CEO Musk's 80-member DOGE is his executive branch until July 2026 -- WIRED

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To see the full interactive list of 56 DOGE members' corporate connections, use the full link:
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-silicon-valley-corporate-connections/


"... There’s the US DOGE Service (USDS), formerly the US Digital Service, that’s a permanent organization. Then there’s the temporary USDS organization, which wraps up on July 4, 2026, and through which SGEs [Special Govt Employees] can be hired.
Here’s what we’ve learned:
The DOGE world, as it stands, seems to break down into roughly three categories:
former Trump officials,
conservative lawyers, and
imports from the Silicon Valley area (funders, founders, technologists, or people connected to them).
In that first category we find people like DOGE spokesperson Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller. The two of them have been Musk’s guides to DC.

In that second category are people like James Burnham and Austin Raynor, both former clerks for conservative Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, respectively. Jacob Altik, another conservative lawyer on the DOGE squad, has been selected to clerk for Gorsuch. Jeremy Lewin, who was part of DOGE’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), worked with Second Lady Usha Vance’s former law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson, a firm that has also represented Tesla.

Then, the biggest throughline of all ... a connection to Elon Musk. Forty-nine people on our list have connections to Musk, his companies, or his greater network. This connection is most often through one of his allies or one of his companies. There are the obvious people like Steve Davis, president of Musk’s Boring Company, who have followed Musk across his various ventures. (Davis previously worked at SpaceX and assisted Musk in his overhaul of X, formerly Twitter.) Davis spearheaded the DOGE recruitment efforts before inauguration day and has continued to play a pivotal role in the organization.

...members of the administration have asserted that there is no conflict of interest between members of DOGE or DOGE affiliates and their work in government. But that becomes harder to believe when people like Musk and others in government—who benefit from government contracts—continue to hold positions in the private sector. Particularly when those companies, not the government, could be their ultimate return destination...."