Chuck Darwin<p>The acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency is a low-profile executive who has expertise in health care technology and worked in the first Trump administration.</p><p>The White House on Tuesday afternoon identified <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Amy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gleason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gleason</span></a> as the acting leader of DOGE, <br>which has been pushing agencies to fire employees, cancel contracts and make other budget cuts.</p><p>Although DOGE’s cuts have been championed by billionaire Elon Muskand his associates, <br>the White House has insisted that Musk is overseeing the effort as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, not a DOGE employee</p><p>Gleason, 53, worked from 2018 through 2021 in the United States Digital Service, <br>an agency that has been renamed the US DOGE Service, according to her LinkedIn profile. </p><p>In that role, she worked with the White House on the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p>She returned to the agency in January after Trump took office. </p><p>DOGE and Gleason did not respond to an email seeking comment on Tuesday.</p><p>More than 20 members of the former digital service resigned Tuesday with a letter criticizing Musk for working to “dismantle critical public services.”</p><p>In the interim, she had been working as “chief product officer” at two small Nashville-based health care startups, <br>Russell Street Ventures and Main Street Health, <br>according to her LinkedIn profile.</p><p>Both companies were founded by health care entrepreneur Brad Smith, who worked in the first Trump administration in several key health care roles and has also been working on the DOGE initiative.<br><a href="https://apnews.com/65af638e646fdd5dd6d5fcc5cc04a2e7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/65af638e646fdd5dd6d</span><span class="invisible">5fcc5cc04a2e7</span></a></p>