Billionaire Elon Musk has worked behind the scenes on an initiative aimed at depleting the civil service, prompting questions about its legality.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk seems to have inspired the Trump administration’s latest bold move to restructure the federal workforce, a move that mirrors the one he made when he bought Twitter. The Trump administration on Tuesday sent a blunt ultimatum to federal employees.

An email sent to federal employees offering a 'deferred resignation' echoes a 2022 memo Musk sent to Twitter employees telling them they 'need to be extremely hardcore.'

President Trump and Elon Musk aren’t an exclusive item.That point was clear this week when the president welcomed OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman to the White House on the second day of Trump 2.0—a visit that left “First Buddy” Musk publicly fuming.

“Right now, he’s bulletproof,” a Republican operative said of Musk, the 53-year-old billionaire businessman who is leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. Several Republican insiders and conservative activists, who requested anonymity to discuss both Musk and the president, offered similar views.

Elon Musk says he has been sleeping at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headquarters, according to a Wired exclusive. President Donald Trump tapped Musk to lead the newly created agency, located in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, to " maximize governmental efficiency and productivity."

Elon Musk is seemingly taking the “efficiency” part of his new role very seriously. The Donald Trump ally, who was appointed as head of the Department of Government Efficiency, told multiple associates that he’s been sleeping at the DOGE headquarters,