Matt Dixon

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Matt Dixon

May 21, 2025, 5:00 AM EDTTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a close ally of President Donald Trump, is still considering a run for governor of Florida — a twist that complicates a Republican primary that already has a Trump-endorsed candidate and, potentially, the current governor's wife. Trump has backed Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., for the 2026 race, and a Trump adviser said the endorsement of Donalds — and only Donalds — “is set” no matter what happens. But with Gaetz and Gov.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Allan Smith |Matt Dixon |Steve Kopack

Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a major benefactor to President Donald Trump in last year's presidential election, said Tuesday that he will do "a lot less" political spending moving forward. Speaking with Bloomberg at the Qatar Economic Forum, Musk, who spent more than a quarter billion on a super PAC set up last year to primarily help Trump, sounded ambivalent about making such commitments in the cycles to come.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Peter Nicholas |Megan Shannon |Matt Dixon

May 19, 2025, 5:00 AM EDTWASHINGTON — Jamieson Greer has a big job — three of them, actually. As U.S. trade representative, Greer has been flying around the world at Donald Trump’s behest, negotiating with countries over the tariffs that the president imposed. On top of that, he is the government’s official watchdog. The White House has appointed Greer both acting director of the Office of Government Ethics and acting head of the Office of Special Counsel.

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Jonathan Allen |Matt Dixon |Katherine Doyle |Sahil Kapur

May 15, 2025, 12:41 PM EDTOutside of President Donald Trump, no White House official has accumulated more influence in this administration than Stephen Miller, the 39-year-old anti-immigration crusader whose brain and bare-knuckled tactics have been deployed to drive the agenda for the commander in chief. Not Vice President JD Vance. Not chief of staff Susie Wiles. Not anyone else.

4 weeks ago | cnbc.com | Matt Dixon |Henry Gomez |Allan Smith

As President Donald Trump tiptoed away this week from the idea that he might try to win a third term, he opened the door to a fresh round of intrigue: Whom does he see as his successor? In practically the same breath in an interview with NBC News' "Meet the Press," Trump suggested national security adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance — in that order — as potential candidates.