Americans don’t know the full extent of what Musk is doing as he embeds alongside President Donald Trump at the top of the federal government.

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Week 2 of Trump’s tenure showed the president Americans grew to distrust in his first term — erratic, conspiratorial, and divisive — had not really gone anywhere.