Who’s Who Inside Elon Musk’s Army of DOGE Cost Cutters Stripping Fed Waste Away; The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army

Who’s who inside Elon Musk’s army of DOGE cost cutters stripping fed waste away:

Elon Musk and his now 100 person strong gang of Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutters are stripping the federal government of waste.

While some Americans are up in arms at the sudden upheaval, others express gratitude for Musk and his crew getting under the hood to cut through federal bureaucracy and bring the way it runs into the 21st century.

Solidly in the latter camp: Steve Daines, a Republican senator from Montana, who stated on CNBC, “I thank God everyday for President Trump’s leadership, what Elon Musk is doing and his team.”

Recently announced to be in the DOGE line of fire: a converted former limestone mine where thousands of pages of retirement paperwork are still sorted by hand. Musk trashed it for being a “time warp.”

While Musk functions as the head of the operation – proceeding in a manner that echoes the early days of the tech billionaire’s employee-axing $14 billion Twitter takeover – his right-hand people do much of the heavy lifting in crushing government funded organizations and departments viewed as unnecessary and wasteful.

The DOGE-bros – the first 12 were referred to by President Trump as “geniuses” – are a corps comprised largely of twentysomething techies, some of whom dropped out of college, who see themselves on a mission to make America’s finances great again – even though federal government mass firing victims wish they would all go back to Silicon Valley. However, Musk shows no interest in leaving or slowing things down.

Here are key members of the Musk posse: —>READ MORE HERE

The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army:

At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

The establishment of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) relied on a recruitment campaign carried out, in part, by young software engineers fanning out across online chat groups and Discord servers, according to three sources and chat logs reviewed by WIRED. Some of the engineers are associated with data analytics firm Palantir or its cofounder and board of directors chair—and Musk ally—Peter Thiel.

As DOGE staffers—many of them young and with little or no government experience—continue to gain access to sensitive data across about a dozen government agencies, this is the first look at some of the networks from which the agency has recruited, and who they relied on to enlist talent.

In online chat groups linked to Palantir alumni and SpaceX interns, Musk’s space company, as well as in a Discord server associated with a military artificial intelligence program, the engineers said they were looking for people willing to spend six months in Washington, DC, cutting federal spending—which accounts for around a quarter of the US gross domestic product—by a third.

Anthony Jancso, one of three engineers associated with the recruitment effort, is a former Palantir employee. According to sources, Jancso said he was recruited to DOGE by Steve Davis, the Boring Company president and Musk lieutenant whom Bloomberg reported in December was leading recruitment for DOGE.

Palantir, Jancso, and Davis did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Jancso’s résumé lists him as a 2021 graduate of University College London and as having been a “forward deployed” software engineer at Palantir between December 2021 and May 2023. Jancso is best known for leading a project called Accelerate SF, which aims to leverage AI in the public sector. In a 2023 story about a then upcoming hackathon, VentureBeat reported that Accelerate had received support from companies including OpenAI and Anthropic. In 2024, the venture became known as AccelerateX. Purporting to offer “a modern OS for government,” AccelerateX claims it “transforms government infrastructure with AI-powered automation and software, delivered in days.”

On November 26, 2024, in a message reviewed by WIRED, a person using a screen name including the name Anthony and the same handle that Jancso uses on his X account posted in a Discord server associated with the Space Force Generative AI Challenge—an “eight-week combination of AI crash course and problem-solving hack-a-thon that engaged 350-plus participants,” according to its website.

“Helping the Dept. of Government Efficiency team find hardcore engineers,” the message reads. “Send your GitHub/LinkedIn to @DOGE on X and your X handle to me in DM if you’re interested or know someone who is, could help get them into the pipeline.”

In early December, in another message reviewed by WIRED, a person using the same handle posted to a chat group for Palantir alumni.

“Hey all,” the message read. “I’m helping Elon’s team find tech talent for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the new admin. This is a historic opportunity to build an efficient government, and to cut the federal budget by 1/3. If you’re interested in playing a role in this mission, please reach out in the next few days.” —>READ MORE HERE

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