Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) moved fast and broke things in Washington — and now Donald Trump's administration is left to clean up the mess. As the Washington Post reports,

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on Republicans’ criticism of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the president’s tax and immigration bill, claiming that the independent agency — which warned that millions could lose health-care access if the measure is signed into law — has been “historically wrong.”

It's the latest twist in the public spat between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump that escalated this week.

James Fishback, the chief architect behind the proposal to send “DOGE checks,” told POLITICO Friday he’s stepping away from the movement after Elon Musk lashed out at President Donald Trump. "The truth is that Elon set expectations that he relayed to the president,

With members embedded in multiple agencies, the team’s approach to transforming government is becoming “institutionalized,” as one official put it.