President Trump has tasked Elon Musk with an enormous job of searching the federal government and rooting out inefficiencies and waste. But Musk’s initial, often chaotic, infiltration of various departments has set off alarm bells.

McCormick received a harsh welcome at a town hall on Thursday night, where many of his constituents boo’d him at times and criticized the administration for laying off hundreds of federal workers. When videos of the encounter later circulated on social media platform X,