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Amy Gleason
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The Administration · Out the door

Amy Gleason

Former acting head of DOGE Out the door

A former emergency room nurse and health-data executive, she was the official the White House named as running DOGE while Elon Musk was its public face; DOGE closed on July 4, 2026.

Why they left: The temporary DOGE organization reached the end date set in the president's January 2025 executive order and shut down on July 4, 2026. 3 4 Now: Her LinkedIn profile lists her as chief product officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Hill reported; Fox Business reported she leads a health technology office there. 3 4

Biography

Amy Gleason graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and worked as an emergency room nurse before moving into health technology. 2 She co-founded a Florida medical records startup, CareSync, in 2011, and after her daughter was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease she became an advocate for giving patients access to their own health data. 2 1 She worked at the U.S. Digital Service from 2018 to 2021 on health data projects, including the White House coronavirus task force's data team. 2

She returned to the Digital Service around the start of 2025 as a senior adviser, just as the president renamed it the U.S. DOGE Service and made it the home of the Department of Government Efficiency. 2 3 In late February 2025, after government lawyers could not tell a judge who ran DOGE, the White House said she was its acting administrator. 2 Elon Musk remained its public face until he left in May 2025, and she spent much of her time on technology work at the health department. 2 4 1

DOGE shut down on July 4, 2026, the end date set by the executive order that created it. 3 4 Its final tally claimed about $214 billion in savings, a figure that is disputed and not fully documented in its own records. 3 4 The budget director said no closing report was planned. 4 The renamed Digital Service still exists, and the administration requested $35 million for it for fiscal 2027. 3 4 Gleason now works at the Medicare and Medicaid agency. 3

In the job

What happened while Amy held the post.

  1. A White House official said she was the acting administrator of DOGE, after weeks in which the administration would not say who led it. 1 2

  2. Formally hired at the Department of Health and Human Services, where she led data and technology work for Medicare and Medicaid while keeping the DOGE title. 1

  3. Elon Musk, who had led the cost-cutting drive in public, left the government. 4

  4. The Social Security Administration told a court that DOGE staff had accessed sensitive data they had been denied and that data went to an outside server, apparently against a court order, according to Wikipedia. 5

  5. DOGE ceased operations on schedule; its website went dark and its last post said the effort against waste would continue. 3 4

Disputes, and their side

What critics, courts or investigators have said, and the answer given. An allegation is not a finding.

  1. A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge he could not get an answer on who ran DOGE; reporting by NBC News and others found Gleason was distant from its daily decisions, which Musk and aide Steve Davis drove. 1 2

    Their side: She made no public comment at the time and did not answer NBC's request; a DOGE spokesperson did not describe her duties. 2

  2. DOGE's savings claim of roughly $214 billion is disputed; a watchdog group estimated the related deferred-resignation program cost taxpayers about $10 billion in 2025. 3 4

    Their side: A White House spokesman said the president had made significant progress in making government more efficient. 3 4

Career

  1. Co-founder and chief operating officer of CareSync, a Florida medical technology startup
  2. Vice president for research at the Cure JM Foundation
  3. Digital services expert at the U.S. Digital Service, working on Medicare, CDC and COVID-19 data
  4. Product executive at Main Street Health and Russell Street Ventures
  5. Senior adviser at the U.S. Digital Service as it became the U.S. DOGE Service
  6. Acting Administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service; also detailed to the health department from March 2025
  7. Chief product officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Our reporting

We have not yet published a story that names Amy Gleason. When we do, it will appear here.

Sources for this file

  1. Wikipedia, Amy Gleason, Nov. 13, 2026
  2. NBC News, Who is DOGE's Amy Gleason? Data cruncher and former nurse is a 'straight shooter', March 9, 2025
  3. The Hill, DOGE officially shuts down, July 6, 2026
  4. Fox Business, DOGE website goes dark on July 4 after claiming $215B in federal cuts, July 6, 2026
  5. Wikipedia, Department of Government Efficiency, Nov. 13, 2026

File checked Nov. 13, 2026. Something wrong or out of date? Tell the desk.