Amy Gleason named Acting Administrator of Elon Musk's DOGE
Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump made it clear: Elon Musk is in charge of DOGE. But on Tuesday, Amy Gleason was named DOGE acting administrator.
As recently as last Wednesday, President Donald Trump made it clear: Elon Musk is in charge of DOGE.
“I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency and put a man named Elon Musk in charge,” Trump said in a speech to the Future Investment Initiative Institute in Miami Beach, Florida, according to video and the White House’s transcript. “Thank you, Elon, for doing it.”
Musk has done nothing to shake that idea. Musk helped coin the name of the office in September, before Trump won a second term, and Trump named him to the job a week after the election. Republican lawmakers have praised Musk’s performance at DOGE. Musk posts about DOGE daily on X, where he issues commands to the federal workforce on Trump’s behalf.
But on Tuesday afternoon, the White House revealed that a little-known official, Amy Gleason, now holds the title of acting DOGE administrator — a job that implies she heads up the agency. The White House didn’t say when Gleason was appointed, but the decision appeared rushed; she was scheduled to be on vacation Tuesday in Mexico, The New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources.
Making the situation even more complicated, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing Tuesday that Musk was still “overseeing” DOGE without having the title of administrator. She didn’t elaborate.
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