Elon Musk is using his tech and leadership playbook in a crusade against the federal bureaucracy as he and his allies attempt to gain access to sensitive information and use emerging tech to speed

Trump administration moves to shut down USAID In the shorthand of the tech industry, Elon Musk has hacked into the government. The billionaire tech magnate has never been elected to office or been confirmed by the Senate for a high-level government job,

Musk then tweeted Friday afternoon that Elez, who was uncovered as being associated with an X account called @nullllptr by the Wall Street Journal, will be rehired. “ He will be brought back,” Musk tweeted. “To err is human, to forgive divine.” He will be brought back.

Marko Elez, the DOGE staffer who resigned after racist social media posts including a call to "normalize Indian hate" surfaced, will return to work for Musk, the billionaire announced.

A federal judge on Friday declined to block Elon Musk's government cost-cutting department from accessing the U.S. Department of Labor's systems, an initial setback for the government employee unions resisting his efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy.

Elon Musk “will be looking at education pretty quickly and he will be looking at military too," Trump said at a news conference Friday.