Trump White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is reportedly not happy with the way X owner Elon Musk has run roughshod over federal agencies without keeping her informed of what he's really been doing.
Sources tell Reuters that "Wiles, and her team have at times felt out of the loop as Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency seeks to fire thousands of federal workers while accessing sensitive data and disrupting operations."
At issue is the fact that Musk's efforts to shut down agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have led to negative headlines for the administration and have left other White House officials scrambling to craft talking points to support his actions.
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In fact, Reuters reports that Wiles and her staff recently confronted Musk and told him, "We need to message all this. We need to be looped in."
Despite the factional tensions inside the White House, however, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt is insisting that the entire operation is running smoothly.
"This is a unified team,” she said earlier this week, according to various reports. “Elon Musk is serving at the pleasure of the president, just like everybody else on this team. He takes directives directly from the president of the United States."
