that's the word I was looking for the other day: retaliation. Musk has got all of his people to lock gov't employees out of their own systems and is collecting hard drives full of database info, mainly on anyone involved in investigating Jan 6th. They've got sensitive personal information on every one of them.
Also trying to get access to the treasury and all the database info there (unclear if successful) including for the social security, medicare, and similar programs nationwide.