A top Treasury career staffer is expected to depart. Surrogates of Musk’s DOGE effort had sought access to sensitive payment systems.

“Right now, he’s bulletproof,” a Republican operative said of Musk, the 53-year-old billionaire businessman who is leading Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. Several Republican insiders and conservative activists, who requested anonymity to discuss both Musk and the president, offered similar views.

Elon Musk had sharp words for a private-sector partnership touted this week by the Trump administration to hasten the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure. “They don’t actually have the money,” Musk said of two of the participants in the $500 billion initiative, OpenAI and SoftBank, on his social media site X.

Elon Musk doesn’t miss an opportunity to take a dig at OpenAI — even when the news item in question is supposed to be favorable to President Trump. Just a few hours after yesterday’s White House presser on The Stargate Project wrapped up, Musk posted on X that “they don’t actually have the money.”

Air Force None After leaving the federal government's operations in shambles and causing major confusion over healthcare funding, SpaceX CEO and White House advisor Elon Musk is prioritizing the delivery of a pair of luxurious Boeing 747s so he and president Donald Trump can jet around in style.

When Donald Trump flies back to Mar-a-Lago next, he'll fly on Air Force One. He also may get his red, white and blue design for the aircraft.

The tech billionaire, who has been a fixture at Trump's side since the election, regularly clashes with the president's supporters.

President Donald Trump has doubled down on his baseless claim that diversity hiring could be to blame for a mid-air plane crash that killed 67 people.Trump ordered a review of all federal aviation hiring and safety decisions after Wednesday night's crash between an American Airlines jet and a military helicopter,

Elon Musk has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Norwegian libertarian MP Marius Nilsen, who tossed the Tesla founder’s name into the mix for consideration, cited Musk’s “adamant defense of dialogue, free speech and [enabling] the possibility to express one’s views’ in a continuously more polarized world.”

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