When the billionaire called Rep. Rosa DeLauro an "awful creature," it was a problem. When Elon Musk called for her expulsion, it made the problem worse.

A look at the people who influence the world’s richest man, and those who stand to gain from their association with him now.

Musk, the owner of car manufacturer Tesla and social media platform X, has been tapped by Trump to lead the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, after vocally supporting and financially backing his campaign for president.

The GOP House Speaker referenced speculation about his future and the outsized influence Musk appeared to wield this week.

Employees of SpaceX have filed a formal petition to create the city of Starbase. Its first mayor would be a security manager for the company.

Elon Musk's xAI, the startup behind the Grok chatbot and Colossus supercomputer, raised $6 billion in a Series C funding round.

Democrats’ top appropriator in the House, Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, has accused Tesla TSLA Chief Executive Elon Musk of conniving to have that provision removed to protect his investments in China.

Democrats are largely skeptical of Elon Musk's push to ax wasteful government spending. But some in the party aren't fully dismissing the DOGE goals.

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, raised another $6 billion in funding, TechCrunch reported via the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The world’s richest man has become a new kind of oligarch.

The billionaire got more of what he wanted out of the spending bill than President-elect Donald Trump did. But his role and reasoning raise a host of questions.