One voter who probably did both is Elon Musk who contributed $288 million to Donald Trump’s campaign—a drop in the pond compared with the $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits his companies have received from the U.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is running a playbook that is strikingly similar to his takeover of X, formerly Twitter, in San Francisco.

Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia. As politics and sports analyst Nate Silver flagged, a graph compiled by The Economist that tracked Musk's tweets from 2014 until November 2024 illustrated in stark detail how frequently the billionaire posts — and how little,

Nine people were arrested during a protest Saturday outside a Tesla dealership in New York City, Reuters reported. In Maryland, another Tesla dealership was vandalized, WMAR-TV reported, with the words "No Musk" and an "X" spray painted on the Ownings Mills dealership's windows.

Daylight saving time to change this weekend. Will Trump end DST? See reactions to Elon Musk's X / Twitter poll before the US springs forward in 2025.

When Musk took over Twitter, he launched a payroll audit to root out dead workers getting paid. Now, Musk is launching the same campaign across the federal government.

The Senate has stripped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s power to monitor digital payment offerings. That could clear the way for Elon Musk's Twitter/X to broaden its payments plan. The proposal still needs to pass the House, but two senators are calling for an ethics investigation into Musk’s role in the change.

Mr. Musk uses online slang to marshal his 200 million social media followers in support of his efforts to gut the federal government. But he might be reaching his limits.