Musk's DOGE team moves into US watchdog CFPB as Trump defends billionaire

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Opposition Democrats and federal employee unions have decried the power Trump has bestowed on South African-born Musk, who is unelected and appears largely unaccountable except to Trump himself.

Trump's new Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, told CNBC there are three DOGE staff inside the department but they do not have security clearances and do not have access to nuclear weapons secrets.(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.

Members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) moved into the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday, according to two people familiar with the move, as the Tesla CEO's team extended its influence across the US government.