When President Donald Trump announced his initiative to reduce expenses, he had no doubt who he intended to launch him: Elon Musk. However, the issues of the sphere of powers of Musk have since abandoned the recently established Department of Government efficiency.
When Dodge began to order mass reducing and dismissal, and those who suffered from moves began to raise questions in the press and in court about their legality, the administration officials who accept the exact role of Musk, claiming that he was simply a high -ranking advisor to the president and had no official office.
Five weeks after the creation and pressure, the White House showed up a cascade of lawsuits that in late February revealed that an incomprehensible bureaucrat named Amy Glison acted as an administrator of Dogel from almost the first day.
However, Propublica revealed that it appears to be not managing the budget reducing, in an interview with six acting and former government officials. Everyone acted on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing work.
“I feel that Amy is in the role of a scapegoat,” said one of the sources, which was at meetings with Glenson.
The exact chain of the team in DOGE is not clear to most federal staff who oppose the team. But the sources reported propublica that long -standing lieutenant Moscow Steve Davis, a former executive director of the sad company Musk and Spacex appears to be managing daily operations. And sometimes Musk himself publishes the teams from within the military recruitment in the executive office of Eisenhower, next to the White House, said a man acquainted with this issue.
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“I don’t know who even Amy Glisson,” said one person who cooperated closely with the Dage leadership at the Federal Agency. “Davis is holding the show.”
Musk, Davis and Glison did not respond to comment requests.
Since the dog was created Executive order January 20 Trump administration went a large length To put the legal distance between Moscow and the subject, saying that he is neither an employee nor his head. And despite the fact that the order creates the role of the administrator – anyone who coordinates with the White House and helps to post teams within agencies – the Trump administration rejected questions about who was in this position for more than a month.
The arrangement confused the judges who control the problems of the dogean authorities. “The whole operation raises questions,” said US District Judge Theodore Chuian, adding that the lack of clarity was “very suspicious”.
This installation may complicate that Musk violated the laws on conflicts of interest, which, as a rule, prohibit federal employees from participating in state matters that affect their own business interests.
Refusing that Musk is a legal administrator of DOGE, “he gets it more and it can complicate the violation,” said Richard Payner, a former ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration.
In an interview with Fox News, Musk dismissed by Conflict concern, saying, “I will deny myself” when there are problems.
The report that Gleison posted between daily operations Musk and Dogel appeared awkward: Glesson was on a vacation in Mexico when Trump’s press -secretary Caroline called her acting administrator of the journalist group in Washington. Gleison told his colleagues that the White House did not coordinate with her.
Other parts of the deployment were equally surprised: Levitus claimed that Glesson was an administrator of almost his creation – but colleagues stated that Glison started only holding meetings for about a month in the administration with a small group of careers that preceded the Trump administration.
Meanwhile, Glison told her former colleagues in Nashville, Tennessee – where she recently worked as a head of health care technology – she planned to return there in a few short months.
One of the government workers, who was at meetings with Glisson, called it “a man with virtually no real decision -making.”
In recent weeks, she has revealed so many colleagues at meetings where she made it clear that she did not participate in the cutting of the DOGE budget, which put humanitarian programs in danger and made thousands of employees leave work, sources that were at these meetings, propublica reported.
One of the reasons is that it is so difficult to secure, who is responsible for the doge: it contains two separate teams that are almost completely exposed from each other.
In the formation of doge, Trump Composed the essence In the existing digital US service, a small unit of technical experts located in the White House are focused on improving state software platforms. While Dodge, on paper, has a similar mission, the actual work of the Musk group was much more expanse, such as Cutting the financing to the programs and Access to sensitive data systems like propublica and other media report.
In recent weeks, many digital Holdover services Workers have resigned Either a small group of dozens of federal technologists remains fired. Gleison is only responsible for this smaller group, sources said.
Officials who worked with Glenson who served in the digital service during Trump and Biden administrations spoke highly about their mission devotion. One noted that it helped to update healthcare technologies throughout the government, such as the COVID-19-19-19 test results during a pandemic.
“My feeling of her initial expectations was that USDS would have synergies with Dogel … while making government work is better,” said a former colleague. “She did not expect Dodge to come and demonstrate USDS.”
The secrecy associated with the appointment of glosson spreads to the whole dodge. The Trump administration offered meek information about its employees – except when the trials are forced. Seeking to get a more accurate understanding of how the group works, Propublica spent weeks, determining and filling her staff.
Among them are engineers, lawyers, technology managers and consultants. Many were recruited from Moscow, including SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink, or the firms owned by his business partner. Today, Propublica adds 20 names to our list, which has led to 66 years. No one responded to comment requests.
Some of them were enlisted in control over the cuts in the agencies that carried out the industry where they had previously worked.
Dozh has appointed Tyler Hasen, head of the energy industry, to the Department of Internal Affairs. Scott Langmak and Michael Alexander Mirsky – two heads of real estate firms – were spotted at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. And former Tesla’s former lawyer Daniel Abrahamson worked at the Dage in the Transport Department – the agency reportedly in the midst Several investigations over the safety of Teslas. Tesla is secured Security of his vehicles.
None of the DOGE employees responded to a comment request. The Department of Internal Affairs said he did not comment on the staff, adding that there was no “DOGE” employees and the transport department did not respond to a comment request.
Three Propublica Names are added to our SpaceX Musk engineers tracker, which were issued by Trump administration lawyers from Trump administration to do a job that can potentially benefit one of Moscow companies. SPACEX, which includes an online satellite service Starlink, and Verizon is reportedly reported Competition for control According to the Washington Post of $ 2.4 billion.
Space answers Before this report, the report on X. “Recent media reports about SpaceX and FAA are false,” the statement said. “There is no effort and intentions to” take “any existing contract”. FAA did not respond to a comment request.
Publicly Musk continues to defend the Dage’s mission. “People voted for major government reform,” he said, “and that’s what people are going.”
Kirsten Berg. Al show and Andy Krol contributed to the report.
