Elon Musk's Influence on American Government and Agencies
Elon Musk appears to challenge the authority of various U.S. agencies, including the FAA and USAID, while the Delaware Chancery Court remains a significant entity amid this turbulence.
Elon Musk has an uncanny ability to sort out which of America's rules are real. It turns out punishment from the National Labor Relations Board isn't real, punishment from NASA isn't real, and punishment from the FAA isn't real. The Delaware Chancery Court is extremely real. Based on the past two weeks, the Delaware Chancery Court may be the only real thing in the entire American government.
Here's a quick recap. While putative President Donald Trump was busy alienating allies through tariffs and wasting water in California -- real mad king hours -- Musk pushed out the head of the FAA. Then the reports came fast and thick: Federal employees received a "fork in the road" email highly reminiscent of Musk's Twitter ultimatum, encouraging them to resign, sent from an insecure server. A bunch of goons, some of them actual teenagers, reportedly got access to the US Treasury systems. (Read-only, reportedly, for now.)
Longtime civil servants were locked out of the personnel systems that, by the way, house the personal data for government employees. Musk's lackeys are in control of the Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration. They've gotten ahold of classified information, and are now shutting down the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Musk said he "spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper."
