We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections

Since the archetypal days of the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s alleged Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been everyplace successful the national government, moving accelerated and breaking things. In a substance of weeks, DOGE operatives person dispersed crossed dozens of authorities agencies arsenic they person attempted to terminate tens of thousands of national employees. With truthful overmuch absorption connected wherever DOGE is going, WIRED wanted to instrumentality a bushed to look astatine wherever they’ve travel from and what that mightiness archer america astir however they’re reasoning astir reshaping the national government.

The large takeaway: Many connected the DOGE squad are from Musk’s world. If Musk is America’s CEO, past DOGE has go his Silicon Valley enforcement branch.

We’ve mapped retired a non-exhaustive database of radical affiliated with DOGE, including creating a searchable array with each member, their firm history, and the agencies they’ve been connected to. Readers tin cheque that out, and click done it, below. We program to support updating this arsenic we find much DOGE operatives oregon arsenic known affiliates determination to caller agencies.

We’re focused connected the caller radical brought successful nether the 2nd Trump medication oregon straight hired into agencies—as Special Government Employees (SGEs) oregon regular employees—who are operating arsenic members of DOGE teams. This gets a small tricky due to the fact that determination are technically two DOGEs established nether the president’s enforcement order. There’s the US DOGE Service (USDS), formerly the US Digital Service, that’s a imperishable organization. Then there’s the impermanent USDS organization, which wraps up connected July 4, 2026, and done which SGEs tin beryllium hired.

Here’s what we’ve learned:

The DOGE world, arsenic it stands, seems to interruption down into astir 3 categories: erstwhile Trump officials, blimpish lawyers, and imports from the Silicon Valley country (funders, founders, technologists, oregon radical connected to them). In that archetypal class we find radical similar DOGE spokesperson Katie Miller, the woman of White House lawman main of unit for argumentation Stephen Miller. The 2 of them person been Musk’s guides to DC.

In that 2nd class are radical similar James Burnham and Austin Raynor, some erstwhile clerks for blimpish Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, respectively. Jacob Altik, different blimpish lawyer connected the DOGE squad, has been selected to clerk for Gorsuch. Jeremy Lewin, who was portion of DOGE’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), worked with Second Lady Usha Vance’s erstwhile instrumentality steadfast Munger, Tolles & Olson, a steadfast that has besides represented Tesla.

Then, the biggest throughline of all: Of those Silicon Valley imports, 1 of the astir wide themes crossed DOGE’s ranks is reasonably obvious: a transportation to Elon Musk. Forty-nine radical connected our database person connections to Musk, his companies, oregon his greater network. This transportation is astir often done 1 of his allies oregon 1 of his companies. There are the evident radical similar Steve Davis, president of Musk’s Boring Company, who person followed Musk crossed his assorted ventures. (Davis antecedently worked astatine SpaceX and assisted Musk successful his overhaul of X, formerly Twitter.) Davis spearheaded the DOGE recruitment efforts earlier inauguration time and has continued to play a pivotal relation successful the organization. Similarly, SpaceX worker Brian Bjelde, who is present astatine the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), besides helped Musk downsize Twitter’s unit successful 2022.

There are radical similar galore of the young engineers WIRED archetypal identified who were fixed the keys to antithetic authorities agencies, similar Marko Elez, Luke Farritor, and Edward Coristine, who were each interns oregon employees astatine 1 of Musk’s companies: SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, X, and Neuralink. (Musk has been progressive successful others, but these are the ones helium controls.)