Members of the U.S. House Progressive Caucus held a news conference on Thursday vowing to fire Elon Musk, saying President Trump has given the billionaire too much power over taxpayer money.

Billionaire Elon Musk's illegal overthrowing of the US Treasury by his so-called Department of Government Efficiency has some of president Donald Trump's loyalists uneasy. The massive overreach is sowing discord between Republican aides and Musk's army of college grads — who are currently making irreversible changes to the federal government's payments system without the required clearance — as Wired reports.

The protest was part of a national wave of protests against the Trump administration and the president's most prominent donor.