Meet the Team Behind DOGE

Daily News Article   —   Posted on April 2, 2025

DOGE’s mission, as outlined in Trump’s executive order on January 20, 2025, involves conducting a “complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government” to address “massive waste and fraud” in spending. This initiative includes deploying teams to various federal agencies to review budgets, contracts, workforce levels, and operational efficiency, with the goal of identifying and eliminating wasteful spending.

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk and members of the DOGE team were interviewed on March 27 by FOX News host Bret Baier about their efforts to identity waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. Musk was joined by DOGE members:

• Steve Davis
  DOGE Chief Operating Officer (COO)
  [CEO and President of Elon Musk’s The Boring Company]
• Joe Gebbia
  Working in the IRS for DOGE
  [Billionaire co-founder of Airbnb]
• Aram Moghaddassi
  Working at the Social Security Administration for DOGE
  [Software engineer]
• Brad Smith
  Working at HHS (Dept. of Health and Human Services) for DOGE
  [Health care entrepreneur who served in President Trump’s first administration]
• Anthony Armstrong
  Working at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for DOGE
  [Morgan Stanley banker]
• Tom Krause
  Working at the Treasury Department for DOGE
  [CEO of Cloud Software Group]
• Tyler Hassen
  Working at the Interior Department for DOGE
  [President of Basin Industries/Basin Energy Company]

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Watch this first part of the interview and then answer the questions:

Background

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