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Elon Musk

  1. just asking questions
    Ron Wyden Isn’t Shy About Calling It a CoupThe veteran Oregon senator says Americans should be “damn concerned” about Elon Musk’s incursions into the federal bureaucracy.
    By Benjamin Hart
  2. what we know
    An organizational flag flies outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7.
    What Federal Agencies Has DOGE Gotten Into?From the NOAA to OPM to the Pentagon, here’s an updated look at where Elon Musk’s DOGE is already operating and what they’re doing.
    By Chas Danner
  3. early and often
    Republicans Let Trump and Musk Roll Right Over ThemTrump’s party is bending the knee to his most radical steps, but there are some signs of rebellion to watch for.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. free country
    DCA Plane Crash FEB 3
    Trump and Musk’s Deadly InterferenceThey’ll profit from ripping the wires from the walls.
    By Sam Adler-Bell
  5. early and often
    Trump May Not Want to Share Power With His Own Party’s CongressWhy rely on petty legislators when vastly increased presidential powers can get the job done?
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. tremendous content
    Watch Trump Pretend He’s Not Obsessed With Time MagazineHe quipped, “Is Time magazine still in business?” in response to the Elon Musk cover. Trump was named “Person of the Year” eight weeks ago.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  7. what we know
    What Elon Musk and DOGE Are Doing to the Federal GovernmentThe billionaire and his cronies continue to move fast and break things. Here are their boldest attacks thus far.
    By Chris Stanton
  8. early and often
    Russ Vought pressing a button.
    Russell Vought Is the Glue Between Elon Musk and RepublicansThe newly confirmed co-author of Project 2025 is a quiet radical with enormous power, who can help keep DOGE and Congress in sync and in line.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. early and often
    The Week ‘Democrats Must Work With Trump’ DiedThe new administration is running roughshod over Congress, breaking laws wantonly, and empowering Elon Musk. Democrats have had enough.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. just asking questions
    Brian Schatz on How Democrats Can ‘Start Kicking Ass Again’The Hawaii senator says his party should embrace a new kind of resistance and stop listening to pundits.
    By Benjamin Hart
  11. early and often
    GOP Governors Cheer As Trump Prepares to Cut Their BudgetsState Republicans are rebranding their efficiency exercises as just like Musk’s DOGE. It won’t seem cool when the cuts come down from Washington.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. early and often
    Why Trump’s Plan to Kill the Education Department May FailCuts to special education and schools that serve disadvantaged kids won’t go over well outside the MAGA base.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. early and often
    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security NumberThe billionaire and his DOGE agents were granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
    By Chas Danner
  14. foreign interests
    People demonstrate in support of workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times)
    Inside Elon Musk’s Killing of USAIDSaboteurs, tears, and a last-minute push to save lives.
    By Jonathan Guyer
  15. early and often
    Democrats May Shut Down Government to Keep Trump From Gutting ItRepublicans need Democratic votes to keep the government open. This is leverage Democrats could use to rein in Trump and Musk’s power grab.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. just asking questions
    ‘We’ve Got an Enormous Crisis on Our Hands’Public-policy expert Don Kettl discusses Trump and Musk’s blitzkrieg attack on the federal workforce and where it goes next.
    By Benjamin Hart
  17. early and often
    Stephen Miller
    Trump’s ‘Shock and Awe’ Looks More Like Chaos and ConfusionFrom the funding freeze to the federal-employee buyout, the White House doesn’t seem to know what its own teams are doing.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. early and often
    Trump’s DEI Witch Hunt Reaches a New LowVerbally blaming Obama, Biden, and diversity programs for a plane crash wasn’t enough: Trump repeated his baseless allegations in an executive order.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. early and often
    Office of Personnel Management
    Federal-Worker Buyouts May Make Government As Broken As XMusk tried a similar scheme after his takeover of Twitter. What could go wrong with applying it to millions of federal workers?
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. early and often
    US-POLITICS-TRUMP-INAUGURATION
    Why a Divided America Needs a ‘Deep State’An electorate that can’t make up its mind on which party to entrust with power makes those faceless, despised bureaucrats our only hope for stability.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. early and often
    Will Musk-Dominated DOGE Go Big or Small?With Ramaswamy gone, Musk’s DOGE will be inside the White House. The size of its ambitions for remaking the federal government are unclear.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. elon musk
    The Gesture Elon Musk Should Make Now: Denouncing FascismIf DOGE’s edgelord wasn’t making a fascist gesture to celebrate Trump’s inauguration, he could clear it up by denouncing those who make such gestures.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. the body politic
    Pete Hegseth Is a TestInside the Senate’s torturous debates over Donald Trump’s worst Cabinet nominee.
    By Rebecca Traister
  24. screen time
    The Two Competing Futures of Self-Driving CarsAutonomous fleets versus a Hertz in every garage.
    By John Herrman
  25. what we know
    A burned out Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
    What We Know About the Cybertruck Explosion at Trump’s Las Vegas HotelThe driver, who died before the blast, urged his fellow servicemembers to force Democrats out of government “by any means necessary.”
    By Chas Danner
  26. what we don’t know
    The 4 Biggest Questions Surrounding the Trump Vegas Cybertruck ExplosionAuthorities believe the special forces soldier’s suicide bombing was designed to draw attention to his various complaints and claims.
    By Matt Stieb
  27. what we know
    President-Elect Donald Trump Watches Army-Navy Football Game
    Who’s Winning the MAGA-Musk Civil War?Last week, a big rift formed between Trump’s tech allies and MAGA nativists. Here, where things stand.
    By Chas Danner
  28. early and often
    House Passes Plan To Fund Government As Shutdown Deadline Nears
    The Republican Party Is Out of ControlMike Johnson can’t keep his conference together and Trump can’t scare them into submission. Can the GOP be governed?
    By Ben Jacobs
  29. we’ll do it live
    The U.S. Capitol
    Congress Averts Government Shutdown: How It HappenedThe shutdown was averted on Friday after the House voted to back a new CR without the debt-ceiling increase Trump demanded.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  30. early and often
    Scenes on Capitol Hill after U.S. President-elect Trump called on U.S. lawmakers to reject a stopgap bill to keep the government funded in Washington, U.S.
    Government Shutdown Canceled As Democrats Support Pared-Down Spending BillBut there’s more trouble down the road.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. politics
    Musk Pauses Torment of GOP to Praise German ExtremistsOn Friday, Musk wrote on social media that only AfD, the country’s most prominent extreme-right party, “can save Germany.”
    By Nia Prater
  32. early and often
    What Democrats Should Demand to Help the GOP Escape a Shutdown CrisisDemocrats share Trump’s interest in getting rid of debt-limit politics. But they should drive a bargain as good as the discarded stopgap bill.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. early and often
    Trump’s Shutdown Threat Is a Loyalty Test for GOP LawmakersAfter blowing up a stopgap spending bill, Trump is now demanding that his supporters back a new spending bill and debt-limit increase they will hate.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. early and often
    Elon Musk Is Trying to Force a Government ShutdownMike Johnson carefully negotiated a bill to keep the government funded past December 20. It collapsed instantly when Musk attacked it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. early and often
    Johnson Grovels Before Musk to Save His Stopgap Spending BillConservative critics of the bill the speaker built to avoid a government shutdown have been joined by the edgelord leading DOGE.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. free country
    MAGA Misfits vs. Nationalists vs. Reaganites vs. DorksThe battle of the Trump transition.
    By Sam Adler-Bell
  37. what we know
    Donald Trump Watches SpaceX Launch Its Sixth Test Flight Of Starship Spacecraft
    What Is the Net Worth of Trump’s New Cabinet?Break out the White House caviar because here come the billionaires.
    By Chas Danner
  38. politics
    Musk and Ramaswamy Want to Do One Good ThingThe two businessmen, whose new mission is gutting federal regulations, have mused about nixing daylight saving time.
    By Nia Prater
  39. just asking questions
    Jimmy Wales on Why Wikipedia Is Still So GoodAfter almost a quarter-century, the online encyclopedia remains an internet oasis.
    By Benjamin Hart
  40. early and often
    Don’t Worry: MTG Will Supervise Elon Musk and Vivek RamaswamyTheir pretend DOGE agency will get some pretend oversight in Congress.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. billionaire problems
    Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Are Fighting AgainThis time, it’s over who likes Trump more.
    By Matt Stieb
  42. trumpworld
    Donald Trump
    Trump and Musk Take Their Billionaire-Best-Friend Tour to SpaceX LaunchThe pair are dining at Mar-a-Lago, watching fights at Madison Square Garden, and now attending a rocket launch in south Texas.
    By Matt Stieb
  43. trump 2.0
    Who’s Applying to Work for DOGE?Here’s your competition if you want to work at Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s promised Department of Government Efficiency.
    By Matt Stieb
  44. early and often
    Trump Is in Danger of Blowing His Chance at a Political RealignmentHis win wasn’t as massive as he claimed, and his agenda and his temperament suggest the kind of overreach that could blow up his coalition.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. early and often
    Can a MAGA Blitzkrieg Impose Rick Scott on Senate Republicans?Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, and other MAGA warriors want Trump ally Scott as majority leader. It likely won’t happen, but it’s an early show of force.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. screen time
    Big Tech’s Loyalty EraTech leaders are bracing for, and warming to, their industry’s Trumpian, loyalty-based future.
    By John Herrman
  47. 2024 election
    The Harris vs. Trump Races Hinges on These 3 FactorsDifferences on abortion and the economy, voter mobilization, and the candidates’ baggage will likely tip the election.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. early and often
    Elon Musk Holds Town Hall With Pennsylvania Voters in Lancaster
    Elon Musk’s Pennsylvania PlaybookIt’s secretive and chaotic — but Trump-campaign officials are thrilled.
    By David Freedlander
  49. the money game
    What Blue Origin Stands to Gain After Jeff Bezos Muzzled the Washington PostThe Amazon owner claims he didn’t pull an endorsement of Kamala Harris to aid his rocket company. That doesn’t mean he can’t still profit wildly.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  50. early and often
    Elon Musk’s Out-of-This-World Political RallyGoing full MAGA with the aspiring Martian.
    By Ben Jacobs
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