Elon Musk has reportedly tasked six men between the ages of 19 and 24 with overhauling the federal government as the leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the new federal agency that President Donald Trump has tasked Musk with overseeing.
The names of the men — Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran — were revealed in a Feb. 2 report by Wired. The publication indicated that the information came from a disgruntled employee (or several employees) at the the General Services Administration, who anonymously complained that at least one of the men — Coristine — had been micromanaging them.
The men — who have backgrounds in engineering and management — have worked for companies that include Meta, SpaceX, Jump Trading, and billionaire Peter Thiel’s Palantir. Publicly available records are scare, but their resumes were leaked to Wired — presumably by an employee at the Office of Personnel Management.
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The group has caused consternation among federal workers over the last week, particularly at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where top officials refused to hand over information that they said was classified. The Trump administration put the top two security officials at that agency — John Voorhees and Brian McGill — on leave on Saturday.
Outrageous https://t.co/cDr5mgZkUQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2025
On Sunday, the president personally slammed the agency, telling reporters it was being run “by a bunch of radical lunatics” and adding that he was “getting them out.” Separately, Musk opined in a series of messages on X that it was a “criminal organization.”
Employees at the GSA, meanwhile, complained that Coristine had “appeared on calls where workers were made to go over code they had written and justify their jobs.” They added that they had been offended by his use of a Gmail address to join an agency call.
GSA employees said they were also aggrieved by the physical offices the group had been assigned. “Bobba, Coristine, Farritor, and Shaotran all currently have working GSA emails and A-suite level clearance at the GSA,” the publication noted, “which means that they work out of the agency’s top floor and have access to all physical spaces and IT systems, according a source with knowledge of the GSA’s clearance protocols.”
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At the Treasury Department, meanwhile, Acting Treasury Secretary David Lebryk was placed on administrative leave — prior to Secretary Scott Bessent’s confirmation by the Senate — after he objected to inquiries from the group at DOGE about whether his department could stop making certain payments on behalf of the federal government. A source at the department told CNN that Lebryk wanted “just to make the f-ing payments.”
The GSA source behind the latest leaks said they were leaking “on the condition of anonymity because they fear retaliation.”