A recent high school graduate and former Neuralink intern has joined meetings to review lines of code and other work history of career public servants, sparking chaos at a major government agency.

Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.

Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers — just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.

The billionaire and his Silicon Valley associates landed in the capital and immediately moved to cut the size of the federal government, reprising the playbook he used after buying Twitter in 2022.

Trump has embraced the ultra wealthy as well as tariffs and other policies that could stoke the inflation he criticized as a candidate.

The federal government’s most important hiring office is now overrun with Elon Musk’s underqualified stooges. Wired reported on Tuesday that the highest positions at the Office of Personnel Management are now held by people close to Musk. And some of them have a woeful lack of experience.

Three separate lawsuits allege that DOGE violates the transparency rules of a 1972 law.

Sen. Chris Murphy, Democratic Senator from Connecticut joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to Trump’s Inauguration and what the visual presence of some of America’s most wealthy individuals shows about what Trump’s priorities are in his second term and how the most wealthy and powerful have exerted overt influence over a now sitting American president.

Two anonymous federal employees have sued the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), alleging that a newly circulated email system is actually linked to Elon Musk.

The tech billionaire and top Trump ally visited the General Services Administration, which appears to be a key part of his crusade to cut the cost of government buildings.

The world's richest man, now firmly embedded in the Trump administration, has lost over $11 billion since the start of the year.

President Donald Trump’s directives to shrink the federal workforce by next week seeks to make good on his campaign pledge to root out federal workers who aren’t loyal to him and remake the government in his own image.