Elon Musk’s ministers – from reliable sidekicks to random university students and former Musk Company interns – have taken over the general services administration, a critical government agency that runs federal offices and technology. The team is already trying to use the White House security vouchers to gain unusual access to GSA technology, deploy a series of new AI software and recreate the office to the image of X, according to the leaked documents obtained by Wired .
Some of the same people who helped Musk over two years ago to take over Twitter are now registered as official GSA employees. Nicole Hollander, who slept in Twitter HQ as an unofficial member of Musk’s transition team, has access to agencies and an official government email address, according to documents seen by Wired. Hollander’s husband, Steve Davis, also slept in the office. He has now adopted a leading role in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). Thomas Shedd, the recently installed director of the technology transformation services within GSA, worked for eight years as a software engineer at Tesla. Edward Coristine, who was previously interned at Neuralink, was on board with Ethan Shaotran, a senior Harvard who developed his own open-supported scheduling assistant and participated in a Xai Hackathon.
“I believe that these people do not want to help the federal government provide services to the US population,” said a current GSA employee who asked not to be mentioned, citing the fear of retaliation. “They act like this as a takeover of a technical enterprise.”
The team seems to be performing Musk’s agenda: to reduce the federal government as quickly as possible. According to the documents obtained by Wired, they are currently aimed at a 50 percent reduction in spending for each office run by the GSA.
It seems that there is also an attempt to use IT faith letters from the executive office of the president to access GSA laptops and internal GSA infrastructure. According to access to agency systems, workers must be employed by such agencies, sources say. While Musk’s team could try to obtain better laptops and equipment from GSA, sources fear that the mandate set out in the Doge Executive Command would provide the body broad access to GSA systems and data. This includes sensitive purchases -data, data internally in all systems and services that GSA offers offer, and internal monitoring software to investigate GSA employees as part of normal audit and security processes.
Access can give Musk’s proxies the ability to look at laptops, listen to meetings, read e -mails, among many other things, a former Biden official told Wired on Friday.
“The allocation of Doge staff, many of whom are not government employees, unlimited access to internal government systems and sensitive data pose a major security risk to the federal government and the American public,” the Biden official said. ‘Able to review the purchasing -sensitive information on large government contracts, it will also actively investigate the government’s employees. ‘
The new GSA leadership team prioritized to reduce the GSA’s real estate portfolio, cancel convenience contracts and execute AI instruments for use by the federal government, according to internal documents and interviews with sources familiar with the situation. At a GSA office in Washington, DC earlier this week, three items were written on a white plate sitting in a large, vacant room. ‘Expenses cut $ 585 m, removed regulations, 15, square feet sold/ended 203,000 SF,’ according to a photographed photo. There is no note of who wrote the message, but it appears to be a tracker of tracks made or suggested by the team.