Elon Musk had hoped to hire a non-U.S. citizen to work at his Department of Government Efficiency — but Trump’s advisers wouldn’t let him, according to a report.
In just a matter of weeks, Musk, as the head of the non-governmental agency DOGE, has already taken steps to disrupt the federal government, making moves to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development, accessing the Treasury Department’s payment systems, and vowing to use his agency as a “wood chipper for bureaucracy.”