Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, installed a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal at the White House in March – despite warnings from security officials that doing so could open the administration to potential data leak and espionage risks.

Elon Musk reportedly physically brawled other officials in the White House before his messy departure from US President Donald Trump's inner circle.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on Republicans’ criticism of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the president’s tax and immigration bill, claiming that the independent agency — which warned that millions could lose health-care access if the measure is signed into law — has been “historically wrong.”