Dougie isn’t dead. Here’s what his clients are doing now

For one member So called Elon Musk Government Efficiency DepartmentThe last few months have been crazy. In a slideshow of photos and videos posted to Instagram last month, Yat choy– Who joined? Doug This spring – clips from Trump Administration officials are dancing on The white house Grass to the YMCA; People loading what appears to be a private plane; House parties are decorated with American flags and attendees wear red, white and blue hats and carry red Solo cups and cans of noon.

On Instagram, Choi described his work as ongoing, declaring that it is Return to the Pennsylvania underground mine Where federal retirement claims are processed. “Like Jigga (Jay-Z) showed them the blueprint in April, I will now be back at the mine to fly the pilots next week,” wrote Choi, who previously worked as an AirBnb engineer and referred to Canada as his home in other Instagram posts. Choi did not respond to a request for comment.

It’s not just choy. Many original DOGE technicians are young and inexperienced It appears the people whose identities were first reported by WIRED are still stuck in federal agencies. Edward “Big Balls” Coristen, Gavin Kliger, Marco Elise, Akash Bubaand Ethan Chautran Everyone still claims to be affiliated with DOGE or the US government. So do other tech insiders from Silicon Valley and Musk’s companies like xAI and SpaceX. Kuristen, Kliger, Ellis, Boba and Shutran did not respond to requests for comment.

DOGE spirit – characterized by Cut contracts and Government workers, Consolidate data across agenciesand Importing private sector practices– Still in full effect. while Several media reports She suggested that DOGE had faded away, and that DOGE affiliates were spread throughout the federal government and serving as developers, designers, and even lead agencies in powerful roles.

“This is completely untrue,” one USDA source says of reports that DOGE has been disbanded. “They actually hide in agencies like ticks.”

DOGE “just turned a corner,” one IRS employee told WIRED.

While DOGE is no longer moving through government in a fast-moving campaign to move in and break things, DOGE affiliates appear to be digging in for the long term — and Silicon Valley-shaped fingerprints are still present all over the way agencies carry on.

Over the past few weeks, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has rolled out coding tests to hundreds of its technical employees, questioning them about their “technical proficiency.” The decision to launch these tests came from Sam Corcos, a DOGE client and chief information officer at the Treasury Department, according to a source familiar with the situation. The source says Corcus is seeking to overhaul the IRS’s 8,500-person IT department. This is part of a larger ongoing process “to update” process in US Treasury.