Ex-employees of Elon Musk’s DOGE, which sought to slash waste federal expenditure in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term, are monetizing their experience in the private sector, a new analysis has found.
According to The Washington Post, at least two dozen former staffers of Musk’s short-lived department have since “leveraged their government stints to fuel private sector ambitions: building companies that tap government largesse or that deploy knowledge they garnered during their brief tenures in Washington.”