Alexander Simonpour
Tech Industry Links: Tesla
Exited govt: 8/XX/25 (self-reported)
Alexander Simonpour is a former engineering manager at Tesla who is now working for DOGE and embedded among the wrecking crew at GSA. He was one of the three DOGE staffers who were detailed from GSA to NASA in March, and he has also been involved in DOGE’s efforts at the USPS. His LinkedIn reports that he left DOGE in August.
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GSA
3/XX/25-8/XX/25
($167,603)
«he was detailed to USPS from GSA, so assuming appointed at GSA but info unknown. Dates from LinkedIn»
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3/14/25
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Directory
A Business Insider article reports that Alexander Simonpour has shown up at NASA and also has a GSA address (meaning he was likely detailed from the GSA). Riley Sennott and Scott Coulter also are listed in the NASA online directory.
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3/24/25
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Sighting
Acting Postmaster General Doug Tulino met with the DOGE team embedded there (Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour), reportedly to discuss ethics rules.
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4/XX/25
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Sighting
Ethan Shaotran and Alexander Simonpour meet again with the acting Postmaster General as well as other senior staff. Reportedly, the topic of this meeting is potential price increases, which is outside the limitations on their work that had been set by former Postmaster DeJoy in the Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) he signed for their presence at the agency.
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4/08/25
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Oversight
A letter from Democrats on the House Committee of Science, Space, and Technology expresses specific concern about the lack of qualifications of DOGE staff at the agency. It explicitly names Scott Coulter, Riley Sennott and Alexander Simonpour as the DOGE team at the agency.
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4/30/25
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Interagency
As part of a DOGE-driven effort to find ways to punish Harvard by pulling its grants from the federal govenment, Josh Gruenbaum emails Alexander Simonpour to ask if there are grants that can be revoked by NASA. The next day, Simonpour relayed the request to other NASA staffers and then followed up on May 8th stating that the White House had imposed a 5pm deadline for the information.
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5/XX/25
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Interagency
In May, Clark Milner, a senior advisor for policy in the White House, organized a meeting between USPS staff, the DOGE representatives at the agency, other DOGE staffers and members of the Domestic Policy Council.
(fuzz: No other specific date information is given)
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5/08/25
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Interagency
DOGE staff at NASA, GSA and the White House finalize a list of five NASA grants to be killed and discuss the language for the terminiation letters in a series of email discussions and meetings to 11pm that night. The agency sends a letter to Harvard the following day.
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7/21/25
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Directory
Multiple DOGE staff are listed in the invite for a new meeting for political appointees at the agency which will be held once every two weeks.
(fuzz: Jeremy Lewin is a Deputy Undersecretary at State, but still a GSA employee?)
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