Trump tells Musk to 'go get' NASA astronauts who were 'left stranded' by Biden - SpaceX CEO says he will return Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore to Earth ‘as soon as possible’

Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist close to Musk and involved in the Trump transition’s planning, recently argued that the current federal government was basically built by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s and ’40s, but had since become an “out-of-control bureaucracy” without its “founder” around to lead it.

The billionaire and his Silicon Valley allies landed in the capital and immediately moved to cut the size of the federal government, reprising the playbook he used after buying Twitter in 2022.

As the first week of Trump’s second term gets underway, the not-quite-real Department of Government Efficiency is both struggling and expanding its remit.

"If someone is super-smart, and he is, they should think how they can help out," Gates said of Musk.

Lawmakers say Musk's apparent misunderstanding of the way government programs work could threaten his whole agenda.

I think if we try for $2 trillion, we’ve got a good shot at getting 1 [trillion],” Musk said in a January interview.

Elizabeth Warren's recommendations for Elon Musk's DOGE include cutting Department of Defense spending and cracking down on Medicare fraud.

Catherine Rampell tried to goad the GOP pundit into mimicking Musk's Nazi-like gesture to prove it was harmless.

The buyout offer that just went out to millions of US federal workers has the subject line, “Fork in the Road,” which is the same subject line Musk used when he gave his “extremely hardcore” ultimatum to Twitter employees in 2022.