Deaf database expert and engineer talking with Elon Musk’s DOGE team

There is a Deaf woman who is a database expert and engineer who is very active on X (Twitter) in working to uncover where billions of dollars in government funding is going towards. Her username is @DataRepublican. 

She just did an interview with “NewsNation” and revealed that she is talking with members of Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) team and has a good relationship with them. 

Her X account was recently highlighted by Elon Musk, who said she is “worth following.” 

She is currently being followed on X by Vice President JD Vance, Jared Kushner (Ivanka Trump’s husband), Mark Cuban, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and many others. 

She did not disclose her name to NewsNation and appears to be someone who is trying to be as private as possible, wearing sunglasses for most of her interview. 

I watched the NewsNation interview with the help of Google’s automated captions. 

DataRepublican said she is using her computer skills and AI to go through myriad government funding and find connections between people in government and nonprofit organizations. She said she’s seeing instances where lawmakers are approving funding for nonprofits that they also sit on and that sometimes their spouses or family members benefit from this network. She said she’s mapping these relationships and putting it on her website at datarepublican.com. 

One of DataRepublican’s observations is that many nonprofits were formed during the Cold War era to combat the spread of communism – but after the fall of the Soviet Union, these nonprofits sought to remain powerful and called themselves the “guardians of democracy” and are now viewing Donald Trump’s presidency as a threat to democracy and needs that view to maintain their power and survival. 

She believes that government waste and fraud totals more than $100 billion. She said she’s found a lot of corruption in both Democratic and Republican members and emphasized that she’s not someone who is “blindly following” the Republican party. She said people need to vote in the primaries to kick out dirty politicians. 

If you’re curious about DataRepublican, you can follow her on X and check out her website. It’s very interesting to see that a Deaf person is actively involved and a part of the national conversation surrounding DOGE and where government funding is going towards. 

NewsNation Interview: https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/elon-musks-digital-detective-newsnation-interview/

https://x.com/DataRepublican

https://datarepublican.com/