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27-04-2025
- Business
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Since DOGE Was Created, This Is How Much Dogecoin Has Crashed
Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) is one of the most popular meme coins in the crypto world, often getting a boost from Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who pumps up the digital currency either directly or indirectly, normally via social media. Dogecoin investors initially reacted positively to news that Donald Trump won last year's election, especially given Musk's close relationship with the new president. One of the biggest changes involving the government this year was the creation of the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency — which is often referred by its acronym, DOGE, not unlike how people refer to Dogecoin. And Musk has played a key role in the project. But the launch of DOGE hasn't resulted in a boost for Dogecoin. Instead, the opposite has happened. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Continue » On Jan. 20, as part of one of President Trump's initial executive orders, he announced the United States Digital Service would be reorganized and renamed as the United States DOGE Service. Since the beginning, Musk has played a big role in DOGE, often pushing through aggressive cost-cutting initiatives. And while DOGE's goal is to cut costs, many people haven't been happy with it, to say the least. There have been protests across the country with people rallying against Musk's and Trump's controversial policies. Vandals have also been targeting Tesla dealerships and vehicles, and Tesla's sales have plunged. Dogecoin hasn't benefited from the launch of DOGE, either. On Jan. 19, the cryptocurrency finished the trading day at about $0.36, and it proceeded to fall by as much as 55% since then. Despite Musk's prominent role with DOGE and close association with Trump, that hasn't had a positive effect on the meme coin at all. There's a lot of negativity due to DOGE and its drastic cuts but the bad press surrounding the initiative isn't likely all to blame for Dogecoin's poor performance this year. Investors have been growing concerned about the economy in light of tariffs and a possible recession. Even Bitcoin, which is often seen as the safest cryptocurrency to own, declined in value at one point during the year, falling as much as 18%, proving that digital currencies may not provide much safety amid such uncertainty. Meme coins like Dogecoin may be even more vulnerable to sharp declines. Plus, the launch of Trump's own meme coin this year also made some crypto enthusiasts question whether the new president would indeed help the crypto world gain legitimacy under his administration. On top of all this, there's also the issue that Dogecoin went on a big rally after the election. Before Election Day, it was trading at around $0.16. The digital currency has effectively given back the gains it amassed in the weeks since then. And so while it may seem like a huge sell-off, the decline may not have been nearly as large if Dogecoin didn't rise so quickly late last year. Dogecoin is a meme coin and there's always going to be high risk and volatility associated with it. Although its price has dropped, that doesn't mean that it's due for a big rally anytime soon. If anything, the cryptocurrency's wild swings during the past six months should serve as a reminder to investors just what kind of a roller-coaster ride you can end up on by holding such an unpredictable investment in your portfolio. If you're bullish on crypto and want exposure to it, a much safer option probably is simply buying and holding Bitcoin. Before you buy stock in Dogecoin, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Dogecoin wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004… if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $594,046!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005… if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $680,390 !* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor 's total average return is 872% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 160% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join Stock Advisor . See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of April 21, 2025 David Jagielski has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Bitcoin and Tesla. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Since DOGE Was Created, This Is How Much Dogecoin Has Crashed was originally published by The Motley Fool READ SOURCE
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Since DOGE Was Created, This Is How Much Dogecoin Has Crashed
Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) is one of the most popular meme coins in the crypto world, often getting a boost from Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who pumps up the digital currency either directly or indirectly, normally via social media. Dogecoin investors initially reacted positively to news that Donald Trump won last year's election, especially given Musk's close relationship with the new president. One of the biggest changes involving the government this year was the creation of the initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency -- which is often referred by its acronym, DOGE, not unlike how people refer to Dogecoin. And Musk has played a key role in the project. But the launch of DOGE hasn't resulted in a boost for Dogecoin. Instead, the opposite has happened. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Continue » On Jan. 20, as part of one of President Trump's initial executive orders, he announced the United States Digital Service would be reorganized and renamed as the United States DOGE Service. Since the beginning, Musk has played a big role in DOGE, often pushing through aggressive cost-cutting initiatives. And while DOGE's goal is to cut costs, many people haven't been happy with it, to say the least. There have been protests across the country with people rallying against Musk's and Trump's controversial policies. Vandals have also been targeting Tesla dealerships and vehicles, and Tesla's sales have plunged. Dogecoin hasn't benefited from the launch of DOGE, either. On Jan. 19, the cryptocurrency finished the trading day at about $0.36, and it proceeded to fall by as much as 55% since then. Despite Musk's prominent role with DOGE and close association with Trump, that hasn't had a positive effect on the meme coin at all. There's a lot of negativity due to DOGE and its drastic cuts but the bad press surrounding the initiative isn't likely all to blame for Dogecoin's poor performance this year. Investors have been growing concerned about the economy in light of tariffs and a possible recession. Even Bitcoin, which is often seen as the safest cryptocurrency to own, declined in value at one point during the year, falling as much as 18%, proving that digital currencies may not provide much safety amid such uncertainty. Meme coins like Dogecoin may be even more vulnerable to sharp declines. Plus, the launch of Trump's own meme coin this year also made some crypto enthusiasts question whether the new president would indeed help the crypto world gain legitimacy under his administration. On top of all this, there's also the issue that Dogecoin went on a big rally after the election. Before Election Day, it was trading at around $0.16. The digital currency has effectively given back the gains it amassed in the weeks since then. And so while it may seem like a huge sell-off, the decline may not have been nearly as large if Dogecoin didn't rise so quickly late last year. Dogecoin is a meme coin and there's always going to be high risk and volatility associated with it. Although its price has dropped, that doesn't mean that it's due for a big rally anytime soon. If anything, the cryptocurrency's wild swings during the past six months should serve as a reminder to investors just what kind of a roller-coaster ride you can end up on by holding such an unpredictable investment in your portfolio. If you're bullish on crypto and want exposure to it, a much safer option probably is simply buying and holding Bitcoin. Before you buy stock in Dogecoin, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Dogecoin wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $594,046!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $680,390!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 872% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 160% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join . See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of April 21, 2025 David Jagielski has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Bitcoin and Tesla. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. Since DOGE Was Created, This Is How Much Dogecoin Has Crashed was originally published by The Motley Fool Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
She co-founded the office that became DOGE. Now, she sees ‘irresponsible transformation.'
Jennifer Pahlka is perhaps best known as the founder of Code for America, a widely respected nonprofit that helped formalize the principles of civic tech, a movement leveraging design and technology expertise to improve public access to government services and data. Notably, the organization reimagined the online application for California's food assistance program, which once had one of the country's lowest participation rates, transforming it from a 45-minute endeavor requiring a computer to a mobile-friendly process that can be completed in under 10 minutes. Pahlka's 2023 book, 'Recoding America,' outlines her views on why the government so often fails to achieve its policy goals in the digital age. In it, she argues that "archaeological" layers of policies, regulations, and processes center the bureaucracy, not the public. As a deputy chief technology officer under President Barack Obama, Pahlka helped launch the United States Digital Service, a unit within the White House that paired top technology talent with federal agencies to make government services more efficient and user-friendly. It was the predecessor to Elon Musk's 'Department of Government Efficiency,' or DOGE. On Feb. 25, 21 employees resigned from the renamed service, saying they would not 'carry out or legitimize DOGE's actions.' Pahlka believes bolstering the government's tech chops and relying less on contractors could save taxpayer dollars. However, as the administration looks to slash spending, she worries that DOGE's 'very indiscriminate' approach to date could wind up harming people who rely on public benefits such as Medicaid. KFF Health News spoke to Pahlka, now a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Niskanen Center, about what she sees as 'irresponsible transformation' and how best to fast-track government reform. This interview, conducted in mid-February, has been edited for length and clarity. A: It's really easy to look from the outside of government and say, 'That's crazy it works that way. I'm going to go in and fix it.' And when you get in, it's that way for a reason, and you gain so much more empathy and sympathy for people in public service. You realize that people who you thought were obstructionists actually are just trying to do their jobs. Civil servants deserve respect. We're just not transforming government fast enough. A: One, you have to be able to hire the right people and fire the wrong ones. You also have to be able to reduce procedural bloat. When the unemployment insurance crisis hit, every state's labor commissioner got called in front of the legislature and yelled at for the backlog. Rob Asaro-Angelo in New Jersey brought boxes and boxes of paper — 7,119 pages of active regs. And when they kept yelling, he kept pointing them to them and saying, 'You can't be scalable with 7,119 pages of regulations.' The third pillar is investment in digital and data infrastructure. And the fourth is closing the loop between policy and implementation. In California, you get thousands of bills introduced every year in the legislature. We don't need that many. We need legislators to follow up on bills that have already been passed, see if they're working, tweak them if they're not. They need to go into agencies and say, 'If this is hard for you to do, what mandates and constraints can we remove so you can make this a priority?' A: When we started working on California's SNAP application, it was 212 questions. It started from, 'What are all the policies that we need to comply with?' Instead of, 'How would this be easy for someone to use?' I think it can always be helpful to have fresh eyes on something. If those eyes have experience in consumer technology, they're going to see through that lens of, 'How do we deliver something that is easy for people to use?' A: Let me say what I hope for: I hope that the states now get that when we don't transform fast enough in a responsible way, you are inviting irresponsible transformation. I hope this gives governors and mayors all over the country a kick in the butt to say, 'Whatever we have done so far, it has been insufficient. We really need to work on the capacity of our state to deliver in a modern era.' A: Maybe there is good stuff that DOGE is doing now that I don't know about or good stuff that they will do in the future. I don't have a crystal ball. But I do see that there is a huge difference between illegally stopping payments without Congress' permission and making an IT system work better. A: I think the thesis that better technology could reduce waste, fraud, and abuse is sound, but you want to see both better use of technology to ensure that taxpayer dollars aren't wasted, and that people who need their benefits are going to get them. You need a North Star that includes both of those things. A: They have not expressed great care for what damage can happen to people who rely on benefits. I'm just seeing large, very indiscriminate cuts. They have signaled that government needs its own internal tech capacity and that it's shocking how reliant on contractors our government is. I would agree with that. We have a very dysfunctional government technology contracting ecosystem. There's this set of big firms that we've outsourced our technology to that get to charge taxpayers a shocking amount of money to implement changes. A: We've overrelied on the idea that we should bring people in from the outside and underinvested in helping career civil servants to do transformation work themselves. When I wrote my book, the biggest hero was Yadira Sánchez, who I think now has been at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for 25 years. She's a leader who really pushes for the kinds of decisions that are going to make a service for doctors that's going to be usable. She gets pushback and comes back and says, 'If you make that decision, we are going to alienate doctors. They're going to stop taking Medicare patients. And we've got to do it this different way.' We need more of her, and we need to empower lots of people like that. This article was produced by KFF Health News, a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF — the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism. KFF Health News is the publisher of California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation. This story was originally featured on
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Who is Amy Gleason? DOGE administrator named by White House — but Elon Musk is still in charge
When the White House abruptly named her the administrator for an agency wreaking havoc across the federal government, Amy Gleason was in Mexico. After weeks of secrecy in court and refusals from the White House to answer who, exactly, is running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, reporters were sent a message on February 25 from an unnamed White House spokesperson naming Gleason in the role. Reporters then received a follow-up message to clarify that Gleason is 'acting' administrator of the agency, formerly known as the United States Digital Service. After his inauguration, Donald Trump swiftly renamed the agency the 'U.S. DOGE Service' and declared that Elon Musk would be running it. The Trump administration is facing an avalanche of lawsuits alleging the president and Musk are unconstitutionally running roughshod through federal agencies. But the breakneck effort to keep up with the administration's actions in court has been met with what appears to be a rapid attempt among administration officials and government lawyers to obfuscate the true nature of Musk's role — or to scramble to name someone else in charge — while the White House accuses the press of hysterically obsessing over DOGE leadership. The 53-year-old former healthcare worker was not aware that her sudden promotion had been announced. She was on leave in Mexico at the time. Nearly two dozen DOGE staff who submitted a resignation letter to White House chief of staff Susan Wiles that same day said nobody in the agency had ever been notified who was running it, so they sent their letter to Wiles instead. Administration officials have insisted that Musk is not the administrator for DOGE. Trump, however, has said the exact opposite. Musk is merely an employee of the White House, serving as a 'senior adviser to the president,' who has 'no greater authority other than other senior White House advisers [have], and has 'no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself,' according to a sworn statement from a senior White House official on February 18. The billionaire is 'not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator,' nor is he even an employee of the agency, according to the statement from White House Office of Administration director Joshua Fisher. White House officials previously labeled Musk a 'special government employee.' Last week, a judge in a separate case said DOGE appears to be trying to 'escape' the 'obligations that accompany agencyhood' — including being subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act and the Administrative Procedures Act — 'while reaping only its benefits.' In court documents, government lawyers have recognized that the unnamed 'U.S. DOGE administrator' is embroiled in lawsuits targeting the Trump administration. After the White House elevated her to that role, Gleason is likely to end up in the crosshairs of that tidal wave of litigation. 'Elon Musk is wielding extraordinarily broad and unprecedented power in leading DOGE without constitutional authority,' according to Norm Eisen, executive chair of State Democracy Defenders Fund, which is representing a group of 17 federal employees suing the administration to block Musk's rampage. 'Our government has rules to protect the American people from executive overreach,' he added 'An unelected, part-time 'special government employee' cannot legally circumvent them. We can and will achieve accountability through the courts.' One former USDS worker who resigned after nearly two years with the agency said the mass firings of DOGE staffers were 'shortsighted, ill-informed, and indiscriminate,' and that 'the government and the American people will be worse off from the loss of these people.' Gleason did not respond to The Independent's request for comment. Gleason, who appears to live in Tennessee, previously worked as a 'digital services expert' with the U.S. Digital Service from October 2018 to December 2021. She returned to the agency — which was created in 2014 as something of a low-profile, government-wide information technology department — after Trump's inauguration. Gleason still lists her current role as a 'senior advisor' for the U.S. Digital Service on her LinkedIn profile. Before returning to the agency earlier this year, she was a 'chief product officer' at two Nashville-based healthcare-related companies, Russell Street Ventures and Main Street Health. Both companies were founded by Brad Smith — who worked in the first Trump administration and joined the transition team's early DOGE efforts with Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Russell Street Ventures' website was recently taken offline, but an archived version shows that the company described itself as 'an innovative healthcare firm focused on launching and scaling companies that serve some of the nation's most vulnerable and underserved patient populations.' 'There are so many ways that our nation's healthcare system can be improved, and I am excited for the ways our team will be able to help drive that change,' Smith said in 2021, when the company was launched. The Independent also has requested comment from Russell Street and Main Street firms. An archived version of Gleason's company profile on the Main Street Health website says she 'spearheaded technology efforts for the federal COVID-19 response' and worked on projects with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In a podcast interview with Reveal in 2023, Gleason discussed the bureaucratic and technical hurdles to capture urgent federal health data throughout the COVID-19 crisis, fueling her work in creating the HHS Protect tracker. She would have been familiar with that work as the co-founder and chief operating officer of health data firm CareSync, which was inspired by her attempts to collect her daughter's electronic medical records. Gleason's personal blog, which was also taken offline this week, was last updated in 2019. In her blog, she discusses her daughter's diagnosis with a rare autoimmune disease as well as her own health struggles. From 2014 to 2018, Gleason served as vice president for research at the Cure JM Foundation, which advocates for research, education and funding for juvenile dermatomyositis treatments. It was CareSync's success that led President Barack Obama to name her a White House 'Champion of Change' for Precision Medicine who 'draws on these experiences to help patients and their families better coordinate care and improve health outcomes.' 'My challenge to our entire health care system, and especially the innovators looking to make it better: Put the patient in the center,' she said at the time. She described the news of her daughter's diagnosis as the 'most terrifying day of my life' and said her experience sparked a passion for 'individualized care.' 'Break up the silos of information that prevent individualized medicine to take root and grow into something beautiful,' she said at the time. 'Combine the data, all of it, including genetics, medical records information, patient-generated data, with the collaborative, innovative minds of Americans who will create amazing discoveries to improve healthcare.' While working with U.S. Digital Service and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2020, Gleason hosted a TEDx Talk, outlining a pilot project for streamlining health data after providers 'failed' her daughter by missing her diagnosis. She encouraged private sector data and health workers to enlist in public service. 'Nobody else is coming,' she said. 'It's up to us to solve these problems.' One day after refusing to give reporters the name of the public official running DOGE, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed Gleason 'has been the DOGE administrator for quite some time.' 'I believe several weeks. Maybe a month,' she said on February 26. 'I'm not sure of the exact timeline. She's a career official. She's doing her job as the administrator of this organization. I know everybody's very interested in her name, and who she is and what she does — there's a lot of people who work for the federal government. They're just trying to do their jobs and, you know, that's what she's doing.' She said the White House told reporters the name of the DOGE administrator 'in the effort of transparency' to satisfy 'hounds in the media' who are 'so obsessed with this for some reason.' 'There are so many bigger things in the world than who the DOGE administrator is, but for some reason, everybody in the press corps is so obsessed with this, that you were incessantly asking, so we thought, OK, we will be transparent, so now you know who it is,' she said. As acting administrator of DOGE, Gleason reports to the White House chief of staff and must be 'dedicated to advancing the President's 18-month DOGE agenda,' according to the president's executive order creating the agency. DOGE is 'modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,' according to the order. The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization is designed to dissolve July 4, 2026.
The Independent
26-02-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Who is Amy Gleason? DOGE administrator named by White House — but Elon Musk is still in charge
When the White House abruptly named her the administrator for an agency wreaking havoc across the federal government, Amy Gleason was in Mexico. After weeks of secrecy in court and refusals from the White House to answer who, exactly, is running the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, reporters were sent a message on February 25 from an unnamed White House spokesperson naming Gleason in the role. Reporters then received a follow-up message to clarify that Gleason is 'acting' administrator of the agency, formerly known as the United States Digital Service. After his inauguration, Donald Trump swiftly renamed the agency the 'U.S. DOGE Service' and declared that Elon Musk would be running it. The Trump administration is facing an avalanche of lawsuits alleging the president and Musk are unconstitutionally running roughshod through federal agencies. But the breakneck effort to keep up with the administration's actions in court has been met with what appears to be a rapid attempt among administration officials and government lawyers to obfuscate the true nature of Musk's role — or to scramble to name someone else in charge — while the White House accuses the press of hysterically obsessing over DOGE leadership. The 53-year-old former healthcare worker was not aware that her sudden promotion had been announced. She was on leave in Mexico at the time. Nearly two dozen DOGE staff who submitted a resignation letter to White House chief of staff Susan Wiles that same day said nobody in the agency had ever been notified who was running it, so they sent their letter to Wiles instead. Administration officials have insisted that Musk is not the administrator for DOGE. Trump, however, has said the exact opposite. Musk is merely an employee of the White House, serving as a 'senior adviser to the president,' who has 'no greater authority other than other senior White House advisers [have], and has 'no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself,' according to a sworn statement from a senior White House official on February 18. The billionaire is 'not the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator,' nor is he even an employee of the agency, according to the statement from White House Office of Administration director Joshua Fisher. White House officials previously labeled Musk a 'special government employee.' Last week, a judge in a separate case said DOGE appears to be trying to 'escape' the 'obligations that accompany agencyhood' — including being subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act and the Administrative Procedures Act — 'while reaping only its benefits.' In court documents, government lawyers have recognized that the unnamed 'U.S. DOGE administrator' is embroiled in lawsuits targeting the Trump administration. After the White House elevated her to that role, Gleason is likely to end up in the crosshairs of that tidal wave of litigation. 'Elon Musk is wielding extraordinarily broad and unprecedented power in leading DOGE without constitutional authority,' according to Norm Eisen, executive chair of State Democracy Defenders Fund, which is representing a group of 17 federal employees suing the administration to block Musk's rampage. 'Our government has rules to protect the American people from executive overreach,' he added 'An unelected, part-time 'special government employee' cannot legally circumvent them. We can and will achieve accountability through the courts.' One former USDS worker who resigned after nearly two years with the agency said the mass firings of DOGE staffers were 'shortsighted, ill-informed, and indiscriminate,' and that 'the government and the American people will be worse off from the loss of these people.' Gleason did not respond to The Independent 's request for comment. Gleason, who appears to live in Tennessee, previously worked as a 'digital services expert' with the U.S. Digital Service from October 2018 to December 2021. She returned to the agency — which was created in 2014 as something of a low-profile, government-wide information technology department — after Trump's inauguration. Gleason still lists her current role as a 'senior advisor' for the U.S. Digital Service on her LinkedIn profile. Before returning to the agency earlier this year, she was a 'chief product officer' at two Nashville-based healthcare-related companies, Russell Street Ventures and Main Street Health. Both companies were founded by Brad Smith — who worked in the first Trump administration and joined the transition team's early DOGE efforts with Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. Russell Street Ventures' website was recently taken offline, but an archived version shows that the company described itself as 'an innovative healthcare firm focused on launching and scaling companies that serve some of the nation's most vulnerable and underserved patient populations.' 'There are so many ways that our nation's healthcare system can be improved, and I am excited for the ways our team will be able to help drive that change,' Smith said in 2021, when the company was launched. The Independent also has requested comment from Russell Street and Main Street firms. An archived version of Gleason's company profile on the Main Street Health website says she 'spearheaded technology efforts for the federal COVID-19 response' and worked on projects with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In a podcast interview with Reveal in 2023, Gleason discussed the bureaucratic and technical hurdles to capture urgent federal health data throughout the COVID-19 crisis, fueling her work in creating the HHS Protect tracker. She would have been familiar with that work as the co-founder and chief operating officer of health data firm CareSync, which was inspired by her attempts to collect her daughter's electronic medical records. Gleason's personal blog, which was also taken offline this week, was last updated in 2019. In her blog, she discusses her daughter's diagnosis with a rare autoimmune disease as well as her own health struggles. From 2014 to 2018, Gleason served as vice president for research at the Cure JM Foundation, which advocates for research, education and funding for juvenile dermatomyositis treatments. It was CareSync's success that led President Barack Obama to name her a White House 'Champion of Change' for Precision Medicine who 'draws on these experiences to help patients and their families better coordinate care and improve health outcomes.' 'My challenge to our entire health care system, and especially the innovators looking to make it better: Put the patient in the center,' she said at the time. She described the news of her daughter's diagnosis as the 'most terrifying day of my life' and said her experience sparked a passion for 'individualized care.' 'Break up the silos of information that prevent individualized medicine to take root and grow into something beautiful,' she said at the time. 'Combine the data, all of it, including genetics, medical records information, patient-generated data, with the collaborative, innovative minds of Americans who will create amazing discoveries to improve healthcare.' While working with U.S. Digital Service and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2020, Gleason hosted a TEDx Talk, outlining a pilot project for streamlining health data after providers 'failed' her daughter by missing her diagnosis. She encouraged private sector data and health workers to enlist in public service. 'Nobody else is coming,' she said. 'It's up to us to solve these problems.' One day after refusing to give reporters the name of the public official running DOGE, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed Gleason 'has been the DOGE administrator for quite some time.' 'I believe several weeks. Maybe a month,' she said on February 26. 'I'm not sure of the exact timeline. She's a career official. She's doing her job as the administrator of this organization. I know everybody's very interested in her name, and who she is and what she does — there's a lot of people who work for the federal government. They're just trying to do their jobs and, you know, that's what she's doing.' She said the White House told reporters the name of the DOGE administrator 'in the effort of transparency' to satisfy 'hounds in the media' who are 'so obsessed with this for some reason.' 'There are so many bigger things in the world than who the DOGE administrator is, but for some reason, everybody in the press corps is so obsessed with this, that you were incessantly asking, so we thought, OK, we will be transparent, so now you know who it is,' she said. As acting administrator of DOGE, Gleason reports to the White House chief of staff and must be 'dedicated to advancing the President's 18-month DOGE agenda,' according to the president's executive order creating the agency. DOGE is 'modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity,' according to the order. The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization is designed to dissolve July 4, 2026.
