Since the first days of the Trump administration, Elon Musk's The so -called effectiveness of the Government (DOGE) has been everywhere in the federal government, moving quickly and breaking everything. Over a few weeks, Doge cooperatives have spread over dozens Government agencies As they tried end Tens of thousands of federal staff. With too much focus on the place where Doge will go, Wired wants to defeat to consider where they go and what we can tell us about how they think about shaping the federal government.
Big Takeaway: Many of the Doge group from Musk's world. If Musk is the US CEO, Doge has become Silicon Valley Executive branch.
We have outlined a list of people who are unable to associate with Doge, including creating a table that can be searched for each member, their company history and the agencies they have connected. Readers can check that and click on it, below. We plan to continue updating this when we find many Doge cooperatives or as branches have known to move to new agencies.
We focus on those who are new to the second Trump administration or are directly hired into agencies, as a special government employee (SGES) or regular employees who are active as a member of DOGE groups. This is a bit difficult because of technical two Doges was established under the executive command of the president. There is Doge US service (USDS), formerly the US digital service, which is a permanent organization. After that, there was a temporary USDS organization, ending on July 4, 2026 and through which SGE could be hired.
This is what we have learned:
Doge world, as for now, seems to be divided into three types: former Trump officials, conservative lawyers and imported from the Silicon Valley area (sponsors, founder, technology or people connected to them). In that first category, we found people like the spokesman for Doge Katie Miller, the wife of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for the Stephen Miller policy. The two of them were The instructions of the musk come to DC.
In the second type are people like James Burnham and Austin Raynor, both former secretaries for judges of the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, respectively. Jacob Altik, another conservative lawyer in the Doge team, was chosen as a secretary for Gorsuch. Jeremy Lewin, part of Dogo's United States International Development Agency (USAID), has worked with the former law firm of Lady Usha Vance Munger, Tolles & Olson, a company also has Representing Tesla.
Then, through the largest of all: among those silicon valley importers, one of the most obvious topics on Doge ranks is quite clear: A relationship with Elon Musk. Forty -nine people on our list are connected to Musk, his company or his larger network. This connection most often through one of his allies or one of his companies. There are clear people like Steve Davis, president of Musk's boring company, who followed Musk through his different projects. . Similarly, the staff of SpaceX Brian Bjelde, currently at the Human Resource Management Office (OPM), has also helped Musk narrow the Twitter staff in 2022.
There are people like many of the numbers Young engineer Wired was first identified as a person who was awarded the key to different government agencies, such as Marko Elez, Luke Farritor and Edward Cristine, all of which were trainees or employees at one of Musk's companies: SpaceX, Tesla, Xai, X and Neuralink. (Musk has joined others, but these are the people he controls.)