I agree with influenced. I don’t really agree with “funded,” which you said earlier.
As I said earlier I like the idea of DOGE, but I’m nervous if they go too extreme. And hopefully DOGE themselves is ethical also. But I don’t like that Elon has a conflict of interest (billions of dollars in government contracts for his own companies), and now we know they’ve knowingly hired openly racist folks, so some of the judgement could be questioned.