
A 2014 “60 Minutes” interview with Elon Musk is suddenly back in rotation on X and it’s not hard to see why. With headlines swirling about Musk backing away from his role at the Department of Government Efficiency and calls for federal spending cuts growing louder, the clip is a timely throwback to a different kind of Musk headline—one where he wasn’t slashing budgets but writing checks to the government. In the resurfaced interview, journalist Scott Pelley zeroed in on Tesla’s taxpayer-funded b