As a "special government employee," Musk would be subject to less stringent conflict of interest standards than regular federal workers.
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.
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,
As if the billionaire megadonor doesn't already have enough access to Donald Trump, Elon Musk is reportedly poised to receive office space near the West Wing.
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,
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,
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
Trump’s own social media company, Trump Media and Technology Group, is in talks to buy Bakkt, a cryptocurrency trading venue whose former CEO is Kelly Loeffler, who Trump has nominated to head his Small Business Administration. Trump also has his own crypto project, World Liberty Financial.
As Washington prepares for the second inauguration of Donald Trump, Democrats are locked out of power, stuck reckoning with the fact that despite years of pushback and plotting, their chief political antagonist has only grown stronger and more popular and rendered them a minority party.