WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24,—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project.
“What we’re seeing is unprecedented in that you have these actors who are not really public officials gaining access to the most sensitive data in government,” says Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan.
The engineers are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.