CIA Director John Ratcliffe invited the billionaire to the spy headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on the same day that a federal judge blocked the agency from firing 17 employees in DEI roles.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday ruled that Elon Musk and members of the cost-focused Department of Government Efficiency that he spearheads can make further cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development while they appeal a lower court order that had barred them from doing so.