In the efforts that were started shortly after the creation of Dogel, Propublica has now identified more than 100 private sector executives, Silicon Valley engineers and investors, major US banks and technology startups enrolled to help President Donald Trump dramatically reduce the US government.
While Elon Musk departed The Department of Government Efficiency, the richest person in the world leaves a network of psalms built into almost every federal agency.
At least 38 DOGE members are currently working or worked in the Musk, propublica, found in the examination of their resumes and other records. At least nine invested in their musk companies or in their stock, shows the availability of available forms of financial disclosure.
PROPUBLICA has found that at least 23 Doge officials make a reduction in federal agencies regulating the industries that use them potentially creating significant conflicts. Eg Upon possession of stocks at the agency’s companies regulated.
At least 12 left, on paper, employees or advisers of the companies in which they worked before DOGE shows a review of the forms of financial disclosure. And at least nine continue to receive corporate payments from their private sector employers, including health insurance, stock harvesting plans, or retirement savings. These employment can create a situation in which the DOGE employee will form a federal policy that affects their employer.
People standing for the doge are largely men in the 20th and 30s, most of whom do not bring government experience to the task. Many of them previously worked in finance.
The Propublica List is the largest information organization of its kind – allows readers to get a comprehensive understanding of the background of people designed by one of the Trump administration. This comes to the crucial moment, as some first -generation DOGE members leave the government and join a new crop.
“Despite the fact that Elon Musk and some of his top officials move their attention to other issues, I do not see the signs that the members of the DOGE team are slowing down their work to check the legal and ethical use of technologies in the name of the improvement of public services,” said Elizabeth Lired, director.
While Trump administration claims This is the most transparent in history, the cattle works, shrouded in the bureaucracy.
Many of his staff have removed their public profiles, wiped their professional origin, or were encouraged by the leadership not to discuss their work with your friends. By the freedom of Trump administration, the Supreme Court stopped the court ruling Friday that would require DOGE to transfer the information to Government watchman – Difficult, whether the group will be submitted to public records. The Trump administration has banned the staff publicly without approval.
To illuminate this secret group, PROPUBLICA started reporting in February about the influence of Musk in Trump administration, Cataloging who was part of the doge And how billionaire Tech Mogul’s associates held senior positions on agencies. Our Doge Tracker, the first such list published by the media, is the culmination of hundreds of conversations with sources all over the government.
Today we add 23 employees to our tracker, Taking the total amount of up to 109. They are distributed throughout the government, from the Ministry of Defense to the Administration of General Services to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
And we reveal the DOGE team makeup in the Defense Department, a group consisting mainly of Tech Startup founders. According to the former senior official of the Pentagon, they were headed by a former special forces soldiers who turned into a technological entrepreneur Inon Weiss, who made anonymity, fearing retribution. Weiss has repeatedly appeared on Fox News, pushing the United States to do more to support Israeli military operations in Gaza. He did not respond to a comment request.
In an interview, the White House official praised Dage, which states that “attracting people outside is exactly what this federal government needs after a decade of stagnant bureaucrats who allowed the status – the US people were wound.”
A White House spokesman said the public “did not need” to know who is in Dogel and claimed that there were no violations of conflicts.
“For decades we managed to work without the names of these people,” the official said. “No need to know the intrigue of the palace of the one who works in the building.”
Musk defended Dage’s work as “common sense” and “not Draconian and radical”. He did not respond to a comment request.
Musk retreat from Washington comes after its company electric cars tesla splashed amid economic shocks – caused by its own mixture Reduced commitment and some shareholders are reportedly Loss of confidence In his leadership. His relationship with Trump has broken when the billionaire exploded the president’s budget, Trump threatens to abolish the Moscow and Musk government call for impeachment of the president.
As this crack affects the dot, it is not yet visible, but the White House has already asked for $ 45 million to finance the group’s operations Next year. Management Management and budget document The show.
One of the main lieutenants Musk, Steve Davis who reported propublica Acting as the actual group leader is also a government. Davis ruled Dage from the commissioner’s set on the sixth floor of the GSA. Some Believe me, Loyalist Trump and Director OMB Russell UcArchitect of the project 2025 who once said he wants put federal workers in injury, Take Dodge Rechate.
Questioned the results
Whether it has reached its mission – to reduce the federal bureaucracy by a more streamlined and effective labor – is far from understanding.
Initially, Musk stated that the initiative will save taxpayers in 2 trillion. He later amended this figure, believing that in April, it would reduce $ 150 billion from public debt this year. 180 billion dollars savings that DOGE is claiming your web -sight were under close attention from the media centers that raised doubts in their precision Search Errors In accounting Canceled DEGE contracts.
However, the dog fired tens of thousands of federal workers and Humanitarian aid rescued Programs domestically and abroad. Here comes in push some Critical civil servants in health, science and security.
To make our list, Propublica monitored the branches where DOGE staff used to be worked. We have looked at the professional experience they brought to the government and whether their assignments in Doge can create a conflict of interest. PROPUBLICA, which is conducted through archival resumes, federal forms of financial disclosure, online baza data and other documents. We interviewed more than two dozen federal workers, some of whom have shared internal agencies, the calendar invites other material reflections of DOGE. We have addressed the comments from all that are listed in our trackers. Most gave up our requests.
With the introduction of DOGE in the after the mask, here are our main conclusions:
Potential interests are increasing.
One 25-year-old software engineer helped DOGE reduce agency staff even after he was warned lawyers on ethics In order to do nothing that can increase the cost of $ 715,000, which it owns in the company regulated companies. The White House said the assistant who has left CFPB since then “did not even cope” with dismissal and called the allegations “another attempt to reduce the critical Mission of Doge.” Another DEGE employee, political advisor Musk, was paid from 100 001 and 1 million dollars One of the boss companies -the millionaire, simultaneously overseeing employees, is reduced in CFPB. No employee responded to comment requests.
These and other cases of DOGE staff who oversee state operations that may benefit their financial interests pushed three democratic legislators to Ask the Ministry of Justice, State Officials and General Inspectors to investigate the investigation.
The administration complicated the evaluation of such financial agreements. So far, federal agencies have released only 22 forms of financial disclosure of information For more than 100 DOGE members that require Propublica.
The image of Dogel as a group of computer engineers is not quite correct.
Doge 100 with a plus comes from different professions: 29 were executives, 28 engineers, 16-investors, and 12 were from legal origin. Scattered several others previously worked in cybersecurity, design and science.
More employees come from finance than any other area. Private capital investor Michael Cole, founder of the Capital shareholder, worked, for example, in the Agricultural Department. Cole did not respond to a comment request.
Doge employees are mostly young people with limited government experience.
Under Trump and Musk, the rain became in many ways male formation. Of the 109 propublica employees, 90 are men, and 19 women, which is 83% of men. This is a much higher percentage of men than to work in the executive as a whole, where 54% of men’s employees, according to 2024 from the staff management.
Many young and inexperienced. More than 60% of DOGE staff make up the 20s or 30s. One was 19 when he joined. The percentage of the number of employees under 30 in the DOGE is about three times higher than in the executive department as a whole.
Employees for whom propublica has determined the age, 28 – 29 and younger, 35 – from 30 to 39, and 36 – 40 and older. The oldest is 67.
Few people had experience in the state or federal government. PROPUBLICA has identified 21 DOGE employees with previous government roles, including Doj and NASA. This means that more than 80% have joined the government’s dismantling without working before the government.
These employees continue to dismiss ancient federal employees, reduce budgets and stifle state programs while defending the administration that pushed to avoid their maneuvers in the focus.
Some experts believe that Dage’s secrecy was part of her general strategy, allowing her to obscure her work from government guards and vessels.
“It is harder to stop what they do when you don’t know what they do or who is doing it,” said Vera Williams, director of the effective and accountable state program in a non -partisan, non -profit project for the supervision of the government. “It is inherently bad that these people come from the borders of the government. This is what they lack in the methods used to disclose waste and ineffectiveness.”
