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

President Donald Trump was dejected, processing his very public split with the world’s richest man. Rattled in the wake of Elon Musk’s public attacks and apparent call for his impeachment, Trump worked the phones,

Musk is not about to overtake Trump himself as the dominant figure in the party, to be clear. But the jilted former “special government employee” is uniquely suited to become a chaos agent who could terrorize the GOP — potentially wreaking havoc on Trump’s legislative agenda and the party’s midterm election plans.