Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government

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  • Amanda Scales

    Chief of staff, Office of Personnel Management

    Ms. Scales, who worked at Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence company, has a senior role at the Office of Personnel Management, a powerful agency that manages government hiring.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

    Company involvement: xAI

  • Katie Miller

    Senior adviser

    Ms. Miller, a longtime aide to Mr. Trump, acts as a senior adviser to the operation. The president called her a “deeply experienced communications professional” when he named her to the team as one of the first hires.

  • Riccardo Biasini

    Top aide to Musk

    Mr. Biasini is one of many aides of Mr. Musk who traveled with him to multiple companies before joining the government effort. Among other roles he has held, he is an executive at the Boring Company, Mr. Musk’s tunneling business.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

    Company involvement: X, The Boring Company

  • Anthony Armstrong

    Senior adviser, Office of Personnel Management

    Mr. Armstrong is a former Morgan Stanley banker who worked on Mr. Musk’s deal to buy Twitter. He now serves as a senior adviser to the Office to Personnel Management.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

    Company involvement: X

  • Jennifer Balajadia

    Mr. Musk’s assistant

    Ms. Balajadia is Mr. Musk’s longtime assistant, and she has email addresses at multiple federal agencies — a sign of her reach across the bureaucracy, alongside Mr. Musk’s.

    Agency involvement: Department of Education

    Company involvement: The Boring Company

  • Adam Ramada

    DOGE liaison, Education and Labor Departments

    Mr. Ramada comes from a background in finance start-ups, and he has identified himself in lawsuits as the head of teams assigned to the Education and Labor Departments. He has been described by people involved in meetings with him as a liaison between Elon Musk’s engineers and political appointees in the government.

    Agency involvement: General Services Administration, Department of Education, Department of Labor

  • Brooks Morgan

    Education start-up executive

    Mr. Morgan comes from the private sector with experience running an education start-up. He has been described by people at the Education Department as focused on the agency’s work force and budget.

    Agency involvement: Department of Education

  • Tarak Makecha

    Finance executive

    Before DOGE, Mr. Makecha worked as a finance executive at a software company that detects drones. He has been involved in meetings with the State Department and on foreign aid.

    Agency involvement: State Department

    Company involvement: Tesla

  • Scott Langmack

    DOGE liason, Housing and Urban Development

    Mr. Langmack is a businessman who has worked in real estate technology. He has been embedded at the Housing and Urban Development Department.

    Agency involvement: Department of Housing and Urban Development

  • Rachel Riley

    Adviser, Health and Human Services

    Ms. Riley is a former consultant with McKinsey, the global consulting giant. She is working at the Department of Health and Human Services and has worked closely with Brad Smith. The two requested access to payment systems at the Medicare agency, according to a document seen by The Times.

    Agency involvement: Department of Health and Human Services

  • Tom Krause

    Senior Treasury official

    Mr. Krause has been leading DOGE efforts to review the Treasury Department’s payment systems, which contain sensitive information about millions of Americans. He clashed with a top civil servant at the Treasury, who resisted giving Mr. Krause access to the systems and later resigned from his job. Mr. Krause has since been named to that civil servant’s job, with oversight of the nation’s fiscal systems.

    Agency involvement: Treasury Department

  • Marko Elez

    Software engineer

    Mr. Elez is a former X employee who has been granted access to the Treasury Department’s payments system. A history of racist social media posts led him to resign from DOGE in February. But he was quickly reinstated after Vice President JD Vance came to his defense.

    Agency involvement: Treasury Department

    Company involvement: X, SpaceX, xAI

  • Ryan Wunderly

    Special adviser, Treasury Department

    Mr. Wunderly was hired to fill Marko Elez’s vacant role at the Treasury, which gives him read-only access to the department’s payments system, according to a court filing.

    Agency involvement: Treasury Department

  • Edward Coristine

    Software engineer

    Mr. Coristine is one of the youngest DOGE staffers, having graduated high school last year. A coder who interned at Neuralink, one of Mr. Musk’s companies, Mr. Coristine was fired from another internship at a tech firm after an investigation into the leaking of internal information.

    Agency involvement: General Services Administration, United States Agency for International Development, Department of Education

    Company involvement: Neuralink

  • Luke Farritor

    Software engineer

    Few of Mr. Musk’s aides have been spotted at as many federal agencies as Mr. Farritor, a prize-winning computer scientist who dropped out of college. He has spent a significant amount of time at the General Services Administration, interviewing tech staff members about their work.

    Agency involvement: General Services Administration, United States Agency for International Development, Centers for Disease Control, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Department of Energy, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services

    Company involvement: SpaceX

  • Christopher Stanley

    Software engineer

    Mr. Stanley has worked for Elon Musk at SpaceX and X in security engineering roles. He recently was involved in helping to release Jan. 6 prisoners.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management, Department of Justice

    Company involvement: X, SpaceX

  • Ethan Shaotran

    Software engineer

    Mr. Shaotran is part of the cadre of young coders. He founded an artificial intelligence start-up that received funding from OpenAI, a major player in tech and one of Mr. Musk’s chief competitors in A.I.

    Agency involvement: General Services Administration, Department of Education

  • Alexandra Beynon

    Software engineer

    Ms. Beynon is a former head of engineering at a company that prescribes ketamine therapy. She applied to work at the U.S. Digital Service, the executive office tech unit that was taken over by DOGE, just before Mr. Trump’s inauguration in January.

    Agency involvement: Department of Education

  • Gavin Kliger

    Software engineer

    Mr. Kliger, who has no government experience, has emerged as one of Mr. Musk’s most prolific foot soldiers. He has clashed with security officials at U.S.A.I.D. and sought access to sensitive taxpayer data at the I.R.S.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management, United States Agency for International Development, Internal Revenue Service

  • Jordan Wick

    Software engineer

    Mr. Wick is among the young coders working at DOGE, and he worked at Waymo, the self-driving car company. He also co-founded a hackathon aimed at developing A.I. software for government infrastructure.

    Agency involvement: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  • Cole Killian

    Software engineer

    Mr. Killian is among the young coders working at DOGE and is listed as a detailee at the Environmental Protection Agency, a designation often given to those on temporary assignment.

    Agency involvement: Environmental Protection Agency

  • Greg Hogan

    Software engineer

    With a background in software engineering and A.I., Mr. Hogan has taken over the technology office at Office of Personnel Management.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

  • Ryan Riedel

    Network security engineer

    Mr. Riedel left an engineering role at SpaceX to join the Energy Department as chief information officer, according to his LinkedIn account. The account also includes prior information technology roles in the U.S. military.

    Agency involvement: Department of Energy

    Company involvement: SpaceX

  • Nikhil Rajpal

    Software engineer

    Mr. Rajpal is part of the group of young coders at DOGE who have gone into various federal agencies to carry out Mr. Musk’s directives.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  • Akash Bobba

    Software engineer

    Mr. Bobba is among the young coders at DOGE. He interned at Palantir, which was founded by Peter Thiel, a longtime Republican backer who has a long, on-again-off-again history with Mr. Musk.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management, General Services Administration

  • James Burnham

    DOGE’s top lawyer

    Mr. Burnham is a well-known conservative attorney who has provided oversight of legal work for the team.

  • Brian Bjelde

    Top aide to Musk

    Mr. Bjelde helped carry out widespread layoffs at X and was an early executive at SpaceX, where he worked in human resources — experience that carries over to his new role at the Office of Personnel Management.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

    Company involvement: X, SpaceX

  • Kendall Lindemann

    Human resources staffer

    Ms. Lindemann is an associate of Brad Smith and Amy Gleason who is now working on the team in a human resources and operations role.

    Agency involvement: United States Digital Service

  • Stephanie Holmes

    Human resources staffer, Office of Personnel Management

    Ms. Holmes is a human resources consultant whose practice focuses on pushing back against corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs. She has joined DOGE and been working on federal work force projects for the operation.

  • Christina Hanna

    Human resources staffer, Office of Personnel Management

    Ms. Hanna worked at SpaceX and is a former H.R. manager for Mr. Musk. She now works at the Office of Personnel Management.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

    Company involvement: SpaceX

  • Stephen Duarte

    Human resources staffer, Office of Personnel Management

    Mr. Duarte worked at SpaceX and is a former H.R. manager for Mr. Musk. He now works at the Office of Personnel Management.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

    Company involvement: SpaceX

  • Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski

    Human resources staffer, Office of Personnel Management

    Ms. Mlodzianowski worked at SpaceX and is a former H.R. manager for Mr. Musk. She now works at the Office of Personnel Management.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

    Company involvement: SpaceX

  • Mr. Lewin is a Harvard Law School graduate who has been part of DOGE teams entering several federal agencies, including U.S.A.I.D. and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He once worked as a research assistant for Laurence Tribe, a liberal legal scholar.

    Agency involvement: General Services Administration, United States Agency for International Development, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  • Mr. Altik is a lawyer who was selected to clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. In private practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a prominent firm, he focused on litigating complex business disputes in state and federal courts.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

  • Mr. Peters is a lawyer who served in the first Trump administration and has a specialty in labor and employment issues. He is now working at the Office of Personnel Management.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

  • Mr. Raynor is an attorney who has worked for the Justice Department and once clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He now works for the Office of Personnel Management.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management

  • Michael Russo

    Chief information officer, Social Security Administration

    Before joining the Social Security Administration, Mr. Russo was an executive at a tech company that processes payments for Mr. Musk’s Starlink.

    Agency involvement: Social Security Administration

    Company involvement: Starlink

  • Frank Schuler

    Real estate executive

    Mr. Schuler is a partner in a real estate investment firm based in Atlanta and has an email address at the General Services Administration, which manages the federal government’s property portfolio.

  • Nicole Hollander

    Real estate manager, General Services Administration

    With a background in real estate management, Ms. Hollander has followed her husband, Steve Davis, into federal government. She previously aided Mr. Musk after he bought Twitter and is now responsible for the assessment of federal buildings and leases through the General Services Administration.

    Agency involvement: General Services Administration

    Company involvement: X

  • Joanna Wischer

    Policy analyst

    Ms. Wischer was a policy analyst and speechwriter for the Trump presidential campaign.

  • Justin Monroe

    Expert, Office of Personnel Management

    Mr. Monroe is listed as an “expert” at the Office of Personnel Management. He previously worked as a security director at SpaceX.

    Agency involvement: Office of Personnel Management, Federal Bureau of Investigation

    Company involvement: SpaceX

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