Elon Musk's pressure campaign against Congress hit a snag after he pushed House GOP leadership to scrap a spending bill that ...

The world’s richest man posted or amplified inaccurate claims about the bill’s provisions for congressional salaries, a ...

The unelected tech billionaire’s outsize role in sending the federal government careening toward a potential shutdown alarmed ...

Trump is claiming that he, and not his billionaire ally, was responsible for killing a bipartisan government spending bill.

Elon Musk has again found himself in the conversation for a powerful government position, this time as potential House ...

Elon Musk isn’t the president, but his power over Congress was made very clear this week when he single-handedly torpedoed a ...

President-elect Donald Trump, after rejecting House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to avoid a government shutdown, worked the ...

Musk’s efforts culminated in President-elect Trump coming out against the bill, dealing “a likely deathblow” to budget ...

Musk is the world's richest man, owns one of its biggest communications platforms and is increasingly politically active.

"My phone was ringing off the hook," Republican Rep. Andy Barr said. "The people who elected us are listening to Elon Musk." ...

Musk began posting on X against a stopgap government spending bill on Wednesday well before Trump weighed in against the ...

In a 12-hour social-media barrage, the world’s richest man led a rebellion against a bill aimed at keeping the government ...