Search Results for

Corporate Connections: Intern at Meta, intern at Palantir, engineering intern at Bridgewater Associates Hedge Fund

DOGE Deployments: OPM, GSA, Education

Musk Connections: Former engineer at Tesla, Director of Electrical and Software Engineering at the Boring Company
Other Corporate Affiliations: Driver assist technology startup Comma.ai
DOGE Deployment: Office of Personnel Management

Musk Connections: 21 years at SpaceX, currently Vice President of Human Resources. Previously occupied a number of management positions. Described as a “Musk insider,” Bjelde was one of the first employees at SpaceX. 

Other Corporate Connections: Bjelde is an investor in a self-piloting drone company called Rain.

Musk Connections: Former employee at xAI
Other Corporate Affiliations: Former employee at Uber
DOGE Deployments: Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

Musk Connections: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: COO Kukun; Director of Worldwide Marketing at Pepsi Cola International; Head of OEM Marketing at Microsoft
DOGE Deployments: Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Hearings, investigations, letters, and longshots: Four ways the Democrats can conduct Congressional Oversight as the minority party.

There’s mounting evidence that Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary is not telling the truth about DOGE’s infiltration of the federal payments system.

Musk Connections: Firm invested in SpaceX, xAI, and $400 million in Musk’s X (formerly Twitter)
Other Corporate Affiliations: Co-Founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz 
DOGE Deployment: Unofficial advisor

Musk Connections: Lawyer at Munger, Tolles & Olson, which has represented Tesla
Other Corporate Affiliations: Worked at investment banking firm Houlihan Lokey 
DOGE Deployment: Head of team at USAID, assigned to General Services Administration and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Musk Connections: Director and Treasurer of America PAC
Other Corporate Affiliations: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
DOGE Deployments: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Musk Connections: Former Twitter and Tesla Engineer 
DOGE Deployments: Consumer Finance Protection Bureau and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

After a week of rumors that the Trump administration was planning to implement severe cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), it happened—though the White House reportedly denied that it would. This past Friday, senior officials were informed that 5200 relatively recent hires would be fired across multiple agencies at HHS, with 1300 at the CDC specifically. 

Musk Connections: Intern at SpaceX; Intern at Starlink
Other Corporate Affiliations: Thiel Fellow
DOGE Deployment: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; State Department; USAID; General Services Administration; Education Department; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Energy Department

Corporate Affiliations: Engineer at Databricks
DOGE Deployment: Internal Revenue Service; Office of Personnel Management; General Services Administration; Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; USAID