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News Articles: Elon Musk

Visitors look over a 2024 Cybertruck in the Tesla display at the Electrify Expo, last July.

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  • Politics

Top Democrats ask Rubio for answers on now-canceled $400 million Tesla plan

A letter from two House Democrats presses Rubio for details about who approved an effort to try to use hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on armored electric vehicles from Tesla.

March 07, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Elon Musk delivers remarks during a Cabinet meeting held by President Trump at the White House on Feb. 26.

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  • Business

Why is Elon Musk so obsessed with 'ghost employees'?

When Musk took over Twitter, he launched a payroll audit to root out dead workers getting paid. Now, Musk is launching the same campaign across the federal government.

March 07, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Mental health professionals at the Veterans Health Administration say the stress caused by the Trump administration's actions is negatively impacting patient care.

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  • Politics

Why VA mental health workers feel Elon Musk's emails are psychological warfare

Mental health professionals with the Veterans Health Administration say the stress caused by Elon Musk's "What did you do last week?" emails is hurting veterans' care.

March 07, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Attendees applaud as Brad Schimel announces his run for Wisconsin State Supreme Court on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023, in Waukesha, Wis.

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  • National

State Supreme Court races can be costly, competitive and combative. Why?

Wisconsin is on track to break spending records once again in a high court contest that's at times turned heated. But these races weren't always like this.

March 06, 2025
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By:
  • Anya van Wagtendonk
Leader of the Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk wears a shirt that says "Tech Support" as he speaks during a cabinet meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2025.

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  • Politics

Federal workers get a new email demanding their accomplishments

Federal employees have received a second email from the Office of Personnel Management asking them what they did last week.

March 01, 2025
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By:
  • Jenna McLaughlin and
  • Andrea Hsu
Billionaire and presidential adviser Elon Musk speaking during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 26, 2025.

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  • Politics

DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

March 01, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
President Trump looks on during a joint press conference with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the East Room at the White House on Feb. 27.

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  • Politics

1 thing that upended years of U.S. foreign policy — and other big Trump developments

Three years after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the U.S., in a split with its European allies over the war, sided with Russia at the U.N.

February 28, 2025
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Clouds loom over Tesla's gigafactory near Berlin, in November 2024. Data released this week by a European trade group shows that new Tesla registrations in January 2025 have dropped sharply, compared to January of last year.

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  • Business

Data show Tesla sales declined sharply in Europe

New data out this week shows a sharp decline in Tesla sales in Europe. The company is facing multiple headwinds — including consumer pushback to CEO Elon Musk's political pivot to the right.

February 27, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
A member of a medical team at Mulago Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, administers a dose of a trial Ebola vaccine to a patient on Feb. 3. The country is currently experiencing an Ebola outbreak.

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  • Global Health

Musk says work to stop Ebola was accidentally cut but restored. Experts raise doubts

Elon Musk said USAID's "Ebola prevention" was "accidentally canceled" but "immediately" restored. Health specialists following the current outbreak in Uganda raise doubts about the restoration.

February 27, 2025
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By:
  • Gabrielle Emanuel
President Trump delivers remarks during his first Cabinet meeting of his second term at the White House on Feb. 26, in Washington, D.C. The meeting includes Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, head of a Trump administration team called the Department of Government Efficiency.

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  • Politics

Musk says federal workers should expect another round of 'pulse check' emails

President Trump warned federal workers who did not reply to recent emails asking them to describe "five things" they accomplished are "on the bubble" suggesting they are at risk of losing their jobs.

February 26, 2025
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By:
  • Heidi Glenn
Elon Musk, who oversees the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, wears a shirt that says "Tech Support" as he speaks during President Trump's Cabinet meeting Wednesday at the White House.

Tagged as: 

  • Analysis

A pattern emerges in Elon Musk's federal shakeup: 'Break first, ask questions later'

Five weeks in, there's an emerging pattern in how the Trump administration moves to target federal employees. And it begins with Elon Musk bringing in tactics he's employed at his various businesses.

February 26, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Signage for the US government's humanitarian agency USAID is seen on a cargo container beside a tricycle in Manila on Feb. 4.

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  • Global Health

Judge tells Trump administration it has less than 2 days to resume USAID funding

U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali said officials have provided no evidence of compliance with repeated orders to unfreeze the money.

February 25, 2025
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt
President Trump delivers remarks during a joint news conference in the East Room at the White House on Feb. 24.

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  • Politics

Federal agencies still can't agree on 'What did you do last week?' email

"No one knows what we are supposed to do," said one federal employee amid conflicting and shifting guidance on whether to comply with Elon Musk's directive to list five accomplishments.

February 25, 2025
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By:
  • Shannon Bond,
  • Stephen Fowler,
  • and 2 more
A Tesla Cybertruck at a Tesla dealership on Dec. 20 in Corte Madera, California. A State Department procurement document suggested the Trump administration planned to buy $400 million worth of Tesla vehicles to transport diplomats. The administration now says no such purchase is planned.

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  • Technology

A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal

The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

February 24, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
Elon Musk holds a chainsaw that was gifted to him at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on Thursday in Oxon Hill, Md.

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  • Politics

Elon Musk blurs the line between his government and business roles

The tech titan and President Trump say they will avoid any conflicts of interest, but it's difficult for the public to verify that.

February 22, 2025
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
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