Elon Musk hinted at a Wisconsin town hall that he and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project might be planning to do some digging on Capitol Hill.
Musk was in Wisconsin ahead of the state’s Tuesday Supreme Court election, which conservative Brad Schimel ultimately lost to liberal Susan Crawford, and some of the questions he took from those in the audience centered around his work in President Donald Trump’s administration with DOGE.
One attendee asked whether DOGE had uncovered any payments from USAID to far-Left members of Congress like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) or Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — and Musk noted that it wasn’t quite as simple as finding bank records that showed direct payments to specific members of Congress.
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Elon Musk: “There is a massive amount of corruption… effectively there’s a giant fraud loophole where the government can send money to an NGO that is then no longer the government by the laws of the U.S., let’s just say there are a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress..” pic.twitter.com/Gy2Q38o5hj
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“There is a massive amount of corruption,” Musk began. “But it is circuitous, so what happens is there’s money that — obviously it’s your taxpayer money — that is then sent to various government organizations who then send it to NGOs. An NGO is a Non-Governmental Organization, but obviously if it’s a government-funded Non Governmental Organization, it’s just an organization, it’s just the government.”
“And effectively, there’s a giant fraud loophole, which is that the government can send money to an NGO that is then no longer governed by law — the laws of the United States,” Musk continued. “They’ll send the money overseas to one NGO, 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.”
“But it is a circuitous route,” he repeated. “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 did they become rich?’”
