Elon Musk, chief government officer of Tesla Inc., left, and former US President Donald Trump, previous to a marketing campaign occasion on the Butler Farm Present in Butler, Pennsylvania, US, on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024.
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Elon Musk on Wednesday will be a part of President-elect Donald Trump for his first post-election assembly with the Home Republican convention in Washington, D.C., an adviser to Trump advised NBC Information. Trump and Musk flew to the nation’s capital collectively from Florida aboard Trump’s airplane.
The event is the most recent instance of how Musk, the world’s richest man and one of many prime backers of Trump’s profitable marketing campaign, has grown his presence and affect sooner or later president’s orbit.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has spent the final week in Palm Seashore, Florida, the place Trump, from his resort house Mar-a-Lago, has been assembling his second administration. Musk has been alongside Trump in almost each assembly, The New York Occasions reported.
On Tuesday night, Trump introduced that “the Nice Elon Musk” and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy would lead an outdoor fee known as the “Division of Authorities Effectivity,” which goals to “dismantle Authorities Forms” and reduce laws.
The announcement included a quote from Musk: “This may ship shockwaves via the system, and anybody concerned in Authorities waste, which is lots of people!”
Wednesday’s assembly comes because the Republican Get together is slated to take energy of not solely the White Home but in addition the Senate, after a nationwide shift to the best within the Nov. 5 elections powered GOP candidates to flip a number of Democrat-held held seats.
Whereas NBC has not made an official name on which get together will management the Home within the subsequent Congress, Republicans seem extra more likely to maintain their majority.
Home Republicans are scheduled to carry management elections behind closed doorways on Wednesday. They’re anticipated to appoint Mike Johnson, R-La., to proceed as Speaker of the Home within the 119th Congress.
Trump on Wednesday can also be slated to satisfy with President Joe Biden on the White Home.
The assembly, a gesture that bolsters the custom of a peaceable switch of energy, didn’t happen when Biden beat then-President Trump within the 2020 election. As an alternative, Trump refused to concede the race and sought to overturn his Electoral Faculty loss.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee within the 2024 race, conceded on the day after the election.
Trump’s entourage for Wednesday’s journey is not going to embody former first girl Melania Trump. An official X account representing her workplace confirmed her absence, however wrote that “Her husband’s return to the Oval Workplace to begin the transition course of is encouraging, and she or he needs him nice success.”
The submit, with out including particular particulars, added, “On this occasion, a number of unnamed sources within the media proceed to offer false, deceptive, and inaccurate data. Be discerning together with your supply of stories.”
