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"Everywhere you look you have to wonder whether #SusieWiles is as much in charge as #AmyGleason is at #DOGE, whether her title of #ChiefofStaff is just a convenient fiction to cover up for the reality that #Trump does whatever the last person in the room tells him to do.

And often as not, the last person in the room is #StephenMiller."

Stephen Miller

One has to think that Trump has staffed the Federal government with the dregs he had around him, but there are simply too few competent true-believer acolytes to fill out the Federal government

Enter the few Trump Whispers, or perhaps really the single #TrumpWhisperer: Stephen Miller

"It’s not just that Stephen Miller is often the last one in the room with Trump. It’s not just that Stephen Miller’s policy ideas are batshit insane (and that he’s the author of Trump’s most egregious abuses of power). It’s also that Miller often stands in as the Word of DOGE, the Word of Trump."

Here: emptywheel.net/2025/04/20/trum

emptywheel · Trump Has No Policy Process, Just Wormtongue and Palace Intrigue - emptywheelPalace intrigue is roiling one after another of Trump's top cabinet officials.

NEW: Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run #DOGE.

One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to no actual decision making” responsibilities.

#news #government #musk #ElonMusk #AmyGleason #Trump

propublica.org/article/doge-le

ProPublicaWho’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat?
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The group included #Musk; #Ramaswamy, who was then #DOGE’s co-leader; the #billionaire #HowardLutnick, who was running #Trump’s transition & would become his #commerce secy; & a health care entrepreneur, Brad Smith, who had worked w/Trump’s son-in-law #JaredKushner…. [but more importantly] Smith was a close business associate of #AmyGleason, who had worked at one of his companies as a chief product officer.

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Around the time #Musk identified the #USDS as a key part of his strategy last year, the #Trump transition team gained a key ally on the inside. A USDS vet named #AmyGleason rejoined its staff as a snr adviser at the end of the #Biden admin, described to other employees as someone who would aid the transition. Gleason, who would later be named the acting administrator of #DOGE, recommended that the unit bring aboard several young engineers who would later become part of Musk’s team.