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White House says Musk doesn’t lead DOGE. The White House said on Feb. 18 that billionaire Elon Musk is not the administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency team that is sweeping through federal agencies. Instead, he’s actually a senior adviser to President Donald Trump. Mr. Musk’s exact role could be key in the legal fight over DOGE’s access to government data as the Trump administration moves to lay off thousands of federal workers. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also said DOGE can’t fire federal employees, and that the flurry of firings were up to the heads of individual agencies.

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