Meet the young team of software engineers slashing government waste at DOGE: report

Fox News host Laura Ingraham gives her take on the spending freeze on USAID on'The Ingraham Angle.' Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk's DOGE efforts to slash government waste and streamline the federal bureaucracy include the hiring of several up-and-coming young software engineers tasked with "modernizing federal technology and software to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity." Six young men between the ages of 19 and 24 -- Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger and Ethan Shaotran -- have taken up various roles furthering the DOGE agenda, according to a report from Wired. Bobba was part of the highly regarded Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology program at UC Berkeley and has held internships at the Bridgewater Associates hedge fund, Meta and Palantir. "Let me tell you something about Akash," Grata AI CEO Charis Zhang posted on X about Bobba in recent days. "During a project at Berkeley, I accidentally deleted our entire codebase 2 days before the deadline. Akash just stared at the screen, shrugged, and rewrote everything from scratch in one night -- better than before. We submitted early and got first in the class. I trust him with everything I own."