What Exactly Is Elon Musk's Role in the US Government?
Now that Elon Musk has been classified as a "special government employee," he will get greater access to U.S. government agencies.
Democrats lay out road map to take down Elon Musk
Democrats are railing against Elon Musk’s efforts to gut federal agencies and recent access to the federal government’s payment system.
A.F.L.-C.I.O. Pushes Back on Elon Musk’s Campaign Against Federal Workers
The campaign by the nation’s largest federation of unions is called the Department of People Who Work for a Living, a play on Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
Elon Musk’s “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of the United States government
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Elon Musk is crowning himself technoking of the federal government
Back in August, as speculation about a potential Elon Musk cabinet position began swirling, I wrote that the notion was laughable because a) you can’t work on government matters that affect your own personal finances,
How Outrage at Musk Is Helping Democrats Fight Back
For the first time in weeks, it looks like Democrats are summoning something passing for a plan to counter the unapologetic chaos radiating from the reinstalled administration of President Donald Trump.
Inside Musk’s aggressive incursion into the federal government
Empowered by President Donald Trump and operating with little oversight, Elon Musk is waging a war against the federal bureaucracy that has shocked civil servants.
Elon Musk tightens grip on federal government as Democrats raise alarms
Elon Musk is rapidly consolidating control over large swaths of the federal government with President Donald Trump’s blessing
Elon Musk Has Broken the Constitutional Order
The second Trump administration is waging the most aggressive war on the American constitutional order since Appomattox. President Donald Trump selected Elon Musk, a South African–born tech oligarch,
The ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’ of the United States Government
Elon Musk is not the president, but it does appear that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by ...
Elon Musk's Companies Caught In Political Line of Fire
President Donald Trump's policies and Elon Musk's association with his administration are causing trouble for the tech CEO's ...
Musk creates new power base in Washington with takeover of US agencies
Elon Musk's rapid takeover of two U.S. government agencies has enabled the South African-born billionaire to exert ...
Why Musk Is So Focused on the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, America’s ‘Checkbook’
Spending power, privacy concerns and conflicts of interest have put the bureau at the center of a political fight.
Senate Republicans insist Elon Musk isn't in charge after whirlwind actions
Senate Republicans defended the Trump administration’s sweeping revamp of the U.S. Agency for International Development led ...
Elon Musk Is President
But this morning, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., released a letter he wrote to Musk declaring ...
‘Musk is Reaching Too Far’: Federal Union Boss Dishes on Why He’s Suing DOGE
Three large unions sued the Treasury Department Monday to block Elon Musk and his apparatchiks from accessing federal servers with sensitive member data and financial information — alleging a “massive ...
‘What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie’
A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.
Elon Musk shielded by ethics loophole as Trump ‘special government employee’
Musk's status as a special government employee gives him protection from typical ethics disclosures that other Trump ...