Tag Archives: Elon Musk

The Washington Post reports: Less than two weeks after President Donald Trump announced 50 percent tariffs on goods from the tiny African nation of Lesotho, the country’s communications regulator held a meeting with representatives of Starlink. The satellite business, owned by billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, had been seeking access to customers in Lesotho. But it was …

The Texas Tribune reports: Elon Musk’s wish to create his own city just came true. On Saturday, voters living around SpaceX’s rocket testing and launch facility in South Texas approved a measure to incorporate the area as a new city. Soon after polls closed at 7 p.m., Cameron County election officials confirmed that overwhelming support among early voters clinched the …

The Guardian reports: Voters in a small patch of south Texas are casting their ballots on Saturday in an election that could give Elon Musk a town to call his own. The vote would officially create a new city called Starbase in the area where Musk’s SpaceX holds its Texas rocket launches. The outcome, which will be decided almost entirely …

The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans. The emergency appeal comes after a judge in Maryland restricted the team’s access under federal privacy laws. Social Security holds personal records on …

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk and SpaceX are big winners in Donald J. Trump’s 2026 spending plan. President Trump is delivering on Mr. Musk’s wish list at both NASA and the Pentagon to reorient federal spending on space in a way likely to drive billions of dollars in new business to Mr. Musk’s space technology company, if Congress …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters finally became acquainted with the Elon Musk DOGE staffer nicknamed “Big Balls” on Thursday. “Who’s Big Balls?” asked Watters during an interview with Musk’s DOGE team. “It’s me,” replied one of the staffers, raising his hand. After Watters asked, “Why do they call you Big Balls?” the 19-year-old staffer replied, “I just set …

The New York Post reports: Elon Musk confidently compared himself to the Buddha as he insisted his federal cost-cutting efforts would continue long after he leaves his role at the White House. “Is Buddha needed for Buddhism?” the Tesla founder said Wednesday when asked who would lead DOGE when he leaves the role. “Was it not stronger after he passed …

CNBC reports: Shares of Tesla were flat in premarket trading Thursday after the EV maker denied a Wall Street Journal report that its board was searching for a replacement for chief executive Elon Musk. The report, citing comments from sources familiar with the discussions, said that Tesla’s board members reached out to several executive search firms to work on a …

Wired reports: A young man with no government experience who has yet to even complete his undergraduate degree is working for Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and has been tasked with using artificial intelligence to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations. Christopher Sweet was introduced to HUD employees as being originally from …

The Associated Press reports: Trump said during his Cabinet meeting that Musk is invited to stay in his administration indefinitely as the billionaire is said to be preparing to return to focusing on his companies Tesla and SpaceX. “You’re invited to stay as long as you want,” Trump said. Trump said Musk had been “treated unfairly” for his role in helping …

Politico reports: DOGE, after promising $2 trillion in savings, now says it has saved the government $160 billion. But even these reported savings, so far, have not led to any meaningful decline in total government spending this year, according to the nonpartisan Penn Wharton Budget Model, which tracks weekly Treasury data. In fact, the government has actually been spending more …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Neil Young debuted a politically charged new song at a benefit concert in Los Angeles over the weekend to deliver pointed criticism of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and his electric vehicle company Tesla. The track, believed by fans to be titled “Let’s Roll Again,” opens with a rallying cry to American automakers: “Come on …

The Guardian reports: Elon Musk and his companies face at least $2.37 billion in legal exposure from federal investigations, litigation and regulatory oversight, according to a new report from Senate Democrats. The report attempts to put a number to Musk’s many conflicts of interest through his work with his so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), warning that he may seek …

NPR reports: Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have been given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America’s nuclear weapons, two independent sources tell NPR. Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern and Adam Ramada, a Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accounts on the computer systems for at least two weeks, according to …

CBS News reports: Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, says it has saved $160 billion through its push to root out wasteful or fraudulent government spending. But that effort may also have come at a cost for taxpayers, with a new analysis from a nonpartisan research and advocacy group estimating that DOGE’s actions will cost $135 billion this …

Politico reports: The Trump administration has drawn a bright line around Medicare and Social Security, promising Americans that the two programs will remain untouched. But a budget proposal obtained by POLITICO shows a different kind of rollback underway — one that could impact the lives of millions of older Americans and people with disabilities. The Trump administration is poised to …

The Guardian reports: Social Security, the sacred cow of the US welfare system dating back to Franklin Roosevelt’s 1930s New Deal, faces significant threat as it reels under the stress of Elon Musk’s aggressive incursions, its former head has said. Martin O’Malley, former commissioner of the social security administration (SSA) under Joe Biden, said such a breakdown could result in …

From the Family Research Council’s website: It is evident that Musk believes that the propagation of children is primarily a means to an end, that children of advanced intelligence must be sired in order to save humanity. But God does not hold this utilitarian view of humanity. Human beings are in fact the pinnacle of His creation with dominion over …

Axios reports: Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got into a heated shouting match in earshot of President Trump and other officials in the White House last week during a dispute about the IRS, two witnesses and three sources briefed on the matter tell Axios. “It was two billionaire, middle-aged men thinking it was WWE in the hall of …

CNN reports: In another example of the disorderly nature of the front office, at one point in March, Hegseth directly asked the director of DoD’s special access programs – which are among the most highly classified programs within the DoD – to read Elon Musk into more than two dozen programs having to do with China, according to multiple people …