Several members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been revealed for the first time as a team to advocate for cost-cutting efforts amid increasing pushbacks.
The tech billionaire and seven dodge staff participated in an interview with Fox News host Brett Baier on Thursday, where they discussed a push to cut government spending worth $1 trillion.
Who is this on the Doge team:
Steve Davis
Steve Davis, who has worked with Musk for many years, is Doge's “Chief Operating Officer,” Byer said. Davis explained that Doge was “a stimulating mission” that was “worthy.”
He previously worked for several Musk companies, including SpaceX, Twitter and now X.
Joe Gebvia
Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, runs Doge's digital retirement project. He said he is working to digitalize millions of retirement documents housed in Pennsylvania mines.
“The whole retirement process is literally, people are carrying paper and Manila envelopes to this huge mine, so you can't retire more than 8,000 people a month,” Gebvia said.
He said Doge has discovered this limit in a push to encourage voluntary retirements among employees as he is trying to reduce the federal workforce.
Aram Moghaddassi
Aram Moghaddassi, software engineer at Doge, said he is working on social security, trying to protect people from fraud and improve their experience.
Brad Smith
Brad Smith, a healthcare entrepreneur who served in President Trump's first administration, works for Doge for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
“There are some things I'm really committed to working at HHS,” explained Smith. “Make sure we continue to do the best biomedical research in the world, number one.”
“And certainly, what President Trump said over and over again, we're 100% protected Medicare and Medicaid,” he added.
Anthony Armstrong
Morgan Stanley banker Anthony Armstrong works at Doge at the Human Resources Office (OPM). He argued that the government has many “duplicate features” and suggested that money “push the door.”
“This isn't about employees,” he said. “There are a lot of hardworking, well-meaning people who have done these jobs…it's just that they're replicating the efforts of 40 offices.”
“When these decisions are made, we are very focused on treating everyone with generosity, caring, caring, and dignity and respect,” Armstrong added.
OPM has made major efforts to cut federal workers, fire probation workers at agencies, and prepare for massive layoffs.
Tom Krauss
Tom Krause, CEO of Cloud Software Group, works for Doge, the Ministry of Finance.
“As a former CFO of a large public technology company, what we do is apply public company standards to the federal government, which is surprising how financial operations and financial management are set today,” he said.
Klaus is faced with scrutiny about his role in the push of Doge to gain access to a sensitive federal payment system housed in the Treasury Department, known as Finance Services. The system processes approximately 90% of federal payments.
In the face of several lawsuits, Krause and other Doge staff have been blocked from accessing the system.
Tyler Hassen
Former oil executive Tyler Hassen works for Doge's Ministry of Home Affairs. Politico's E&E News reported earlier this month that he was promoted to assistant secretary for government agencies' policy, management and budgets.
He claimed Thursday that the “Internal Affairs Department” had no departmental oversight under the Biden administration.
“We are currently reviewing all contracts, all grants. [Doug] Hassen said.
