Elon Musk scores cushy office space at Trump's White House... but there's a downside

One of the world's richest men volition soon inhabit an bureau astatine the White House, aft President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated adjacent week. 

Billionaire Elon Musk has been granted bureau abstraction astatine the White House, according to the New York Times citing radical briefed connected the plans.

Musk was appointed by Trump to tally a Department of Government Efficiency to scrutinize national spending on with erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner tech entrepreneur Trump booster Vivek Ramaswamy.

The presumption volition not beryllium successful the existent White House building, however, but alternatively successful the ample Eisenhower Executive Office Building connected the White House complex.

Only a prime fewer of Trump's unit really enactment successful the West Wing of the White House.

But Musk's carnal proximity to Trump could inactive beryllium adjacent capable to let him to further power the president, if helium decides to transverse the street. 

Musk, who has embraced the rubric 'First Buddy' of Trump, donated millions to the president-elect's run efforts and has spent a large woody of clip with him since the election.

Democrats are furious astatine Musk's proximity to the president, often branding him arsenic Trump's 'co-president' due to the fact that of his cozy narration with Trump.

Musk's companies receive billions of dollars successful authorities contracts with the national government, particularly SpaceX, the groundbreaking rocket institution changing abstraction travel.

Trump and Musk traveled unneurotic to presumption a rocket motorboat with his entourage, arsenic portion of an lawsuit encouraging the maturation of the abstraction industry.

News of Musk's bureau astatine the White House breaks conscionable arsenic erstwhile Trump strategist and elder counsellor Steve Bannon said helium would enactment to keep Musk distant from Trump's 2nd word White House.

'He volition not person a bluish walk to the White House, helium volition not person afloat entree to the White House, helium volition beryllium similar immoderate different person,' Bannon said, describing the tech billionaire arsenic 'a genuinely evil guy.'

Bannon commented connected Musk successful an interview with Italian quality outlet Corriere della Sera. 

The one-time Trump allies clashed precocious implicit a statement astir H-1B visas, which offering ineligible presumption for foreigners who privation to enactment successful the United States, chiefly for tech companies.

Critics of H-1B visas reason that skilled Americans should get tech jobs implicit overseas workers.

Bannon vowed helium would look victorious implicit Musk and his chap tech moguls.  

'We person been warring this combat for 10 years,' Bannon said. 'We are going to exposure the full corruption of the American system, of however wealth controls everything and hopefully we'll animate you successful Italy to aftermath up,' helium said.