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Elon Musk has already donated $290 million to support Donald Trump's election campaign in 2024. In May 2025, he resigned from the government's Department of State Efficiency (Doge) due to a falling out with Trump over rising national debt, although they have since reconciled.
According to US media reports, tech billionaire Elon Musk donated $276 million (247 million euros) to organizations that support the election campaigns of Republican candidates in the run-up to the congressional elections. According to the New York Times on Monday, with this amount donated since July, Musk is the largest individual donor for the election on November 3rd. Taking the primaries into account in particular, the total rises to $366 million.
The largest recipient of the funds was the Republicans' Senate Leadership Fund, which received $158 million to secure the party's control of the Senate.
Already donated 290 million for Trump's election
The head of SpaceX and Tesla had already donated $290 million in 2024 to help US President Donald Trump return to the White House. Musk served as an adviser to Trump at the beginning of his second term in office and cut thousands of jobs in the state apparatus and ministries on the president's behalf. In May 2025, however, Musk resigned from the government's Department for State Efficiency (Doge) due to a disagreement with Trump over the massively increasing national debt. They have since reconciled.
Individual campaign donations in the USA are limited to $3,300 per person. However, loopholes in the campaign finance system allow major political donors to make contributions to so-called political action committees, which in turn support candidates.
Trump's Republicans are threatened with defeat in the congressional elections on November 3rd. According to polls, they are likely to lose their slim majorities in the House of Representatives and possibly also in the Senate. If they win the election, the Democrats could prevent many of the president's plans in the second half of Trump's term.
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Republicans could lose their majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate in the November 3rd congressional elections.
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US House of Representatives Chairman Mike Johnson expressed concerns about the planned live broadcast of the execution of assassin Nidal Hasan by a military firing squad, saying such footage could be used as a recruiting tool for terrorists. Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 for the Fort Hood attack.
Juso leader Philipp Türmer sees the planned SPD party conference as an opportunity to restart the party's personnel and believes co-party leader Lars Klingbeil's withdrawal is possible. He emphasizes the need for new ideas and credible leaders.

Federal agents searched the Washington-area home of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Fox News and NBC News reported. Leading Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries described the raid as disturbing and warned against the federal government's instrumentalization against Trump's opponents. The Justice Department said the search was part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation into allegations of fraud related to Omar's immigration records, according to Fox News. Omar herself spoke of political intimidation and referred to Trump's long-standing attacks against her. The search took place three weeks before the congressional election in Minnesota's district, in which Omar is running for re-election.

Trump justifies high fuel prices in the US with Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, while Zelensky rejects this account and cites the Hormuz blockade as a decisive factor.
After Bärbel Bas resigned as Federal Labor Minister and SPD party leader, co-party leader Lars Klingbeil explained in an interview with ZDF that he was leaving open the possibility of running for the party leadership again. He emphasizes that it is not about holding on to office, but rather about positioning the party in the best possible way. Bas justified her withdrawal with family bereavement and attacks from the ranks of her coalition partner.

The Federal Cabinet is due to decide on Wednesday whether Katharina von Schnurbein, EU anti-Semitism commissioner since 2015, will move from Brussels to Berlin. The Federal Ministry of the Interior did not initially confirm the reports and referred to a later decision by Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.