Two of Elon Musk’s top DOGE hires are a married couple who worked at X and lived at Twitter’s HQ with their infant child

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A close Musk adviser is driving the initiative to unload the government’s real estate.

Among other clues that GSA is a critical cog in Musk's stated efforts to slash billions of dollars in federal spending: people with ties to the entrepreneur or his companies hold key jobs at the agency.

And an AP staffer, using a telephoto lens, confirmed that a wire runs from the roof to a window to the administrator’s office. NBC reported that several DOGE staffers working out of GSA had begun using Starlink terminals in February.

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Author / Journalist: Byron Tau, Joshua Goodman, Garance Burke, Brian Slodysko, The Associated Press

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