As part of his cost-cutting effort, the billionaire, whose companies have enormous contracts with the military, will turn his so-called Department of Government Efficiency on the Pentagon.

In an effort to slash government spending, President Trump has asked the world’s richest man, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, to lead his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In turn, Musk and his team have spent the first few weeks of Trump’s second term waging a largely unchecked war on the federal bureaucracy.

Unelected, but empowered by U.S. President Donald Trump to cut government waste, the world’s richest man Elon Musk is facing growing resistance to his slashing of federal jobs and departments in what one Democratic senator called an ‘illegal power grab.