President Donald Trump has put the Tesla CEO — and largest donor to his election effort — in charge of an effort to modernize federal information technology.
The Treasury Department didn’t immediately respond to questions about the extent of Musk’s access.
But Musk seems to be expanding that mandate to include control over financial flows in other parts of the federal government.
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