Elon Musk and son X arrive for a meeting with Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation members at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 21, 2025, in Washington.

In this 2000 photo, PayPal's Peter Thiel and founder Elon Musk, right, pose with the PayPal logo at corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. (Paul Sakuma/AP) By Timothy Bella.

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There is an Elon Musk post on X, his social media platform, that should define his legacy. “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” he wrote on Feb. 3. He could have “gone ...