The billionaire seems to be repeating his Twitter playbook. The question is why? And will he get away with it?

Musk appears to be bringing his Twitter takeover playbook to the public sector, and, as they did at the social media company, his moves are causing chaos and confusion for federal workers. The richest man in the world has attempted to reduce costs and gut entire departments,

Even as Mr Musk was speaking, workers at USAID ’s headquarters in Washington were being told not to come in the next day. Later on February 3rd Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, announced he had been made acting head of the agency while it faces “ reorganisation ”.