Elon Musk has thrown his considerable online weight behind Warren Buffett's famously simple "five‑minute" idea for forcing Washington to live within its means, arguing that the United States will not tame its debt until lawmakers personally feel the pain of red ink.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) squared off against Elon Musk on Monday after Musk posted a conspiracy theory about the Somali community in Minnesota. Musk retweeted a post on his social media platform X about an alleged voter fraud scheme where voters are imported from other countries and given welfare benefits in exchange for their votes.

The Trump administration has quietly admitted that members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team inappropriately accessed and agreed to share private Social Security data with a political group. At least two employees of the failed federal cost-cutting department who were assigned to the Social Security Administration agreed to pass on sensitive information to an unnamed political advocacy group in March 2025 without the SSA’s knowledge or approval,

Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and X, made a $10 million donation to the Fight for Kentucky super PAC last week, according to reports from Axios and the New York Times . The super PAC is a major supporter of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Nate Morris, Axios reported.

The push for the SAVE Act marks the GOP’s latest effort to stave off Democrats in the midterms.

Elon Musk has turned his attention to the race to replace U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell with an eight-digit donation to a PAC backing a GOP candidate.

Elon Musk has turned his attention to the race to replace U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell with an eight-digit donation to a PAC backing a GOP candidate.