At long last, the White House on Tuesday revealed the identity of the person ostensibly responsible for overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Amy Gleason, a senior adviser to the US Digital Service, is serving as the acting administrator of DOGE, a White House official confirmed to The Post.
The US Digital Service (USDS) is a technology unit housed within the executive office of the president which was reorganized as DOGE at the start of President Trump’s second term.
Gleason previously served as a digital services expert for USDS during Trump’s first term and has also held several private sector and nonprofit jobs, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Gleason’s official spot at the top of DOGE was first reported by the Washington Examiner.
It is unclear how much power or authority Gleason actually wields as acting administrator of DOGE, the federal cost-cutting initiative that has been publicly led by billionaire Elon Musk.
The Trump administration revealed in court filings last week that Musk is not officially an employee of DOGE, but rather a senior adviser to Trump.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder is considered a special government employee who can “advise” and “communicate” Trump’s orders, Office of Administration Director Joshua Fisher wrote in a signed declaration filed in Washington, DC, federal court.
Those include recommendations for DOGE staffers and other employees in the executive branch, a White House spokesperson told The Post last week.
The court filing did not name Gleason as the acting administrator of DOGE, and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt as recently as Tuesday declined to name the official head of the team tasked with rooting out government waste, fraud and abuse.
“The president tasked Elon Musk to oversee the DOGE effort. There are career officials and there are political appointees who are helping run DOGE on a day-to-day basis,” Leavitt told reporters during Tuesday’s White House press briefing.
“There are also individuals who have onboarded as political appointees at every agency across the board to work alongside President Trump’s cabinet to find and identify waste, fraud, and abuse, and they are working on that effort every day,” she added.
Musk’s DOGE initiative, which aims to cut at least $1 trillion in federal spending, claims it has already saved taxpayers about $55 billion through slashing government grants, finding lost money, downsizing federal agencies and laying off thousands of government workers.
