With Elon Musk And other leaders of the so-called Office of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are said to be out, and Wired spoke with fired Doge staff about his experience, how the group communicates, and what will come next.
It was published earlier this week by Sahil Lavingia Blog post His personal website details his 55-day stint within Doge. First identified as a member of the Veterans Affairs Bureau (VA) Doge, Lavingia is Gumroad CEO and a platform that helps creatives sell their works.
In his post, Lavingia explains the types of projects he worked on with the VA and the overall impression he has had of his work with Doge. Lavingia described Operation Doge as “confusing” and there was little information sharing between the various teams.
This could change soon, as Musk has spent the past few weeks saying he will mostly leave his duties behind. Two of his closest EUs, Steve Davis Nicole Hollander appears to be leaving too. Having worked with Musk for many years, including X, Davis is essential to Doge’s day-to-day operations as CEO of a boring company.
If Davis doesn’t take the helm, it’s unclear who will lead the Doge and which direction he’s in.
“Stephen was the only person in everything,” Lavingia tells Wired.
Musk, Davis and Hollander did not reply to Wired’s request for comment.
Lavingia told Wired that Davis appears to be the one who directed most of the Doge activities at various institutions and at various points he had in direct contact with all Doge members. Generally, in Lavingia’s experience, the communication was caused by the use of encrypted messaging app signals.
There are experts and lawmakers I warned earlier Using signals for official government communications can violate laws requiring government officials to maintain records of all communications. Earlier this year, national security adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added Signal Group Chat from the Atlantic Editor Trump administration waltz and other senior officials discussed Yemen’s impending and sensitive military action.
According to Lavingia, Davis will send priorities to the message of those who are the leads of the Doge team at a particular agency. In the VA, Lavingia informed Wired, and Davis instructed the Doge team to prioritize reviewing the cancellation contract. Davis regularly sends messages to Lavingia to check in how his work is going, but rarely responds to Lavingia’s response, he says.
In late March, according to Revisia, Davis attended a meeting with Musk called the “E-Meeting.” Many of the Doge workers he met at the meeting seemed to focus primarily on carrying out the tasks Davis had assigned them.
Two other musk loyalists, Anthony Armstrong and Barris Akis, attended the “E-Conference.” These three men, Armstrong, Akis and Davis, have become the people in charge, Lavingia says.
“Steven is basically like the chief of staff or bodyman when Elon was there,” he says.
