Musk and DOGE See Powers Expand While Remit Stays Shrouded
- Musk vows transparency while offering no proof of fraud claims
- New order gives billionaire’s team control over much US hiring
Elon Musk with his son, left, and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 11.
Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg
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Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have cracked into closely guarded US government networks, pushed tens of thousands of federal workers to leave their jobs and created a pervasive sense that the rules that once made the bureaucracy function are being torn away.
It’s now clear they are just getting started.