Earlier on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali in Washington, D.C. gave the Trump administration less than two days to release billions of dollars in foreign aid after noting that the government had failed to comply with a previous order to ease the funding freeze.

Elon Musk is set to attend President Trump's first Cabinet meeting of his second term Wednesday in a display of Musk's enormous influence.

The missive is just the latest way in which Mr Musk’s war on waste and fraud in government risks descending into farce. Two days before, he appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference with Javier Milei,