Meet the Gen-Z DOGE Minion Set to Access Taxpayers' Secrets

A 25-year-old “internet edgelord” who claims to have ditched seven figures in Silicon Valley to join Elon Musk’s Department Of Government Efficiency is expected to soon have access to Americans’ sensitive tax information.

Gavin Kliger has been among the more transparent of Musk’s minions, occasionally chronicling his thoughts on a Substack with nearly 1,000 subscribers.

He quickly emerged as one of its most controversial, however, after it was reported in Forbes that he amplified posts from the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, the proud misogynist Andrew Tate, and advocated for the cop who killed George Floyd to be pardoned.

Kliger was among the group of young men first identified by a WIRED report that sent scrutiny of Musk’s Gen Z engineers into overdrive. He is a Southern California native who graduated with an engineering degree from Berkeley before supposedly landing a big-money gig at the AI firm Databricks.

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He has not tried to portray himself as non-partisan. He wrote last week in a since-deleted Substack that he first became disillusioned with liberal institutions during the 2016 election—as a high schooler—and that his conservative leanings only grew further after he enrolled in one of the nation’s most elite universities.

Kliger said that he opposed Berkeley’s handling of protests that centered around Donald Trump in 2017. He accused it of allowing a mob to attack conservatives in the at-times violent clashes, which were largely between socialist groups and MAGA supporters.

More recently, according to Forbes, Kliger amplified posts on X from those with far-right leanings and reportedly expressed some of those same views himself. He went as far as calling Hillary Clinton “r----ded” and demanded military tribunals and executions for undocumented migrants who commit crimes.

Once Kliger’s name emerged as a DOGE minion—first as the man who blasted out an email to USAID workers ordering them to work from home while their agency was first being dismantled earlier this month—he made all of his social media private.

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Forbes was able to view scores of archived posts from November and December, however, and described the Californian as an “internet edgelord” and a “Musk and Trump superfan.”

“What emerges is a portrait of an internet edgelord and Musk and Trump superfan who has disdain for government spending, illegal immigrants, and who enjoys the odd racist and ableist joke,” the magazine wrote of his posts.

Clinton “never found God and she’s still r----ded,” he allegedly posted on Dec. 3. Two days later, he reportedly retweeted a Fuentes post that seemingly mocked a white family with an adopted Black child.

Some of his posts were more in line with what DOGE has set out to do—cut federal spending even if it’s at the expense of longstanding programs and tens of thousands of jobs.

Forbes reported that Kliger responded to a video in December of Joe Biden promising $1 billion in aid to African nations to help rebuild homes destroyed by natural disasters, saying, “Wonder what the kickbacks on this latest grift look like.”

He followed that post up a day later by writing about current global economic conditions: “Shocking. When the US stops funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign countries, their economies shrink. Really makes you think 😂.”

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Kliger also raged against funding public education, despite him attending a public university himself.

“Government funded press will invariably trend towards leftism, since leftism promotes larger government, which in turn leads to larger government funding for the press,” Kliger reportedly wrote in response to a Joe Rogan tweet. “The same is true for universities that receive public funds. The solution: cut all public funding.”

Kliger, who interned at Twitter before Musk’s takeover, claimed on Substack that he left behind “millions of dollars, prestige, and a life of comfort” in the private sector so he can root out “institutional failure” and “systemic corruption” through DOGE.

The New York Post reports Kilgore’s next project within the program will be to find fraud in the IRS. To do so, sources tell the Post he will “gain credentials to the system that tracks tax returns and information about individuals.”

It is unclear what sort of fraud Kilgore would be in search of, but the White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said Monday DOGE will root out supposed fraud by foreigners who filed bogus returns.

Kliger will be based at the IRS for at least 120 days, CNN reported, adding that he must sign an “agreement requiring that he maintains confidentiality with tax return information and destroys such materials upon leaving the IRS.”