How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true
ELON MUSK and Vivek Ramaswamy are keen to whip the American government into shape. On November 14th their newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced it wants to hire “super-high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” to get to work on cost-cutting.
Slash First, Fix Later: How Elon Musk Cuts Costs
Mr. Musk dug into his companies’ budgets, preferring to cut too much rather than too little and to deal with the fallout later. Under Donald Trump, he is set to apply those tactics to the U.S. government.
Elon Musk pushes Lutnick for Treasury
Elon Musk is backing Donald Trump’s transition co-chair Howard Lutnick to lead the Treasury Department, touting the billionaire CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald as a potential secretary who “will actually enact change” from the most powerful economic post in Trump’s cabinet.
Elon Musk wants Trump to disrupt Wall Street with his Treasury pick
As Donald Trump privately considers his team to lead America’s economy during his term, Elon Musk has put his thumb on the scale, urging followers on X to help make a public push for a candidate who won’t be “business as usual” on Wall Street.
Elon Musk Threatening 'Consequences' Sparks Backlash
Musk wrote on X that there will be "consequences" for those who "pushed foreign interference hoaxes" amid the 2024 election.
The story of how SCOTUS essentially handed Elon Musk the keys to democracy
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped tech billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to chair the so-called "Department of ...
Elon Musk downsized Big Tech. Can he do the same to Big Government?
Last week, Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, which promises to "dismantle ...
Elon Musk wants to cut government spending. Tesla and SpaceX benefit from it
Over the last 16 years, Musk's business deals with the government total nearly $20 billion, according to federal contracting ...
Elon Musk’s role in Trump’s new cost-cutting agency draws concern
President-elect Trump has announced Elon Musk will lead a new cost-cutting agency called the Department of Government ...
Elon Musk is looking for trillions in government waste, and defense is a massive potential target
Defense is the largest area of discretionary spending in the federal budget, and Elon Musk has been skeptical of its contract ...
Brazil first lady uses expletive against Elon Musk at G20 event
Brazil's first lady has sworn at billionaire Elon Musk at an event ahead of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. While ...
What to know about Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head an effort, dubbed DOGE, to reduce wasteful federal spending. Here's what ...
How Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency could actually work
The department wouldn't be a department at all, but an outside group that can likely only make suggestions — unless Trump ...
What We Know About Elon Musk’s ‘Department Of Government Efficiency’—Staffed By 80-Hour-A-Week ‘Revolutionaries’
Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are looking for "super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries" willing to work ...
Trump wants Elon Musk to overhaul the government. Here’s what could be on the chopping block
President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have big ambitions for making the federal government leaner and more efficient by ...
Iran denies reports Elon Musk met with ambassador in New York
The Iranian government is denying reports in U.S. outlets that one of their diplomats met with tech billionaire Elon Musk ...