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We're going to talk about this now with Isaac Arnsdorf, White House bureau chief for The Washington Post, where he focuses on national politics.

Hello.

Hi, thanks for having me.

Well, put that enormous $276 million Musk is donating in context.

Historically, how big is this?

Well, it's a record.

It's more than anybody else.

And it's even more than he put into the last cycle when he was the biggest donor of all time.

So even more than he spent on trying to get Trump reelected, he's now spending on trying to help Republicans keep control of Congress.

And why is he so interested in that? Because he did say about a year and a half ago that he was going to step away from politics.

Yes.

And we're not seeing him as active in the way that, you know, he's not out holding his own rallies, you know, doing his own events like he was in 2024.

He's not handing out checks.

You know, he's not still planning to have a role in the administration.

You know, the biggest chunk of this money is just a check that he wrote to the main Republican Senate super PAC.

So he is doing it in a more quiet, conventional way of a donor.

But, you know, his ideology and his preference for Republicans hasn't changed and his business interests haven't changed.

And so he's still supporting Republicans for those reasons.

Right.

So he has business interests in Texas in particular.

Of course, he has national business interests.

But in Texas, that's where he is.

That's where a couple of his businesses are.

Is that why he's pouring a bunch of money into the Texas Senate race?

Well, it's a factor.