The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and other incidents.

Elon Musk threatened to fire even more federal workers if they did not respond to his email demanding a list of five tasks completed.

America’s government was in disarray after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency sent an email to all federal employees asking them to list what they did last week by Monday night. Mr Musk warned that failure to reply would be “taken as a resignation”.