The billionaire’s budget-razing lackeys are said to have embedded themselves inside the department’s D.C. headquarters

A Department of Justice prosecutor is unhappy with the blowback Elon Musk’s fake “Department of Government Efficiency” is getting, and is threatening legal action. Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin posted a letter to Musk on X Monday asking Musk to “utilize me and my staff to assist in protecting the DOGE work and the DOGE workers.

Elon Musk’s team of young DOGE engineers were unmasked Sunday, much to the ire of him and other MAGA figures. The world’s richest man lashed out at an X account which suggested the engineers—six men who now have access the Treasury Department’s payment system,

Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, discussed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in a social media talk on Monday on X, which he also owns. Trump has assigned Musk to lead a federal cost-cutting panel.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Monday that he and President Donald Trump were in the process of shutting down the USAID, escalating their war on the federal bureaucracy.