The US government’s new human resources chief has said he wants to “institutionalise” Doge’s pursuit of “operational efficiency”, while distancing himself from Elon Musk’s controversial approach to cutting spending.
Scott Kupor, who was confirmed as director of the Office of Personnel Management this month, takes the job as the federal civil service is reeling from sweeping cuts and mass firings under Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
A former partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Kupor questioned the scale of Musk’s proposed cuts and some of his methods — such as pushing civil servants to report on their weekly progress.