Elon Musk has emerged as one of the most influential and controversial powerbrokers in the new Trump administration. He spent at least US$277 million (about A$360 million) of his own money to help Donald Trump win re-election,

"Donald Trump's Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, has refused to give Elon Musk an office in the West Wing, sticking DOGE in the Eisenhower building, which is across the road from the White House. She's also making him report to her."

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.

Trump announced the creation of DOGE to "dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies - essential to the 'Save America' Movem

On President Trump’s first day in office, Elon Musk already has a coveted White House email address. A source tells The Hill that Musk, the billionaire who will head up the Department

After being asked if he was bothered by Elon Musk bashing his Stargate deal, Trump said he also had "certain hatreds for people."

The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk is making another hiring pushing, asking for "world-class talent" to apply.

Trump has granted Musk and his DOGE colleagues access to a trove of federal data with little transparency requirements.

Lawmakers say Musk's apparent misunderstanding of the way government programs work could threaten his whole agenda.