Michael Grimes

Executive, age 58

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Michael Grimes is one of the two members of DOGE who came to the agency from Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that coordinated Musk’s takeover of Twitter. At Commerce, he has kept a relatively low profile, but there were some reports of him subjecting staff in the CHIPS for America program to DOGE-style interviews.

Positions

Position	Notes
Commerce	Sources Data Reveals Details About DOGE, Government Hiring in 2025 Bloomberg, 2026-01-09 Michael Grimes OGE-278 disclosure Document Cloud, 2025-06-10 Commerce 2/27/25 Senior Advisor ($167,603)

Events

Date	Event
3/28/25 Commerce	Source Former Wall Street rainmaker leads purge of US chips subsidies agency The Financial Times, 2025-03-06 Sighting Michael Grimes conducts DOGE-style interviews with each member of the staff in the Chips Program Office. This group administers grants following the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (signed by Biden) to encourage semiconductor manufacturing in the US.