Musk and DOGE Powers Expand While Staff and Remit Stay Shrouded

Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have cracked into closely guarded US government networks, pushed tens of thousands of federal workers to leave their jobs and created a pervasive sense that the rules that once made the bureaucracy function are being torn away.

It’s now clear they are just getting started.

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on Tuesday that makes DOGE even more powerful. Citing a need to root out “waste, bloat and insularity,” Trump ordered a much deeper culling of the federal workforce and granted DOGE broad dominion over agency hiring.

A beaming Musk, ...