Elon Musk's staggering wealth has exploded since the election, and a Democratic lawmaker cast suspicion on his motives for gaining control of the federal government's payment system.
The tech billionaire and his DOGE lackeys have gained access to the Treasury Department's system for issuing payments, infiltrated the General Services Administration and the Office of Personnel Management and proposed sweeping cuts across government agencies and the federal workforce, and Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) told CNN that he's concerned about what Musk is up to.
"Well, there's a couple of things," Landsman said. "One is the Congress is supposed to step up and check the the executive. That's, you know, that's how the Constitution was set up, and so, you know, public opinion has to shift and Democrats are going to, you know, obviously play a role in shifting public opinion to make sure that people understand what's going on here so that they start to call their Republican members of Congress because they're in charge of the United States Congress, and Congress is supposed to check the executive and put guardrails in place."
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Musk spent at least $277 million of his own money getting Trump re-elected, but his already historic wealth has grown by more than $100 billion since then – from $264 billion to $400 billion – and Landsman suggested the tech mogul intended to loot the treasury to become even wealthier.
"What you're seeing in Elon Musk is not just the world's richest man, but he is trying to become the first trillionaire ever," Landsman said. "He has, by being empowered by Trump, hacked into our data system, hacked into our payment systems, and is purging the federal government. He stands to make so much money. He already has made, you know, billions, tens of billions of dollars on federal contracts, and the markets know this, and so his ability to get inside and create this kind of chaos and move money, potentially to him and to his companies, will result in him and his net worth going up even higher. "
"So now the American people are dealing with higher prices and the kind of political corruption, potentially, that is incredibly damaging, and so, you know, for Democrats, they have to be or we have to be very clear about what's happening," the congressman added.
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