Six techies barely out of college helping Musk to slash billions from federal government: Report
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Source: The Independent
Monday 03 February 2025 22:46 EST
A group of six young tech industry workers, all between the ages of 19 and 24, and many with past ties to Elon Musk, are fanning out across the federal government to carry out the Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)s goals of cutting trillions from the federal budget, despite having little apparent government experience.
The group, WIRED reports, includes Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran.
Bobba reportedly attended UC Berkeley and interned at hedge fund Bridewater Associates. Coristine, a recent high school graduate, spent time at Northeastern University, and interned at Musks Neuralink brain-computer interface company, according to WIRED.
Farritor, who dropped out of the University of Nebraska, interned at Musks SpaceX. Killian, meanwhile, served as an engineer at computerized trading firm Jump Trading, while Kliger worked at AI company Databricks, WIRED reported. Shaotran was still at Harvard as of last year, where he competed in a hackathon run by Musks artificial intelligence company xAI, according to the outlet.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-opm-trump-b2691611.html


bronxiteforever
(9,845 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,560 posts)fucking know what they're looking at. They don't understand government processes and programs and funding. Any pronouncements of savings from Musk will always come with a complete, cartoonish mischaracterization of what an agency or scientist was working on, to enrage and satisfy the dumb-dumbs who voted for this.
Irish_Dem
(63,199 posts)They have no idea what they are doing in terms of US govt functioning.
And they do not care one iota about the US or American people.
BumRushDaShow
(146,741 posts)(because I was signing off on orders by my direct reports or others as a "backup" ), I was taught about what I call the "4 'A's" -
APPORTIONMENT
ALLOTMENT
ALLOWANCE
The above goes from top level down to the lowest levels of funding assignments. The allowances were generally the "pots". The biggy was the "BA" (Budget Authority) funds that tend to be for general purchases and staffing, etc., whereas you might have things that are funded with "User Fees" that must be segregated from the BA money and assigned appropriately, etc.
All of this is carefully done by the fiscal people due to obvious audits that can and do happen.
If they have no idea what a "User Fee" is (and it's something that the GOP promoted as a way to NOT have "taxpayers" fund certain regulatory activities but actually have the regulated industry do so through a "fee for service" arrangement, and start "slashing" that (despite such having been codified in law and is funding FROM INDUSTRY), then they will start eating their own corporate entities.
It can be mind-numbing but also fascinating as well (I know, I'm weird

Cheezoholic
(2,691 posts)bucolic_frolic
(48,429 posts)This is not a cost-benefit analysis. Not a recommendation. It's being done, on-the-fly. The entire support system for American life, melted away by crypto-bro-dudes.
tanyev
(45,255 posts)Yeehawdists.
Prairie Gates
(3,962 posts)What is this bullshit article framing?
Bluethroughu
(6,724 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,921 posts)I look forward to our entire treasury system being hacked by foreign agents and criminals wiping out trillions of dollars sending the entire planet into a depression.
Omaha Steve
(104,276 posts)DUPE of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143386982
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