The wealthiest man in the world is in charge of a powerful new government task force fundamentally changing the government.

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Elon Musk’s overwhelming grip on Donald Trump’s executive branch has sparked criticisms that the world’s richest man is serving as a de facto U.S. president. But some of Musk’s purported campaigns to cut government waste,