A New Doge Staffer At The Department Of Labor Has Helped Run A Fertility Clinic And Has Pronatalist Ties

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• Elon Musk's effort to shrink and automate the federal government includes a team at the Department of Labor.
• Members include Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles Collins, whose association with DOGE hasn't been previously reported.
• Collins has been connected to a fertility clinic business that is currently facing labor lawsuits. His brother is pronatalist Malcolm Collins.

Staff at the US Department of Labor in Washington have identified new faces in their offices in recent weeks: three people associated with the White House's Department of Government Efficiency office.

The new arrivals are Marko Elez, Aram Moghaddassi, and Miles B. Collins. Elez and Moghaddassi have worked for Elon Musk at X, xAI and Neuralink; Collins is a startup founder and investor who has been connected to a fertility clinic business in Los Angeles.

Collins' work with DOGE has not been previously reported.

Three current Department of Labor employees confirmed the arrivals to Business Insider. Elez, Moghaddassi, and Collins did not respond to emails about their involvement with DOGE.

White House DOGE spokeswoman Katie Miller did not respond to a request for comment.

Collins and his wife Brittany Collins bought the Pacific Fertility Center of Los Angeles in 2019, according to deal announcements. He served as president, while his wife was CEO until becoming executive chairman last year, according to her LinkedIn profile.

His brother is Malcolm Collins, who, along with his wife Simone Collins, is a prominent member of the pronatalist movement. The couple has talked about their plans to have seven to 13 children and select among embryos for what they describe as desired traits. Simone Collins was the managing director at Dialog, an organization founded by Peter Thiel, according to her LinkedIn profile. Wired previously reported that people connected to Thiel were among the staffers involved with DOGE.

Musk has also espoused pronatalist ideas.

The fertility clinic business is currently facing lawsuits in California that accuse it of underpaying employees and depriving them of lunch breaks. The company has denied wrongdoing and accused one of the former employees who filed suit of having "fabricated" his claims. The company's lawyers have said they have reached a settlement that should resolve the lawsuits, but haven't filed any details.

Lawyers for the employees didn't respond to requests for comment, and a lawyer for the clinic declined to comment.

Elez, a former xAI employee, and Moghaddassi, whose now-removed LinkedIn page said he worked for X and Neuralink, were previously named by The New York Times as being part of the team that the Trump Administration planned to install in the Treasury Department.

Elez resigned from DOGE last month after the Wall Street Journal reported that he had made racist social media posts. Within a day, Musk posted on X that Elez would return to DOGE.

After Trump's November election victory, Moghaddassi posted on his X account that there were "too many" federal agencies. The account has since been taken offline, but the post was archived.

Several unions have sued the Trump administration over the DOGE office's access to government data, including at the Department of Labor. The unions have said that Americans' privacy rights could be violated and that Musk could unfairly access information that would help his businesses.

"DOGE will also have access to Department of Labor records concerning investigations of Mr. Musk's businesses, as well as records containing the sensitive trade secrets of his business competitors," the lawsuit says.

The Trump administration has said those claims are baseless and DOGE staff are bound by information security rules.

Alice Tecotzky contributed reporting.

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