Americans don’t know the full extent of what Musk is doing as he embeds alongside President Donald Trump at the top of the federal government.

The tech billionaire and top Trump ally visited the General Services Administration, which appears to be a key part of his crusade to cut the cost of government buildings.

Musk tried a similar scheme after his takeover of Twitter. What could go wrong with applying it to millions of federal workers?

In November 2022, days after Elon Musk took control of the company then called Twitter, employees received an email with the subject line: “A fork in the road.” Now he’s turned his attention to the US government,

On Tuesday night Elon Musk pinned an old post to his X account cheekily recalling his 2022 “Fork in the Road” email to then-Twitter employees, offering the workers of the company he’d just purchased a chance to “be part of the new Twitter” by simply clicking “yes” by the end of the following day.