Is Elon Musk getting paid for DOGE? And what is his title?

(NewsNation) — During Donald Trump’s associated address to Congress connected Tuesday evening, the president again contradicted his administration’s claims of who is moving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

In his speech, Trump again said the section is "headed" by billionaire Elon Musk.

Does Elon Musk tally DOGE?

The White House has offered contradictory statements connected who is moving the bureau tasked with eliminating alleged wasteful spending successful the U.S. national government.

The “acting administrator” of DOGE is simply a low-profile enforcement who has expertise successful wellness attraction exertion and worked successful the archetypal Trump administration.

The White House successful precocious February identified Amy Gleason arsenic the acting person of DOGE, which has been pushing agencies to occurrence employees, cancel contracts and marque different fund cuts.

Potential conflicts of interest

Although DOGE’s cuts person been championed by Musk and his associates, the White House has insisted Musk is overseeing the effort arsenic a elder advisor to the president, not a DOGE employee.

Musk, the world's richest person, does not gully a authorities wage and operates arsenic a "special authorities employee," the White House has said. It has been vague connected Musk's nonstop relation successful DOGE.

Democrats connected the House Oversight Committee are introducing a brace of resolutions demanding the Trump medication crook implicit documents and accusation astir Musk’s imaginable conflicts of involvement and the firings of national workers, according to The Associated Press.

The solution from Democratic Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia would motorboat an probe into Musk himself implicit imaginable conflicts of interest.

Musk’s companies person hundreds of millions of dollars each twelvemonth successful contracts. SpaceX has secured astir $20 cardinal successful national funds since 2008 to ferry astronauts and satellites into space. Tesla had already received $41.9 cardinal from the U.S. government, including outgo for vehicles provided to immoderate U.S. embassies.

Salaries astatine DOGE

While Musk works to gut national agencies, DOGE staffers are reportedly making six-figure salaries.

Business and exertion mag Wired reports that Jeremy Lewin, who was instrumental successful dismantling USAID, makes implicit $167,000 per year. Kyle Schutt, a bundle technologist moving wrong the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, takes location $195,200, according to the report.

Wired reported respective different DOGE staffers besides person six-figure government-funded salaries.