- Three weeks after Trump’s second term, the composition of Elon Musk’s DOGE staff became clearer.
- Bi has seen a list of around thirty staff members at the White House office; Almost all are early or mid-carrier professionals.
- They include technological advisers, a former clerk of Clarence Thomas and a former McKinsey consultant.
Software developers. Ancient clerks of the Supreme Court. A former mckinsey consultant. Corporate financiers.
Three weeks after the start of the second Trump administration, the composition of the team “Department of Government Elon Musk becomes clearer.
The files of the White House seen by Business Insider show that around 30 people are now working for the Doge of the White House. At least four of the names have not been reported before. Among them, Kendall Lindemann, 24, who worked for a health company founded by Brad Smith, head of Senior Doge, and Adam Ramada, 35, an investor whose company has taken a stake in a SpaceX supplier last year.
The other new names are Kyle Schutt, 37, a worker of the technological startup who was recently employed in an AI interview software company, and Austin Raynor, 36, a lawyer who was grafted for the Judge of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas. Raynor was interviewed on NTD News in November 2024, describing how Trump could question the citizenship of the birth law.
Since January 20, the DOGE team has quickly moved to dismantle federal agencies, reduce staff, slow down the application and access digital systems that help billions of taxpayers’ dollars. While the US Doge Service is part of the White House office, the White House has not published details on its interior operation or its staff; The list seen by Bi helps to shed light on the powerful young squadron responsible for redoing the federal government.
Most of the two dozen people from the White House staff are professionals at the start of their career in their twenties and thirties. They have history mainly in technology but also in finance, law and politics. BI confirmed their history through public files, including social media profiles and legal deposits.
The files classify almost all Doge employees as volunteers. Wired previously reported that the engineer Doge Luke Farritor – who is also on the list seen by BI – published on Discord looking for software engineers. He said that the position would be “paid”, but not by whom, according to the point of sale.
The files seen by BI do not include the names of certain Doge’s subsidiaries which have appeared in legal documents and reports as working for other agencies, such as employees of the Treasury Tom Krause and Marko Elez. Elez resigned from the Treasury Department last week after the Wall Street Journal reported racist publications on social networks of an account linked to it; Musk said on X one day later that he would rehire him.
Beyond the doors of the 1600 Pennsylvania avenue, the executive decree behind Doge called the agencies to create their own “Doge teams”, and the people linked to Elon Musk appeared in directories of employees of the Treasury Department, of the Bureau Consumer protection, the Department of Education and other agencies, according to reports. Some of the people listed such as the White House staff are also employees of other agencies.
The White House did not respond to a request for comments.
Here is a ventilation of the DOGE team.
Technology
Technology workers constitute most of the DOGE team on the list examined by BI.
Some are experienced software engineers. Schutt was recently Kerplunk’s technology director, an IA interview software startup, and has a doctorate. by Virginia Tech.
Schutt did not respond to a request for comments.
Others on the list are relatively junior. Edward Coristine is 19 years old and Farritor, 23, a former SpaceX intern, was a senior at the University of Nebraska when he was appointed Fellow de Thiel last year.
Two close associates of musk also appear on the list. Steve Davis, who has been trained as a aerospace engineer, now leads Boring Co., Musk’s Tunneling Company; Jehn Balajadia has been described as Musk’s assistant. The New York Times reported that it was also listed as an employee of the Ministry of Education.
Davis and Balajadia did not respond to requests for comments.
Finance
Some members of the White House staff have a history of business and management funding.
Lindemann graduated from the College of Business College of the University of Tennessee in 2022. She worked for McKinsey for about two years, according to her LinkedIn profile, and in 2024 left for Russell Street Ventures, the investment company of the Health industry led by Smith, the senior Doge official, the senior Doge official. Smith worked at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the first Trump administration. Lindemann has worked at Russell Street Ventures as an acquisition of venture capital, a use of entry into the venture capital industry.
Lindemann, Davis, McKinsey and Russell Street Ventures did not respond to requests for comments.
According to Campaign Finance Records, the staff of the White House Ramada is a venture capital based in Miami which made a donation of more than $ 1,000 to the Republican fundraising committees last year. One of his companies, Spring Tide Capital, has invested in Impulse Space, which was founded by a SpaceX employee and contracted with SpaceX.
Ramada and Spring Tide Capital did not respond to a request for comments.
Law
There are five lawyers listed as part of the White House staff, and the majority were employed for conservative Supreme Court judges.
Raynor, a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Virginia, was employed for judge Clarence Thomas for the mandate of the Supreme Court which began in October 2016, and spent time as an acquisition at Sullivan & Cromwell. During Trump’s first term, he was assistant to the general request. He discussed before the Supreme Court at least eight times. He was recently a senior lawyer and a special lawyer for the Pacific Legal Foundation Supreme Court, a libertarian organization.
Raynor’s November television segment and Trump’s executive decree to end the citizenship of birth law used similar language, although Raynor was not the first person to make such arguments.
Raynor refused to comment when he is reached by Bi.
The other names on the list, which have been reported above, include Jacob Altik, Keenan KMIEC and Stephanie Holmes. Altik was selected to be used for judge Neil Gorsuch for the mandate from October 2025, while KMICC grafted for chief judge John Roberts, as well as the clerk of Samuel Alito while Alito was still judge of Federal circuit. James Burnham, whom Promespublica described as the Advocate General of Doge, was employed for judge Neil Gorsuch and was previously associated with the law firm Jones Day.
Policy
From the list of employees of the White House, only one seems to have already worked in politics. Chris Young, whom Musk hired as an advisor during the summer to help his work to go beyond the vote, was recently a main political advisor at Phrma, a professional association that defends the name of the pharmaceutical companies. He was previously national director on the ground of the National Republican Committee. He did not respond to a request for comments.
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