Trump White House Tells Elon He's Stepped Over the Line

It took just over a month after his second inauguration, but it appears that Donald Trump may finally have put Elon Musk in his place. After Musk's team at DOGE emailed virtually all federal workers over the weekend demanding that they summarize their activities over the past week in bullet points or risk termination, there was a near-universal outcry at the sense of overreach — especially when it emerged that Musk's plan was to feed the answers into an AI chatbot to decide which jobs were "necessary." The chaos was so immense, in fact, that Trump's administration ended up telling agency heads, per sources that spoke to the Washington Post, that they could simply "ignore the public decree from Elon Musk to effectively fire employees who do not send in bullet-point summaries of their work last week." It's a striking rebuke after Musk had been given seemingly unlimited rein over the federal government for weeks, and likely an inflection point in what's been an extremely cozy relations ... Read full article.