Constitutional Crisis: Who Is Musk's "DOGE Army," Gutting Gov't Agencies Despite Legal Questions?

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We look at how Elon Musk's executive branch agency, the Department of Government Efficiency, known as "DOGE," is wreaking havoc, with young male software engineers slashing government services and funding in what legal experts are saying could amount to a "constitutional crisis." Most of the DOGE staffers are pulled from Musk-linked tech companies and have limited work and educational experience. "Even if these young men are very technically gifted … some of them seem to have questionable backgrounds," says Wired reporter Vittoria Elliott, who has revealed key details about the staffers in a series of articles. One DOGE staffer, Marko Elez, resigned and was later reinstated after he was traced to racist social media posts. DOGE's lack of oversight, training and transparency poses "an incredible risk," adds Elliott, as its unvetted and underqualified staffers take control of the sensitive data of Americans.

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1. That's just six. Here are more.

Steve Davis/Nicole Hollander
Amanda Scales 34, OPM xAI
Tom Krause (CEO at Treasury)
Marc Andreeson (supports DOGE)
Larry Ellison
Thomas Shedd installed director of the Technology Transformation Services within GSA
Stephen Ehikian Stanford (Sales Force) oversees GSA
Edward Coristine, A-Suite engineer who previously interned at Neuralink +
Ethan Shaotran, A-Suite engineer, a Harvard senior who is developing his own OpenAI-backed scheduling assistant ’Spark’

engineers -
Akash Bobba, UC Berkeley, Bridgewater Assocs
Edward Coristine, Northeastern, Neuralink, Uber
Luke Farritor, SpaceX intern, Thiel ‘fellow’ NE droput
Gautier Cole Killian,
Gavin Kliger, UC Berkeley, Databricks
Ethan Shaotran Harvard CompSci major
Cole Killian — McGill, Jump Trading (fin. trades)

DOGE LAWYERS have DOGE email addresses at the Executive Office of the President

Jacob Altik,graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Altik was selected to clerk for Gorsuch

James Burnham, 41 General Counsel
Connected to: Executive Office of the President

Keenan D. Kmiec, 45 Lawyer
Connected to: Executive Office of the President


More DOGE employees, so far, across government agencies

Armstrong, 57 Senior Adviser to the Director
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management
Musk link: Worked on Musk’s purchase of Twitter

Riccardo Biasini, 39 Senior Adviser to the Director
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management
Musk link: Former engineer at Tesla, executive at the Boring Company

Brian Bjelde, 44 Senior Adviser
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management
Musk link: Vice president of people operations at SpaceX

Nikhil Rajpal, 30 Expert
Connected to: Office of Personnel Management
Musk link: Former Twitter employee

Nate Cavanaugh, 28
Connected to: General Services Administration

Justin Monroe, 36 Adviser
Connected to: FBI
Musk link: Senior director for security at SpaceX

Rachel Riley, 33 Senior Adviser in the Office of the Secretary
Connected to: Department of Health and Human Services

Michael Russo, 67 Chief Information Officer
Connected to: Social Security Administration
Musk link: Former chief technology officer of Starlink payment processor Shift4 Payments

Thomas Shedd, 28 Federal Acquisition Service Deputy Commissioner and Director of Technology Transformation Services
Connected to: General Services Administration
Musk link: Software engineer at Tesla

Brad Smith, 42 friend of J. Kushner, in Op Warp Speed

Christopher Stanley, 33
Musk link: Senior director for security engineering at X and principal engineer at SpaceX
Assisted in release of Jan 6 rioters on Jan 21 2025


Stephanie Holmes 43 Human Resources

Katie Miller, 33 Spokesperson (wife of Stephen Miller)

Baris Akis

found on ProPublica and WIRED