Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has moved quickly to set up shop in a critical Treasury Department office that handles the vast majority of payments made by the federal government,

Temporary order restricts efforts of billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency to infiltrate multitrillion dollar system

One of Elon Musk’s allies, Tom Krause, is going to be installed in a senior position in charge of the U.S.’s critical payment systems. Krause, a Silicon Valley executive with ties to Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” effort,

A lot of new reporting this morning on what Elon Musk’s team has been up to at Treasury. The substance of it matters for what are obvious reasons, and I’ll get to that in a moment. But there’s important new context in which this is happening: The Justice Department is making representations in court to a federal judge in DC about what has and had not occurred at Treasury,