President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that he was "safe" from his tech billionaire ally Elon Musk being president since he "wasn't born in this country." Newsweek reached out to Trump's transition team via email for comment and X,

Even though Elon Musk has never held any sort of political position and didn’t support President-elect Donald Trump publicly until July, he was still tapped by to be a part of Trump’s Cabinet. Musk was labeled co-chair of a group called the “Department of Government Efficiency” alongside Vivek Ramaswamy.

Since President-elect Donald Trump tapped Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to streamline federal operations, questions have swirled around their initiative, dubbed the “Department of Government Efficiency.”