Musk has been spending a lot of time in Washington, D.C., as the public face of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Elon Musk has called the Wall Street Journal report a "deliberately false article" and an "extremely bad breach of ethics."

Tesla has hit back following a Wall Street Journal report that its board had initiated a search for a new CEO to replace Elon Musk, taking to Musk’s social platform X to call the claim “absolutely false.”