Meet the DOGE team

(The Hill) - Several members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) made their archetypal nationalist quality arsenic a squad to marque the lawsuit for their cost-cutting efforts amid increasing pushback.

The tech billionaire and 7 DOGE staffers sat for an interrogation with Fox News big Bret Baier connected Thursday, discussing their propulsion to slash $1 trillion of authorities spending. 

Here’s who’s connected the DOGE team:

Steve Davis

Steve Davis, who has worked alongside Musk for years, is serving arsenic the “chief operating officer” of DOGE, Baier said. Davis described DOGE arsenic an “inspiring mission” that was “worth doing.” 

He has antecedently worked astatine respective of Musk’s companies, including SpaceX, the Boring Company and X, the societal platform.

Joe Gebbia

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia is moving DOGE’s Digital Retirement Project. He said helium has been moving to digitize millions of status documents housed successful a excavation successful Pennsylvania. 

“The status process is each by paper, literally, with radical carrying insubstantial and manila envelopes into this gigantic excavation truthful they can't discontinue much than a definite fig each month, astir 8,000 a month,” Gebbia said. 

He said DOGE discovered this bounds amid a propulsion to promote voluntary retirements among employees arsenic Musk's squad seeks to shrink the national workforce. 

Aram Moghaddassi

Aram Moghaddassi, a bundle technologist with DOGE, said helium is moving connected Social Security, trying to assistance support radical from fraud and amended their experience.  

Brad Smith

Brad Smith, a wellness attraction entrepreneur who served successful President Trump’s archetypal administration, is moving for DOGE astatine the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). 

“There's a mates things we're truly committed to successful our enactment astatine HHS,” Smith explained. “No. 1, making definite we proceed to person the champion biomedical probe successful the world.”  

“And No. 2, making sure, which President Trump has said implicit and implicit again, that we 100 percent support Medicare and Medicaid,” helium added. 

Anthony Armstrong

Anthony Armstrong, a Morgan Stanley banker, is moving for DOGE astatine the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). He argued determination are galore “duplicative functions” successful the authorities and suggested wealth is “sloshing retired the door.”

“This is not astir the employees,” helium said. “There's many, many, hardworking, well-meaning radical who took these jobs. ... It's conscionable that they're duplicating the effort of 40 offices.” 

“Once those decisions are made, there's a precise dense absorption connected being generous, being caring, being compassionate, and treating everyone with dignity and respect,” Armstrong added. 

OPM has mostly been starring the effort to slash the national workforce, directing agencies to occurrence probationary employees and hole for wide layoffs.

Tom Krause

Tom Krause, the CEO of Cloud Software Group, is moving for DOGE astatine the Treasury Department.

“As an ex-CFO of a large nationalist tech company, truly what we're doing is, we're applying nationalist institution standards to the national government, and it is alarming however the fiscal operations and fiscal absorption is acceptable up today,” helium said.

Krause has faced scrutiny for his relation successful DOGE's propulsion to summation entree to a delicate national outgo strategy housed astatine the Treasury Department known arsenic the Fiscal Service. The strategy handles immoderate 90 percent of national payments.

In the look of respective lawsuits, Krause and different DOGE unit person been blocked from accessing the system.  

Tyler Hassen

Tyler Hassen, a erstwhile lipid executive, is moving astatine the Interior Department for DOGE. Politico’s E&E News reported earlier this period that helium was promoted to acting adjunct caput of policy, absorption and fund astatine the agency. 

He alleged Thursday determination was nary departmental oversight astatine the Interior Department “whatsoever” nether the Biden administration. 

“We are present reviewing each azygous contract, each azygous grant, and erstwhile things travel to my attraction that don't marque sense, I'm bringing them to Secretary [Doug] Burgum,” Hassen said.