White house Officials confirmed with Fox News that, although one billionaire Elon Musk supervised the Ministry of Government Efficiency (Doge), the acting administrator was appointed this role.
Amy Gleason, who is a low -profile executive director with professional technology, has been appointed an acting of Dogea leader, a department responsible for suffocating many federal agencies while locating and reduced billions of dollars in the Government waste.
The identity of Gleason -was discovered after the journalist had pressed the press secretary of the Karolina Leavitt White House about who actually leads Doge.
CBS News’ Nancy Cordes emphasized Leavittt that the president Donald Trump Executive command to create Dogeo invited to appoint a Doge Administrator. She then asked the president’s spokeswoman who performs the dog dogera’s duty.
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The Karolina Leavitt White House secretary speaks during everyday briefing in Brady’s Breifice room of the White House on Tuesday. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
“So the president has assigned a task Elon musk To supervise Doge’s effort, “Leavitt said.” There are career officials and there are political named who help the dog -run every day.
“There are also individuals who boarded each agency as politically appointed to work with the Cabinet of President Trump to find and identify waste, fraud and abuse, and they work daily for that effort.”
Cordes asked quickly, “So is Elon Musk Administrator?” As Leavitt twice called on another journalist.
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Elon Musk and protesters against Doge and her work audits of various federal agencies. (Getty Images)
After the exchange, Fox News learned of Gleason’s temporary meeting.
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Gleason, 53, worked from 2018 to 2021 for the Digital Service of the United States, an agency that was renamed the US Doge, according to its LinkedIn profile. In this role, she worked with a white house on a federal response to the Pandemia of Koronavirus.
Gleason returned to the agency after Trump’s return to the oval office in January.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
