Many of the agency’s key players have since moved into other roles across government. Amy Gleason, the acting administrator, became an adviser to the health and human services secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, in March. Zachary Terrell, another senior member of the team, is now chief technology officer at the Department of Health, while Rachel Riley has taken up the post of chief of the Office of Naval Research, according to Reuters.

The most prominent of these departures was Joe Gebbia, the co-founder of Airbnb, who has since been instructed by Trump to beautify government websites.

They fire thousands of federal workers, then slide themselves into new federally funded jobs

DURec

cojoel

(1,013 posts)

4. And the DOGE to its end will come

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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 03:08 PM

Nov 23

not with a bang, but a whimper.

awesomerwb1

(4,945 posts)

6. The damage is done

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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 04:05 PM

Nov 23

allegorical oracle

(6,082 posts)

7. May have taken the money and run, but the Musky odor remains for years.

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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 04:44 PM

Nov 23

PCIntern

(27,880 posts)

8. They're all ineffective failures.

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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 04:46 PM

Nov 23

If it weren’t so important, it’d be hilarious how inept they are.

Ritabert

(1,884 posts)

11. Depends what they were up to

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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 04:57 PM

Nov 23

If the goal was a back door into Federal databases I would guess they got what they wanted. They wanted to link SS, IRS, and voting data and I'll bet they got it. Don't forget he hired hackers.

NameAlreadyTaken

(2,184 posts)

9. He got rid of investigations of him.

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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 04:54 PM

Nov 23

That was the most important thing for him.

NameAlreadyTaken

(2,184 posts)

10. Can we claw back their paychecks?

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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 04:55 PM

Nov 23

GreenWave

(12,114 posts)

12. This must be hammered back during election year.

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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 05:23 PM

Nov 23

Your congress GQP (insert name) stood idly by while South African Musk pushed Trump aside and threaten to destroy our country...
He got into your Social Security, etc...

duckworth969

(1,037 posts)

13. Palantir already has our personal data

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Sun Nov 23, 2025, 05:36 PM

Nov 23

Social Security and IRS data.

Corrupt SC gave the green light for the release of all that information many months ago. It’s sitting in private servers somewhere.

Doubtless cross-referenced, aggregated and ready for the next step of attaching our faces to our personal information.