Elon Musk’s secretive government IT takeover, explained

Image caption: Elon Musk speaks live via a video transmission during the election campaign launch rally of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party […] Image credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images. Article by Nicole Narea. Vox – February 5, 2025.

Billionaire Elon Musk and his band of young Silicon Valley engineers have gained access to IT systems controlling critical functions of the federal government, from the Treasury Department to the Small Business Administration. The problem is no one outside of the Trump administration really knows what Musk and his team at the newly created […]

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