Musk currently sits at the helm of the self-styled Department of Government Efficiency, where he’s using a team of young engineers to reshape the government. Vittoria Elliott, the platforms and power reporter for Wired, broke this story and joined the Texas Standard with the details.

Elon Musk’s involvement in government affairs is an unprecedented, extralegal appointment and a direct affront to democratic governance.

Mona Charen, a former staunch Republican, thinks very little of X owner Elon Musk's efforts to take a sledgehammer to the federal government. Writing at The Bulwark, Charen described Musk's decision to completely and illegally shut down the United States Agency of International Development (USAID) as "selfish,