{"id":14261,"date":"2025-03-20T09:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/meet-steve-davis-elon-musks-top-lieutenant-who-oversees-doge\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T09:36:27","slug":"meet-steve-davis-elon-musks-top-lieutenant-who-oversees-doge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/meet-steve-davis-elon-musks-top-lieutenant-who-oversees-doge\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Steve Davis, Elon Musk\u2019s Top Lieutenant Who Oversees DOGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Elon Musk <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1888314848477376744\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">declared<\/a> last month that the federal government was engaged in \u201cutterly insane\u201d activity, claiming without evidence that it had distributed $100 billion to people without Social Security numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two days after Mr. Musk\u2019s comments, one of his key lieutenants, Steve Davis, began pressing the Social Security Administration for information. Mr. Davis called the agency\u2019s leaders to insist they give a young engineer from Mr. Musk\u2019s so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to databases that contained sensitive information about Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Davis\u2019s demand was \u201cunprecedented,\u201d Tiffany Flick, a former Social Security official, said in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321\/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.22.10.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a sworn statemen<\/a>t this month for a lawsuit filed by federal employees trying to block access to the data. She added that she could feel Mr. Davis grow impatient in the hours before the DOGE engineer was eventually permitted to investigate \u201cthe general myth of supposed widespread Social Security fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Deploying staff into federal agencies is just one task that Mr. Davis has carried out recently for Mr. Musk, as the world\u2019s richest man continues an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html\" title=\"\">all-out effort to reshape the U.S. government<\/a>. At every turn, Mr. Davis has backed his boss, laying the groundwork for cost cutting during the presidential transition, slashing diversity initiatives, meeting lawmakers and helping to send a governmentwide \u201cFork in the Road\u201d email that urged workers to resign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those actions demonstrate how Mr. Davis, 45, has effectively become the day-to-day leader of DOGE. He has more power than <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/us\/politics\/amy-gleason-doge-administrator.html\" title=\"\">Amy Gleason<\/a>, the Trump administration\u2019s acting DOGE administrator, two people close to the effort said, adding that Ms. Gleason has sometimes been in the dark about Mr. Davis\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">How Mr. Davis got to this position is hardly a secret. For more than 20 years, the engineer has devoted himself to fulfilling Mr. Musk\u2019s desires, following the billionaire to his various companies, including the rocket maker SpaceX and the social media platform X. Mr. Davis wholeheartedly believes Mr. Musk will bring about humanity\u2019s progress, according to interviews with 22 friends, former colleagues and government officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For Mr. Musk, Mr. Davis represents the ideal employee \u2014 an engineer who will throw himself at any task, even if he has no expertise in the area, two former colleagues said. Mr. Musk has especially <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/28\/us\/politics\/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html\" title=\"\">praised Mr. Davis\u2019s ability<\/a> to excise waste, once likening his lieutenant to a cancer-killing treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSteve is like chemo,\u201d Mr. Musk said at a transition meeting before President Trump took office. \u201cA little chemo can save your life; a lot of chemo could kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk and Mr. Davis have bonded deeply over cost cuts. At SpaceX, Mr. Davis devised ways to build rockets more cheaply. He also oversaw layoffs at Twitter, which was renamed X. At DOGE, he is coordinating engineers and lawyers to find $2 trillion that Mr. Musk has promised to eliminate from the federal budget.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Davis is so loyal to Mr. Musk that he and his partner, Nicole Hollander, 42, who joined the General Services Administration to cut federal real estate costs, have set up a base of operations on the agency\u2019s sixth floor in Washington. It is guarded by a full security detail, three agency employees said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Adam Green, a progressive organizer who befriended Mr. Davis about a decade ago when they lived in Washington, said Mr. Davis was once a \u201cfun outside-the-box thinker,\u201d who had turned into a \u201cblind servant\u201d to Mr. Musk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Davis, Mr. Musk, Ms. Hollander and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Davis began working for Mr. Musk in 2003, when the tech entrepreneur plucked him out of a Stanford aeronautics graduate program. Mr. Davis became the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Buu9RsAQGTY&amp;t=2s\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">14th employee<\/a> at SpaceX. He quickly endeared himself to Mr. Musk by finding less expensive ways to develop rocket parts, including making a shuttle steering device for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/07\/ayn-rand-elon-musk-spacex\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a hundredth<\/a> of the price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His frugality led to mistakes. In 2007, Mr. Davis removed components from SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 1 rocket that prevented fuel from sloshing inside the vehicle, three former colleagues said. That caused the fuel to unbalance the rocket during a test flight, and it shut down midair before reaching orbit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By 2008, Mr. Davis had moved to Washington and was later named SpaceX\u2019s director of advanced projects. He had a broad range of responsibilities at the company, including finding land around Boca Chica, Texas, for what would become Starbase, SpaceX\u2019s rocket launch facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the side, Mr. Davis pursued an economics doctorate and opened Mr. Yogato, a frozen yogurt shop that offered discounts to customers who answered trivia questions. He also helped create a Jewish lifestyle website, Gather the Jews, and joined the board of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/07\/ayn-rand-elon-musk-spacex\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Atlas Society<\/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to the teachings of the libertarian author Ayn Rand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2018, Mr. Musk appointed Mr. Davis to lead the Boring Company, a start-up that aims to build tunnels under major metropolitan areas to ease congestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIn general there is almost zero R&amp;D in tunnels in America,\u201d Mr. Davis <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AwX9G38vdCE\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> at a presentation for the company that year. \u201cSo trying new things is actually helpful for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Boring Company opened a tunnel in Las Vegas in 2021, but has run into regulatory roadblocks elsewhere. That frustrated Mr. Musk, who berated Mr. Davis and threatened to fire him, three people who have worked with Mr. Davis said. The stress weighed on Mr. Davis, and he sometimes pulled out his hair, five people close to him said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Mr. Musk bought Twitter in 2022, Mr. Davis helped slash the company\u2019s costs, telling people that he hoped to eliminate more than $500 million. He was so dedicated that on some nights, he stayed with Ms. Hollander and their newborn baby at Twitter\u2019s San Francisco office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Davis also oversaw the installation of a personal bathroom for Mr. Musk there, telling one employee not to bother obtaining a construction permit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe don\u2019t have to follow the rules,\u201d Mr. Davis said, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/twitter-employee-lawsuit-v\/e5d27a60a7b7d51e\/full.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 2023 lawsuit<\/a> from former Twitter workers who accused the company and Mr. Musk of violating the terms of their employment agreements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some workers complained about Mr. Davis\u2019s cost cutting to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/27\/technology\/linda-yaccarino-x-ceo-elon-musk.html\" title=\"\">Linda Yaccarino<\/a>, who became X\u2019s chief executive in 2023, and asked her to rein him in, two people with knowledge of the discussions said. He left X soon after.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Mr. Musk stumped for Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania during last year\u2019s presidential campaign, Mr. Davis relocated to hotels in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to oversee a super PAC that Mr. Musk had backed, three people said. Mr. Davis helped conceive <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/07\/us\/politics\/elon-musk-47-dollars-petition.html\" title=\"\">a $47-a-head petition<\/a> that Mr. Musk promoted to turn out Trump voters, and cited his Twitter cost cutting as a way of doing things cheaply at the super PAC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Mr. Trump won the election, Mr. Davis joined a transition \u201clanding team\u201d and interviewed candidates for Mr. Musk\u2019s efficiency commission. He also met with agencies that employed engineers to assess the technical talent that DOGE might tap, three government officials said. Mr. Musk included Mr. Davis in recruiting pitches to potential government hires, according to an internal email seen by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration, Mr. Davis pushed administration officials to let him email all government employees at once, two people with knowledge of his efforts said. That led to a January email blast known as the \u201cFork in the Road,\u201d which included a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/28\/us\/politics\/trump-buyouts-federal-workers.html\" title=\"\">governmentwide resignation offer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When leaks about the resignation offer circulated in the media, Mr. Davis rebuked officials for not controlling their staffs and accused them of embarrassing Mr. Musk, two people said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Davis pushes for Mr. Musk\u2019s priorities daily with Mr. Trump\u2019s advisers, two people with knowledge of the conversations said. He has alerted administration officials to diversity, equity and inclusion programs that are targeted for cuts and individuals to be removed from government boards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Davis, who can be blunt and undiplomatic, especially in late-night texts, has also clashed with some of Mr. Trump\u2019s staff. He and his colleagues upset some White House advisers with the way DOGE tried to place some of their recruits at the Pentagon, three people said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Throughout, Mr. Davis has studiously avoided attention. Mr. Musk and the White House have not mentioned him. In Washington, Mr. Davis mostly avoided having his picture taken until this month, when he spoke at the DOGE Caucus, a House of Representatives group that works with the cost-cutting task force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWrapped a great meeting with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@elonmusk<\/a> and Steve Davis on their goals for the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOGE\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@DOGE<\/a>,\u201d Representative Aaron Bean, Republican of Florida, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/repaaronbean\/status\/1897745532203696405?s=46\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> on X. The message included a photo of Mr. Davis holding a microphone and smiling beside Mr. Musk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Reporting was contributed by <!-- -->Kirsten Grind<!-- -->, <!-- -->Eric Schmitt<!-- -->, <!-- -->Jonathan Swan<!-- --> and <!-- -->Maggie Haberman<!-- -->. <!-- -->Susan C. 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