The world’s richest man is dying to determine how lawmakers on Capitol Hill obtained “strangely wealthy” regardless of their comparatively modest public salaries.
Talking at a city corridor in Wisconsin Sunday night time, Elon Musk steered that his group on the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) will examine how sure members of Congress have achieved generational wealth.
One attendee on the city corridor had requested Musk if DOGE had uncovered proof of funds wired from the US Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
“They’ll [the government] send the money overseas to one NGO [non-governmental organization], then they’ll go through a bunch of them, and then I’m highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in the pockets of the people you just mentioned,” Musk replied.
“But it is a circuitous route. It doesn’t go directly, but let’s just say that there’s a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress where I’m trying to connect the dots of, ‘How do they become rich?’”
Rank-and-file members of Congress make $174,000 yearly. Final 12 months, Musk — whose internet value is pegged at $330 billion by Bloomberg — helped kill laws to lift congressional pay, then later supported a rise as a way of combating again in opposition to corruption.
“How do they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year?” Musk additional contemplated. “We’re going to try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening.”
Musk swung by Wisconsin on Sunday to rally assist for Brad Schimel, a conservative Waukesha County decide, within the intently watched election for the state’s Supreme Courtroom.
Throughout his go to, Musk handed out $1 million checks to 2 Badger State voters. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has inspired Wisconsin residents to signal his petition in opposition to “activist judges” to get prize cash.
“I should say that the reason for the checks is that it’s really just to get attention,” Musk defined in regards to the prize cash.
“And somewhat inevitably, when I do these things, it causes the legacy media to kind of lose their minds.”
The Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom race pits Schimel in opposition to Dane County Decide Susan Crawford, with the winner having outsize sway over points corresponding to state abortion legal guidelines and redistricting.
Management of the Wisconsin Supreme Courtroom is seen as politically invaluable given the continued battles between Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the GOP-controlled state legislature.
