You can accuse Elon Musk a lot. But the man really works a lot. The living meme, as the richest and perhaps most controversial person in the world now titles, is to save up to two trillion dollars in addition to the management of a car company, a space company and half a dozen other companies from the US government. By putting the allegedly bloated state apparatus on a forced diet.
Even if he likes to do it: Donald Trump’s shadow vice cannot (and may) do everything alone. For the administration of his department of Government Efficiency, or Doge for short, the High Performer is at hand. Amy Gleason is said to manage Musk’s heart project and his formal boss.
Isn’t Elon Musk at all Doge boss?
Musk is a face and clock of Taskforce, the decisions of which he announces almost daily on his digital pin board X. It was only at the weekend that he had tweeted that federal employees would soon be asked by email to list their services from the past week. If you don’t react, you would be fired.
Apart from the obvious conflict of interests, which arises when an entrepreneur is to judge the fate of authorities, of which he either receives orders or who determine against him: officially the first buddy only has a part-time job as a trump consultant. That means: Musk is not a boss. No matter what Trump announced in the election campaign and how Musk had given himself since then. From the White House it was said that the Tesla boss has “no actual or formal decision-making authority”-all the more worrying that on Wednesday he should take part in Trump’s first cabinet session as a minister not confirmed by the Senate.
“There are professional officers and there are political representatives who help with the daily leadership of Doge,” said press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt to the “Washington Examiner”. The question of for weeks, if not musk, has the say in the Doge. When that was gradually too colorful to a federal judge and she was constitutional concerns whether the spongy management question expressed, the name Amy Gleason finally fell.
The 53-year-old himself said: nothing. According to “New York Times”, Gleason is currently on vacation in Mexico. She supposedly didn’t even warn the white house.
The alleged boss is a former nurse
Gleason is a thoroughbred officer, she was already working for the government under Barack Obama. On a employee profile, which has not been updated since its tenure, she is presented as a former nurse who discovered “her passion for technology” when she found out that the healthcare system could be improved. For years, among other things, she devoted it to the introduction of electronic medical records. After a rare autoimmune disease was found in her daughter, she also co -founded a company that is supposed to help patients with chronic illnesses, she said in a podcast in 2022.
From 2018 to 2021, while Trump’s first term, she worked in a department that supports the US authorities in modernization measures. Gleason was assigned to the Ministry of Health as a tech expert, where she was later appointed to the data team to combat corona pandemic due to her know-how, as US media report.
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When Trump left Washington, Gleason did it immediately. Subsequently, she worked for an investment company in the health sector. His boss, Brad Smith, had worked in the Corona-Taskforce of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Here the circle closes. Because this Brad Smith is said to have advised Elon Musk in preparation for his Doge plans at the end of 2024 and brought his employee Gleason into play.
According to media reports, Gleason has been on the US government’s salary list since the end of the year. “From our point of view, she was just as surprised by the things that came out of the Dog, like the rest of us,” quotes the “Business Insider” an employee of the United States Digital Service (USDS), the authority, which is already founded under Obama, which is now to open in the Doge. Her colleagues would not have seen them as “part of Musks Crew”, but rather believed that Gleason was only set for a smooth transition.
On which side is Amy Gleason?
However, the “New York Times” writes, Gleason met in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building more and more in January with its former boss Smith and Steve Davis. In the five -minute walk from the White Home, the Doge Quartier moved into.
Finally, Gleason is said to have supervised the transition from the predecessor to the Doge. Trump had transferred the management of the USD to the White House for reasons of efficiency. A side effect: Gleason’s work was no longer accessible to the public. Although you were of course “incredibly transparent”, as Trump’s press spokeswoman emphasized.
It is unclear whether and if so, what powers has the previously inconspicuous civil servant towards Multi-CEO Musk. It is quite possible that Gleason’s leadership role is only a kind of legal fog candle.
21 USDS employees had terminated last week. They did not want to abuse their skills for Musks Taskforce, wrote them in an open letter. In the same week, Gleason kept her inaugural speech and praised one “We all belong to the same team” mentality. The only question is: to which?
