If you actually look at the composition of DOGE, it is very clear that diminishing Musk’s power over the group would take a lot more than him shifting to part-time remote work.
Out of 110 people who have reportedly been involved with DOGE, at least 46 of them have direct financial or professional ties to Elon Musk, according to
research
by the Revolving Door Project. In the majority of these cases, DOGE staffers have worked for Musk directly at one or more of his companies, with SpaceX being the most common one.
Antonio Gracias [is] a personal friend of Musk’s and longtime investor in his companies… Gracias is
now
a top DOGE official at the Social Security Administration, an agency that Musk has targeted in part because
he believes, falsely
, that “Democrats have been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal immigrants” through “entitlements fraud.”
Absent a much larger purge of Musk’s close associates from DOGE and the rest of the federal government, it’s hard to see how reducing his “time allocation to DOGE” functionally means anything at all.
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