Musk Launched Secret DOGE Takeover While Biden Was Still in Office
Source: The Daily Beast
Musk Launched Secret DOGE Takeover While Biden Was Still in Office
DOGE manager Amy Gleason rejoined the U.S. Digital Service in December and recommended it hire Musk’s engineers.
Janna Brancolini
Published Feb. 28 2025 11:21AM EST
Elon Musk began his top-secret Department of Government Efficiency takeover of the federal government while former President Joe Biden was still in office.
The world’s richest man was able to hit the ground running on President Donald Trump’s first day in office because his team had already begun infiltrating the U.S. Digital Service—an agency former President Barack Obama created in 2014 to help government departments fix tech problems, which Trump renamed DOGE—in December and had gathered key intel from across government agencies, according to a new report from The New York Times.
In just over a month, Musk’s nebulous cost-cutting task force, DOGE, has inserted itself into more than 20 agencies and tried to access at least seven databases with private personal and financial information about millions of Americans, the Times reported.
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The Times investigation revealed that after Trump’s victory, Musk began brainstorming a new government efficiency task force with Vivek Ramaswamy, who was supposed to co-lead the initiative but later backed out; billionaire investor Howard Lutnick, who is now Trump’s secretary of Commerce; and a health care entrepreneur named Brad Smith, who had worked with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner during his first term.
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