DOGE: Inside Trump ally Elon Musk's race to upend US government

The world's richest man has emerged as a dominant force in Trump's second term, gutting an agency and issuing ultimatums to staff.

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"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.

But Musk's increasingly bold attempt to remake the federal government with the same blunt force he used to take control of companies like Twitter have put him on a collision course with the Washington establishment.

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