Before Trump took office, the American International Service Administrator was Mina Hsiang. After she left Ted Carstensen was the highest legacy USDS leader, but He resigned February 6.
“After Ted resigned, we have not received any letters for the head of the organization,” said the current USDS employee, who requested anonymity due to fear of revenge.
Some people have had a link with USDS View Amy Gleason, a former USDS official who served in the first Trump administration as a liaison between traditional USDS, Doge and other agencies, but to her official The characters know very little. Steve Davis is a longtime Musk assistant, president of the boring company, and he is another name, the official leading governor. Davis has worked with Musk for many years and led the cost-cutting efforts of billionaires when he took over Twitter in 2022. Sleep at Twitter Headquarters with his wife Nicole Hollander and their children. (Hollander is now a senior general service management officer.)
“Steve Davis has been expressed as the head of Doge, but when I asked him if he was an administrator, [managers] Say we don’t know. “When I asked him if he was a temporary administrator, they said ‘we don’t know’. They said Brad Smith [a health care entrepreneur with ties to Davis] As Chief of Staff. ”
Meanwhile, dozens of them have been fired as USDS employees are trying to figure out who is running their agents. About five of the USDS’s approximately 200 employees were fired Friday. Sources told Wired that the product manager, designer and members of the talent team were hit hardest along with some engineers.
“There is no rhyme or reason. Literally, in the middle of work,” another source said of the shooting on Friday night. “There are many of us.”
“I heard that our USD (Estate) directors have not received any kind of listing or reason for the purpose of ending emails sent Friday night,” another source at the agency said.
Last week, multiple agencies were shocked by sudden layoffs. Dozens of Consumer Financial Protection Agency employees have been fired After receiving the email naming and role email. A former CFPB official told Wired that later this week, the entire CFPB team responsible for investigating large technologies was terminated. After the CFPB opened fire, other agencies, including the General Services Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Ministry of Education, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Energy, terminated thousands of workers.
The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Although Musk’s Governor-General workers took over USD last month, few traditional employees interacted with their new colleagues. Earlier this month, Wired reported that Doge was created “Firewall” Separate Musk’s team from the other workforce of the organization. The only time a traditional staff meets with Doge’s representatives is February 1 with Stephanie Holmesthey identify themselves as new HR people on the team.
The only other experiences of Legacy USDS staff and Doge staff are Their surprise one-on-one interview Engineers who refused to identify their own engineers in the first week of the Trump administration.
