Amy Gleason Chosen as Acting DOGE Administrator

Amy Gleason. White House Archives

Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a White House official told The Epoch Times on Feb. 25.

According to her LinkedIn page, Gleason last served in government between 2018 and 2021—working in both the Trump and Biden administrations—in the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), which President Donald Trump repurposed as DOGE.

Prior to returning to government, Gleason worked as a consultant and was the chief product officer for Russell Street Ventures and Main Street Health, according to her LinkedIn profile. She has also worked in the health care sector.

DOGE was announced by Trump and Elon Musk ahead of the 2024 election.

Since Trump took office, DOGE has gone into federal agencies to identify waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars. It has also recommended dramatic cuts to the federal workforce.

However, there were questions as to who was running the agency on a daily basis.

In a court case against DOGE, senior White House Office of Administration head Joshua Fisher said that Musk is merely a “senior adviser” to Trump and he has “no greater authority than other senior White House advisers.”

Moreover, Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order establishing DOGE stated: “There shall be a USDS administrator established in the Executive Office of the President who shall report to the White House Chief of Staff.”

It also said that DOGE, “shall be headed by the USDS administrator and shall be dedicated to advancing the president’s 18-month DOGE agenda.”

In addition to the administrator, DOGE has teams of at least four employees with a leader to work with agency heads to identify potential savings in programs, workforce, and regulations.

The executive order requires the administrator to “commence a Software Modernization Initiative to improve the quality and efficiency of government-wide software, network infrastructure, and information technology (IT) systems” and to “work with agency heads to promote inter-operability between agency networks and systems, ensure data integrity, and facilitate responsible data collection and synchronization.”

DOGE is set to expire on July 4, 2026.

The department said on its website that it has saved $65 billion in taxpayer money, “which is a combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings.”