The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

One Musk ally, Michael Russo, was installed as the SSA’s chief information officer. He pushed the then-acting commissioner to have agency workers analyze the data the Tesla billionaire and his team were claiming to be evidence of fraudulent payments.

An Elon Musk-style Doge team says it has started work to "identify waste and efficiencies" at a council. Reform UK, which took control of West Northamptonshire Council in May, said the team would be providing its services to the local authority free of charge.

At least 38 DOGE members work, or have worked, for one of Elon Musk’s companies. Meanwhile, nearly two dozen DOGE officials are making cuts to the same federal agencies that regulate the industries that employed them.

According to The New York Times, Team Musk’s Social Security cuts were based on lies and “misinterpreted data.”

Elon Musk's actions in the White House violated norms "at an astonishing pace" for government workers, Elizabeth Warren's office said in a report.

The Department of Government Efficiency, the brainchild of Elon Musk that upended Washington with its rapid-fire drive to slash thousands of federal jobs and cut costs, is effectively leaderless now that the billionaire and his deputy have stepped down,

On the heels of the public war of words between President Trump and Elon Musk, sources say anxiety is mounting among the remaining staff at DOGE.

The US House approved $9.4 billion in Elon Musk’s DOGE federal spending cuts, with Republican moderates swallowing their concerns about cutting previously approved spending for foreign aid and public broadcasting.