Tag: Elon
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Jeff Bezos denies Elon Musk claim he urged people to sell their Tesla, SpaceX stock because Trump would lose
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have for years duked it out for the unofficial title of the world’s richest person. Now, with Donald Trump heading back to the White House, they seem to be competing for who can win — or at least not lose — the president-elect’s favor. Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX founder…
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Trump administration picks Matt Gaetz, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Pete Hegseth and Elon Musk have sexual misconduct allegations in their past
Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Elon Musk are all in line to serve as top government leaders. All have faced varying degrees of sexual misconduct allegations. The president’s picks to carry out his agenda reflect an incoming administration hostile to the norms of the “Me Too” movement. Behavior that might have gotten…
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H&R Block and Intuit drop on a report that Elon Musk’s DOGE may develop a new tax-filing app
H&R Block and Intuit shares dropped on Tuesday after the Washington Post reported that President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, which is run by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is looking at developing a free app for people to file their taxes. The publication cited two people, who spoke on the condition of…
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What is Bluesky, the online platform welcoming users leaving Elon Musk’s X?
Bluesky, a fledgling social media platform, reported Thursday that 1 million users had signed up in a single day. Some frustrated X users appear to have flocked to the newer network in recent weeks. What is BlueSky? Bluesky, which began as an internal project by then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in 2019, was invitation-only until it…
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Rep. Jim Himes says he’s “skeptical” that Elon Musk has “any clue” on government efficiency
Rep. Jim Himes says he’s “skeptical” that Elon Musk has “any clue” on government efficiency – CBS News Watch CBS News Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut says he’s “skeptical” that Elon Musk has “got any clue” about government efficiency, despite that President-elect Donald Trump selected Musk to oversee a department on it. Be the…
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Elon Musk recently met with Iran’s ambassador to U.N.
Why does Musk want to join Trump? Why does Musk want to join Trump during second term as president? 03:04 Elon Musk recently met with Iran’s ambassador to the U.N., Amir Saeid Iravani, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. The meeting took place at the ambassador’s residence in New York. There’s no indication…
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Democratic senators ask Pentagon and DOJ to investigate any Elon Musk contact with Putin and other top Russians
Two top Democratic senators are asking the Pentagon and the Justice Department to investigate billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk’s reported contacts with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other top Russian officials in recent years. Sen. Jack Reed, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a top member of the Senate Armed…
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Examining Elon Musk’s influence on Trump’s transition process
Examining Elon Musk’s influence on Trump’s transition process – CBS News Watch CBS News President-elect Donald Trump announced this week that Elon Musk will help lead a new agency known as the Department of Government Efficiency. Theodore Schleifer, campaign finance reporter for The New York Times, joins “America Decides” to unpack his new reporting on…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE is hiring. Here’s the kind of person he’s looking for.
The new Department of Government Efficiency, a group created by President-elect Donald Trump with the task of identifying ways to cut federal spending and headed by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is already taking resumes. The request for job applicants was posted Thursday by the new X account for DOGE, which despite its heady…
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What to know about Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
Donald Trump is vowing to reduce wasteful federal spending by tapping two billionaires — Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy — to spearhead the initiative, which the president-elect is calling the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. The appointments, announced by Trump on Tuesday, raise a host of questions about the effort, including…