How DOGE cracked Washington: A focus on arcane agencies gave Musk and his allies swift control of government nerve centers

The Trump administration's month-old efficiency initiative that has hit the federal government like an earthquake has no leader. 

Not offically at least.

Elon Musk is not the administrator of the US DOGE Service, the agency that houses the temporary Department of Government Efficiency. He's not even a DOGE employee, according to the White House. 

In fact, the world's richest man, who was named by President Donald Trump to lead DOGE in November, who posts about it...