Last week, Musk began stripping the verifications from far-right accounts run by people who challenged his support for H-1B visas, after he and his co–DOGE czar Vivek Ramaswamy went to war arguing that Asian workers were far better than American ones. Obviously, the pro-white American far right didn’t take too kindly to that messaging.

Texas Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett has claimed President-elect Donald Trump 's MAGA base "got played" by business tycoons Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, amid an ongoing social media row about the H-1B skilled migrant worker program.