At this point in time, it appears that even Congress does not know who works for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). On February 5th, eight senators sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles asking her to “[p]rovide a list of personnel operating under DOGE, their position or role, and their duties.”
In lieu of government transparency, all that we can rely on are media reports and other already public evidence. That’s why we’re compiling what has been made public in one place.
We will be updating this list as more reporting comes out. If any of these reports are unreliable, or you spot additional information, please email us at [email protected].
- Amanda Scales (source: NYT)
- “Amanda Scales, who until this month worked at Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, is now chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management, a powerful agency that oversees government hiring.”
- Katie Miller (source: Trump)
- Wife of Stephen Miller
- Trump, 12/22/24: “Katie Miller will soon be joining DOGE!”
- Brad Smith (source: Business Insider)
- “A healthcare entrepreneur and former health official”
- “has been steering DOGE during the transition, a source familiar with DOGE’s planning told BI. Smith has been focused on staffing DOGE during the transition and works closely with the Office of Management and Budget”
- Steve Davis (source: WSJ)
- “The day-to-day operations of DOGE have been led by Steve Davis, the president of the Boring Co., Musk’s tunneling company, according to people familiar with the matter.”
- Marc Andreessen (source: Andreessen/NYT)
- Andreessen: “Yeah, I should say I’m helping DOGE on this.”
- Shaun Maguire (source: NYT)
- “Those who have conducted interviews for DOGE include the Silicon Valley investors Marc Andreessen, Shaun Maguire, Baris Akis and others who have a personal connection to Mr. Musk.”
- Baris Akis (source: NYT)
- “Those who have conducted interviews for DOGE include the Silicon Valley investors Marc Andreessen, Shaun Maguire, Baris Akis and others who have a personal connection to Mr. Musk.”
- Chris Gober (source: NYT)
- “Mr. Musk’s personal counsel — Chris Gober — and Mr. Ramaswamy’s personal lawyer — Steve Roberts — have been exploring various legal issues regarding the structure of DOGE.”
- Steve Roberts (source: NYT)
- “Mr. Musk’s personal counsel — Chris Gober — and Mr. Ramaswamy’s personal lawyer — Steve Roberts — have been exploring various legal issues regarding the structure of DOGE.”
- James Burnham (source: NYT)
- “James Burnham, a former Justice Department official, is also helping DOGE with legal matters.”
- Bill McGinley (source: NYT)
- “Bill McGinley, Mr. Trump’s initial pick for White House counsel who was instead named as legal counsel for DOGE, has played a more minimal role.”
- “DOGE’s first reported hire was announced by Trump — not Musk or Ramaswamy — earlier this month. In a Truth Social post on December 4, Trump said that Republican lawyer William Joseph McGinley will serve as the commission’s counsel. McGinley, a former partner at the law firm Jones Day, served as Trump’s White House cabinet secretary from 2017 to 2019.” (Business Insider/Trump)
- Matt Luby (source: NYT)
- “Other people involved include Matt Luby, Mr. Ramaswamy’s chief of staff and childhood friend; Joanna Wischer, a Trump campaign official; and Rachel Riley, a McKinsey partner who works closely with Mr. Smith.”
- Joanna Wischer (source: NYT)
- “Other people involved include Matt Luby, Mr. Ramaswamy’s chief of staff and childhood friend; Joanna Wischer, a Trump campaign official; and Rachel Riley, a McKinsey partner who works closely with Mr. Smith.”
- Rachel Riley (source: NYT)
- “Other people involved include Matt Luby, Mr. Ramaswamy’s chief of staff and childhood friend; Joanna Wischer, a Trump campaign official; and Rachel Riley, a McKinsey partner who works closely with Mr. Smith.”
- Tom Krause (source: Bloomberg)
- “The US Treasury has brought in at least two people connected to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, according to people familiar with the matter: Tom Krause, the chief executive of Cloud Software Group Inc. and Marko Elez, an engineer who has worked for SpaceX and social-media platform X.”
- Marko Elez (source: Bloomberg)
- “The US Treasury has brought in at least two people connected to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, according to people familiar with the matter: Tom Krause, the chief executive of Cloud Software Group Inc. and Marko Elez, an engineer who has worked for SpaceX and social-media platform X.”
- Thomas Shedd (TTS/GSA) (source: WIRED)
- “It was announced last week that Shedd, who previously worked as a software engineer for eight years at Tesla, Musk’s electric car company, would be the new TTS director. In emails to TTS staff, Shedd reinforced the Trump administration’s commitment to cutting costs and maximizing efficiency—something Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been charged with carrying out.”
- WIRED: “In a Monday morning meeting, Thomas Shedd, the recently appointed Technology Transformation Services director and Elon Musk ally, told General Services Administration workers that the agency’s new administrator is pursuing an ‘AI-first strategy,’ sources tell WIRED.”
- Brian Bjelde (source: NYT)
- “Several of Mr. Musk’s top aides have landed senior adviser roles at the Office of Personnel Management. They include Brian Bjelde, a human resources executive at SpaceX who has identified himself as the company’s 14th employee and who played a role in Mr. Musk’s takeover of Twitter, where he helped carry out widespread layoffs.”
- Riccardo Biasini (source: NYT)
- “Several of Mr. Musk’s top aides have landed senior adviser roles at the Office of Personnel Management […] Another arrival is Riccardo Biasini, an executive at the Boring Company, Mr. Musk’s tunneling company, who also joined Mr. Musk’s team at Twitter.”
- Anthony Armstrong (source: NYT)
- “But the most empowered of Mr. Musk’s allies at the Office of Personnel Management has been Anthony Armstrong, a top technology banker at Morgan Stanley who worked on the billionaire’s acquisition of Twitter in 2022.”
- Nicole Hollander (source: AP)
- “Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have homed in on the GSA. An email sent last week from GSA headquarters in Washington instructed regional managers to begin terminating leases on roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide […] According to the employee who spoke to the AP, the initiative is being led by Nicole Hollander, who has been embedded in the GSA’s headquarters in recent days. On her LinkedIn profile, Hollander describes herself as an X employee with a background in real estate, in the Washington area. Hollander’s X account — which shows that she joined in March 2015 but where posts date only to September 2023 — is full of posts related to X’s real estate acquisitions, as well as information about auctions of items from Twitter’s former offices after Musk purchased the platform.”
- Travis Kalanick (source: Business Insider)
- “Silicon Valley appears to have figured prominently in Musk’s work on DOGE. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has reportedly been consulting Silicon Valley leaders, such as venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Uber cofounder turned food tech entrepreneur Travis Kalanick, about his plans for the commission.”
- Michael Kratsios (source: Business Insider/Bloomberg)
- “On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that The Boring Company CEO Steve Davis and former US chief technology officer Michael Kratsios were interviewing potential hires […] Joining Davis is Kratsios, who served as Trump’s top technology advisor during his first administration. Prior to joining the Trump administration, Kratsios was tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s chief of staff and a principal at Thiel Capital.”
- Stephanie Holmes (source: 404 Media)
- “Stephanie Holmes is in charge of HR at DOGE, two people familiar told 404 Media. Holmes is one of many new faces at the agency, which has been rebranded from the United States Digital Service to ‘United States DOGE Service.’”
- “Holmes is the founder of an HR consulting firm called BrighterSideHR and the author of a document called the ‘True Diversity Toolkit,’ published through the conservative Philanthropy Roundtable think tank that recommends employers define DEI as ‘diversity of thought’ or ‘diversity of viewpoint’ rather than through a lens of ‘critical race theory.’”
- Akash Bobba (source: WIRED)
- “WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, tasked by executive order with ‘modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity.’ The engineers all hold nebulous job titles within DOGE, and at least one appears to be working as a volunteer.”
- “The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.”
- Edward Coristine (source: WIRED)
- “The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.”
- Luke Farritor (source: WIRED)
- “The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.”
- Gautier Cole Killian (source: WIRED)
- “The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.”
- Gavin Kliger (source: WIRED)
- “The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.”
- Ethan Shaotran (source: WIRED)
- “The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.”
- Nikhil Rajpal (source: WIRED)
- “An engineer named Nikhil Rajpal is representing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), according to multiple sources.”