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Seven techies are helping Musk slash billions from government: Report

Recent college grads with no apparent government experience are tearing into Congress-approved programs, and may now have access to confidential information about hundreds of millions of Americans
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Helping Musk to slash billions from federal government​

Recent college grads with no apparent government experience are tearing into Congress-approved programs, and may now have access to confidential information about hundreds of millions of Americans​

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A group of young tech industry workers between 19 to 25 years old have been recruited by Elon Musk to carry out the Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency’s goals of cutting trillions from the federal government - and now have access to numerous sensitive systems.
Among them is a recent high school graduate and a Matt Gaetz defender who claims he quit a “seven-figure salary” to join DOGE and “save America.”
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The group has little to no experience working in government, and yet some of them have been given central roles within Musk’s DOGE, including access to the U.S. Treasury’s internal payments system, according to WIRED.

Musk’s young crew have been unmasked as Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger and Ethan Shaotran, WIRED first reported. As their names were published, the group rushed to disable any trace of their social media profiles.

After the names of the engineers became public, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin, said he was working with Musk over the alleged “threats” made against the DOGE workers.

“Don’t mess with @DOGE,” Musk stated.
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Marko Elez, 25​

Elez is a former X and SpaceX engineer who now has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for dispersing almost all payments made by the federal government, according to WIRED.
The 25-year-old Rutgers University graduate can reportedly access and write code on the most sensitive systems within government — The Payment Automation Manager and Secure Payment System at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, according to WIRED.
The payment system at the bureau is, in essence, the federal government’s checkbook. It contains highly sensitive and confidential personal information belonging to every taxpayer in the U.S and its scale is vast. It disbursed 87.9 percent of all federal payments through the 2023 fiscal year, according to figures on its website. In the same period, it collected $5.47 trillion in federal revenue.

Elez has reportedly been given administrator-level privileges that theoretically allow someone to change user permissions, delete and modify critical files that contain highly sensitive and confidential information.

“You could do anything with these privileges,” a concerned source told WIRED.
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Gavin Kliger, 25​

Kliger, who worked at AI company Databricks, was named on Monday as the individual who sent a staff-wide email to USAID workers ordering them to work from home as Musk moved to shut down the department, the New York Times reported.

He is listed as a “Special Adviser to the Director” in the Office of Personnel Management, according to his LinkedIn.
His Substack page has a post titled: “Why DOGE” and explains “Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America.” Kliger posts on his Substack in support of failed attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz and Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Daily Beast reported. Kliger referred to Gaetz as a victim “of the deep state” and described Hegseth as “the warrior Washington doesn’t want but desperately need.”
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Edward Coristine, 19​

The youngest of Musk’s crew, Coristine, is still in college, according to reports, and is the heir to his father’s popcorn brand Lesser Evil.
Coristine completed a summer internship at Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink, according to his resume seen by WIRED.
He is listed as an “expert” within internal Office of Personnel Management records and reportedly appeared on a General Services Administration staff call, who did not know who he was or why he was there.
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Luke Farritor, 23​

Farritor has a working General Services Administration email address, according to WIRED, and has ties to Musk and the billionaire Peter Thiel.
He dropped out of the University of Nebraska and was also an intern at Musk’s SpaceX. The Thiel fellow said he dropped out of college to work for Nat Friedman, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former CEO of GitHub and Xamarin.
The 23-year-old has been lauded for using AI to help decipher an ancient scroll from Pompeii that had been damaged beyond recognition. Scientists had been trying to study the document for years and Farritor was awarded a $700,000 prize for his efforts.
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Gautier Cole Killian, Ethan Shaotran and Akash Bobba​

Killian, 24, served as an engineer at computerized trading firm Jump Trading and is working for DOGE as a volunteer, according to WIRED.
He graduated high school in 2019 and studied at McGill University in Canada.
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Shaotran, 22, along with Bobba, Coristine, and Farritor, has a working General Service Administration email, according to WIRED. The four have access to the agency’s IT systems, a source told the ou

As a high school student in Silicon Valley, Shaotran was given money by his parents to invest in stocks, the Daily Beast reports. He studied computer science at Harvard and was named runner-up in a hackathon held by Musk’s AI company xAI.

Bobba, 21, is listed as an “expert” within the OPM and attended the University of California-Berkeley. He has interned at hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, Meta and Thiel’s Palantir.
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When President Donald Trump was asked on Monday why Musk needs access to payment systems at the Treasury, he said: “He’s got access only to letting people go that he thinks are no good, if we agree with him and it’s only if we agree with him.”

“We’ll give him the approval when appropriate, where not appropriate, we won’t. But he reports in, and it’s something that he feels very strongly about,” Trump added. “If there’s conflict, then we won’t let him get near it.”
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