‘Top Musk Lieutenant’ Moved Wife and Baby Into Government Building: Federal Worker

That’s one way to save on rent.

An Elon Musk DOGE lieutenant has moved into a federal agency’s building and brought his family along, too, claimed a federal worker who spoke at a town hall.

“One of Musk’s top lieutenants and wife and young child have shacked up on the sixth floor of our agency and are living there,” the man, who did not give his name, claimed, adding that their hallway has supposedly “been blocked off with a special access list.”

That complaint was one of many to emerge from Monday night’s event, which was hosted by the Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam in Leesburg, Virginia, a suburb of the nation’s capital. Around 300 people attended, the Loudoun Times-Mirror reported, with speakers identifying themselves as workers, contractors, and retirees of the federal government.

There was a rash of complaints about Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, which has promised to cut “at least 10%” of the federal budget in a year’s time, even if it means putting thousands of federal employees out of work. No complaint from the town hall went more viral than the claim that a DOGE staffer and his family had outright moved into a government building, however.

The mystery man, who conceded he was “nervous” to address the town hall, said he learned that Musk hopes to cut his agency’s budget in half and reduce its workforce. There have been rumors of cuts of that magnitude at the General Services Administration and Office of Personnel Management, but the Daily Beast could not immediately confirm where the man works or if his claims are true.

“In the last week, we had Elon Musk in our building, and after he visited the building, called for a 50% cut of the entire agency,” the man said. “My colleagues are getting 15 minute one-on-one check-ins with 19, 20, and 21-year old-college graduates asking to justify their existence.”

The man claimed agency supervisors have been handed a “justification form” and were ordered to “not to tell their staff anything” about what is going on behind the scenes.

Those claims appear to be in line with media reports about how DOGE has operated, with a team of engineers—mostly men in their mid-to-early 20s with one as young as 19—helping Musk overhaul parts of the federal government through unconventional methods.

As for where the youngins are resting up, perhaps they have taken a page out of Musk’s book and are sleeping in the office—something the world’s richest man has claimed to be doing in Washington as he supposedly works—and tweets—around the clock.

Musk, 53, has been reportedly catching ZZZs in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is just steps from the White House. He and his team even received a shipment of “sleep pods” to the DOGE HQ this week.

A separate report, from Reuters, claimed that DOGE has taken over the OPM and moved sofas onto its fifth floor. That is where the “director’s office” is located, Reuters reports, and historically is only accessible to those “with a security badge or a security escort.”

There has been increased scrutiny of Musk and his young team after reports alleged some have been given access to sensitive records, like the ins-and-outs of a “top-secret” federal payment system within the Treasury Department.

Musk initially cried foul that media outlets revealed the names of his young team but appears to have softened on their identifies being public. He now reshares posts that name the engineers and praises their accomplishments—like one deciphering a portion of the Vesuvius scrolls and another launching his own AI company—on X.