The Department of Government Efficiency made its reputation on staff cuts. Under Elon Musk, DOGE slashed the federal payroll in the name of cost-cutting. Now, the division’s new leader is urging the government to start hiring again.

Amy Gleason, acting head of DOGE, spoke last week at the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International Health IT Summit about the “need to hire and empower great talent in government.”

“There’s not enough tech talent here,” she said at the time. “We need more of it.”

That’s a pretty major reversal for DOGE. While the government hasn’t provided an exact tally of layoffs earlier this year, The New York Times estimates 135,000 employees were fired or resigned, with another 150,000 at risk. Gleason isn’t calling for all of them to return, b

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