Elon Musk jaw the National Security Agency on Wednesday for a meeting with the spy agency ’s leadership , according to a new reputation from theWall Street Journal . The newspaper describe that Musk ’s discussion center on “ faculty reductions and operations , ” which is altogether unsurprising , give the billionaire oligarch ’s on-going demolition of the U.S. government activity with the blessing of President Donald Trump .
The Wall Street Journal cited unidentified NSA officials , who say it “ is n’t clear ” whether Musk asked about any tidings or military operations that may be deemed tender . Musk has a high - level security system clearance , a point of disputation feed the billionaire’shistory of drug useand undercover telephone conversations with Russian dictatorVladimir Putin .
The NSA told the Wall Street Journal that Musk met with chief Gen. Timothy Haugh , who pick out the line in 2023 during Joe Biden ’s administration . In a command to Gizmodo , an NSA interpreter said : “ Yesterday , Gen Timothy Haugh , Commander , USCYBERCOM , Director , NSA / Chief , CSS , host Elon Musk during his first visit to NSA / CSS Washington in his capacity as Special Advisor to the President of the United States . NSA and CYBERCOM are focused on the President , SECDEF and DNI ’s priorities ; meeting with key consultant control we are aligned . ”
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk with President Donald Trump on Marine One after landing on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on 16 December 2024.© Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Musk has antecedently criticized the NSA , tweeting March 6 that the NSA “ want an overhaul , ” tie a graphic depict a group of college - aged people and a inclination of university where the federal agency would be doing enlisting .
The NSA call for an overhaulpic.twitter.com/93TnOIUIOy
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)March 6 , 2025
Musk ’s so - called Department of Government Efficiency ( DOGE ) has been taking a metaphoric chainsaw to the Union government , something that turn into a literal chain saw during an appearing at CPAClast month , where Musk slurred his words , his eyes seeming to be glassy and bloodshot . There were unnumbered calls for Musk to lose his security headroom over alleged drug maltreatment during Joe Biden ’s presidency , but NASA claimed there wasno evidencethat the SpaceX founder was using illicit substance .
The 53 - year - sometime Tesla CEO hasadmitted to using ketamineand appeared on Joe Rogan ’s podcast smoke marijuana , but reporting from the Wall Street Journal last year included allegations that Musk was also using cocaine , LSD , and psychedelic mushrooms . Musk has previously support his use of ketamine asbeneficial to investors , despite report that many the great unwashed at his companies are concerned about his drug use .
President Trump has task Musk with hollowing out the government , aiming for $ 2 trillion in cuts , and the billionaire has reported at odds numbers on how much he ’s really done out with . Importantly , nothing Musk is doing is likely effectual , as he dismantled USAID and now branches out to make cuts at the IRS and Social Security . The tech big businessman suggested at a recent cabinet meeting thathe alonegets to decide what gets cut in the government , something that violates natural law which are supposed to check Congress makes those decisions . Even worse , Musk ’s many conflicts of involvement as the head of Tesla and SpaceX make the billionaire appear to beself - dealing .
SpaceX is known to have subsist contracts with other U.S. intelligence activity agencies , let in the National Reconnaissance Office , but there are no known existing contracts with the NSA . But even if there ’s no money to be made , Musk ’s mission is intelligibly much turgid than just financial gain . The oligarch , who spent Trump ’s first day in position giving what calculate like twoNazi salute , clearly has an ideological project to make the U.S. more white and male - dominated . ( Musk denied he was doing Nazi salutes , but only much later on Joe Rogan ’s podcast . )
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