The massive underground facility, which has been used to store archives since the 1960s, remains a crucial but convoluted hub for US government records.

Elon Musk is keen on auditing the Federal Reserve, the independent agency that makes critical decisions on interest rates that reverberate throughout the US economy. Musk, the world’s richest man who is also overseeing a mass restructuring of the federal government,

Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world’s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.