Musk, who has 206 million followers on X, posted or reposted about Trump's cabinet picks more than 70 times between Nov. 7 and Nov. 20.

Elon Musk has asked social media users if funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should be "deleted" in a poll on X, formerly Twitter. "The IRS just said it wants $20B more money," Musk, who has been appointed to co-lead the informal Department of Government Efficiency under President-elect Donald Trump, wrote on X.

The comment on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau follows Musk’s recent appointment to a government efficiency role, further amplifying the influence of the world’s rich

Republicans and the banking industry have accused the CFPB of regulatory overreach because it doesn't follow the usual congressional budget process.