Tracking the DOGE Treasury Raid

Key people involved:

• Donald Trump: U.S. President; supporter of oligarchy with autocratic ambitions
• Elon Musk: Head of DOGE effort to consolidate plutocratic power; world’s richest man
• Scott Bessent: President Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary; ex-hedge fund manager
• Dan Katz: Treasury Chief of Staff; former senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
• Tom Krause: DOGE agent; delegated to perform duties of Treasury’s fiscal assistant secretary
• Marko Elez: Erstwhile DOGE agent; has had access to Treasury’s payments system
• David Lebryk: Former fiscal assistant secretary at Treasury, ousted in DOGE coup

Includes link-heavy timeline of events from October 2024–February 25.