Musk’s Top DOGE Staffer at VA Worked Quietly Before Its Layoffs

Feb. 14, 2025, 4:45 PM UTC

Justin Fulcher, co-founder of telemedicine startup RingMD, is leading Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency effort at the US Department of Veterans Affairs, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Seen working from the agency’s 10th floor ahead of Thursday evening’s announcement that it was laying off more than 1,000 employees, Fulcher, 32, has taken a relatively quiet approach compared with other DOGE staffers, many of whom are young men who barged into various federal agencies demanding access to sensitive data. Fulcher has been mainly interviewing staff about how the agency could be improved and reviewing programs ...

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