Since the first days of the Trump administration, Elon Musk's so -called Government Department's efficiency (Doge) is everywhere in the federal government, moving quickly and things are broken. Within a few weeks, Doge operatives spread to twelve -DOSENANG Government agencies As they tried Wahasan thousands of federal employees. Too much focus on where DOGE is going, Wired Wired to take a beat to see where they came from and what can tell us about how they think about the reshaping of the federal government.
The Big Takeaway: Many of the Doge Team are from the Musk world. If Musk is CEO of America, then Doge has become her Silicon Valley Executive branch.
We have been able to have an incomplete list of Doge affiliated people, along with creating a finding table with each member, their corporate history, and agencies connected to them. Readers can check that, and click through it, below. We plan to keep this update because we find more Doge operatives or as well -known affiliates to switch to new agencies.
We focus on new people brought under the second Trump administration or hired directly to agencies – as special government employees (SGEs) or regular employees – who operate as members of Doge teams. It gets a little tricky because there are technical ones Two The dogs established under the President's executive command. There is the US Doge Service (USDS), former US digital service, which is a permanent organization. Then there is a temporary USDS organization, which wraps up on July 4, 2026, and where the SGEs can be hired.
Here's what we learned:
The World of Doge, like standing, seems to be destroyed in nearly three categories: former Trump officials, conservative lawyers, and imports from the Silicon Valley area (funds, founders, technologists, or people connected to them). In this first category we saw people like dog spokesman Katie Miller, the wife of White House's deputy staff leader for policy Stephen Miller. The two of them have been Musk's guides on DC.
In the second category are people like James Burnham and Austin Raynor, both former clerks for the Conservative Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, respectively. Jacob Altik, another conservative attorney at the DOGE SQUAD, was selected to be Clerk for Gorsuch. Jeremy Lewin, who was part of Doge's dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), worked with second lady Usha Vance's former law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson, a firm that has also Tesla represents.
Then, the largest through everything: the imports of the Silicon Valley, one of the most clear themes in the dog's rankings is quite obvious: a connection to Elon Musk. Forty -nine people on our list have Musk connections, his companies, or his larger network. This connection is often by one of his allies or one of his companies. There are obvious people like Steve Davis, president of Musk's Boring Company, who followed Musk throughout the various adventures. . Similarly, Spacex employee Brian Bjelde, who is now in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), has also helped Musk staff to overthrow Twitter staff in 2022.
There are people like many of Young engineers Wired were first known to have been given keys to various government agencies, such as Marko Elez, Luke Farritor, and Edward Coristine, who were all interns or employees at one of the Musk companies: Spacex, Tesla, Xai, X, and Neurink. (Musk is involved with others, but these are the ones he controls.)
