A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing registered on Dec. 31, 2024, showed Musk donated 268,000 shares of Tesla stock. Aaron Beckner, a holder of power of attorney for Musk, signed the document ( archived, archived ).

You could not pay me to carry that bill now,” New York state Sen. Pat Fahy, a Democrat from the Albany area, told Marie. “I’m thoroughly disgusted with Elon Musk and everything he stands for.” The unelected South African native has swept through the federal government as President Donald Trump’s right-hand man to cut jobs,

Musk has attacked leaders of California, a state that played a pivotal role in the carmaker surviving its tumultuous early years and becoming one of the world’s most valuable companies..