Musk's rapid takeover of US government agencies has enabled the businessman to exert unprecedented control over America's federal workforce.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Elon Musk will remove himself if overlap between DOGE and companies like SpaceX and Tesla arises.

Representatives of Elon Musk's new federal agency have access to payments and contracting information from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the healthcare coverage to mor

Musk, who also runs SpaceX and a number of other companies, has been known to make big often exaggerated promises. For example, he once called the Hyperloop, which was never built, the "fifth mode of transport" and famously promised to take Tesla private in a Twitter post, saying he had secured financing that he didn't have.

In many ways, these have been tough days for Tesla. Falling sales. Squeezed profit margins. Proposed changes in US government policy that could cost the company billions.