Once a key player in Republican funding and a vocal ally of Donald Trump, Musk signals a shift away from politics amid backlash and corporate fallout.

But Musk’s highly visible presence in Washington has ended, a POLITICO analysis found. In Trump’s rapidly evolving second presidency, Musk’s monopoly on political discourse, news coverage and social media seems to have broken — driven in part by how Trump and Republicans have all but stopped talking about him.