Posted on 03/17/2025 12:34:47 AM PDT by Libloather
The acting administrator of DOGE detailed that Elon Musk is not an employee of the United States DOGE Service and does not report to the acting DOGE chief, a court filing shedding additional light on the internal workings of the office shows.
"Elon Musk does not work at USDS. I do not report to him, and he does not report to me. To my knowledge, he is a Senior Advisor to the White House," Amy Gleason, the acting administrator of DOGE, wrote in a declaration included in a court filing on Friday.
Musk has been the public face of DOGE for months, as President Donald Trump celebrates the billions of dollars in savings his administration has secured through DOGE's work to gut the federal government of overspending, mismanagement and fraud. Musk, however, "has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself" and is working as a senior advisor to the president, a White House official said in a separate court filing in February.
The White House identified Gleason as the official acting chief of DOGE last month. Gleason, a little-known government employee who also worked in the first Trump administration, provided a declaration in a court filing involving a lawsuit against DOGE last week that further explains how the government office operates.
"In my role at USDS, I oversee all of USDS’s employees and detailees to USDS from other agencies," Gleason wrote in her declaration. "I report to the White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles."
Gleason previously worked for the United States Digital Service, which was founded in 2014 by former President Barack Obama as a technology office within the Executive Office of the President. Trump signed an executive order in January that renamed the office to the United States DOGE Service, establishing DOGE.
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Yup, Amy is the Admin person who essentially orders lunches, and does payroll.
This is not a secret. LOL.
If anyone was paying attention this would have been understood two months ago.
The media is just lazy.
Hey dims news flash Musk was always an advisor, start impeachment proceedings 😎😂
Any relation to Jacky?
Okay. So why not force the pro-Hamass college kiddie ahos to leave Musk, his family, his friends and associates alone and stop destroy his businesses.
Elon Musk works for the president so everything he does is a green light period.
All whining class dismissed.
Elon Musk is an unpaid advisor to POTUS Trump. The POTUS, whoever he may be, can get advice from anyone he chooses. Period.
ARTICLE
Here’s Where Elon Musk’s $5.7 Billion Gift Likely Went
By Eliza Haverstock
FORBES
Updated Feb 18, 2022, 03:42am EST
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizahaverstock/2022/02/15/elon-musk-reports-donating-57-billion-to-charity-but-there-is-no-trace-of-that-gift-yet/
“What makes a lot more sense is that the money landed in a donor-advised fund (DAF), which behaves like a philanthropic bank account. DAFs are essentially black boxes, since they don’t carry specific requirements like annual distributions or public disclosures of grants tied to a specific donor.
Money can sit in DAFs for years without ever going to an operating nonprofit group, which is why Forbes does not count such funds when measuring the biggest philanthropists—unless the billionaire shares details about grants actually made by their DAF, as a representative for Musk has done in the past.
Of the $280 million that Forbes estimates Musk has given to charity over his lifetime (without this latest mega-gift), about 20% has been donated through DAFs.” (Excerpt)
To: bimboeruption
DIDN’T YOU KNOW?!?!?
Reasons for skepticism held by many Trump supporters. I trust & have always voted for President Trump. But, J.D. Vance seemed a scary choice.
1. Here Are Some Of J.D. Vance’s Old Criticisms Of Donald Trump Forbes Jul 15, 2024,05:44pm EDT https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2024/07/15/here-are-some-of-jd-vances-old-criticisms-of-donald-trump/
. “Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance—who was announced Monday as former President Donald Trump’s running mate—was at one point a staunch critic of the former president, not voting for him in 2016 and once comparing him to Hitler.
. KEY FACTS
• In an October 2016 interview with Charlie Rose, VANCE SAID he was a “NEVER TRUMP GUY” and “NEVER LIKED HIM,” just months after HE TOLD NPR HE “CAN’T STOMACH TRUMP.”
• Vance also published an article in The Atlantic in 2016 in which he argued that while Trump “FEELS GOOD” TO MANY PEOPLE “HE CAN’T FIX America’s growing social and cultural crisis.”
• Vance published an article in the same year in The New York Times headlined “Why Trump’s Antiwar Message Resonates with White America,” in which he wrote: “MR. TRUMP IS UNFIT FOR OUR NATION’S HIGHEST OFFICE.”
• Vance also suggested in 2016 he was inclined to believe a woman who accused Trump of sexual assault, saying on “Hardball with Chris Matthews”: “This is sort of he said/she said, right? And at the END OF THE DAY, do you believe Donald Trump who always tells the truth? Just kidding, or do you believe that woman on the tape?”
• Some of Vance’s most extreme criticism of Trump was made in private when he texted a former roommate: “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a CYNICAL ASSHOLE like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that HE’S AMERICA’S HITLER.”
• In a now-deleted tweet from March 2017, Vance said: “In 4 years, I hope people remember that it was those of us who empathized with Trump’s voters who FOUGHT HIM the most aggressively.”
THEN, VANCE HAD HIS CHANGE OF HEART
• Before launching his own 2022 senatorial campaign—during which Trump endorsed him—Vance stopped his criticism of Trump, saying in 2021 he regretted “being wrong about” Trump and asking “FOLKS NOT TO JUDGE ME BASED IN WHAT I SAID in 2016, because I’ve been very open that I DID SAY THOSE CRITICAL THINGS and I regret them.”
2. JD Vance says ‘I’ve learned my lesson’ on speaking for Trump
. “At last week’s debate, Trump said “I don’t think he was speaking for me” after the Ohio senator told NBC last month that the GOP nominee would veto an abortion ban. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/vance-learned-lesson-speaking-trump-abortion-veto-rcna171155
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