The world’s richest man has a total net worth of at least $330 billion according to both Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He sank $118 million into the 2024 presidential campaign in support of Trump, and since Trump won the election, Musk’s net worth has gone up by $70 billion.

Trump has named several Project 2025 collaborators to his Cabinet, and his transition team is reportedly consulting its personnel database.

About 20 people get nominated for Cabinet positions or other high-level executive-branch jobs; a small handful of these nominees become the subject of scandals, usually involving light corruption or pretend surprise that the Spanish-speaking housekeeper they paid in cash was an undocumented immigrant,