It comes just days after Musk had a face-to-face conversation with Trump at Charlie Kirk's memorial.

Although California Governor Gavin Newsom has never been afraid to make fun of Washington, his latest remark fell somewhere between political satire and Silicon Valley irony. Newsom said that an AI chatbot (Elon Musk‘s Grok,

The Trump administration on Thursday announced an agreement with Elon Musk’s company xAI, making his questionable chatbot, Grok, available to every federal agency over the next year and a half for a nominal fee of 42 cents.

S.D., accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., of hypocrisy for opposing government funding after supporting it earlier this year.

There could also be further downstream effects of a shutdown that would help Trump politically. American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Philip Wallach noted that the administration has argued that it has a significant amount of discretion in terms of distributing the funds that Congress has appropriated.

Months after Elon Musk departed his position at the Department of Government Efficiency, Social Security is suffering extensive damage from the fledgling office’s onslaught of cuts.