



President Trump showed support for Elon Musk during the news conference.

Bill Gates said that Elon Musk had gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development, resulting in the deaths of children in some of the worldβs poorest countries.


The Trump administration is preparing budget cuts and further layoffs that could ultimately force the Internal Revenue Service to shed as much as 50 percent of its work force.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border this month. He named military operations at the border as an exception to the proposed cuts.

Elon Musk epitomizes a new generation of tech leaders who often have a right-wing ideology and favor fewer constraints on entrepreneurship.