On February 8, Time magazine featured Elon Musk as the cover character and published an article "Elon Musk's War on Washington". The cover shows Musk in a suit sitting behind a luxurious wood carving desk that symbolizes power (or imitates the grit table in the US presidential office). Behind him is the American flag on the left and the presidential flag on the right, suggesting that Musk is deeply bound to presidential power and American politics. According to the article: On one side is an agency with a 64-year-old history, a $35 billion budget, and its mission is clearly defined by federal law; on the other side is the political sabotage team that Musk uses to dismantle the federal bureaucracy. They call themselves members of the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE), a group of temporary staff with no charter, no website, and no explicit legal mandate. Its power comes from Mr. Musk, the richest man on the planet, who has been given the task of dismantling much of the fabric of the federal bureaucracy - cutting the budget, weakening the civil service and depriving independent agencies of the ability to thwart the president's goals.