As Musk nears end of 130-day DOGE stint, he's $113bn down

Elon Musk bounded into Washington as a special government employee earlier this year.

- Bloomberg

NEW YORK: Gaining unprecedented access to the corridors of power and data, the billionaire injected a sense of chaos across the US government. He joined President Donald Trump's meetings with foreign leaders and Cabinet Secretaries, weighed in on defense and tariff policies, and most notably, gutted dozens of agencies as the public face of DOGE.

During Musk's tumultuous run, his private companies—SpaceX, brain implant venture Neuralink and AI startup XAI—have benefited from new funding, while the value of debt taken on when he converted Twitter into privately owned X soared.