Who is Amy Gleason, the acting administrator of Donald Trump’s DOGE

Amy Gleason, a little-known former healthcare technology consultant, has been named the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Donald Trump administration, over the past month, was repeatedly asked to name the person technically in charge of the department after stating in a court filing earlier that Elon Musk, whom Donald Trump has claimed is in charge, has no power over the cost-cutting program.Who is Amy Gleason?

Amy Gleason, 53, was chosen as the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency by the White House on Tuesday. She brings a wide expertise in healthcare technology and government service to her role.

Gleason previously worked as an official at the United States Digital Service (USDS), an agency founded by former President Barack Obama that has been renamed the US DOGE Service. She served here during Donald Trump’s first administration and into Joe Biden’s presidency from 2018 to 2021.During her stint, she played a role in the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, working on projects alongside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Later, she spent three years in the private sector after leaving the USDS in 2021 and worked as the chief product officer at two Nashville, Tennessee-based healthcare startups — Russell Street Ventures and Main Street Health. In addition, she also operated her own consulting firm, Gleason Strategies.

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Prior to Nashville, she served as the vice president for research at the Cure JM Foundation from 2014 to 2018. Additionally, Gleason also co-founded and served as an executive of the Florida-based telemedicine startup Care Sync.

She has long advocated for the cure of juvenile myositis, a rare autoimmune illness that causes muscle weakness and a rash in children. This rare disease affects her adult daughter. In a 2020 TED talk, she shared her frustrations with how the healthcare system handles these diseases, calling for technology and data changes to benefit patients and physicians.

She returned to the renamed US DOGE Service in January 2025 after Trump took office for a second term. However, her LinkedIn profile lists her current position as a senior adviser.

In her present role, Gleason is responsible for driving the DOGE agenda of simplifying government operations through personnel reductions, contract terminations and budgetary reductions.