India, Feb. 26 -- A United States judge has sought to determine the exact role of businessman Elon Musk in the US government's Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE.

During a hearing on Monday in a case trying to block access by the DOGE cost-cutting team to Treasury Department systems, a federal judge repeatedly pressed a government lawyer to clarify who is running things at the department.

"Where is Mr Musk in all of this?" US district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly asked, according to the Associated Press.

"I don't have any information beyond close adviser to the president," Bradley Humphreys, an attorney for the Department of Justice, however, responded.

"You can't tell me what role he has?" the judge remarked.

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