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Musk’s DOGE Army Now Profits From Government

October 12, 2026 · 6:27 am ET · Leave a Comment

“Last year, billionaire Elon Musk unleashed a small army of Silicon Valley techies to drain what he called the ‘swamp’ of Washington — wielding the U.S. DOGE Service to slash at a bureaucracy they argued was bloated and corrupt,” the Washington Post reports.

“But today, many of his former DOGE foot soldiers have leveraged their government stints to fuel private-sector ambitions: building companies that tap government largesse or that deploy knowledge they garnered during their brief tenures in Washington.”

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