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Elon Musk brings all the deregulation hype to X
Elon Musk’s role in Donald Trump’s administration hasn’t been announced, but the billionaire and Tesla CEO is already sharing some of his enthusiasm for the incoming president and his deregulatory desires on social media.
Musk, who owns the social media platform X, has been posting regularly about politics, deregulation and incoming Trump administration personnel. The prominent Trump ally appears poised to play a significant role advising the incoming administration, and some social media posts indicate he is spending time at Mar-a-Lago advising the president-elect during the early transition.
His public posts indicate how he might seek to shape Trump’s policies.
Musk’s biography line on X currently reads: “The people voted for major government reform.”
“Government Efficiency FTW!!” he posted Monday in response to a Republican lawmaker’s suggestion that a GOP-led Congress should have bills to “shrink government overreach” on Trump’s desk by the first day of his term.
Musk recently has posted criticism of the Education Department, weighed in on the next Senate majority leader and celebrated Trump for selecting Tom Homan as his White House “border czar.”
He welcomed broad deregulation and government spending cuts and reposted a comment from Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy saying that, “A band of small-government revolutionaries will save our nation. It’s the only way.”
Musk said of Ramaswamy’s remarks, “Absolutely! Would be interesting to hear recommendations for roles in the new administration for consideration by the President.”
Musk also called for “maniacally dedicated small-government revolutionaries” to join the incoming Trump administration.
Trump said in September that Musk had agreed to lead a “government efficiency commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.”
Musk wouldn’t officially serve in the Cabinet, Trump told Fox News in October. “He doesn’t want to be in the Cabinet. He just wants to be in charge of cost-cutting.”
The Trump transition team declined to share the details of Musk’s expected role with the incoming administration.
“Elon Musk is a once-in-a-generation business leader and our federal bureaucracy will certainly benefit from his ideas and efficiency. His specific role will be announced when that decision is formalized,” said Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump-Vance transition team.
Trump-endorsed Marty O’Donnell won the GOP primary Tuesday to take on Democratic Rep. Susie Lee in Nevada’s battleground 3rd District.
The seat, which touches parts of Las Vegas, is one of Republicans’ targeted pickups this November since President Donald Trump carried it by less than 1 percentage point in 2024 after losing it by nearly seven points in 2020.
But O’Donnell — who also has the backing of the National Republican Congressional Committee — will face an uphill battle. He recently came under fire for hosting a neo-Nazi influencer on his podcast. Trump’s tariffs have hit the district hard, with Canadian tourism to Sin City down by 17 percent, leaving Democrats confident they can hold the seat.
O’Donnell is best known for his role as the audio composer for the “Halo” video game series. It’s his second run in the district after placing fourth in the 2024 Republican primary.
O’Donnell bested several candidates Tuesday, with businessperson Tera Anderson and former Ambassador to Iceland Jeff Gunter — who ran for Senate in 2024 — putting up the most significant challenges.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is on his way to clinching his fifth term in the Senate.
Graham won the Republican primary for Senate on Tuesday, vanquishing five opponents that included businessperson Mark Lynch — who challenged the senator over his staunch support for the war in Iran and long history in Washington. Lynch also drew support from some of the president’s most prominent MAGA Republican critics.
But Graham won more than half the primary vote, allowing him to avoid an embarrassing two-week runoff sprint. He is expected to cruise to victory in November; a Democrat has not represented the state in the Senate since 2005, when longtime Sen. Fritz Hollings chose not to seek reelection.
The four-term senator spent big in the final weeks of the campaign to make sure he won, combining with his allies to spend over $18 million in television and digital ads touting his record and endorsement from President Donald Trump. That spending proved to be decisive in staving off Lynch’s challenge from the right.
He even called in the big guns for a last minute bump, bringing in Trump, who reaffirmed his support for his occasional frenemy in a telerally on the eve of the primary election.
Graham’s success is a loss for the strict “America First” wing of the GOP that has criticized the president’s new interventionist foreign policy streak, including former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and former counterterrorism official Joe Kent. They came out in support of Lynch during the final stretch of the campaign, though that was not enough to upset Graham, a fixture of Columbia and Washington politics.
Twenty House Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson to help pass a Democratic-led bill Tuesday aimed at making it easier for workers to form unions, widening the divide between a bloc of pro-labor Republicans and GOP leaders.
Democrats successfully used a discharge petition to sidestep Johnson and force the vote with the help of a handful of House Republicans, including Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Nick LaLota of New York.
“It’s passing,” Fitzpatrick said before the vote when asked about Johnson’s efforts to whip Republicans against the bill.
The Faster Labor Contracts Act aims to reduce the amount of time between workers voting to form a union and negotiating their first collectively bargained contract, in part by requiring the parties to more quickly enter federal mediation. It’s the latest in a series of employment bills that pro-union House Republicans have bucked their party on in recent months.
House Education and Workforce Chair Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) spoke out sharply against the bill on the floor Tuesday, saying it would “threaten jobs, kill growth and in some cases, shut business down entirely.” But a hefty subset of Republicans backed the bill nonetheless, joining all voting Democrats.
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