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Billionaire Elon Musk’s deputies have gained access to a sensitive Treasury Department system responsible for trillions of dollars in U.S. government payments after the administration ousted a top career official at the department, according to three people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe government deliberations. On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approved access to the Treasury’s payments system for a team led by Tom Krause, a Silicon Valley executive working in concert with Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” the people said. David A. Lebryk, who served in nonpolitical roles at Treasury for several decades and had been...

Indian-origin Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy pulled out of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) due to differences with the Tesla CEO over H-1B visas, a report has suggested. Hours after Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th US President, Ramaswamy announced that he would not co-head DOGE. The Tesla CEO who wanted Ramaswamy 'out' of the team over the 39-year-old entrepreneur's remarks on X regarding H-1B visas made in December last year. Ramaswamy's comments on X during a discussion of H-1B visas were the one 'main reason' for some Republicans getting frustrated with him, a report in Politico said. "Venerated mediocrity...

Tech mogul Elon Musk has been crashing at Mar-a-Lago since Donald Trump got re-elected on Nov. 5, with the close confidant to the president-elect paying upward of $2,000 per night to sleep in an elite suite, according to a new report. … Musk — the richest man in the world — had been galivanting around the estate, dining with the soon-to-be 47th president’s family, pausing for lunches on the posh balcony and even going out on the golf course with Trump’s granddaughter Kai. … The X owner has also been purportedly looped in on phone conversations with the president-elect and...