The Musk team has pushed for access to the government’s computer systems and sought to remove tens of thousands of federal workers.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General is auditing security of the federal government’s payment system amid concerns over Elon Musk's team.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Inspector General says it's launching an audit of the security controls for the federal government’s payment system.

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.

Officials from the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees federal hiring, met with agencies on Thursday, advising them to lay off their probationary employees, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Mass firings have rocked multiple agencies as President Trump and Elon Musk ramp up plans to drastically slash and reshape the federal work force.