Welcome to 538's politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.

Today’s Forbes Daily covers the stock market’s reaction to Trump’s tariff policies, Elon Musk’s work with USAID, a lawsuit ...

A made-up story about Musk helping a Starbucks barista's daughter originated on YouTube, then took on new life thanks to ...

Recent reports have revealed that AI- generated videos of US President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have reportedly ...

Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having ...

So what’s the cultural vibe for the incoming Trump/Musk administration in the US? Well, that’s an odd one. Musk, rather than ...

Empowered by President Donald Trump and operating with little oversight, Elon Musk is waging a war against the federal ...

Ably describing the chaotic and troubling situation in Washington, D.C. — the wrecking ball allies of Donald Trump are ...

Elon Musk’s campaign to cut Washington’s bureaucracy is aiming at a very specific, very sensitive digital power center: the federal IT infrastructure. The overall effect has been to turn once ...

Elon Musk’s lawyers faced off with OpenAI in court Tuesday as a federal judge weighed the billionaire’s request for a court ...

Elon Musk is stepping up his efforts to block OpenAI from restructuring as a for-profit company after it received billions of ...

China countered President Donald Trump’s across-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports. It ...