After days of speculation over the precise role the world’s richest man would play in Donald Trump’s White House – how much power he would hold, whether he is a government employee at all – he took to the social media platform he owns to clarify.
“My preferred title is just ‘Tech Support,'” Elon Musk wrote on X on Tuesday. It was a knowing understatement.
As the head of the nascent Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), Musk has emerged as a dominant force in the dizzying start to Trump’s second administration.
In just two weeks he has led efforts to seize access to the federal payment system, dismantled an entire agency and offered millions of civil servants an ultimatum – quit or face being fired.
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