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Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries

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Some staffers at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency are drawing taxpayer-funded salaries from the agencies they are slashing and burning.

Jeremy Lewin , one of the DOGE employees tasked with dismantling USAID , is listed as making just over $167,000 annually .

Kyle Schutt , a software engineer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency , is paid a salary of $ 195,200 through GSA , where he is assigned to the Office of the Deputy Administrator .

Musk has described the work as "tedious" and noted that “compensation is zero ”.