White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to name the administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency during Tuesday’s press briefing.

By all indications, Elon Musk has been leading DOGE and the Trump administration’s mission to shrink the size of the federal government and cut allegedly wasteful or fraudulent spending.

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Still, the Trump administration has said in court filings that Musk, currently working as a special government employee, is not the department’s administrator.

Leavitt faced a number of questions Tuesday about DOGE’s leadership structure, but she repeatedly declined to say who the administrator is.

“The president tasked Elon Musk to oversee the DOGE effort. There are career officials and there are political appointees who are helping run DOGE on a day-to-day basis,” she said in one exchange. “There are also individuals who have onboarded as political appointees at every agency across the board to work alongside President Trump’s cabinet to find and identify waste, fraud, and abuse, and they are working on that effort every day.”

Later in the briefing, Leavitt was asked about a Monday exchange between government lawyers and Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly at a hearing concerning DOGE’s access to Treasury Department facilities. When asked by the judge if DOGE currently has an administrator, Justice Department trial counsel Bradley Humphreys simply responded, “I don’t know the answer to that.”

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Leavitt responded Tuesday by telling reporters she would not “reveal the name of that individual from this podium.”

“I’m happy to follow up and provide that to you, but we’ve been incredibly transparent about the way that DOGE is working,” she continued.

You can watch Tuesday’s briefing in full below.