At least one Senate Republican agrees that he’s infringing on Congress — but treated Musk’s promised sledgehammering of great swaths of the federal government as a hypothetical exercise that will likely never come to fruition.

If Musk wants to make recommendations, wants to go and say, you know, 'We ought to cancel this, we ought to cancel that,' that's fine.” Hawley dismissed Musk's framing that he has more authority, calling it "a form of self-promotion” and saying the efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency,