New DOGE filing would result in 'referral for prosecution' for anyone else: expert

The Trump administration’s claim that Amy Gleason is the official administrator of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency took a sharp turn on Tuesday when it was revealed that the government bureaucrat was actually hired at the Department of Health and Human Services for an entirely different position. The new details came to light in a court document ordered by Senior U.S. District Judge John Bates, according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney. The document, an “appointment affidavits,” further added that Gleason was hired on March 4, which Cheney pointed out to his social media followers on Bluesky was “just a few days after the White House identified her as the administrator of DOGE.” “In an earlier filing, without identifying Gleason by name, HHS identified her as being ‘detailed’ to HHS in February. The new revelation that Gleason, which the Trump administration has identified in other court filings as DOGE administrator, without noting she is “dual hatted at HHS,” might “limit her bandwidth to run the whole DOGE operation,” according to Cheney It also prompted former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance to weigh in on the potential legal ramifications that could come from the lack of candor over who is actually in charge of the DOGE initiative, which is tasked with slashing trillions from the federal budget.