Elon Musk Hints Next DOGE Tar­get Could Be The ‘Strange­ly Wealthy’ Mem­bers Of Con­gress

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?’”