WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.

Musk, a U.S. citizen originally from South Africa who moved to Canada and then the States, has never had much affinity for the federal government or its capital city. When Musk me

W HEN DONALD TRUMP announced last November that Elon Musk would be heading a government-efficiency initiative, many of his fellow magnates were delighted. The idea, wrote Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital,

“DOGE’s over-promising and underperforming results damaged not only Musk’s reputation but also the standing of the Trump administration as a whole, and beyond that, probably the reputations and chances for success of future governmental reform cost-cutting measures,” presidential historian David Pietrusza told the Washington Examiner.

President Trump said that Elon Musk "will, always, be with us, helping all the way." Musk's tenure as a "special government employee" is formally ending.

Veteran financial journalist Dylan Ratigan joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss President Trump’s ongoing trade war and Elon Musk’s exit from Washington. (Subscribe to Ari’s YouTube now:

Elon Musk faced backlash for a gesture interpreted as a Nazi salute, while similar actions by Cory Booker at a political event went largely ignored by the media.

Elon Musk denied a NY Times report claiming the tech mogul was 'using drugs far more intensely than previously known' while campaigning for Trump.