Members of EPA’s DOGE team joined Administrator Lee Zeldin’s office in February as temporary government employees working without pay.
Those and other details about EPA’s Department of Government Efficiency team members were recently revealed in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from POLITICO’s E&E News. The documents released by EPA offer additional insight into the agency’s DOGE team that’s working behind the scenes to cut agency spending.
Kathryn Loving and Erica Jehling joined the agency in February as full-time temporary staffers on EPA’s DOGE team, the records show. They’re serving as “special government employees” whose employment under their current appointments can’t exceed 130 working days per year.
Both Loving and Jehling were assigned to work in the EPA administrator’s office, the records show, and they both waived pay for their work.
