How the billionaire businessman’s lobbyists helped him get so many state Legislature wins is something of a mystery.

Some companies Elon Musk is suing are objecting to his choice of Wichita Falls for a legal battleground, citing complaints about traveling there and other issues, court records show. New York or Dallas seems better to them.

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Musk goes after GOP lawmakers amid Big Beautiful Bill legislation, vowing to end their hopes in the next primary.

As Trump’s controversial bill passes the Senate, Musk warns it will kill clean energy progress, cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, and hand China a strategic advantage. Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act has passed through the Senate thanks to Vice President JD Vance’s tiebreaking vote.

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will pump tens of billions of dollars into law enforcement, delivering an unprecedented bonanza for the agencies behind the US administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.