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. Bates is overseeing a lawsuit the AFL-CIO filed against DOGE that seeks to limit the cost-cutting task force’s access to major government data systems.
In the court documents, Gleason’s position is listed as an “expert/consultant” at HHS, Cheney reported. 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.”
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“In an earlier filing, without identifying Gleason by name, HHS identified her as being ‘detailed’ to HHS in February (around time she was IDed as DOGE administrator). They indicate she will remain a DOGE/USDS employee while also working at HHS,” Cheney said.
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.
“This would likely get a private litigant censured by the court & probably referred for prosecution too,” Vance told her followers on X.
