However, Musk announced Wednesday evening that he is leaving his role as a special government employee and top adviser to President Donald Trump. His job heading the Department of Government Efficiency was always supposed to be temporary. But in a recent interview with CBS, Musk was critical of the president’s “big, beautiful bill.”

Voters, many of them SpaceX employees, decided to create a municipality with a small local government in the once-quiet Boca Chica Village area.

Starbase, Texas, headquarters of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is officially a city following a resident vote. Most Starbase residents, primarily SpaceX employees, voted in favor of incorporation.

Local residents decide overwhelmingly to support SpaceX’s Starbase launch facility becoming an official Texas city.

The votes are in and residents of a small swath of southern Texas are in favor of Starbase becoming a real city. The newly-designated city is home to SpaceX and many of its employees, and it’s ...