Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat?

Department of Government Efficiency was created by executive order on Jan. 20 .

The White House has gone to great lengths to put legal distance between Musk and the entity, saying he is neither an employee nor its head.

But ProPublica has found that she does not appear to be running the budget-slashing group.

DOGE , on paper, has a similar mission, but the actual work of Musk ’s group has been far more expansive.

In recent weeks , many holdover digital service workers have resigned or been laid off.

Some have been enlisted to oversee cuts at the very agencies that conducted oversight of industries where they’d previously worked.