Mar 28, 2025 7:00 AM
We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections
If Elon Musk is America’s CEO, DOGE is the Silicon Valley executive branch.
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Since the first days of the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been everywhere in the federal government, moving fast and breaking things. In a matter of weeks, DOGE operatives have spread across dozens of government agencies as they have attempted to terminate tens of thousands of federal employees. With so much focus on where DOGE is going, WIRED wanted to take a beat to look at where they’ve come from and what that might tell us about how they’re thinking about reshaping the federal government.
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