Mark Pocan: “Elon Musk is the 47th President's financial benefactor. He has invested $277 million of his own money into electing…”

“Elon Musk is the 47th President's financial benefactor. He has invested $277 million of his own money into electing Donald Trump and other Republicans, and now apparently, he thinks he owns them. Elon Musk is destroying our Federal Government. He doesn't understand how things work, and he is breaking it agency by agency every single day while Republicans sit idly by. I think the worst part is that Elon Musk profits mightily from contracts with the Federal Government. His company's contracts total over $20 billion, more than $3 billion in the last year alone. Now, he has the new title of special government employee, for all practical purposes, a Federal employee himself. Now, if you follow the law, Federal employees can't also profit from the Federal Government via a Federal contract because they can use their position to swing contracts their way. USAID doesn't offer much profit for Musk, so he wants it dismantled, but NASA does, and his contract likely won't get touched. Maybe it will even grow. That is why we have laws that prevent Federal employees or other officials, including Members of Congress, from profiting off the Federal Government. It is grifting from the taxpayers, and it is against the law, except apparently, if you are Elon Musk. Enough is enough. I am introducing legislation to ensure that special government employees like Musk cannot profit off of government contracts.…”