As President-elect Donald Trump makes a flurry of choices to fill out his incoming administration's Cabinet, the lobbying for key positions has been fierce behind closed doors — and sometimes publicly.

Billionaire Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sided with investor Howard Lutnick on Saturday in the debate over who President-elect Donald Trump should pick as his treasury secretary, making public the internal jockeying on the decision.

Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Lutnick and investor Scott Bessent are said to be serious contenders for the role. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A U.S. official says Iran successfully sought a meeting with Elon Musk in a step that appeared aimed at easing tensions with President-elect Donald Trump.

Elon Musk met Iran's ambassador to the UN a day before he was made joint head of Donald Trump's new cost cutting department, the BBC's US partner CBS has confirmed. The meeting took place at ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani 's residence in New York,

Elon Musk recently met with Iran's ambassador to the U.N., Amir Saeid Iravani, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. The meeting took place at the ambassador's residence in New York. There's no indication that President-elect Donald Trump's national security transition team was aware of the meeting.

While concerns were already swirling about Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, the first potential conflict of interest has popped up. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (which he runs with Vivek Ramaswamy) put out the call Thursday for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency said it is already recruiting people to work on the new initiative to cut federal spending.

After Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were tapped to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), some questioned why two were chosen for one role. Responding to the criticism on X, Musk clarified that since they won’t be paid,