Americans don’t know the full extent of what Musk is doing as he embeds alongside President Donald Trump at the top of the federal government.

Even as Mr Musk was speaking, workers at USAID ’s headquarters in Washington were being told not to come in the next day. Some 600 of the agency’s staff seem to have been locked out of their emails. That followed a weekend in which the agency’s website went offline;

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,

One of President Donald Trump's core campaign promises was to cut government spending and dismantle the federal bureaucracy — and two weeks into his presidency, he's attempted to consolidate an extraordinary amount of power in order to do just that.