Elon Musk's wealth is skyrocketing. His alliance with Donald Trump has him poised to 2025 more powerful than ever before.
The duo will need to garner support from hundreds of members of Congress for any of their suggested spending cuts as co-chairs of the non-governmental Department of Government Efficiency, to become law.
The billionaire businessman has racked up some wins, and a few losses, since becoming a major MAGA power player.
CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday hit back at Sen. Bill Hagerty ’s (R-Tenn.) claim that Elon Musk was “the only way we would even know” about the government funding plan after the billionaire trashed the deal on his X platform.
Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) was criticized after he suggested on Sunday that Elon Musk is the country’s unelected “prime minister” — and not in a bad way. “It’s kind of interesting,” Gonzales said during an appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.
When the billionaire called Rep. Rosa DeLauro an "awful creature," it was a problem. When Elon Musk called for her expulsion, it made the problem worse.
A top Republican lawmaker appears in desperate need of a lesson about how prime ministerial appointments, or even the basic principles of democracy, are actually supposed to work. Speaking with CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday,
President-elect Donald Trump, after rejecting House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to avoid a government shutdown, worked the phones on Thursday, showing wavering confidence in Johnson and claiming he is aligned with billionaire Elon Musk, who first posted multiple calls to kill the GOP-brokered spending deal.
A holiday blowup over immigration between Trump's tech advisers and the GOP base suggests the road may be littered with obstacles.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk derailed an effort to increase oversight of U.S. tech investments in China.
Silicon Valley is coming to Washington in force, as tech leaders take on prominent roles — both official and unofficial — in President-elect Trump’s second term. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is the most well-known tech figure in Trump’s inner circle,