It is the end of a mystery. The identity of the person who directs the DOGE, this famous commission for government efficiency supervised by Elon Musk, was unveiled this Tuesday. If the White House insisted that the director of SpaceX was not the administrator of this team responsible for slashing federal expenses, it has long been elusive. The name of this mysterious person is now known: Amy Gleason. A discreet 53 -year -old civil servant.
An old health executive
For the past two weeks, questions have been rushing. If Elon Musk is not the DOGE administrator as the White House says, who occupies this position? At a press conference, Karoline Leavitt, spokesperson for Donald Trump, had refused to reveal the name of this person, suggesting that Elon Musk was indeed not a director of the Commission. The news finally fell after a federal judge put pressure on the government to clarify the role of the billionaire, worried that unauthorized persons lead this commission.
Amy Gleason, 53, is a career civil servant, and former manager of health care investment. She also worked at the United States Digital Service (USDS), an American federal administration in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, during the first term of Donald Trump and under the chairmanship of Joe Biden. According to documents consulted by the New York Timesthe digital agency, which disperses its employees throughout the federal government to help with modernization efforts, had sent the fifties to the Ministry of Health.
After Donald Trump’s first term, Amy Gleason joined Brad Smith, a health executive that had worked with the son -in -law of the American president, Jared Kushner, on the question of the COVIR. This collaboration took a new turning point when Brad Smith began to advise the director of SpaceX on cost reduction at the end of last year. On December 30, more than three weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration day, Amy Gleason finally joined the team and was reintroduced into the agency as a “new recruit” on a Slack channel, D ‘After the New York daily. An agency in which she now holds the position of administrator.
Doge in crisis
This commission was born on January 20, the day of the inauguration of Donald Trump, replacing the USDS created by Barack Obama. Since then, staff members hired by Elon Musk have been the subject of controversy. In question: they seek to access sensitive databases, to scrutinize federal employees and even try to close entire agencies in the country. On Saturday, the South African billionaire sent an email to all employees, asking them to list the tasks carried out during last week.
Irritated by these changes, 21 employees announced their resignation on Tuesday. “We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise the central government systems of the government, jeopardize the sensitive data of the Americans or dismantle essential public services,” they wrote in a letter addressed to Susie Wiles, director of The White House. A letter remained unanswered.