Trump reveals the limit to Elon Musk's increasing power in his new administration

President Donald Trump said Elon Musk is lone acting with his support and that his medication is keeping the SpaceX founder, who has billions successful national contracts, from interfering successful immoderate country wherever determination is simply a struggle of interest.

The richest antheral successful the satellite has caused a firestorm successful the United States with his enactment astatine the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wherever helium has shuttered USAID and received entree to delicate outgo systems astatine the Department of the Treasury.

Trump pushed backmost against concerns and defended Musk.

'Elon volition not bash thing without our support and we volition springiness him the support wherever appropriate,' helium said successful the Oval Office connected Monday. 

'If determination is simply a conflict, we won't fto him get adjacent it. He has a squad of talented people. We are trying to shrink government. Where we deliberation determination is simply a struggle oregon a problem, we won't fto him spell adjacent it,' helium added.

The president noted that Musk 'has entree lone to letting radical spell that helium thinks are nary bully - if we hold with him. He is talented from the standpoint of absorption and outgo and we enactment him successful complaint of seeing what helium could bash with definite groups and definite numbers.'

Musk is serving arsenic a a 'special authorities employee,' DailyMail.com confirmed. 

He has a authorities email code and bureau abstraction successful the White House complex. 

Musk is not receiving a paycheck truthful wouldn't person to record the modular authorities disclosure forms.

But Trump has fixed him wide latitude erstwhile it comes to cutting backmost connected authorities spending and the national workforce. 

DOGE is not a authorities section but a tiny squad successful Trump's administration. It works retired of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, crossed the thoroughfare from the White House.

Democrats reason Musk is acting without accountability, with nary existent oversight, and perchance against the law. 

They were peculiarly acrophobic erstwhile Musk and his squad gained entree to Treasury's payment system, which sends retired trillions of dollars connected behalf of the full national government. 

A vocation civilian servant named David Lebryk tried to halt the team, was enactment connected permission and past abruptly retired connected Friday.

The Musk squad members who person been granted entree to the outgo strategy were made Treasury employees, passed authorities inheritance checks and obtained the indispensable information clearances, the New York Times reported. 

Meanwhile, Musk's companies person astir $3 cardinal crossed 100 antithetic contracts with 17 national agencies. 

And he's besides tangled with national regulators and investigators. His companies person been targeted successful astatine slightest 20 caller investigations oregon reviews.