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DOGE

Elon Musk's advisory body driving federal workforce cuts and spending reductions.

  1. 2026

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  2. 2025

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Key figures in DOGE

139 figures
Elon Musk
Head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
Donald Trump
45th President of the United States
Russell Vought
Director, Office of Management and Budget
Linda McMahon
Education secretary
Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator (D-OR)
Scott Bessent
U.S. Treasury Secretary
Earl Warren
U.S. Senator (D-MA), Ranking Member, Senate Banking Committee
Vivek Ramaswamy
Initial DOGE co-leader; resigned January 20, 2025 (Inauguration Day) to pursue Ohio governor''s race, leaving Musk in sole control.
Brooke Rollins
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
DOGE
Gerry Connolly
President, American Council of Learned Societies (lead plaintiff organization)
Kristi Noem
Secretary of Homeland Security and FEMA Review Council chair
Lee Zeldin
EPA administrator
Lindsay James
New York Attorney General
Marco Rubio
U.S. Secretary of State
Bureau of the Fiscal Service
Charles Ezell
Acting OPM Director who issued the RIF guidance memorandum to agencies setting March 13 and April 14 deadlines.
Colleen McMahon
Senior U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York (appointed 1998 by President Clinton)
Congress
Curtis Yarvin
Neoreactionary philosopher whose ideas influence administration allies
Hakeem Jeffries
U.S. Representative - NY District 8
JD Vance
Vice President of the United States
John Thune
Senate Majority Leader (R-SD)
Justin Fox
DOGE senior advisor to the Acting Administrator of the General Services Administration, deployed to NEH in early 2025
Karoline Leavitt
White House Press Secretary
Mark Johnson
House speaker
Marko Elez
DOGE software engineer, Treasury Department (January 21 – February 6, 2025)
Michael Anton
State Department Director of Policy Planning who discussed Yarvin ideas
Michael McDonald
NEH Acting Chairman (March 2025 to January 2026) and NEH General Counsel
Nate Cavanaugh
Former DOGE staffer, co-lead of NEH; led U.S. Institute for Peace DOGE team
Pete Hegseth
Secretary of Defense
Peter Thiel
Billionaire investor who funded both Yarvin and Vance campaigns
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Health and Human Services Secretary
Shelley Moore Capito
U.S. Representative - WV
Treasury Department
Vice President JD Vance
49th Vice President of the United States
Adam Wolfson
NEH Assistant Chair for Programs
Albert Fox Cahn, Executive Director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project
publicly characterized DOGE’s practices as “about as serious a privacy threat as you get.”
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
Federal workers union
Andrew Percoco
Morgan Stanley analyst who took over Tesla coverage from Adam Jonas
Andy Harris
Chair of the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee (R-Maryland)
Becky Pringle
Union leader
Beryl Howell
U.S. District Judge, District of Columbia
Brian Babin
U.S. Representative - TX District 36
Charles Borges
Former SSA Chief Data Officer (whistleblower)
CISA
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
U.S. District Judge, District of Columbia
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser
Colorado attorney general
Cynthia Kirk
Working parent
Dan Ives
Wedbush Securities analyst covering Tesla with bullish $600 price target
Deanne Criswell
Former FEMA Administrator (Biden administration)
Department of Defense
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
Executive advisory body
Department of Homeland Security
DOJ Public Integrity Section
Federal election law enforcement
Don Beyer
U.S. Representative (D-VA-8), member of Joint Economic Committee
Donald L. Palmer
EAC chairman
Edward Markey
U.S. Representative - MA
Elizabeth Shapiro
Senior Justice Department official
Ellen Hollander
U.S. District Judge, Maryland
Elon Musk / DOGE
Alleged to have deployed AI monitoring tools
Everett Kelley
AFGE National President
Farm Service Agency Employees
USDA lending officers serving agricultural enterprises
federal agencies
federal employee unions
Frank Bisignano
Commissioner of Social Security
Gavin Kliger
DOGE Computer Scientist
Gene Dodaro
Comptroller General, U.S. Government Accountability Office
George Moose
Acting President and CEO, U.S. Institute of Peace (March 2025)
Glenn Thompson
House Agriculture Committee Chairman (R-PA)
Houston Bruck
Deputy Administrator for Farm Loan Programs at the Farm Service Agency
Howard Lutnick
Commerce Secretary
Howell
ordered USD 10,000 per day fines for failure to comply with document subpoenas (Question 3, D.D.C. order)
James Comer
House oversight chair
James Grossman
Executive Director, American Historical Association
Javier Milei
President of Argentina
Jeannette Vargas
U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York
Jill Wine-Banks
joined the special-counsel team as adviser on 18 Mar 2025 (Question 9, DOJ release)
Jim O'Neill
Acting CDC director
Jocelyn Benson
State secretary of state
John J. Duncan Jr.
Chief justice
John Larson (D-CT)
Representative, House Democrat
Joseph B. Edlow
Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez
U.S. citizen
Judge Angelo Foglietta
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
Judge Susan Illston
Northern District of California federal judge who issued a preliminary injunction in May 2025 blocking mass layoffs at most major agencies.
Justin Aimonetti
DOGE staffer
Kathleen Clark, Government Ethics Expert at Washington University in St. Louis
criticized the AI monitoring as an abuse of power that could suppress protected speech.
Katie Porter
Representative, during a Jun. 2025 oversight hearing called the installation “a marketing stunt on the taxpayer’s dime” (GovExec)
Kimbal Musk
Elon's brother and Tesla board member with business partnerships
Kweisi Mfume
Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member
Land-Grant University Researchers
Agricultural scientists and extension educators
Lisa Krasner
Philadelphia District Attorney
Lizzie Fletcher
U.S. Representative (D-TX); member of the House Transportation Committee
Lucy McBath
Member of Congress
Marc Andreessen
Tech investor who called Yarvin a good friend
Mark Paoletta
CFPB Chief Legal Counsel
Marty Makary
FDA commissioner
Nathan Cavanaugh
DOGE political appointee at the General Services Administration, deployed to NEH in early 2025
Nick Daniels
President of NATCA
Patty Murray
U.S. Senator - Washington
Paul Engelmayer
U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York
Paula M. Krebs
Executive Director, Modern Language Association (plaintiff)
Peter Marocco
Former Acting USAID Director; DOGE affiliate
PolitiFact / WSJ / NYT / AEI
Independent fact-checkers and analysts
Rand Paul
U.S. Senator (R-KY)
Reuters
News organization that broke the story
Richard Fordyce
Agriculture policy analyst and advocate
Rick Garcia
Oversight Committee Ranking Member
Robert Aderholt
U.S. Representative - AL District 4
Robert Jackson
State Senate District 31
Robyn Denholm
Tesla Board Chair since Nov. 2018 after Musk forced to step down by SEC
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States (1981-1989)
Rural Development Program Beneficiaries
168,000+ rural North Dakotans and 500,000+ rural Mississippians
Samantha Power
USAID Administrator
Sarah Weicksel
Executive Director, American Historical Association (plaintiff)
Scott Kupor
Sean Duffy
U.S. Secretary of Transportation (confirmed January 2025)
Senate Appropriations Committee Democrats
Democratic members of the Senate on agriculture funding
Sharon Block
Counsel for plaintiffs; Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program
Sheldon Whitehouse
U.S. Representative - RI
state and local election officials
State Attorneys General
Stephen Lynch
Representative, Ranking Member, House Oversight Committee
Stephen Miller
Deputy White House Chief of Staff
Steve Davis
Elon Musk ally who worked with DOGE
Suhas Subramanyam
U.S. Representative (D-VA10)
Susie Wiles
White House Chief of Staff
Tanya Chutkan
U.S. District Court Judge ruling on Democratic AGs' lawsuit against DOGE
Terri Sewell
U.S. Representative (D-AL-7)
Theodore Chuang
U.S. District Judge, District of Maryland
Thom Tillis
U.S. Senator (R-NC)
Thomas Massie
U.S. Representative (R-KY)
Tom Cole
House appropriations chair
Tom Cotton
Senate intelligence chairman
Trump-appointed EPA officials
Allegedly told managers about monitoring
Tulsi Gabbard
Director of National Intelligence under Trump
U.S. Space Systems Command
DoD contracting authority for Space Force launches
Zoe Lofgren
U.S. Representative - CA District 18