Student loan borrowers in California allege Musk’s reported access to Education Department data violates federal law.

Dangerous Oligarchs Grab Everything”, read one sign satirising Doge – the new, Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency – at a downtown Washington, DC protest against the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to reduce the size and expense of the US federal bureaucracy.

Internal email lists and other documents and interviews provide the widest view so far of who is working in DOGE — and officials inside other agencies with Musk connections.