Tech billionaire Elon Musk is urging President-elect Donald Trump to take public input before nominating a new secretary of the treasury while also floating his own preference. Musk expressed his desire for appointment suggestions in a post on X Saturday.

Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk threw his support behind Howard Lutnick, chair and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, over Scott Bessent, founder of Key Square Group, as Treasury secretary in the next Trump administration in a post on the social platform X on Saturday.

Longtime hedge fund executive Scott Bessent, a South Carolina native, is one of a few names mentioned as possible U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee.

Elon Musk on Saturday endorsed Howard Lutnick, Trump-Vance transition co-chair, as his pick for Treasury secretary. Lutnick and Key Square Group founder and CEO Scott Bessent are reportedly top picks to run the Treasury Department.

Billionaire Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sided with investor Howard Lutnick on Saturday in the debate over who President-elect Donald Trump should pick as his treasury secretary, making public the internal jockeying on the decision.

Corey Lewandowski, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, tells "The Hill on NewsNation" the president-elect will announce his economic team next week

Elon Musk on Saturday came out in favor of Cantor Fitzgerald Chief Executive Howard Lutnick to be the next Treasury secretary.  In a post on

Elon Musk is backing Donald Trump’s transition co-chair Howard Lutnick to lead the Treasury Department, touting the billionaire CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald as a potential secretary who “will actually enact change” from the most powerful economic post in Trump’s cabinet.