White House Finally Comes Up With An Official Answer For Who Is Running DOGE: An Obama Honoree
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Legal experts say that if the White House admits that the answer is Elon Musk, as Trump has essentially stated, Musk’s actions will be deemed illegal.
WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday provided an answer to a weeks-old mystery — who is actually running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency — but is immediately facing new questions about the apparent obfuscation of the precise role of billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk.
After pointed grilling by federal judges who have seemed incredulous that no one in Donald Trump’s administration could provide the name of DOGE’s administrator, the White House told news outlets that it was Amy Gleason, a nurse-turned-technology expert who was once honored by former President Barack Obama and who then worked in Trump’s White House during his first term and also in the first year of President Joe Biden’s term.
“Raises more questions than answers,” said Norm Eisen, the lawyer representing USAID employees in a federal lawsuit that challenges DOGE’s legal ability to cancel government contracts, lay off workers and even eliminate agencies, all of which Musk has boasted of doing.
Gleason, on the other hand, has barely drawn attention at all since Trump returned to the White House on Jan. 20. Her LinkedIn page shows that she rejoined the White House last month in the United States Digital Service, or USDS, as a “senior adviser” and that she had worked there from 2018 through 2021 as a “digital services expert.”
In 2015, Obama highlighted Gleason as a “Champion of Change” for her work in “precision medicine,” applying technology to health care.
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