- Amy Gleason, acting administrator of the White House DOGE office, said she doesn’t work with Elon Musk.
- Gleason said in a court filing that Musk doesn’t work at the office, she doesn’t report to him, and he doesn’t report to her.
- Though Trump says Musk is in charge, the leadership structure of the office remains murky.
President Donald Trump last week said Tesla CEO Elon Musk runs the White House DOGE office — but Amy Gleason, officially DOGE’s acting administrator, swears they don’t work together.
In a court filing related to a lawsuit against the US DOGE Service by the nonprofit group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Gleason said that Musk “does not work” for the US DOGE Service.
While Gleason’s statement outlined the official structure of the DOGE office, it remains unclear exactly how decisions are made at the agency and who must sign off on them. The White House DOGE office initiatives have ranged from dismantling agencies like USAID to slashing budgets and sweeping layoffs, many of which have been reversed by court order.
“Elon Musk does not work at USDS,” Gleason’s statement reads, referring to the US DOGE Service, which was renamed from the United States Digital Service via an executive order Trump issued on January 20.
“I do not report to him, and he does not report to me,” Gleason continued. “To my knowledge, he is a Senior Advisor to the White House.”
Gleason, who in early March was identified as the acting administrator of the recently-renamed department, went on to clarify that she reports to the White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, and Gleason herself oversees “all of USDS’s employees and detailees to USDS from other agencies.”
A former colleague of Gleason previously told Business Insider that she is hardworking and apolitical, and had earned the nickname “the green dot” for being active on the office messaging system all hours of the day and night.
The filing in which Gleason’s declaration appears stems from a lawsuit against the DOGE office filed by the government accountability watchdog group CREW. The nonprofit described the lawsuit in a press release as an attempt to “compel transparency” at the department.
The judge in the case this week ruled the DOGE office must release some records per Freedom of Information Act requests, describing the department as operating rapidly and with “unusual secrecy,” Business Insider previously reported.
The Friday filing featuring Gleason’s declaration was a motion requesting the judge reconsider that decision “to prevent manifest injustice” and outlining the DOGE Office’s plans to argue it is not subject to FOIA.
Representatives for the White House, DOGE office, and CREW did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.
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