Meanwhile, Trump is making his first big foray into foreign diplomacy with calls to Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy on how to end the three-year war. He is also continuing to lay out his pitch for U.S. ownership of Gaza.

DOGE has swept through federal agencies since Donald Trump began his second term as president last month and put Musk, the chief executive of carmaker Tesla , in charge of rooting

A legal filing claims Musk has no formal authority to make decisions and seeks to create distance between the president and his “first buddy.”