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Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew - While some have been public about their involvement, others have attempted to keep their roles secret, scrubbing LinkedIn pages and other sources of data.

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew - While some have been public about their involvement, others have attempted to keep their roles secret, scrubbing LinkedIn pages and other sources of data.

With little information from the White House, ProPublica is attempting to document who is involved and what they are doing.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
February 09, 2025

Claude’s review of ProPublica’s article “Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew” in combination with https://p4sc4l.substack.com/p/claude-the-actions-appear-to-go-beyond

Claude:

Based on the provided documents, here is a comprehensive list of individuals mentioned as being part of or connected to Elon Musk's DOGE team:

Leadership & Senior Roles:

Jacob Altik (32) - Lawyer, Executive Office of the President
Anthony Armstrong (57) - Senior Adviser to Director, OPM; worked on Musk's Twitter purchase
Riccardo Biasini (39) - Senior Adviser to Director, OPM; former Tesla/Boring Company executive
Brian Bjelde (44) - Senior Adviser, OPM; VP of people operations at SpaceX
James Burnham (41) - General Counsel, Executive Office of the President
Steve Davis (45) - CEO of Boring Company, longtime Musk lieutenant
Stephanie Holmes (43) - Human Resources chief at DOGE
Brad Smith (42) - Early DOGE leader
Christopher Stanley (33) - Security engineering at X and SpaceX
Katie Miller (33) - DOGE Spokesperson

Young Engineers & Technical Staff:

11. Akash Bobba (21) - Senior Adviser to Director, OPM; former Meta/Palantir intern 12. Edward Coristine (19) - Expert at OPM; former Neuralink intern
13. Marko Elez (25) - Treasury Department; former X/SpaceX engineer
14. Luke Farritor (23) - Executive Engineer, HHS; former SpaceX intern
15. Gautier "Cole" Killian (24) - Federal Detailee at EPA
16. Gavin Kliger (25) - Senior Adviser to Director at OPM/USAID
17. Nikhil Rajpal (30) - Expert at OPM; former Twitter employee

Other Key Personnel:
18. Nate Cavanaugh (28) - General Services Administration
19. Keenan D. Kmiec (45) - Lawyer, Executive Office of the President
20. Tom Krause (47) - Expert, Treasury Department
21. Justin Monroe (36) - FBI Adviser; former SpaceX security director
22. Rachel Riley (33) - Senior Adviser, HHS
23. Michael Russo (67) - CIO at Social Security Administration
24. Amanda Scales (34) - Chief of Staff, OPM; former xAI employee
25. Thomas Shedd (28) - GSA Technology Transformation Services

Additional Names Under Investigation:
26. Baris Akis
27. Nicole Hollander
28. Ethan Shaotran

Note: Roles and affiliations are listed as reported in the ProPublica article dated February 2025.