom_path: "/wreckers/cavanaugh-cronies#donald-park" positions: - id: dod-park type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed agency: DOD office: Office of Strategic Capital source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldkpark/ - id: gsa-park type: appointed sort_date: 2025-02-01 start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: inferred agency: GSA table_note: assuming hired at GSA comment: Inferring detailed from GSA to SBA - id: sba-park type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-02-03 start_date_truth: reported title: Senior Advisor, DOGE title_type: advisor salary: "$167,603" agency: SBA comment: Reported in a tweet from the date table_note: guessing detail start from system access source: - https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-big-balls-doge-federal-pay-roll-system/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: detail-exim-park type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed agency: EXIM start_date: 2025-05-14 start_date_truth: reported source: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3lp5iwrmfv22y - name: Matthew Parkhurst-Session sort_name: Parkhurst slug: matthew-parkhurst skill: executive category: support blurb: >- He is the founder/CEO of cloud company Antimetal. According to ProPublica, he has been linked to the "Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Labor and the Environmental Protection Agency," but unclear if these are detailing arrangements or meetings. He also has apparently been involved in meetings with tech firms who are vendors to the federal government. positions: - id: gsa-parkhurst agency: GSA type: appointed start_date: 2025-03-03 start_date_truth: verified title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor salary: "$167,603" excepted: true source: - >- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25950459-parkhurst-session-matthew-noncareer-ses-and-schedule-cs-new-entrant-278-2025-2025-03-04/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Noah Peters sort_name: Peters slug: noah-peters age: 39 skill: lawyer category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-peters-66939025/ positions: - id: noah-peters-opm type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 44 appt_type: Schedule C excepted: true pd_code: 6A38859 title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor pay_grade: GS-15 table_note: Salary range for GS-15 in DC salary: "$167,603 - $195,200" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: Details from a FOIA document source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - id: detail-opm-doge-peters type: detailed agency: DOGE from: OPM from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-01-24 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - name: Darshan Phillips sort_name: Phillips slug: darshan-phillips skill: designer category: wrecker positions: - id: nds-phillips agency: NDS type: appointed title: Executive Creative Director start_date: 2025-10-XX start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darshan-phillips/ - name: Nikhil Rajpal sort_name: Rajpal slug: nikhil-rajpal age: 30 skill: coder category: wrecker blurb: >- An arrival to DOGE from Twitter, Nikhil Rajpal was a visible member in early Wrecker raids (including a foray into NOAA's headquarter just outside of DC). Since mid-February, he has been exclusively based within the DOGE team at the Social Security Administration, which might explain the recent radio silence about his activities. custom_path: "/wreckers/nikhil-rajpal/" positions: - id: opm-nikhil-rajpal type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-24 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-02 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39738 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 salary: "$0" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: I confirmed that OPM Employee 6 is Nikhil but have no other info source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028794-onboard-opm-employee-6/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.163.0.pdf name: Nikhil Rajpal alias: OPM-06 - id: detail-opm-doge-rajpal type: detailed agency: DOGE from: OPM from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-09 end_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: detail-opm-noaa-rajpal type: detailed from: OPM from_truth: guessed agency: NOAA start_date: 2025-02-04 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/04/trump-nominates-noaa-head-neil-jacobs - id: detail-opm-cfpb-nikhil-rajpal type: detailed agency: CFPB from: OPM from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-07 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-21 end_date_truth: verified end_type: detail_ended title_type: advisor source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: Details from court filing - id: detail-opm-ssa-8 type: detailed from: OPM agency: SSA signed_date: 2025-02-26 start_date: 2025-02-26 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-02-26 nte_date_truth: verified reimbursed: false source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028818-mou-20250226-opm-ssa-employee-8/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028783-onboard-ssa-employee-8/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028818-mou-20250226-opm-ssa-employee-8/ name: Nikhil Rajpal alias: SSA-08 - name: Adam Ramada sort_name: Ramada slug: adam-ramada age: 35 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-ramada-b0836869/ blurb: >- Adam Ramada is thus far the only DOGE wrecker to have testified under oath in a deposition, appearing as a witness in litigation brought both against the Department of Education and the Department of Labor. He was detailed to both agencies directly from DOGE, but it's unclear if he was still employed by the US DOGE Service or was been officially onboarded at another agency like his DOGE colleagues Jordan Wick and Amy Gleason. According to his LinkedIn, he has been working since August for the same company (Banner VC) as fellow DOGE member Brooks Morgan. custom_path: "/wreckers/adam-ramada" govt_exit_date: 2025-08-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: doge-adam-ramada type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-23 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-30 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned comment: Details provided in sworn testimony agency: DOGE source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070.27.5_1.pdf - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: detail-doge-education-adam-ramada start_date: 2025-01-28 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-08-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned agency: Education from: DOGE from_truth: verified type: detailed salary: "$0" source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070/gov.uscourts.mdd.576070.27.5_1.pdf - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-ramada-b0836869/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring signed_date: 2025-02-12 nte_date: 2026-07-04 nte_date_truth: verified comment: >- He reports one other USDS detailee is there, 2 Education staffers, and 2 other detailees from elsewhere (OPM? GSA?) reimbursed: false - id: detail-doge-energy-adam-ramada type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: guessed agency: Energy sort_date: 2025-02-04 start_date: 2025-02-(04)~ start_date_truth: disputed comment: Start date was given by DOE spokesperson denying a news report - id: detail-doge-dol-ramada type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: verified agency: DOL start_date: 2025-02-05 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.16.1.pdf comment: Testimony was on 2/6. DOGE showed up at agency on 2/5. Mentions 3 other DOGE staff there - id: detail-education-treasury-ramada type: detailed agency: Treasury from: Education from_truth: verified reimbursed: false title: Senior Treasury Advisor title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-04-09 start_date_truth: verified table_note: Was he detailed from Education after detailed from DOGE? Or has he been hired by Education since? source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028801-mou-20250408-education-treasury/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028801-mou-20250408-education-treasury/ - id: detail-doge-fdic-ramada type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-04-10 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/doge-fdic agency: FDIC - name: Austin Raynor sort_name: Raynor slug: austin-raynor age: 36 skill: lawyer category: support blurb: >- Austin Raynor is another one of the conservative lawyers who have been part of DOGE's operations at OPM. He previously has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and has served as a senior lawyer at the Pacific Foundation, a libertarian organization. As a lawyer in DOGE's team at OPM, he probably has worked closely with Noah Peters and Keenan Kmiec. positions: - id: opm-austin-raynor type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-30 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-07-22 nte_date_truth: verified description: Provisional Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39748 title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor salary: "$195,200" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: From a FOIA document source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring same_as: opm-austin-raynor name: Austin Raynor alias: OPM-10 table_note: Start date guessed from system access - id: detail-opm-doge-raynor type: detailed agency: DOGE from: OPM from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-02-05 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-12-19 end_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - name: Payton Rehling sort_name: Rehling slug: payton-rehling age: 27 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/payton-rehling/ blurb: >- Payton Rehling is a senior data engineer at Valor Equity Partners, the private equity firm that is run by Antonio Gracias and Jon Koval. Rehling joined the Social Security Administration DOGE team in February but has since been detailed to DHS and the DOJ, where he has likely been heavily involved in the administration's efforts to create a [surveillance system to supercharge immigration enforcement](/projects/god-view/). In July 2025, he was promoted to a Vice President position at Valor, presumably as an exit from his DOGE work. govt_exit_date: 2025-07-XX govt_exit_truth: inferred govt_exit_type: resigned custom_path: "/wreckers/payton-rehling" tech_links: - Valor positions: - id: detail-ssa-dhs-rehling type: detailed agency: DHS from: SSA sort_date: 2025-03-15 from_truth: inferred comment: No info, but listed in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-tsa-rehling type: internal agency: TSA from: DHS sort_date: 2025-03-15 from_truth: inferred comment: No info, but listed in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-uscis-rehling type: internal agency: USCIS from: DHS sort_date: 2025-03-15 from_truth: inferred comment: No info, but listed in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: ssa-employee-9 agency: SSA type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-23 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-07-XX end_date_truth: inferred nte_date: 2026-02-22 nte_date_truth: verified pd_code: KNX0380 pay_grade: ED-00 salary: "$0" title: Expert title_type: advisor office: Office of the CIO description: Excepted Appointment NTE source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028808-onboard-ssa-employee-9/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/payton-rehling/ name: Payton Rehling alias: SSA-09 - id: detail-ssa-doj-rehling type: detailed start_date: 2025-04-15 start_date_truth: reported from: SSA from_truth: guessed source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/us/politics/doge-musk-social-security-justice-department.html agency: DOJ - name: Ryan Riedel sort_name: Riedel slug: ryan-riedel age: 37 skill: coder category: enabler govt_exit_date: 2025-03-07 govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned blurb: >- Before being named to the role of Chief Information Officer at the Department of Energy, Ryan Riedel was a lead network security engineer at SpaceX. After initially granting elevated access to Adam Ramada and Luke Farritor, he lasted for about a month in the role before resigning and presumably leaving government service. tech_links: - SpaceX positions: - id: energy-ryan-riedel type: appointed agency: Energy title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio start_date: 2025-02-07 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-03-07 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned salary: "$195,200" source: - https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/energy-cio-departs-after-short-tenure/403596/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Rachel Riley sort_name: Riley slug: rachel-riley age: 33 skill: administrator category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-riley-tn/ blurb: >- Rachel Riley has been heavily involved in DOGE's operations within HHS, where she has worked very closely with Brad Smith, and she has been granted access to a wide range of databases for tracking contracts and operations. Before DOGE, she worked for McKinsey and Associates in government policy in Atlanta, which would place her in good proximity to the CDC. In September, she pushed for a massive wave of firings at HHS that were eventually overruled, with Rachel herself apparently ousted by the end of October. However, it seems like is being placed over the office of naval research as a reward, despite her lack of experience with the navy. positions: - id: hhs-rachel-riley type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-10-30 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor salary: "$167,603" comment: Hiring information given in court filing. Politico reports gone at HHS on 10/30 source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.80.5.pdf - >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/30/doge-holdover-who-pushed-for-deep-cuts-at-hhs-is-headed-to-the-navy-00629729 - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: HHS - id: internal-hhs-cms-riley type: internal agency: CMS from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-02-03 start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-10-30 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned comment: Dating from first reported access to CALM - id: internal-hhs-nih-riley type: internal agency: NIH from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-02-24 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-10-30 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned office: NIH Business System source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-is-inside-the-national-institutes-of-health-nih/ - id: detail-hhs-nsf-riley type: detailed from: HHS from_truth: guessed title: Consultant start_date: 2025-04-14 start_date_truth: reported comment: Showed up at the agency to do secondary round of grant reviews. Assuming a detail source: https://fedscoop.com/national-science-foundation-nsf-doge-grants-data-systems/ agency: NSF - id: navy-riley type: appointed agency: DOD title: Chief of Naval Research office: Office of Naval Research supervisory: true title_type: dept_head start_date: 2025-10-(30)? start_date_truth: reported source: >- https://www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trump-replaces-admiral-office-naval-research-rothenhaus-riley-doge - name: Timothy Ronan sort_name: Ronan slug: tim-ronan category: unknown blurb: >- He was named as a member of the DOGE team at USDA in response to a FOIA request from American Oversight. Otherwise, I have no other info yet. positions: - id: usda-ronan agency: USDA type: appointed title: Special Advisor start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: verified sort_date: 2025-03-15 salary: "$162,672" source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998790-usda-records-concerning-doge-teams-at-the-agency/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Christopher Roussos sort_name: Roussos slug: chris-roussos age: 60 skill: executive linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisroussos/ category: enabler blurb: >- In late March, Chris Roussos was identified as one of the members of a larger DOGE contingent within the VA. He is an Army veteran himself, and he also has been a CEO of several health and fitness services. Given his experience and background, it's likely he might be the leader of the DOGE team within the VA, where he has been working with Cary Volpert to review and eliminate a large number of VA contracts. positions: - id: va-roussous start_date: 2025-03-25 start_date_truth: reported type: appointed salary: "$27,444" source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: VA - name: Marco Rubio sort_name: Rubio slug: marco-rubio skill: political category: enabler blurb: >- Marco Rubio is technically not a member of DOGE – in fact, there have been moments where reportedly has faced off against Elon Musk in cabinet meetings and his allegiance has always been to Donald Trump. Nevertheless, there are multiple circumstances where he has particularly aided DOGE's destruction of agencies that he is nominally in charge of. So, it makes sense to add him here, if only to better illustrate how DOGE has abused the Vacancies Act to put leaders in charge all over the federal government without Senate approval. positions: - id: state-rubio type: appointed agency: State start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified title: Secretary of State title_type: director source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/marco-rubio-confirmed-secretary-of-state.html - id: usaid-rubio type: appointed agency: USAID start_date: 2025-02-03 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-08-29 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: Acting Administrator title_type: director source: - >- https://www.state.gov/secretary-marco-rubio-appointed-as-acting-administrator-for-the-united-states-agency-for-international-development-usaid/ - https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/rubio-usaid-closeout-vought-00536088 - id: nara-rubio type: appointed agency: NARA start_date: 2025-02-16 start_date_truth: verified title: Acting Archivist title_type: director source: - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/16/trump-national-archives/ - https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/03/05/trump-fired-the-archivist-of-the-united-states/ - name: Mike Russo sort_name: Russo slug: mike-russo age: 67 skill: executive category: enabler blurb: >- Reportedly a favorite of incoming SSA commissioner Frank Bisignano, Mike Russo was named the CIO of Social Security in early February and immediately advocated for the expedited onboarding of Akash Bobba. The DOGE contingent eventually swelled to 11 engineers under his watch. In late March, he was removed from the CIO position and demoted to a Senior Advisor, reportedly because the Trump administration was displeased that he cooperated with a judge's order to revoke DOGE access to SSA systems. However, recent reports by the _New York Times_ claim that he is effectively acting as a co-CIO with Aram Moghaddassi under Frank Bisignano's leadership, so perhaps he has returned to good graces. Prior to government service, he was a senior executive at Shift4 Payments, which is an investor in SpaceX and a payment processor for Starlink. tech_links: - SpaceX positions: - id: ssa-mike-russo-cio type: appointed title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio agency: SSA start_date: 2025-01-31 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-03-24 end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced replaced_by: ssa-mike-russo-advisor salary: '195,200' comment: Reportedly removed from CIO role for complying quickly with judge's orders to block access supervisory: true source: - >- https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/e08aeb0c-ec70-4235-91a0-290da92067b5.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_5 - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: ssa-mike-russo-advisor type: demotion start_date: 2025-03-25 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-09-03 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: ssa-mike-russo-co-cio salary: "$195,200" title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor supervisory: false comment: >- Scott Coulter is named the new CIO at the Social Security Administration and Mike Russo is moved to a Senior Advisor role with a focus on modernizing systems table_note: >- Demoted and replaced by Scott Coulter in CIO role, he seems to be acting in a quasi co-CIO role since June source: https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/ssa-tech-shop-be-led-another-doge-associate/404031/ agency: SSA - id: ssa-mike-russo-co-cio agency: SSA type: promotion start_date: 2025-09-03 title: Chief Information Officer (Core Business Functions) title_type: cio salary: "$195,200" supervisory: true source: https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/releases/2025-09-03.html - name: Amanda Scales sort_name: Scales slug: amanda-scales age: 34 skill: administrator category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandascales/ blurb: >- An associate of Elon Musk from xAI, Amanda Scales has been located at GSA since Day 1, where she acted as the Chief of Staff until swapping places with James Sullivan at the end of March. She seemingly left OPM and government service soon after but has returned in January 2026 to lead recruitment and staffing for OPM's new Tech Force initiative. positions: - id: amanda-scales-opm type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-28 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: amanda-scales-demotion description: SES Noncareer Appt appt_type_code: 55 appt_type: 55-Noncareer (Senior Exec Perm) pd_code: GAPMES00905 title: Chief of Staff title_type: dept_head pay_grade: ES-00 series: '0301' salary: "$195,200" supervisory: true office: Office of the Director comment: Sourced from a FOIA document source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: amanda-scales-demotion type: demotion agency: OPM start_date: 2025-03-28 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-(29)~ end_date_truth: reported description: SES Noncareer Appt appt_type_code: 55 appt_type: 55-Noncareer (Senior Exec Perm) title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor salary: "$195,200" pay_grade: ES-00 series: '0301' table_note: >- Her LinkedIn profile says she left OPM in March. Assuming it followed her demotion/replacement, assuming pay stayed same office: Office of the Director source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028789-opm-amanda-scales/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandascales/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: opm-techforce-scales agency: OPM type: appointed start_date: 2026-01-(28)~ start_date_truth: reported table_note: Own LinkedIn reports back at OPM for Tech Force recruitment and staffing source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7422277036867588096/ - name: Frank Schuler sort_name: Schuler slug: frank-schuler category: support skill: executive govt_exit_date: 2025-07-29 govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned blurb: >- A former partner in a real-estate investment firm in Atlanta, Frank Schuler was mentioned as one of Stephen Ehikian's pending appointments on January 20th. He wasn't sighted in GSA until mid-February, when he appeared in a meeting and was introduced by Nate Cavanaugh. It's unclear what he is doing for DOGE inside of GSA. positions: - id: gsa-frank-schuler type: appointed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor agency: GSA sort_date: 2025-01-20 start_date: 2025-01-XX start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-07-29 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned salary: "$167,603" comment: Details from a news article source: - https://www.propublica.org/article/frank-schuler-gsa-doge-syndicated-conservation-easements-tax-scam - >- https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/07/doge-and-other-day-one-trump-appointees-head-exits-multiple-agencies/407075/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Kyle Schutt sort_name: Schutt slug: kyle-schutt age: 37 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kschutt/ blurb: >- Kyle Schutt is from the intersection of technologist and Republican party politics, having built an online fundraising platform Revv, that is frequently used by the GOP. He was also [linked to the development](https://xcancel.com/samwcyo/status/1889527715029557607) of DOGE's website [doge.gov](https://doge.gov/), which was [hacked and vandalized at launch because he left the database accessible to the outside world](https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/), and his computer has been [infected with credential-stealing malware multiple times](https://cyberpress.org/stolen-credentials-from-doge-employee/). For its part, DOGE gave him access to a highly-sensitive database containing information on unaccompanied migrant children and admin credentials at CISA. His LinkedIn reports that he left DHS in June 2025. custom_path: "/wreckers/kyle-schutt" govt_exit_date: 2025-06-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: internal-dhs-cbp-schutt type: internal from: DHS from_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-02-20 agency: CBP comment: No details, but in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-fema-schutt type: internal from: DHS sort_date: 2025-02-20 from_truth: inferred agency: FEMA comment: No details, but in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-ice-schutt type: internal from: DHS sort_date: 2025-02-20 from_truth: inferred agency: ICE comment: No details, but in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-tsa-schutt type: internal from: DHS sort_date: 2025-02-20 from_truth: inferred agency: TSA comment: No details, but in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: internal-dhs-uscis-schutt type: internal from: DHS sort_date: 2025-02-20 from_truth: inferred agency: USCIS comment: No details, but in NYT roundup source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - id: detail-gsa-doge-schutt type: detailed agency: DOGE from: GSA from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-20 end_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: gsa-schutt type: appointed agency: GSA sort_date: 2025-02-18 start_date: 2025-02-(18)~ start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-06-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned salary: "$195,200" pay_grade: GS-15/10 office: Office of the Deputy Administrator source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-salaries-elon-musk/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kschutt/ - id: detail-gsa-dhs-schutt type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: inferred agency: DHS sort_date: 2025-02-19 start_date: 2025-02-(19)~ start_date_truth: reported comment: No details on this, but mentioned in NYT roundup. Assuming detail from GSA source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-cisa-coristine-cybersecurity/ - id: internal-dhs-cisa-schutt type: detailed from: DHS from_truth: inferred agency: CISA start_date: 2025-02-19 start_date_truth: reported title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-cisa-coristine-cybersecurity/ - id: detail-gsa-hhs-kyle-schutt type: detailed agency: HHS from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-03-14 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.73.2.pdf comment: No documentation, dates reported in court filing - name: Riley Sennott sort_name: Sennott age: 26 slug: riley-sennott skill: coder category: wrecker positions: - id: detail-sba-sennott agency: SBA from: GSA from_truth: guessed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor type: detailed table_note: identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998948-sba-response-to-american-oversight-foia-request/ - id: gsa-sennott agency: GSA type: appointed salary: "$167,603" start_date: 2025-02-12 start_date_truth: reported table_note: >- start inferred from [his father's article about his role](https://www.cjr.org/opinion/doge-journalism-ethics-father-son.php) comment: Riley Sennott's father reports that he started at GSA nine days after 2025-02-03 source: - https://www.cjr.org/opinion/doge-journalism-ethics-father-son.php - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: detail-gsa-nasa-sennott type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-03-14 start_date: 2025-03-(14)~ title: Senior Advisor start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-employee-alexander-simonpour-nasa-doge-team-2025-3 agency: NASA - name: Bryton Shang sort_name: Shang slug: bryton-shang age: 33 skill: coder category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brytonshang/ blurb: >- Before DOGE, Bryton was the founder of a startup to help fish farmers improve their yields. While his background check was still being processed, he accompanied Tyler Hassen on a [failed publicity stunt](https://www.publicdomain.media/p/doges-man-at-doi) to order the DOI Bureau of Reclamation to release more water from reservoirs in Northern California as a publicity stunt about the wildfires much further south in LA. Since April, he has been serving as a senior advisor at the NOAA, where he likely has been reviewing contracts and programs for termination. This role would also give him involvement in regulations and oversight over America's fisheries. positions: - id: noaa-shang-cio start_date: 2025-03-(31)~ start_date_truth: verified type: appointed title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor salary: "$167,603" office: Office of the Administrator agency: NOAA source: - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Ethan Shaotran sort_name: Shaotran slug: ethan-shaotran age: 22 skill: coder category: wrecker custom_path: "/wreckers/ethan-shaotran/" linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaotran/ blurb: >- "I dropped out of Harvard and came here to serve my country... most of campus hates me now" is what Ethan Shaotran boasted about his alma mater in a recent TV interview. He dropped out of the school in his senior year to join DOGE, where he was part of the initial wrecking crew formed in GSA. Why would they hate him? For going to the Department of Education to destroy student loan programs under the cover of fighting fraud? For being part of the same organization that has destroyed medical research grants? For joining the DOGE contingents threatening to make major changes within USPS and Social Security? For being part of Nate Cavanaugh's wreecking crew as they have demolished small independent agencies like the USIP or USADF? Was he really serving his country or greedy people with ulterior motives? Maybe one day he will figure it out. positions: - id: gsa-ethan-shaotran type: appointed agency: GSA salary: "$0" start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: inferred comment: Position inferred from early reporting and detailing to Education source: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-general-services-administration/ - id: detail-gsa-opm-shaotran type: detailed agency: DOGE from: GSA from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-01-27 start_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: detail-gsa-education-3 type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: verified agency: Education signed_date: 2025-02-03 start_date: 2025-02-12 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-02-26 nte_date_truth: verified reimbursed: false comment: ED-3 is Ethan Shaotran source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028797-mou-20250212-gsa-education-ed-3/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028797-mou-20250212-gsa-education-ed-3/ name: Ethan Shaotran alias: ED-03 - id: detail-gsa-ssa-employee-10 type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: verified agency: SSA signed_date: 2025-02-18 start_date: 2025-02-18 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-02-26 nte_date_truth: verified reimbursed: false source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028814-mou-20250218-gsa-ssa-employee-10/ - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028766-onboard-ssa-employee-10/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028814-mou-20250218-gsa-ssa-employee-10/ name: Ethan Shaotran alias: SSA-10 - id: detail-gsa-usadf-ethan-shaotran type: detailed name: Ethan Shaotran from: GSA from_truth: verified agency: USADF start_date: 2025-02-20 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-07-04 nte_date_truth: verified signed_date: 2025-02-21 source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028791-mou-20250220-gsa-usadf-ethan-shaotran/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028791-mou-20250220-gsa-usadf-ethan-shaotran/ - id: detail-gsa-iaf-shaotran type: detailed from: GSA agency: IAF from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-28 start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-04-04 end_type: removed end_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466/gov.uscourts.dcd.278466.35.2_1.pdf table_note: agency contact was earlier, but assuming MOU signed when Marocco seized power - id: detail-gsa-usps-ethan-shaotran type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: verified agency: USPS reimbursed: false start_date: 2025-03-12 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-06-15 nte_date_truth: verified signed_date: 2025-03-12 source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028812-mou-20250312-gsa-usps-ethan-shaotran/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028812-mou-20250312-gsa-usps-ethan-shaotran/ - id: gsa-shaotran-fulltime agency: GSA type: converted title: Senior Advisor pay_grade: GS-14 table_note: Salary range for GS-14 in DC salary: "$142,488 - $185,234" start_date: 2025-04-10 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/ - id: detail-gsa-dfc-shaotran type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-04-28 start_date_truth: reported source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/28/doge-us-foreign-aid-agency-first-trump-administration-00314510 agency: USDFC - name: Ryan Shea sort_name: Shea slug: ryan-shea age: 34 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryaneshea/ blurb: >- As someone who joined up with DOGE in May, Ryan Shea presumably knew exactly what he was signing up for. Prior to DOGE, he was the executive of a cryptocurrency startup, which makes him a natural fit to support the DOGE team embedded within the Department of Health and Human Services. govt_exit_date: 2025-06-07 govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: fired positions: - id: detail-gsa-hhs-shea type: detailed agency: HHS from: GSA from_truth: guessed start_date: 2025-05-XX start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-05-17 end_date: 2025-06-07 end_date_truth: guessed end_type: fired table_note: ProPublica reports he was working on HHS projects, assuming detail from GSA source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - id: gsa-shea type: appointed agency: GSA start_date: 2025-05-XX start_date_truth: guessed end_date: 2025-06-07 end_date_truth: reported end_type: fired table_note: Start date guessed sort_date: 2025-05-15 source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/14/doge-lead-steve-davis-did-not-go-quietly-00452257 - name: Thomas Shedd sort_name: Shedd slug: thomas-shedd age: 28 skill: coder category: enabler linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasshedd/ blurb: >- When he was named the Deputy Administrator of FAS (under Josh Gruenbaum) and the head of GSA's innovative Technology Transformation Service (which includes 18F and login.gov), the press releases touted his most recent experience, 8 years of being a software developer at Tesla. It turns out that was his only experience, and he hasn't ever been a senior executive or worked within government before. Instead, his main skills seem to be a loyalty to Musk and a willingness to destroy the parts of the agency in his care if asked. To this end, he has eliminated 18F and tried to gain admin access to services like Notify.gov or Login.gov, that would give him unprecedented control over government services. He also has been a big booster of replacing staff with AI. Since March, he has also been serving as the CIO at the Department of Labor, an arrangement that largely seems to exist so he can grant access for sensitive systems to DOGE staff. tech_links: - Tesla positions: - id: gsa-thomas-shedd type: appointed agency: GSA title: Deputy FAS Commissioner / Administrator, Technology Transformation Service title_type: cio office: Technology Transformation Service start_date: 2025-01-24 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2026-02-19 end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced replaced_by: gsa-shedd-fraud salary: "$150,160" source: - >- https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2025/01/gsas-new-leadership-mostly-comes-from-tech-finance-sectors/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/02/federal-cio-tapped-dual-hatted-role-gsa/411543/ supervisory: true - id: dol-shedd type: appointed start_date: 2025-03-14 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-08-01 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned agency: DOL title: Chief Information Officer title_type: cio supervisory: true source: - https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/tts-director-tapped-serve-labor-cio/403855/ - https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/08/thomas-shedd-departs-labor-cio/407195/ - id: gsa-shedd-fraud type: demotion start_date: 2026-02-19 start_date_truth: reported agency: GSA title: Senior Advisor for Fraud Prevention title_type: advisor supervisory: false - name: Roland Shen sort_name: Shen slug: roland-shen category: wrecker skill: coder positions: - id: treasury-roland-shen type: appointed start_date: 2025-04-18 start_date_truth: reported office: Bureau of Fiscal Services agency: Treasury source: >- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/rampin-up-baby-that-thiel-start-up-hunting-the-motherlode-contract-is-inside-treasury/ar-AA1DesOc - name: Alexander Simonpour sort_name: Simonpour slug: alex-simonpour age: 28 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-simonpour-178a8a121/ tech_links: - Tesla blurb: >- Alexander Simonpour is a former engineering manager at Tesla who is now working for DOGE and embedded among the [wrecking crew at GSA](/people/wreckers/). He was one of the three DOGE staffers who were detailed from GSA to NASA in March, and he has also been involved in DOGE's efforts at the USPS. His LinkedIn reports that he left DOGE in August. govt_exit_date: 2025-08-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: gsa-simonpour type: appointed agency: GSA start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-03-01 end_date: 2025-08-XX end_date_truth: reported salary: "$167,603" table_note: he was detailed to USPS from GSA, so assuming appointed at GSA but info unknown. Dates from LinkedIn source: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-simonpour-178a8a121/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: detail-gsa-usps-alex-simonpour type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: verified agency: USPS reimbursed: false start_date: 2025-03-07 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-06-15 nte_date_truth: verified signed_date: 2025-03-12 comment: From FOIAed document source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028817-mou-20250312-gsa-usps-alex-simonpour/ mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028812-mou-20250312-gsa-usps-ethan-shaotran/ - id: detail-gsa-nasa-simonpour type: detailed start_date: 2025-03-14 start_date_truth: reported title: Advisor source: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-employee-alexander-simonpour-nasa-doge-team-2025-3 agency: NASA from: GSA from_truth: guessed - name: Mike Slagh sort_name: Slagh slug: mike-slagh linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mslagh/ category: wrecker skill: executive age: 40 blurb: >- The founder of a company that apparently connects defense contractors with government buyers. Before that, he was the founder of a company that did job training for veterans. It's unclear where he is working inside of the Pentagon. He served in the Navy. positions: - id: dod-slagh type: appointed agency: DOD start_date: 2025-02-(18)? start_date_truth: inferred table_note: >- Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans sort_date: 2025-02-18 source: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - name: Sam Smeal sort_name: Smeal slug: sam-smeal age: 29 skill: coder blurb: >- One of the four SpaceX engineers who were brought into the FAA on an ad hoc basis, he was only approved to work for 4 days at the agency. That term was apparently extended until June 2, when their access was abruptly revoked. tech_links: - SpaceX category: wrecker govt_exit_date: 2025-06-02 govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: fired positions: - id: faa-smeal type: appointed agency: FAA start_date: 2025-02-16 start_date_truth: reported nte_date: 2025-02-20 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-02 end_date_truth: reported end_type: fired title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Administrator source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/08/doge-elon-musk-exit-trump/ - name: Brad Smith sort_name: Smith slug: brad-smith age: 42 skill: executive linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradtedsmith/ category: leadership blurb: >- A healthcare executive who served in the first administration, Brad Smith kept a relatively low profile running DOGE operations within HHS. There, he mainly was involved in organizing $67 billion in cuts and the large layoffs that eliminated 10,000 positions across the various agencies within HHS. He left HHS and DOGE about a week before Elon Musk's departure, but he has apparently returned in August to work at the State Department. positions: - id: doge-brad-smith type: appointed agency: DOGE start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-11 end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor comment: identified as USDS detail on 2/13 declaration table_note: >- identified as dual appointee at HHS and DOGE / resigned on 6/11 and returned to State Dept in August. source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.82.3.pdf - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: detail-doge-hhs-smith type: detailed agency: HHS from: DOGE start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-04 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: hhs-brad-smith sort_date: 2025-02-02 table_note: detail started before 2/13 - id: hhs-brad-smith agency: HHS type: converted title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-03-04 end_date: 2025-05-23 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned table_note: resigned on 5/23 but returned to State dept in August comment: All I have is his signed SF-61 salary: "$0" source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028816-onboard-hhs-brad-smith/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: state-brad-smith agency: State type: appointed start_date: 2025-08-(12)~ start_date_truth: reported sort_date: 2025-08-12 supervisory: true table_note: some sort of leadership over global health division source: >- https://www.semafor.com/article/08/12/2025/former-senior-doge-official-returns-to-the-trump-administration - name: John Solly sort_name: Solly slug: john-solly category: wrecker skill: coder linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsolly blurb: >- A software expert in cloud-native geospatial analysis, he has been working at Social Security in March and apparently has not been listed on the internal directory to keep a low profile. He couldn't help marking the time on his LinkedIn however, noting his DOGE career as "stealth mode” for a “key skunkswork project at a major org." govt_exit_date: 2025-09-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: ssa-employee-11 type: appointed start_date: 2025-03-16 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2026-03-15 nte_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-XX end_date_truth: verified end_type: resigned title: Expert title_type: advisor office: Office of the Chief Information Officer pay_grade: ED-00 salary: "$162,672" pd_code: KNX0390 table_note: LinkedIn reports left SSA on 9/2025 qualifications: > is a Senior Software Engineer with over ten years of experience building cloud-native geospatial solutions. Adept at architecting geospatial infrastructures, implementing geospatial algorithms, and leading full- stack development. Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver mission-critical capabilities and driving technical decisions and best practices. agency: SSA source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028805-onboard-ssa-employee-11/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsolly/ name: John Solly alias: SSA-11 - name: Keith Sonderling sort_name: Sonderling slug: keith-sonderling category: enabler skill: lawyer linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-sonderling/ blurb: >- Another of the cadre of conservative lawyers within DOGE, Sonderling had been the commisioner of the EEOC in the previous Trump administration. He was tapped to be Deputy Secretary by Trump for DOL, but he has also served as support for Nate Cavanaugh's wrecking crew. Exploiting a rule in the [Vacancies Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Vacancies_Reform_Act_of_1998) that lets the administraion named appointed officials as acting leaders of other agencies, DOGE has named Sonderling as the acting leaders in the IMLS and MBDA so he could order their destruction. positions: - id: labor-sonderling type: appointed appt_type: SES Noncareer agency: DOL start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-23 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced replaced_by: labor-sonderling-secy pd_code: '66895170' series: '0301' salary: "$195,200" title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Office of the Assistant Secretary source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028782-onboard-dol-keith-sonderling/ - id: imls-sonderling type: appointed start_date: 2025-03-20 start_date_truth: reported title: Acting Director title_type: director source: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doge-imls-institute-museum-library-services-2623286 agency: IMLS - id: labor-sonderling-secy type: promotion start_date: 2025-03-23 start_date_truth: verified title: Deputy Secretary of Labor title_type: dept_head supervisory: true agency: DOL pd_code: '65834327' series: '0340' appt_type: Exec Appt salary: "$183,100" office: Office of the Secretary source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028782-onboard-dol-keith-sonderling/ - id: mbda-sonderling type: appointed agency: MBDA start_date: 2025-04-(17)~ start_date_truth: reported title: Acting Undersecretary supervisory: true source: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/F6A7EAB6-BACE-4A67-A64D-688BA38A0726 table_note: Nate Cavanaugh sent out grant rejections under the authority of Sonderling as Acting Undersecretary - name: Branden Spikes sort_name: Spikes slug: branden-spikes linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandenspikes/ blurb: >- A longtime associate of Elon Musk at Twitter and other companies, Branden Spikes reportedly spent a couple of months within DOGE, but there are no public details yet. category: unknown positions: [] - name: Christopher Stanley sort_name: Stanley slug: christopher-stanley age: 33 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanleynetworks/ tech_links: - Twitter - SpaceX blurb: >- Christopher Stanley had been a long-time aide of Elon Musk with positions as a Security Engineer at both SpaceX and X.com before his arrival at DOGE. He kicked off his involvement by greeting jailed January 6th protestors who had been pardoned by Trump. Since then, he has had a varierty of other erratic appearances on the timeline. He briefly launched a custom AI chatbot on the DOGE website before it was noticed and taken down. On March 17th, he was appointed to the board of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, only to resign immediately the next day. More recently, he has been embedded in the Department of Justice as part of the DOGE team building a surveillance system to use against immigrants. govt_exit_date: 2025-06-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: opm-christopher-stanley type: appointed name: Christopher Stanley agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-28 start_date_truth: verified description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39736 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 series: '0301' salary: "$0" supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: Sourced from a FOIAed document source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: doge-stanley type: appointed agency: DOGE start_date: 2025-01-31 start_date_truth: verified title: Senior Advisor of Technology and Efficiency title_type: advisor table_note: Seems to have been hired at DOGE instead of detailed there from OPM source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: fhfa-christopher-stanley title: Board Member, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac title_type: other type: appointed start_date: 2025-03-17 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-03-18 end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned table_note: resigned abruptly the day after being appointed comment: Chris Stanley spent one day on the board before resigning source: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/doge-fannie-mae-board-member-christopher-stanley-resignation/ agency: FHFA - id: detail-opm-doj-stanley type: detailed from: OPM from_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-04-02 start_date: 2025-04-(02)~ start_date_truth: reported title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor office: Deputy Attorney General comment: Date is approximate. Assuming detailed from OPM source: >- https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/doge-official-doj-bragged-about-hacking-distributing-pirated-software-2025-04-02/ agency: DOJ - name: Braden Steffaniak sort_name: Steffaniak slug: braden-steffaniak category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradensteffaniak/ skill: coder positions: - id: nds-steffaniak type: appointed agency: NDS start_date: 2026-01-XX start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradensteffaniak/ title: Software Engineer - name: Mark Steffensen sort_name: Steffensen slug: mark-steffensen skill: lawyer category: enabler positions: - id: ssa-steffensen type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-25 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-02-27 end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced replaced_by: ssa-steffensen-1 title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor salary: "$195,200" office: Office of the Commissioner source: - https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3lipqblfluc2h - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: SSA - id: ssa-steffensen-1 type: promotion start_date: 2025-02-27 start_date_truth: reported title: Acting General Counsel title_type: chief_counsel office: Office of the Commissioner table_note: promoted within two days of being appointed salary: "$195,200" source: https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/chrisgeidner.bsky.social/post/3ljb6rufur22e agency: SSA - name: Jack Stein sort_name: Stein slug: jack-stein age: 25 category: wrecker skill: analyst linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-s-221181154/ custom_path: "/wreckers/cavanaugh-cronies#jack-stein" blurb: >- Recently an investment banking associate at Salem Partners, he is one of the newer members of Nate Cavanaugh's wrecking crew that visited small agencies in April. positions: - id: gsa-stein type: appointed name: Jack Stein agency: GSA start_date: 2025-04-15 start_date_truth: reported source: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute comment: FIXME, find more details on when started - name: Brian Stube sort_name: Stube slug: brian-stube category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-stube/ skill: analyst blurb: >- Brian Stube was a "quant" at the the hedge fund Citadel before 2012, which is also where Adam Hoffman works. According to his LinkedIn profile, he left DOT (and presumably DOGE) in August. govt_exit_date: 2025-08-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: dot-stube type: appointed name: Brian Stube sort_date: 2025-03-05 start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-08-XX end_date_truth: reported fuzz: Appeared in the ProPublica roundup title: Senior Advisor to the Secretary title_type: advisor office: Office of the Secretary agency: DOT salary: "$195,197" source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-stube/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: James Sullivan sort_name: Sullivan slug: james-sullivan category: enabler blurb: >- A veteran of the first Trump Administration, James Sullivan might not have been considered DOGE before by any media organizations. But he was hired with the Senior Advisor title and on 3/28, he took over as the Chief of Staff at OPM from Amanda Scales. He also is one of the redacted identies in court filings from the OPM. So, I think he counts? James has mainly been involved in coordinating layoffs at various agencies from his position at OPM. positions: - id: opm-employee-08 type: appointed start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified appt_type: SES Noncareer title: Senior Advisor to the Director title_type: advisor pay_grade: ES-00 salary: "$195,200" series: '0301' pd_code: 6A37370 agency: OPM source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028778-onboard-opm-employee-8/ name: James Sullivan alias: OPM-08 - id: opm-james-sullivan-demotion type: promotion agency: OPM start_date: 2025-03-28 start_date_truth: verified description: SES Noncareer Appt appt_type_code: 55 appt_type: 55-Noncareer (Senior Exec Perm) title: Chief of Staff title_type: advisor pay_grade: ES-00 series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793/gov.uscourts.nysd.636793.97.3.pdf - name: Christopher Sweet sort_name: Sweet age: 22 slug: christopher-sweet category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris16621747214/ blurb: >- Joining DOGE sometime in early April, Christopher Sweet has been based in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), where he building a custom generative AI model to analyze the agency's regulations and make recommendations of specific parts to cut. More recently, his work has been moved to OMB, where his tool is being used to trim regulations at multiple agencies. Christopher Sweet is young and inexperienced like many of the DOGE wreckers, and is currently on a break as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. govt_exit_date: 2025-12-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: hud-sweet type: appointed sort_date: 2025-04-10 start_date: 2025-04-(10)~ start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-12-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned fuzz: Date is unspecified, just sometime earlier in April comment: >- Scott Langmack sends a message that "I'd like to share with you that Chris Sweet has joined the HUD DOGE team with the title of special assistant, although a better title might be 'AI computer programming quant analyst'" source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-college-student-ai-rewrite-regulations-deregulation/ - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris16621747214/ title: Special Assistant agency: HUD - name: Zach Terrell sort_name: Terrell slug: zach-terrell age: 25 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-terrell-81488b19a/ blurb: >- Another very recent college graduate, Zach Terrell was involved in several cryptocurrency and Web3-related startups before joinging the DOGE wrecking crew at HHS in March. More recently, he was elevated in September to the role of CTO, a position which was previously held by fellow DOGE member Clark Minor and which would allow him to grant access to sensitive databases and systems to other DOGE personnel. positions: - id: hhs-terrell start_date: 2025-03-06 start_date_truth: verified type: appointed agency: HHS salary: "$132,629" source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.80.5.pdf - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - id: internal-hhs-cms-terrell type: internal start_date: 2025-03-11 start_date_truth: inferred agency: CMS from: HHS from_truth: inferred comment: Inferring from first reported access to the IDR system at CMS source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.80.5.pdf - id: detail-hhs-nsf-terrell type: detailed office: Office of the Director from: HHS from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-04-14 start_date_truth: reported title: Consultant comment: Showed up at the agency to do secondary round of grant reviews. Assuming a detail source: https://fedscoop.com/national-science-foundation-nsf-doge-grants-data-systems/ agency: NSF - id: nds-terrell type: appointed agency: NDS start_date: 2025-08-(29)? start_date_truth: reported sort_date: 2025-08-29 source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-joining-national-design-studio/ - https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/silicon-valley-government-websites-national-design-studio table_note: He has been linked to NDS but is still also at HHS? - id: hhs-terrell-cto type: promotion agency: HHS title: Chief Technology Officer supervisory: true title_type: cto start_date: 2025-09-(01)~ start_date_truth: reported source: https://fedscoop.com/hhs-has-new-doge-affiliated-technology-chief-cto/ - name: Katrine Trampe sort_name: Trampe age: 29 skill: analyst slug: katrine-trampe category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katrinetrampe/ blurb: >- Katrine came from a background working for real-estate investment firms. She also reportedly uses the title "Comtesse" because her father is a Count with ties to the Danish royal family. All of these are important skills that explain why she needed to be given high-level administrative access to a system at DOI that handles payroll for half of the federal government. More recently, she had changed her LinkedIn to add the last name of Akis, suggesting she is married to fellow DOGE supporter Baris Akis (but has since reverted it back). positions: - id: interior-trampe type: unknown office: Office of the Secretary start_date: 2025-02-24 start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-08-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned salary: "$0" table_note: >- had ethics training with Stephanie Holmes, assuming same start date reported on 7/29 as leaving DOI; unclear if leaving DOGE source: - >- https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/03/05/heres-the-people-connected-to-doge-at-interior-00213330 - >- https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/07/doge-and-other-day-one-trump-appointees-head-exits-multiple-agencies/407075/ - https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2025/04/15/25-4034_Rel_575pgs_Redacted.pdf - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: DOI - name: Alexander Tullman category: wrecker sort_name: Tullman slug: alexander-tullman age: 26 linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-tullman-685332164/ blurb: >- A latecomer to DOGE, Alexander joined up in April at GSA and was detailed to HHS in June. His sole background experience has been a stint as a finance manager at Proctor & Gamble for the 3 years prior. positions: - id: gsa-tullman type: appointed agency: GSA sort_date: 2025-04-15 start_date: 2025-04-XX start_date_truth: verified title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor source: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-tullman-685332164 - id: hhs-tullman type: detailed agency: HHS from: GSA from_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-07-15 start_date: 2025-07-XX start_date_truth: verified title: Senior Advisor title_type: advisor source: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-tullman-685332164 - name: Andrew Vilcsak sort_name: Vilcsak slug: andrew-vilcsak skill: coder linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vilcsak/ category: support tech_links: - Airbnb blurb: >- Coming from Airbnb, he is working alongside fellow alumni Yat Choi and Joe Gebbia on finishing the project to digitize OPM's Online Retirement Application system and rush it into production as a DOGE win. Like Yat Choi, he also appears to be Canadian which would disqualify him from working for the federal government, so he has been hired as a contractor instead. positions: - id: opm-vilcsak agency: OPM type: consultant sort_date: 2025-08-16 table_note: Named as working alongside Airbnb alumni at OPM. source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/the-foreigners-working-for-doge-00525792 - id: gsa-vilcsak agency: GSA type: consultant table_note: Hired as contractor from MSI Consulting start_date: 2025-08-XX start_date_truth: guessed sort_date: 2025-08-15 source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/the-foreigners-working-for-doge-00525792 title: Senior Technologist title_type: advisor - name: Cary Volpert sort_name: Volpert slug: cary-volpert skill: coder age: 34 linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cary-volpert/ category: wrecker blurb: >- In May, a new rule at the VA mandated that all new contracts for IT and professional services (or that were for more than $10 million) must be formally approved by either Volpert or Christopher Roussos. Previously, he was the founder of a startup that offered social networking for senior citizens, and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. Understandably, there have been concerns that he lacks the experience and expertise to effectively review contracts at the VA, especially since he is reportedly looking to aggressively cancel many of them quickly. positions: - id: va-volpert start_date: 2025-03-25 start_date_truth: reported type: appointed salary: "$167,603" source: - https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affairs-ai/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: VA - name: Russell Vought sort_name: Vought slug: russell-vought category: leadership skill: executive blurb: >- It seems a bit weird to associate Russell Vought with DOGE, given his background in the first Trump administration and the Heritage Foundation. However, it's become increasingly clear that Vought has been a force directing the actions of DOGE, including its initial strategy of targeting agency personnel and budgets. Since Musk's departure, he has inherited unequivocal control over the group from his perch at OMB. positions: - id: omb-vought type: appointed agency: OMB title: Director start_date: 2025-02-07 start_date_truth: verified title_type: director office: Office of Management and Budget supervisory: true - id: cfpb-acting-vought type: appointed agency: CFPB title: Acting Director title_type: director supervisory: true start_date: 2025-02-08 start_date_truth: verified source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/business/cfpb-doge-vought-x/index.html - id: usaid-acting-vought type: appointed agency: USAID title: Acting Director title_type: director supervisory: true start_date: 2025-08-29 start_date_truth: verified source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/29/rubio-usaid-closeout-vought-00536088 - name: Yinon Weiss sort_name: Weiss slug: yinon-weiss age: 47 category: wrecker skill: coder linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yweiss/ govt_exit_date: 2025-07-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned blurb: >- A former Army Special Forces captain, Yinon Weiss is the founder of a startup that sells software for automobile repair shops. positions: - id: dod-weiss type: appointed agency: DOD sort_date: 2025-02-18 start_date: 2025-02-(18)? start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-07-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned table_note: >- Start date inferred from reports of DOGE meeting 2/18 and Hegseth reporting on 2/20 that many were veterans. Reported as having left DOD in July by Wash. Post source: - https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/ - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/15/hegseth-doge-justin-fulcher-yinon-weiss/ - name: Owen West slug: owen-west sort_name: West category: leadership skill: analyst linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owen-west-b1536b197/ blurb: >- Owen West is a Marine Corps veteran and former financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. He served as an assistant secretary of defense in the first Trump administration and was reportedly tapped to lead the DOGE team at the Pentagon after the departure of Yinon Weiss. positions: - id: dod-west type: appointed title: Financial Strategist agency: DOD start_date: 2025-02-XX start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-07-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: replaced replaced_by: dod-west-advisor source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owen-west-b1536b197/ - id: dod-west-advisor type: promotion agency: DOD title_type: advisor start_date: 2025-07-XX start_date_truth: reported sort_date: 2025-07-15 source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/15/hegseth-doge-justin-fulcher-yinon-weiss/ - name: Linda Whitridge slug: linda-whitridge sort_name: Whitridge category: wrecker blurb: >- There aren't many public details about Linda Whitridge that provide clues to what she is doing for DOGE at the IRS. Her ethics disclosures have revealed that she owns shares of Intuit (who make TurboTax) which is a glaring conflict of interest for someone in her role. positions: - id: treasury-whitridge type: unknown start_date: 2025-02-25 start_date_truth: verified fuzz: Identity is only revealed in a court filing, using ethics training date as start for now source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.147.0.pdf - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring appt_type: Schedule C pay_grade: GS-12 salary: "$101,401" sge: false agency: Treasury - name: Jordan Wick sort_name: Wick slug: jordan-wick age: 28 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanwick/ custom_path: "/wreckers/jordan-wick" blurb: >- Jordan Wick is one of the few early DOGE staffers, who did not have some sort of direct link to Musk or one of his companies, having worked as an engineer at autonomous car company Waymo. He also is a cofounder of a vague civic-technology-with-AI-or-something startup named Accelerate SF with early DOGE booster Anthony Jancso; this is likely what brought him into DOGE. In DOGE itself, he has kept a relatively low profile, but he worked alongside Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger in DOGE's takeover of the CFPB, and he has stayed on as a full-time staffer at the agency since March 5th, even as he has been deployed elsewhere. positions: - id: detail-gsa-wick type: detailed from: DOGE agency: GSA table_note: At the FCC, Jordan Wick asks them to send a meeting invite to a GSA address for him source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26379171-fcc-foia-production-3-for-frequency-forward/ - id: detail-sba-wick agency: SBA from: DOGE from_truth: guessed title: Special Advisor title_type: advisor type: detailed table_note: identified by agency FOIA as having been at the agency, guessing detailed source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25998948-sba-response-to-american-oversight-foia-request/ - id: doge-wick type: appointed agency: DOGE sort_date: 2025-01-20 start_date: 2025-01-(20)~ title: Senior Advisor (Engineer) title_type: advisor series: '0301' pay_grade: AD-00 start_date_truth: guessed table_note: guessed from govt declaration detailed from DOGE to CFPB comment: No details, but guessing based on government declaration had been detailed from DOGE to CFPB source: - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.1.pdf - id: detail-usds-cfpb-jordan-wick type: detailed agency: CFPB from: DOGE from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-07 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-03-04 end_date_truth: verified end_type: replaced title_type: advisor replaced_by: cfpb-jordan-wick source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150/gov.uscourts.dcd.277150.80.5.pdf table_note: detail ended because he became a full-time CFPB employee on 3/5 comment: Dates provided in court documents. Converted to full position - id: detail-doge-dol-wick type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-02-13 start_date: 2025-02-(13)~ start_date_truth: reported comment: >- No other information besides this report. 3 other DOGE staff besides Ramada at agency on 2/5. But was part of CFPB assault. source: >- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/doge-software-approval-alarms-labor-department-employees-data-security-rcna191583 agency: DOL - id: detail-doge-education-wick type: detailed agency: Education from: DOGE from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-02-20 start_date_truth: verified source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028798-doge-staff-education-20250407/ - id: cfpb-jordan-wick type: converted title: Expert/Consultant title_type: advisor comment: All I have is his SF-61 start_date: 2025-03-05 start_date_truth: verified salary: "$0" source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028811-onboard-cfpb-jordan-wick/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: CFPB - id: detail-fcc-wick type: detailed from: DOGE salary: "$0" from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-03-18 start_date_truth: verified office: Office of the Chairman agency: FCC table_note: >- MOU for detail says from DOGE to FCC, but the text says he is also detailed from OPM which will bill for his services. Despite being a CFPB staffer, they reportedly have no information about his work for the FCC mou: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26105122-mou-20250318-doge-fcc-wick/ source: - https://frequencyfwd.com/files/motion-exhibit-1-08252025.pdf - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26105122-mou-20250318-doge-fcc-wick/ - >- https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/detailinghiring-arrangements-for-jeremy-lewin-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-183822/#file-1326062 - id: detail-usda-wick type: detailed from: DOGE from_truth: reported agency: USDA start_date: 2025-03-26 start_date_truth: verified nte_date: 2025-07-24 nte_date_truth: inferred reimbursed: false table_note: MOU signed by Amy Gleason for DOGE. Date is after he was hired at CFPB. comment: >- No details, but listed in a NYT roundup and adding here. USDA head said DOGE had been there a couple of weeks on 2/14 mou: >- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26071597-usda-records-reflecting-doge-economy-act-funding-transfers/ source: - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html - >- https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26071597-usda-records-reflecting-doge-economy-act-funding-transfers/ - name: Joanna Wischer slug: joanna-wischer sort_name: Wischer skill: administrator category: support linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-miller-wischer-2b4239205/ positions: - id: joanna-wischer-opm type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-20 start_date_truth: verified description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 44 appt_type: Schedule C excepted: true pd_code: 6A36647 title: Senior Advisor to the Director title_type: advisor salary: "$167,603 - $195,200" series: '0301' supervisory: false office: Office of the Director comment: Sourced from a FOIA document; listed as Joanna Miller table_note: >- Salary range for GS-15 in DC; LinkedIn says she is working for OMB "Made in America" initiative since March 2025 source: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - id: wischer-omb agency: OMB type: appointed start_date: 2025-03-(31)~ start_date_truth: reported table_note: OMB position as Joanna Miller title: Deputy Director title_type: dept_head office: Made In America salary: "$142,488" source: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-miller-wischer-2b4239205/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring - name: Marshall Wood sort_name: Wood age: 27 slug: marshall-wood skill: analyst category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fmarshallwood/ blurb: >- A former investment banking associate at Jefferies, Marshall Wood is part of the wrecking crew led by Nate Cavanaugh that has visited multiple independent agencies. He also is a friend of Justin Fox from their days as students at the University of Virginia. Much of DOGE's wrecking activities have dissipated in recent months, and his own LinkedIn reports that he has now landed in a reward position in Strategic Finance at xAI, one of Musk's companies. custom_path: "/wreckers/cavanaugh-cronies#marshall-wood" govt_exit_date: 2025-09-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: gsa-wood type: appointed name: Marshall Wood agency: GSA start_date: 2025-04-21 start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-09-XX end_date_truth: reported end_type: resigned source: - https://www.npr.org/2025/05/17/nx-s1-5401392/doge-federal-agency-nonprofits-cpb-usip-vera-institute - https://www.linkedin.com/in/fmarshallwood/ comment: FIXME, find more details on when started - id: detail-gsa-dfc-wood type: detailed from: GSA from_truth: reported start_date: 2025-04-28 start_date_truth: reported source: >- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/28/doge-us-foreign-aid-agency-first-trump-administration-00314510 agency: USDFC - name: Ryan Wunderly sort_name: Wunderly slug: ryan-wunderly age: 26 skill: coder category: wrecker linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-wunderly/ blurb: >- There isn't much public reporting about Ryan Wunderly, who has wisely taken a much lower public profile than Marko Elez, the brash engineer preceding him who had to resign his role at Treasury over past racist tweets (only to be rehired later). Ryan has continued DOGE's work of gaining elevated access and control to Treasury systems. Prior to DOGE, he was a Robotics Engineer at the military contractor Anduril. tech_links: - Anduril positions: - id: irs-wunderly type: appointed start_date: 2025-02-20 start_date_truth: verified salary: "$84,601" source: - https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/treasury-irs-data-white-house-doge-00205391 - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring agency: Treasury - name: Chris Young sort_name: Young slug: chris-young age: 36 skill: executive category: enabler govt_exit_date: 2025-06-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: opm-chris-young type: appointed agency: OPM start_date: 2025-01-30 start_date_truth: verified description: Exc Appt NTE appt_type_code: 48 appt_type: Other excepted: true pd_code: 6A39737 title: Expert title_type: advisor pay_grade: ED-00 series: '0301' supervisory: false salary: "$0" office: Office of the Director comment: Sourced from FOIAed documents source: - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26028780-opm-new-hires/ - >- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01-09/data-reveals-details-about-doge-government-hiring same_as: opm-chris-young sort_date: 2025-02-07 table_note: Start date guessed from system access name: Chris Young alias: OPM-14 end_date: 2025-06-XX end_date_truth: reported - id: detail-opm-doge-young type: detailed agency: DOGE from: OPM from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-02-05 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-13 end_date_truth: verified source: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287/gov.uscourts.nysd.642287.122.2.pdf - id: detail-opm-cfpb-chris-young type: detailed agency: CFPB from: OPM from_truth: verified start_date: 2025-02-07 start_date_truth: verified end_date: 2025-06-XX end_date_truth: reported table_note: Identified as OPM-14; govt testified on 6/27 no longer a govt employee comment: FIXME - name: Bridget Youngs slug: bridget-youngs sort_name: Youngs age: 29 category: wrecker skill: analyst custom_path: "/wreckers/cavanaugh-cronies#bridget-youngs" linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridget-youngs/ blurb: >- Not much is reported about Bridget Youngs' actions for DOGE. Like many of Nate Cavanaugh's wrecking crew, she comes from a background in finance and investment, and is young (graduating from college in 2017). She left DOGE in August to join a defense contracting startup. govt_exit_date: 2025-08-XX govt_exit_truth: reported govt_exit_type: resigned positions: - id: dol-youngs type: detailed agency: DOL from: GSA from_truth: inferred sort_date: 2025-03-15 start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: reported end_date: 2025-08-XX end_date_truth: reported table_note: >- From her LinkedIn: "Lead agency actions resulting in over $5 billion in taxpayer savings, re-industrialization workforce initiatives, deregulation, and platform modernization for Federal unemployment and workforce visas" but described elsewhere as from GSA, so assuming detail source: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridget-youngs/ - https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r_9nu.fNf5II/v0 - id: gsa-youngs type: appointed agency: GSA sort_date: 2025-03-05 start_date: 2025-03-XX start_date_truth: inferred end_date: 2025-08-XX end_date_truth: reported title: Contract Specialist title_type: advisor table_note: >- Emails from Peace Corps staff shared via FOIA reveal that she was detailed from GSA, this matches common pattern for wreckers source: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/r_9nu.fNf5II/v0 - id: detail-peace-corps-youngs type: detailed from: DOL from_truth: inferred start_date: 2025-04-04 start_date_truth: reported table_note: unknown who this is and if sent to other agencies source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/elon-musk-doge-peace-corps agency: PeaceCorps