Good evening from Washington, D.C. I'm Michael Steele, in for Chris Hayes.

Donald Trump's war on the government is intensifying, and he has empowered the world's richest man,

Elon Musk, to do the job. Musk and his minions are storming federal buildings and causing havoc.

Protesters are hitting the streets and gathering outside government buildings to block Musk's access and voice their outrage.

Today, House Democrats arrived at the Department of Education seeking a meeting with employees of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, but they were blocked

from entering. It was at least the fourth time this week that members of Congress were denied

entry to a federal agency that they fund. As elected officials and Americans are trying to figure

out what to do to stop this court, this activity. The courts are responding.

Today, a judge in Washington put a temporary hold on Musk in Trump's plans to fire almost the entire

staff at USAID. Even so, Musk is plowing ahead and he's doing it with the president's full approval.

Is there anything you've told Elon Musk he cannot touch?

Well, we haven't discussed that much.

I'll tell him to go here, go there, he does it.

He's got a very capable group of people.

Very, very, very capable. They know what they're doing.

But as this continues, we are learning more and more about this, quote, capable group. It was just

yesterday when one 25-year-old Musk staffer who had sensitive access to the Treasury payment system, quit his job when

the Wall Street Journal connected him to a social media account full of racist hatred. He was apparently

posting stuff like, quote, I was a racist before it was cool, and you could not pay me to marry

outside of my ethnicity and normalize Indian hate.

And get this.

Elon Musk is mad that the staffer had to quit.

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