Elon Musk Minions – From trusted sidekicks to randomly college and former Musk Company interns – are taken to overall management service, a critical government agency that manages federal offices and technologies. That, the team is trying to use White House security credentials to get unusual access to GSA Tech, which dumps a suite of new AI software, and re -refunds the office in the image of X, According to Document Leak got wired.
Some of the same people who helped Musk occupy Twitter more than two years ago have now registered as official GSA employees. Nicole Holnder, who slept on Twitter HQ as an unofficial member of the Musk transfer team, has a high level of agency access and an official government email address, according to documents viewed by wired . Holnder's wife Steve Davis, also sleeping in the office. He is now in a leading role in the Department of Musk Department of Musk (DOGE). Thomas Shedd, the recently -installed director of Technology Transformation Services Director within GSA, has worked as a software engineer in Tesla for eight years. Edward Coristine, who had previously been international in Neurink, was with Ethan Shaotran.
“I believe these people do not want to help the federal government provide services to Americans,” said a current GSA employee who asked unnamed, citing fear of revenge. “They are acting like this is a taking of a tech company.”
The team appears to be conducting the Musk agenda: Federal Government's collapse as soon as possible. They are currently targeting a 50 percent expenditure reduction for each GSA -managed office, according to WIRED documents.
There seems to be an effort to use credentials from the President's Executive Office to access GSA laptops and internal GSA infrastructure. Usually, accessing agency systems requires workers to work with such agencies, resources say. While the Musk team can try to get better laptops and equipment from GSA, resources are afraid that the mandate laid out in Doge Executive Order The body will be widely accessible to GSA systems and data. This includes sensitive obtaining data, internal data on all systems and services that offer GSAs, and internal software to monitor GSA employees as part of the normal process of intercourse and security.
Accessing can provide Musk proxies of the ability to stay away from laptops, listen to meetings, read emails, among many other things, a former Biden official said wired on Friday.
“Providing dog staff, which many of them are not government employees, who unfinished accessing internal government systems and sensitive data poses a major security risk to the federal government and the American public, “said the Biden official. “Not only does the DOGE evaluate information that is sensitive to obtaining major government contracts, it will be able to actively evaluate government employees.”
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The new GSA leadership team has prioritized the fall of the GSA real estate portfolio, cancel the contracts of comfort, and rotate AI tools for federal government to use, according to internal documents and interviews to resources familiar with the situation. At a GSA office in Washington, DC, earlier this week, there were three items written on a white board sitting in a large, vacant room. “Spending cuts for $ 585 m, eliminating regulations, 15, square feet sold/completed 203,000 SF,” he read, according to a picture viewed by wired. There is no note of who wrote the message, but it appears to be a tracker of deductions made or proposed by the team.
“We realized the commercial real estate market that the two GSA owners were about to be listing for sale, and we ended three leasing,” Stephen Ehikian, the newly designated GSA Acting Administrator, said in an email to GSA staff on Tuesday, confirming the agency's focus of the agency's focus on lowering real estate costs. “This is our first step in the real estate portfolio.”
