Since billionaire Elon Musk joined forces with President Donald Trump to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), various Democrats and other critics have complained over the Tesla founder's influence on the federal government.

Billionaire Elon Musk's illegal overthrowing of the US Treasury by his so-called Department of Government Efficiency has some of president Donald Trump's loyalists uneasy. The massive overreach is sowing discord between Republican aides and Musk's army of college grads — who are currently making irreversible changes to the federal government's payments system without the required clearance — as Wired reports.

The U.S. Treasury's payment system won't be touched by Elon Musk's government efficiency team, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox Business on Wednesday, adding that any decisions to stop payments would be made by other agencies.

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, publicly at least, are on good terms.

Donald Trump bungled Elon Musk’s name once again on Monday. The president accidentally referred to the tech billionaire as “Leon.” Fox News aired the gaffe. It came as Trump signed an executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund and as he fielded a question on why Musk (who is leading the non-official Department of Government Efficiency’s drive to cut public spending) should have access to Treasury Department payment systems.

A billionaire and "special government employee" in Donald Trump's administration, Elon Musk, recently received a quiet reminder that although he has unprecedented leeway in reducing government spending,