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Trump addresses Elon Musk's growing political influence: ‘He's not going to be president'
After Musk helped tank a bipartisan bill to fund the government, Trump told conservative activists that he hadn’t “ceded the presidency” to the tech billionaire.
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‘It feels like Elon Musk is our prime minister': The fallout from the funding debacle
Washington lawmakers react to Congress’ chaotic race to avert a government shutdown.
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Musk's turn as a Trump diplomat raises conflict of interest concerns
Elon Musk has been a constant companion to President-elect Donald Trump as Trump meets with foreign leaders — an ever-present personality at Mar-a-Lago since November, even accompanying Trump to Paris on his first foreign trip since winning the election.
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Government shutdown analysis | Are Musk, Trump to blame? Why end the debt ceiling?
With the U.S. government hours from shutting down and Congress scrambling to cobble together a deal, NBC10 Boston political analyst explains why President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk shot down a bipartisan deal that was in place and how the debt ceiling factors in....
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Analysis | Government shutdown looms after Trump slams bipartisan plan
Political commentator Sue O’Connell looks at the political fight, fueled largely by Elon Musk, that has the federal government on the verge of shutting down.
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Elon Musk reveals SEC sent him ‘settlement demand' after Twitter buyout probe
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a “settlement demand” to Elon Musk, the tech billionaire revealed in a social media post on Thursday.
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Elon Musk becomes first person to surpass $400B net worth, according to Bloomberg
Musk spent a quarter of a billion dollars this year helping elect Donald Trump to a second term as president.
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Elon Musk spent a quarter-billion dollars electing Trump, including financing mysterious ‘RBG PAC'
The super PAC, which defended Trump on abortion, got its more than $20 million in funds came from the “Elon Musk Revocable Trust.”
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk loses bid to get $56 billion pay package reinstated
Elon Musk’s pay package granted in 2018 was the largest compensation plan in U.S. history for a public company executive.
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Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI from converting to a for-profit
Elon Musk seeks to block OpenAI from changing its business structure, and discouraging deals to back competitors like xAI.
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Musk, Ramaswamy to discuss DOGE with GOP leaders on Capitol Hill Dec. 5
The meeting is the latest indication that Republicans in Congress are taking Musk and Ramaswamy seriously.
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How Elon Musk's plan to slash government agencies and regulation may benefit his empire
Donald Trump has said the Department of Government Efficiency would end government “bureaucracy,” relax “excess” regulations and cut “wasteful” expenditures.
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Why X's new terms of service are driving some users to leave Elon Musk's platform
Elon Musk’s X implemented new terms of service that are driving some users off the microblogging platform.
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‘Elon Musk impersonator' accused of defrauding $250,000 from elderly woman in Florida, police say
A Florida man who allegedly impersonated billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Facebook defrauded an elderly woman out of at least a quarter of a million dollars, police said.
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President-elect Trump attends SpaceX ‘Starship' launch in Texas
President-elect Donald Trump appears to be planning to attend a SpaceX “Starship” rocket launch on Tuesday, in the latest indication of founder Elon Musk ‘s influence in the Republican’s orbit.
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Mass ‘X-odus' follows TOS update, Musk's ‘Department of Government Efficiency' nomination
X is seeing millions of users flee, the largest exodus since Elon Musk took over the social media platform then known as Twitter.
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Will Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's new ‘department' actually be able to do anything?
The “Department of Government Efficiency” won’t be a real government agency. In fact, it won’t even be part of the federal government.
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Elon Musk's new ‘department' seeks ‘super high-IQ' staff for unpaid jobs
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new commission to slash government spending began soliciting applications for staff jobs Thursday, saying it wants to hire “revolutionaries” who score highly on IQ tests.
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Analysis | Reviewing some of Trump's cabinet picks
Political analyst Sue O’Connell looks at President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and the announcement that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head a new “Department of Government Efficiency.”
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Trump says Elon Musk will lead Department of Government Efficiency with Vivek Ramaswamy
Trump made the announcement on social media, fulfilling a promise during the campaign to give Musk sweeping oversight of federal spending.