Elon Musk has been waging a full-throated campaign against Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill, calling the keystone of the president’s legislative agenda a “disgusting abomination” while trying to rally senators to oppose it. Trump is not happy. The president responded at length to Musk’s opposition to the bill while …
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President Donald Trump has threatened to “terminate” Elon Musk’s federal contracts and cancel subsidies beneficial to his companies after the billionaire publicly accused the president of being ungrateful in an explosion of tensions between the two men who lavished praise on one another less than a week ago as Trump …
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The male loneliness epidemic has struck once again, with tech oligarch Elon Musk and President Donald J. Trump going their separate ways after a roughly year-long friendship based on unprecedented political spending and mutual corruption. C’est la vie, n’est-ce pas? Supposedly, the cause of this bromance breakdown was the “big, …
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With the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team on dubious legal footing, congressional Republicans are quietly inching forward legislation to grant President Donald Trump new, lawful powers for razing the federal government: the unprecedented ability to propose to Congress, under reorganization authority, the abolition of executive departments, independent regulatory …
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Following his exit from the White House, ending his run as head of the so-calledDepartment of Government Efficiency(DOGE), Elon Musk left the government with a haphazard mess of devastating budget cuts and backlash from his shareholders and the public. On Monday’s The Daily Show episode, Jon Stewart quickly chronicled Musk’s …
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Every year, scores of aspiring government employees have their applications for security clearances denied because they smoke weed recreationally. Every D.C. resident has a government or government-adjacent friend who won’t touch a poppy seed bagel lest they be subject to a randomized drug test. It’s a sacrifice plenty of federal …
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Elon Musk is no longer an official member of Donald Trump’s administration, and he’s making his true feelings known about the president’s “big, beautiful” bil. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” he wrote Tuesday on X. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. …
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As Elon Musk departs the Trump White House — at least officially — a new Senate report examines how the world’s richest man leveraged his access to the levers of federal power to boost his myriad personal businesses, including his electric vehicle company Tesla, aerospace contractor SpaceX, social media platform …
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If his posts on his social media site, X, are any indication, Elon Musk is letting a New York Times report that he’s taken so much ketamine he can’t pee right get to him. “To be clear, I am NOT taking drugs!” Musk wrote on Saturday. “The New York Times …
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Elon Musk’s use of ketamine was so intense during the 2024 campaign that he complained it was negatively affecting his bladder function, according to a New York Times report detailing the billionaire’s drug use as he joined President Donald Trump’s circle last year. The Times paints a picture of a …
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