No one has the right to break the law, and I think most (not all) of the firings/layoffs.
The stopping of payments approved by Congress have a legal path to be impounded by the Executive branch that is not being taken. If a payment or contract or other funds are thought to be part of "fraud against the American people" (their claim), it must be investigated and the process started (i dont know every step) on an individual basis (that I do know).
The people (kids really) sent by Musk, who where given access to the SSNs and other personal information held by the government, do not have the clearance or background checks or vetting that every other gov employee with that access to that information would have had to go through. This is how spies get in, some kid has $25k in debt but access to (probably minor) information and a foreign actor offers them enough money that they are willing to risk it.
There was even a recent case of this:
Sgt. Jian Zhao and 1st Lt. Li Tian were both serving as active duty U.S. Army soldiers at Washington’s Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Ruoyu Duan is a former U.S. Army soldier living in Hillsboro. All three were arrested Thursday, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
www.opb.org
An advisor to the president does not have authority over the entire executive branch, this shouldn't be Aladdin with the idiot Sultan and his advisor real power behind the throne, Jafar. We already had 8 years of that with Bush/Cheney!
Trump is just to lazy learn what needs to be done and to do it, and instead outsourced the work to an immigrant, how poetic......