Elon Musk, who once largely eschewed politics, now has a political clout of his own to throw around as President-elect Trump heads back to the Oval Office. The tech billionaire has become a
The cracks between the tech broligarchs who are now flocking around Trump and the populist MAGA movement that launched him began to reveal themselves in late December when the provocateur Laura Loomer started attacking the H-1B visa, which facilitates the staffing of a significant portion of the tech industry.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and 25 other Republican governors support President-elect Trump's "appointment of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and agree with their assertion that the federal government needs to be cut down to size,
As a "special government employee," Musk would be subject to less stringent conflict of interest standards than regular federal workers.
Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, has become an important voice in both business and politics. He has used his considerable wealth and influence to shape public discourse. Though Musk’s presence in politics is seen as beneficial,
Elon Musk is backtracking on his biggest DOGE promise to cut $2 trillion in federal spending. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports. Political Strategist Chai Komanduri and Douglas Holtz-Akin, President of the American Action Forum,
As if the billionaire megadonor doesn’t already have enough access to Donald Trump, Musk is reportedly poised to receive office space near the West Wing.
Anti-abortion groups have been frustrated by his pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary. And more traditional conservatives haven’t been happy with his choice of strongly pro-union Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) as Labor secretary.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the best-case scenario would be to make $2 trillion in cuts to federal spending through the “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) he is
With little fanfare, Elon Musk, the chief executive of tech companies including Space X, Tesla X and the satellite communications wonder Starlink, personally delivered Starlink communications systems and Cybertrucks to rescue groups and first responders battling wildfires throughout Los Angeles County.
As much as Donald Trump wants to claim that he will address government pork, his first term gave no indication that he will actually do so.