Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Friday that staffers at the Department of Energy brought in from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency do not have security clearances, dismissing suggestions that DOGE is accessing nuclear secrets or “anybody’s proprietary information.”
“We’ve got some young kids … think young gun management consultants … coming in to take a critical look at how things are run,” Wright told CNBC’s Brian Sullivan on “Squawk on the Street.” “I’ve heard these rumors. They’re like seeing our nuclear secrets and all that. None of that is true at all. They don’t have security clearances.”
Musk was a major financier to President Donald Trump’s campaign. Atop DOGE, he’s sought to crack down on federal staffing and funding, taking particular aim in recent days at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where work has largely shut down.
On Friday, Wright said the DOGE staffers are “friends in Elon’s broader circle that are very good at IT and very good at systems.”
