Centibillionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of the former US -Digital service – now the United States Doge -Service– was largely made known and approved by one of the many executive commands by President Donald Trump. However, the wired reporting shows that Musk’s influence extends even further and into a more consistent government agency.
Sources within the federal government state that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – essentially the personnel function for the entire federal government – are checked by people with connections to musk and tech industry. Among them is a person who should start college last autumn, according to an online resume.
Scott Kupor, Managing Partner of the powerful investment company Andreessen Horowitz, stands as Trump’s candidate to lead the OPM. According to sources, however, there are already a variety of people who seem to be ready to carry out Musk Mission, cut the staff and disturb the government.
As reported, Amanda Scales is the new chief of staff of the OPM. According to her LinkedIn, she used to work in the talent for Xai, Musk’s artificial intelligence company. Previously, she was part of the Human Capital talent and business team, a risk capital with investments in the startup of defense technology, Anduril and the political betting platform Kalshi. Before that, she worked for Uber for years. Their placement in this key role seems to be part of a wider pattern of the traditionally apolitical OPM, which is used as a political instrument.
“I don’t think it is alarmed to say that there is a much more sophisticated plan to monitor and enforce loyalty than in the first term,” says Don Moynihan, professor of public order at the University of Michigan.
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Sources say that Riccardo Biasini, formerly an engineer at Tesla and most recently Director of Operations for the Las Vegas Loop at Boring Company, Musk’s tunnel building surgery, is also as a senior consultant at the OPM. (Steve Davis, the CEO of the Boring Company, is rumored, advise Musk about cuts that have to be carried out on Doge, and after his takeover of the company in 2022, was in the practice of Musk’s exercise of Twitter X.
According to the same sources, other people at the top of the new OPM food chain include two people with obvious backgrounds for software engineering that are wired because they are not named due to their age. One, a senior advisor to the director, is a 21-year-old whose online curriculum vitae appeals to Palantir, the government contractor and the analytics company of billionaire Peter Thiel, who is the chairman. (The former CEO of PayPal and a long -standing Musk employee, Thiel is a Trump supporter who helped the Bank role of the Senate Campaign in 2022 of his Protégé, Vice President JD Vance, with the bank wheel information.) The other who reports directly to Scales, made the high school in 2024 from the high school. After a mirrored copy of an online resume and the student magazine of his high school; He lists jobs as a warehouse consultant and bicycle mechanic among his professional experience and as a summer role at Neuralink, Musk’s Brain-Computer interface.
Among the new highs-ups at OPM is Noah Peters, a lawyer whose LinkedIn his work in legal disputes that the National Rifle Association represented Daily caller and the federalist; He is now also the director of the director. According to metadata that is assigned to a file on the OPM website, Peters A. January 27 Memo This was based on the name of Acting Opm, Charles Ezell, who describes how the department would implement one of Trump’s executive orders. “Restoration of the accountability obligation to political influencing positions within the federal employees.” This has to do with what is sometimes known as Template F– A plan to categorize many jobs in the public service as political representatives, which means that they would be tied to the specific agenda of an administration rather than a professional government agent. The arrangement would essentially enable certain career officers to be removed in favor of Trump -Loyalists by classifying them as political representatives, an essential part of the 2025 project to revive the government.
