The billionaire and his Silicon Valley associates landed in the capital and immediately moved to cut the size of the federal government, reprising the playbook he used after buying Twitter in 2022.

Elon Musk’s social media company, X, said on Tuesday that it was teaming up with Visa to provide financial services, in a step toward Musk’s plans of expanding it into an “everything app.” The new financial feature,

The new administration is emailing government employees draft resignation letters. Musk sent a similar email to Twitter staff in 2022.

In a Tuesday email that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent to nearly all federal employees, workers were asked to respond with one word in the subject line—"resign"—to accept the buyouts before February 6.

“In study after study, as well as our lived experiences, X has become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and societal division. Under the leadership of Elon Musk, X has reduced content moderation, promoted white supremacists, and re-platformed purveyors of conspiracy theories.”

Towamencin Township Supervisor Laura Smith said her video "has been greatly mischaracterized,” but that she removed it so as not to "give offense."