Elon Musk

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.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a “settlement demand” to Elon Musk, the tech billionaire revealed in a social media post on Thursday. 

Musk spent a quarter of a billion dollars this year helping elect Donald Trump to a second term as president.

The super PAC, which defended Trump on abortion, got its more than $20 million in funds came from the “Elon Musk Revocable Trust.”

Elon Musk’s pay package granted in 2018 was the largest compensation plan in U.S. history for a public company executive.

Elon Musk seeks to block OpenAI from changing its business structure, and discouraging deals to back competitors like xAI.

The meeting is the latest indication that Republicans in Congress are taking Musk and Ramaswamy seriously.

Donald Trump has said the Department of Government Efficiency would end government “bureaucracy,” relax “excess” regulations and cut “wasteful” expenditures.

Elon Musk’s X implemented new terms of service that are driving some users off the microblogging platform. 

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.

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.

X is seeing millions of users flee, the largest exodus since Elon Musk took over the social media platform then known as Twitter.

The “Department of Government Efficiency” won’t be a real government agency. In fact, it won’t even be part of the federal government.

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.

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.”

Trump made the announcement on social media, fulfilling a promise during the campaign to give Musk sweeping oversight of federal spending.

Musk’s relationship with Trump has fueled expectations that he could soften U.S. policy toward Beijing, but experts caution against putting too much stock into the Tesla CEO. 

Tesla’s 39% surge since Donald Trump’s election victory last week has lifted Elon Musk’s net worth by about $70 billion.

Elon Musk does not appear to be a fan of Dana Carvey’s impression of him, which was debuted on the most recent episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

Tech mogul Elon Musk briefly joined President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter.