The verbal spat turned physical when the world’s richest man thrusted his shoulder into Bessent’s rib cage “like a rugby player” before the treasury chief fought back.

Even before the blow-up between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, the cost-cutting group’s influence was waning.

Shares of Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker fell sharply Thursday as investors fear his dispute with President Donald Trump could end up hurting the company.

Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency behind, but its playbook has impacted dozens of agencies, departments and organizations and left thousands of federal workers unemployed or in limbo.

One group that’s hopeful about the Trump-Musk rift: advertisers, who had been in Elon Musk’s crosshairs since exiting X en masse shortly after the billionaire businessman bought the social-media site then known as Twitter.

The New York Times reported that Elon Musk, who served as a senior adviser to President Trump, used the drug ketamine as often as once a day during the 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump White House confidants said Wednesday they were not surprised tech billionaire Elon Musk blew up at the House-passed “Big, Beautiful Bill” — noting

The Department of Government Efficiency, the brainchild of Elon Musk that upended Washington with its rapid-fire drive to slash thousands of federal jobs and cut costs, is effectively leaderless now that the billionaire and his deputy have stepped down,