By Alexandra Alper and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online.

Gavin Kliger hasn’t left the Andreessen Horowitz-backed company, he’s just on a leave of absence as he works on Elon Musk’s effort to radically cut government spending

DOGE’s earlier actions at the Treasury have become a focus of congressional scrutiny and a federal court battle in recent days. Musk’s team initially tried to halt money going to the U.S. Agency for International Development from the Treasury’s payment system.