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,

The American Federation of Teachers is pressuring some of the carmaker’s biggest shareholders as the tech mogul's cost-cutting influence in Washington sets off alarm bells.