Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s regulatory problems have started to fade into the past. Since the start of the second Trump administration, federal agencies that had scrutinized Musk and his business empire in recent years have begun to look a lot different.

It’s been a (self-driving) roller coaster for Tesla ever since inauguration day, with the stock price, investors’ confidence and Wall Street projections rising and falling like Donald Trump’s tariffs as the president binge-watches Fox News and MSNBC, gorges on quarter-pounders and pounds out angry Truth Social posts.

From Space X to Tesla and Neuralink, the billionaire's companies are reaping the benefits of reduced oversight