Republican members of Congress took to the Sunday shows to praise Trump lieutenant Elon Musk's involvement in last week's government funding saga, with one likening him to "our prime minister." Why it matters: The tech billionaire's influence is being fueled by threats to fund electoral challenges against those who defy him,

Elon Musk says comments of “President Musk” is part of a media conspiracy to “drive a wedge between” him and Donald Trump, but he hasn’t outright rejected his new moniker. Comments about Musk’s political influence rolled in after he went on a posting spree Wednesday to threaten GOP lawmakers with retribution if they didn’t reject a stopgap budget he felt had too wide of a scope.

After Congress averted a government shutdown with a last-minute deal, it’s become a serious question: who runs the GOP, Donald Trump or Elon Musk? While Trump is about to be sworn in for his second term,

As U.S. lawmakers wrangle over spending legislation, here’s how some key government functions would be affected by a shutdown.

Elon Musk is suddenly very eager to distance himself from a potential government shutdown after he helped tank a bipartisan continuing-resolution deal on Thursday. After assuring users of his social media platform X that a shutdown really wouldn’t be that big of a problem and backing a shutdown over allowing the bipartisan deal to pass,

Elon Musk voiced support for GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's latest spending bill on Friday, giving him a sigh of relief just hours before a government shutdown could begin. "This is great," Musk wrote in a post to X,

President Donald Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk used his outsize influence on X to help kill a bipartisan funding proposal that would have prevented a government shutdown, spreading multiple false