Trump, musk ally, is reshaping the government – but will they collide?

Days after speculation about the precise role played by the richest man in the world at the White House in Donald Trump – how much power he will carry, whether he is a government employee at all – he took the social media platform he possesses to clarify.

Illon Musk wrote on Tuesday that “My favorite title is just” technical support “.

As the head of the emerging government efficiency department (DOGE), Musk appeared as a dominant power at the beginning of the second Trump administration.

In just two weeks, he led the efforts to reach the federal payment system, dismantle an entire agency and offered millions of civilian employees a warning, resignation or being launched.

But Musk's increasingly bold attempt to reshape the federal government with the same explicit power that he used to control companies such as Twitter put it in a collision cycle with the Washington Foundation.

While he got a place in the Trump inner circle, observers wonder whether the confrontation between these two strong people could be looming on the horizon.

Musk's journey from the billionaire entrepreneur to the White House energy player was not clear. With his own accountability, Musk – for decades – was a reliable Democratic vote.

However, Biden's position on labor laws and transgender rights issues, Musk began looking at the other side of the corridor in the period before the 2024 presidential elections.

Initially, Musk Trump called for “hanged a hat and sailing at sunset” and supporting his opponent, the governor of Florida Ron Desantis, for Republican nomination. But he soon became the biggest supporter of the president, as he contributed 288 million dollars for Trump and other Republican candidates and became a major consultant to the campaign.

By the time of Trump's inauguration, Musk was his right leg, sitting behind the left shoulder of the president on Dais – an unambiguous symbol of its effect.

“You know that I always say that we must be a protection of our faces because we do not have much. But this is a good one,” Trump said of Musk, after he welcomed him on stage in a rally gathering the day before.

Musk has been a continuous presence in the nation’s capital since then.

Almost immediately, Trump has stored Musk to turn on DOGE, and this new role apparently enabled him to a long -term mission to reduce and transfer the federal government, and pressure for tremendous repairs at amazing speed.

Although Trump said that Musk will not be granted an office in the western wing, the technology leader and his team transferred beds to the Federal Employee Office adjacent to the White House, according to the New York Times.

Trump administration official, who gives him access to a wide range of information very classified.

Former employees say that his tactics – unabated in them, sometimes ruthless – reminds us of how to manage his previous companies.

The former director of the program in Tesla, who spoke to the BBC, said, provided that his identity is not disclosed to discuss sensitive matters, that Musk “does not care” of the human cost of his decisions.

“He is only interested in the goal on hand. I think he looks at personal issues and conflicts as auxiliary things that are not worth his time,” he said.

Sometimes, musk tended towards the rush. The manager recalled the Musk Fire, a Tesla colleague employee immediately on the dedicated garbage tray.

“He explained this as a sign that this person was not proud of his work as it should,” he said. “This was the nuances … but at the end of the day someone was shot because they admitted that garbage could overflow.”

The employee said that the approach resulted in a committed workforce. He said that if you were on board with the Musk mission, this monochrome concentration was a catalyst, and helped fuel 13 hours for 13 hours on the job.

“He can get out of people more than anyone else I have seen at all,” although he added that the density in Tesla was equal to the cycle in the Silicon Valley.

But for those in the federal government, the employee added, “It should be a cultural shock.”

There was no alleged place of Musk on behalf of Trump extensively like the United States Agency for International Development.

The government agency responsible for international development has moved from the distribution of billions in aid to programs all over the world to an effective pause within a little more than two weeks.

Trump has already cleared the US International Development Agency's work significantly when he ordered a 90 -day stoppage time in American foreign spending, while the administration reviewed the money in order to ensure that it is in line with the goals of the president's policy.

But in recent days, the employees watched with an increased alert as Musk put his attention directly on the USA International Development Agency, and they described their agency as a “criminal organization” on X.

The harsh musk rhetoric coincided with radical changes in the same extent at the United States Agency for International Development.

On February 1, the US International Development Agency website stopped working; The X account seems to fade after a long time. At the end of the same week, two senior security officials were placed on an administrative vacation after a confrontation with Doug's representatives about accessing a safe facility used to review the classified information, according to the Washington Post and other American ports.

On Monday, the United States Agency for International Development was asked to stay at home while hundreds of employees were closed from their email. CBS reports, US news partner in the BBC, the US Agency for International Development Agency is withdrawn from their countries all over the world by Friday.

“It is an irreplaceable thing,” Musk said of the agency during his 50 -minute conversation on X -morning.

“I went out with him in detail, and he agreed that we must close it,” Musk said of his conversation with Trump. “I have already reviewed with him several times (and) he said,” Are you sure? “

“The comments of Elon Musk are privately cut, describing it as a” criminal organization “that needs” death. “

“I am coming from the richest man on this planet, which is a fairly ugly feeling,” said the employee, who was placed on an administrative leave with many other colleagues.

“I see external service officers who spent their entire lives in the service – a large part of them abroad – and the sacrifices they made,” they said. “To be dragged through the mud like this is not respectful.”

The US Agency for International Development has sparked fears of Democrats and experts about whether Trump's actions and legal music were.

John Rojovsky, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, who is studying the separation of power, said the United States government.

The Congress has established the United States Agency for International Development as an independent agency, and the legislative branch is allocated.

As head of the federal agencies, Trump has widespread power to bring some USA's International Development Agency jobs under the control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to George Ingram, an older colleague at the Brookings Institute and a former deputy assistant at the United States Agency for International Development.

One of these steps included the appointment of Foreign Minister Marco Rubio as a president on behalf of the United States Agency for International Development, when the agency in the past was working independently of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with its guidelines on foreign policy.

Republicans influencing Congress seem ready to work with the administration to allow a degree of change.

“I support the Trump administration's efforts to reform and restructure the agency in a way that better serve national security services,” said Senator James Rish, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Although Musk has no power to close or restructure the US International Development Agency, it was most likely that the agency could not be dismantled as quickly and comprehensive without its influence.

“I cannot think of any precedent, as the presidential administration mainly handed over the reins to a private citizen, to re -control the executive branch as they see appropriate,” said Mr. Rojovsky.

In a BBC statement, White House press secretary Caroline Levitte said that musk “serves the administration of President Trump without selfishness as a private government employee, and may be related to all the federal laws in force.”

Before Trump's inauguration, some of the musk peers expressed optimism about the possibility of injecting a start -up culture in Washington.

“I think we have just passed a very exciting moment,” Mark Benioff, founder of billionaire and CEO of Salesforce, who was in his support for Trump, told the BBC in December. “It is a new chapter for America.”

He said at that time: “There are many amazing people like Elon Musk in the technology industry and in the business community. If you can take advantage of the strength of experience in achieving the best in America, this is a great vision.”

But two weeks after the Trump administration, some observers say that everyone in the Silicon Valley is excited.

“Many people in (technology) show a pin with the events of the past two weeks,” Nikki Christophe, a former sales executive who is now running a telecommunications company in the capital, BBC.

“Most of the executives of the multinationals circulating publicly want to predict. They want stability. They want a strong dollar,” she added. “They want a predictive supply chains, and many policies and addresses that come out of Washington create anxiety and uncertainty.”

Dr. Philip Law, neurotechenology, said that the game of playing in Musk can present chaos to government institutions. He said that the two were close to 15 years before their relationship was strained.

“Its style is to take companies, invest in them, destabilize them, and then seize them.”

“In this context, the White House is its largest investment so far. It is destabilizing the US government now.”

According to Dr. Lu, Musk will not be satisfied with being a reliable deputy, who may put him in a collision cycle with the president, his president.

He said, “Knowing Elon as I do, he does not want to be the second number or third number. He will want to take over,” he said.

“No matter how he decides,” said the former Tesla employee. “He never took any answer.”

After getting rid of the United States Agency for International Development, Trump explained that the final authority will always rest with him.

When asked if he was happy to hold after the agency ended, he said yes – “for the largest part.”

“Sometimes we will not agree with her, and we will not go where he wants to go. But I think he is doing a great job,” he said on Monday.

The president said: “Elon cannot do and nothing will do without our consent, and we will give him approval when necessary. It is not appropriate not to do that.”

“It is reports.”