By The American Tribune | Created at 2025-04-01 10:49:21 | Updated at 2025-04-02 17:48:26
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Speaking during a town hall in Wisconsin in which he explained what his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is doing to combat waste and fraud in the federal budget, DOGE head Elon Musk vowed that his department will launch an investigation into how so many Democrats amassed huge personal fortunes on the $200,000 or so they earn a year.
As background, many on the right, including Elon, have suggested that Democrat and Republican Swamp Creatures use insider trading to amass massive fortunes, though Elon has also said that there are various other forms of corruption DOGE has found the Swamp engaging in. So, the comments Elon made during the Sunday, March 30 town hall in Wisconsin appeared to be based on pre-existing discoveries that have led him to suspect serious corruption will be found by the investigation.
Elon’s comments on the matter came when a member of the town hall crowd asked him if DOGE had discovered any direct “evidence” of money sent to “radical left Democrats” by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). When asking that question, the audience member named Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA), along with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-CA), as suspected recipients of the corrupt cash.
Responding, Elon once again noted the massive problem of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and how they are used to aid and abet fraud in the Swamp, as the government will fund the organizations to do things it cannot do, and much of that money, as with Sen. Whitehouse and his wife, ends up in the pockets of corrupt lawmakers and their family members.
Making those comments about the “massive amount of corruption” DOGE has discovered and how it is related to the NGO issue, Elon said, “Yeah. So there is a massive amount of corruption. 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 a government.”
Continuing, Elon explained that there is a “gigantic fraud loophole” that the aforementioned NGOs take advantage of. He explained, “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 the laws of the United States.”
Building on that and explaining how it works, Elon noted that the money will, after traveling through the fraud loophole, end up back in the pockets of corrupt lawmakers. He said, “So 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.”
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That is when he commented on how numerous Swamp lawmakers have amassed massive fortunes despite earning relatively paltry salaries. Doing so, he noted, “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 while earning… How do they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year? It sounds… Nobody can explain that. So something’s… Yeah, we’re going to try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening.”
Watch him here:
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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