A version of this story appeared in cnn business’ nightcap newsletter To get it in your. After we take a short break, i'll talk with theodore schleifer about how musk became so powerful in the trump administration and how musk's political views shifted to the right. There was x’s elon musk, amazon’s jeff bezos, meta’s mark zuckerberg, apple’s tim cook, and google’s sundar pichai—all sitting alongside one another, their proximity to trump sending a. Elon musk, the world’s richest person, suffered a dramatic financial setback after announcing the formation of what he said would be a new political organization, the “america party.” Ap correspondent jennifer king reports on results from a new poll, asking americans what they think about president trump and elon musk’s plans for the government.
Billionaire elon musk is at the center of cutting federal spending for donald trump, but the president urged him to use a scalpel rather than hatchet. Next week’s presidential election isn’t just a referendum on donald trump and kamala harris It’s also a measure of the influence the world’s richest man wields over american democracy.
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