Last month, Elon Musk said that the federal government was dealing with a “completely mad” activity and claimed that it had distributed $ 100 billion to people without social security.
Two days after Mr. Musk’s comments, one of his key lieutenants, Steve Davis, began to push social security management for information. Mr. Davis called the agency leader to insist on giving a young engineer from Mr.
Mr. Davis is asking to be “unprecedented”, Tiffany Flick to train a social security officer, said this month in an sworn statement of a lawsuit filed by federal employers trying to block access to data. She added that she felt that Mr. Davis was impatient in the lessons before Duge’s engineer was eventually allowed to explore the “general myth of the expected extensive fraud of social security.
Employees’ deployment in federal agencies is just one task that Mr. At every step, Mr. Davis supported his boss and laid the foundations for reducing costs during the presidential transition, lowering the initiatives of diversity, meeting the legislators and helping to send a nationwide “fork on the road” that urged workers that urged workers
These actions show how Mr. Davis (45) has effectively proved the daily leader of DOGE. He has more power than Amy Gleason, the acting trump administrator, two people who were close to efforts, added that Mrs. Gleasoana was sometimes in the dark to decide Mr. Davis.
As Mr. Davis got to this position, he is hardly a secret. For more than 20 years, the engineer has been absorbed to fill Mr. According to interviews with 22 friends, training colleagues and government officials.
For Mr. Musk, Mr. Davis is represented by an ideal employee – an engineer who is suitable for any task, even if he has no expertise in this area, two colleagues said. Mr. Musk especially appreciated Mr..
“Steve is like chemo,” Mr. Musk said at a temporary meeting before he took the office of President Trump. “Little chemo can save your life; many chemo can kill you.”
Mr. Musk and Mr. Davis joined the cost of reducing costs. In SpaceX, Mr. Davis headed ways to build missiles cheaper. He also supervised the release on Twitter, which was renamed X. In DOGE, coordinating engineers and lawyers to find 2 trillion dollars that MR promised from the federal budget.
Mr. Davis is so loyal to MR. It is guarded by full security detail, three employed agency said.
Adam Green, a progressive organizer who was ten years ago when they live in Washington, was Mr. Davis.
Mr. Davis, Mr. Musk, Mrs. Hollander and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Mr. Davis began working for Mr. Mr. Davis became 14. Employee in SpaceX. He quickly approached Mr. Muska by finding cheaper ways to develop missile parts, including the production of a controlling equipment with a shuttle for a hundred price.
His modesty led to mistakes. In 2007, Mr. Davis removed components from the SpaceX Falcon 1 missile, which prevented fuel from the vehicle, three colleagues said. This caused the fuel to disrupt the rocket during the test flight and stopped before the orbit.
Until 2008, Mr. Davis moved to Washington and was later appointed director of the advanced SpaceX projects. He had a wide range of responsibility in the company, including finding the land around Boca Chica in Texas, for what would happen Starbase, SpaceX’s Rocket Launch Facility.
On Mr. Davis, Mr. Davis watched the doctorate of the economy and opened Mr. Yogato, a frozen yoghurt store that offered discounts to customers who were in order. He joined the Council of the Atlas Society, a non -profit organization dedicated to the teachings of a libertarian author Ayn Randa.
In 2018, Mr. Musk appointed Mr. Davis to lead a boring company, a start-up to build tunnels under the main metropolitan areas to alleviate overload.
“Generally, there is almost zero research and development in America,” Davis said at a presentation for the company of that year. “So trying new things is actually useful for us.”
The Nuring company opened a tunnel in Las Vegas in 2021, but encountered regulatory roadblocks elsewhere. It frustrated Mr. He weighed stress on Mr..
After Mr. Musk Bough Twitter in 2022, Mr. Davis helped to reduce the company’s costs and told people hoping to evoke more than 500 million. He was so devoted that in some nights he went with the World Championship.
Mr. Davis also supervised the installation of a personal bathroom for MR.
“We don’t have to follow the rules,” Davis said, according to Twitter court proceedings who accused society and MR.
Some workers complained about Mr. Davis’s costs to Linda Yaccarino, who became CEO X in 2023, and asked her to replace it, two people said with knowledge of discussions. Soon after, X.
When Mr. Musk moved to hotels in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh during last year’s presidential campaign last year’s presidential campaign to supervise the Super PAC, which Mr Musk supported, three people said. Mr. Davis helped introduce a petition of $ 47, which Mr.
After Mr. Trump won the election, Mr. Davis joined the “landing team” and the candidates for an interview for the effective commission of Mr. Musk. It also gives agencies employing engineers to assess the technical talent that Doge could click, three government officials said. According to the internal e -mail, who saw The New York Times, Mr. Musk belongs.
After the inauguration of Mr. Trump, Mr. Davis pushed the administration officials to leave him by e -mail to all government employees at once, two people said with knowledge of his efforts. This led to the January e -mail explosion as a “fork on the road”, which included the offered resignation of nationwide resignation.
When the leaks of resignation ran in the media, Mr..
Mr. Davis promotes Mr. Musk’s priorities with Mr. Trump advisors daily, two people said with knowledge of conversations. He pointed out officials of the administration of diversity programs, equity and integration programs that are focused on sections and individuals to be removed from government councils.
Mr. Davis, who can be dull and non -grave, especially in the texts of the late addicts, also encountered some employees of Mr. Trump. He and his colleagues sometimes upset the White House advisors by trying to place part of his recruitment in the Pentagon, three people said.
All the time, Mr. Davis has avoided caution. Mr. Musk and the White House did not mention it. In Washington, Mr. Davis mostly avoided his film to be taken this month when he spoke in the Doge Caucus, a group of representatives who are working with a working group to reduce costs.
“A great meeting with @elonmusk and Steve Davis at their destination for @doge,” Aarona Bean said in Florida.
The report contributed Kirsten Grind,, Eric Schmitt,, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman. Susan C. Beachy Research contributed.
Sound produced Patricia Sulbar.