2025-03-20
14 分钟My name is Ryan Mack.
I'm usually a technology reporter for the.
New York Times, covering Elon Musk.
But lately the work has taken me inside the federal government,
where I've been covering the Department of Government Efficiency and what Elon Musk and his crew are doing to slash costs inside the federal government.
I think one of the confusing things about Doge is
that it's not really clear who is running the show.
Of course, you have Elon Musk,
who is in Cabinet meetings and speaking publicly and is tweeting about his ideas for Doge.
But our question was, who is making sure that his orders are enforced and carried out?
The administration had named someone, an acting.
Doge administrator,
but a lot of our reporting showed that she wasn't actually involved in many of the decisions,
and that those decisions were actually made by someone else,
someone who we've been tracking for a long time, a guy named Steve Davis.
And for the article I'm about to read you,
that was written by myself, Kate Conger, and Teddy Schleifer.
Our question was, how did he amass this power?
The answer, in short, is loyalty.
This is someone who has stayed by Elon Musk's side for more than 20 years, who was with him in the.