Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old DOGE staffer, was coming off a whirlwind few weeks when he went to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in February.
To join President Donald Trump’s new government-cutting team, he went on “unpaid indefinite leave” from the Andreessen Horowitz-supported artificial intelligence firm Databricks, according to his public financial disclosure report.
He had posted a Substack titled “Why DOGE” with the subhead “Why I gave up a seven-figure salary to save America.” It cost $1,000 a month, or $10,000 a year, to unlock — those who paid found that the rest of the post was blank.