Elon Musk has asked social media users if funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should be "deleted" in a poll on X, formerly Twitter. "The IRS just said it wants $20B more money," Musk, who has been appointed to co-lead the informal Department of Government Efficiency under President-elect Donald Trump, wrote on X.

Delete CFPB,” the billionaire tech executive running the “Department of Government Efficiency” said in an early-morning post on X.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-heads of the Department of Government Efficiency, have suggested they’ll make cuts in key government departments, including the Pentagon.