Here's What a Texas Oil Executive From DOGE Is Doing Inside the Interior Department

Oil executive without Senate approval reshapes Interior while holding energy investments

A Texas oil executive with ties to the fossil fuel industry is overseeing sweeping changes inside the U.S. Interior Department despite lacking Senate confirmation, divestments, or an ethics pledge.Martha Bellisle reports for The Associated Press.In short:Tyler Hassen, a former oil executive from Elon Musk’s DOGE team, is reorganizing the Interior Department’s structure and policies without divesting from energy interests or filing a federal ethi…

Here’s what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department

The Interior Department oversees some 70,000 employees in 11 agencies, including the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife...

Texas oil executive from Elon Musk’s DOGE with no public administration experience to reorganize Interior Department

Tyler Hassen spent nearly two decades as an executive at Basin Holdings, an enterprise involved in the manufacture, sale and servicing of oil rigs.

Here is what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department

A Texas oil executive from Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has been given sweeping powers to overhaul the federal department that manages vast tracts of resource-rich public lands, but he hasn't divested his energy investments or filed an ethics commitment to break ties with companies that pose a conflict of interest, records show.

NYC government isn’t efficient, and we know it

Let’s be honest — New Yorkers, like Americans more broadly, aren’t mad that government spends money. They’re mad that it spends so much, and it still doesn’t work. The federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has torn through bureaucracy with reckless abandon — axing policies, people, and processes under the banner of reform. But instead of thoughtful improvements, DOGE has been a bull in a china shop, proving that efficiency done wron…

Here’s what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department - The Boston Globe

A Texas oil executive from Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has been tasked with overhauling the federal agency that manages vast tracts of public lands.