Playing your strongest side brings with it the risk of an important player picking up an injury that would rule them out of the final.
Experts said that Musk has given the impression of being in charge of Doge by staffing the government entity with employees and engineers from his various companies, posting constantly about its work on X, appearing alongside Trump in the Oval Office to promote the cuts it has made to the federal workforce, and representing it on stage at the Conservative Political Action Committee gathering last week while wielding a chainsaw."We're in Alice in Wonderland right now," Mr Stier said. "We're through the looking glass."
Trump established Doge by renaming the United States Digital Service - an agency focused on digital and web infrastructure - to the United States Doge Service via an executive order.establishes Doge's leadership structure, saying that "there shall be a USDS Administrator" that reports up to the White House chief of staff.It does not name a specific individual for the role. In fact, Musk's name never appears in the executive order, though Trump has credited his work with the team.
Doge's arrival has caused turbulence in the existing US Digital Service ranks. The administration fired several staffers there earlier this month, and the Associated Press reported that 21 employees resigned in protest on Tuesday.In a letter to management, they alleged Doge employees were creating "significant security risks".
"We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations," their letter stated, according to the AP. "However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments."
BBC News has reviewed the letter but has not been able to verify its contents.Customers on social media listed multiple problems with its services, including
being unable to process changes to online orders.Tesco's account on X replied to one user
"intermittent system issues at the moment which the IT team are currently working hard to resolve."Outage monitoring site Downdetector showed increased levels of reported problems with Tesco's website and app shortly after 14:00 BST.