A member of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency will take up a top role at the U.S. Agency for International Development, while Pete Marocco, who played a major role in the dismantling of the agency,

Billionaire Elon Musk appears to have overstepped his executive branch authority with his Department of Government Efficiency, a federal judge said Tuesday as he indefinitely blocked the dismantling of USAID.

Steve Davis, a longtime Musk loyalist, is effectively the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency. Mr. Musk has likened him to chemotherapy.

Planning for a war with China has dominated Pentagon thinking for decades, well before a possible confrontation with Beijing became more conventional wisdom on Capitol Hill. The United States has built its Air Forces, Navy and Space Forces — and even more recently its Marines and Army forces — with a possible fight against China in mind.

The meeting with Musk was initiated by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to a U.S. official. But Hegseth and President Donald Trump denied that the focus would be on China.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk, U.S. President Donald Trump's close ally, is due to be briefed on Friday by the Pentagon on the U.S. military's plan for any war that might break out with China,