The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his pet government-slashing project, remains entrenched in Washington. During his 130-day tenure, Musk led DOGE in eliminating about 260,000 federal employee jobs and gutting agencies supporting scientific research and humanitarian aid.

Each week, federal workers inside a few agencies still dutifully email a report, detailing the 5 things they did in the previous seven days. Why it matters: The emails, born from an out-of-nowhere Elon Musk X post,

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