A look at the people who influence the world’s richest man, and those who stand to gain from their association with him now.

Musk, the owner of car manufacturer Tesla and social media platform X, has been tapped by Trump to lead the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, after vocally supporting and financially backing his campaign for president.

Employees of SpaceX have filed a formal petition to create the city of Starbase. Its first mayor would be a security manager for the company.

Democrats’ top appropriator in the House, Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, has accused Tesla TSLA Chief Executive Elon Musk of conniving to have that provision removed to protect his investments in China.

Elon Musk's xAI, the startup behind the Grok chatbot and Colossus supercomputer, raised $6 billion in a Series C funding round.

The world’s richest man has become a new kind of oligarch.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO distributed more than $200 million, more than half of which went to just one unproven nonprofit.

The billionaire got more of what he wanted out of the spending bill than President-elect Donald Trump did. But his role and reasoning raise a host of questions.

Trump has addressed Musk's perceived growing influence — and now experts are predicting the tipping point for a breakup of the two.

The American public elected Donald Trump to run the federal government. His erratic patron seems to think the job is also his.