Data Republican

Jennica Pounds is a software engineer and data analyst from Utah who operates the anonymous X account DataRepublican, which has gained prominence for its AI-driven analysis of U.S. government spending and connections between officials, nonprofits, and NGOs. She previously worked as a Senior Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer at Upstart before resigning in February 2025 to pursue government transparency efforts full-time. She is best known for creating Datarepublican.com, a searchable database of federal grants and nonprofit funding that has been amplified by Elon Musk and associated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative.