Photos: Here Are the Piles of Used Bedding and Children’s Play Sets Left Near DOGE’s Old Offices

In January, after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Musk’s DOGE took over a few key government agencies that provided the keys to dozens of others, including the Office of Personnel Management, which functions as the federal HR system, and the GSA, the government’s operations and IT department.

Steve Davis and Nicole Hollander, two longtime Musk lieutenants who played a crucial role in Musk’s acquisition of X, were listed as high-level GSA employees, according to directory screenshots obtained by WIRED. (Davis and Hollander are partners and have a child together. During Musk’s acquisition of X, they moved into the company’s office building in San Francisco with their newborn baby.) Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, became the director of the GSA’s Technology Transformation Services division. A number of young, inexperienced technologists, as WIRED first reported, were also brought to the GSA: Edward Coristine, a former Neuralink intern, and Ethan Shaotran, a student at Harvard, joined the agency as well. Davis, Hollander, Coristine, and Shaotran all had A-suite access, linking them to the highest levels of the GSA org chart.

At the GSA, DOGE set up shop on the sixth floor of the office building. The area where they worked, which had previously been open, was redesigned to accommodate a locked door, a key card reader for access, and a security guard. Longtime GSA employees reported seeing groups of young men walking around the office dressed in T-shirts and shorts, and, in some cases, wearing sunglasses. In March, GSA acting administrator Stephen Ehikian hosted an all-hands meeting with GSA staff. During a Q&A, he was asked about the DOGE team at GSA. He responded that no such team existed. Many employees were in disbelief. “Like we didn’t notice a bunch of young kids working behind a secure area on the sixth floor,” a GSA employee told WIRED.