Mr Musk is in charge of Mr Trump's newly created Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Elon Musk's starring role in the new Donald Trump administration was confirmed as he appeared front and centre of his inauguration proceedings - and witnessed him pledge a mission to Mars. Musk sat behind members of the Trump family for Monday's ceremony, grinning and pumping his fists as the president declared he would 'pursue our manifest destiny into the stars'.
Mr Musk has since been made head of his newly created Department for Government Efficiency . The advisory group is not strictly part of the government - but is set to recommend major cuts to budgets and bureaucracy. Following his appointment, Mr Musk set it a target of $2tn - roughly the same size as the US deficit. Efficiencies of that scale would require cuts to social security and Medicare programmes - and the likely redundancies of hundreds of thousands of government employees.
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