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Elon Musk: We're Giving Billions Of Taxpayer Dollars To NGOs That Are Essentially Scams
RealClearPolitics ^ | 10 Mar, 2025 | Posted By Ian Schwartz

Posted on 03/11/2025 5:41:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Elon Musk in an interview with FOX Business Channel host Larry Kudlow said there is a "gigantic fraud loophole" for NGOs to receive government money.

LARRY KUDLOW, FOX BUSINESS: Yes, yes. So demystify this. How do you do it? How big is your team? Where do you recruit most of them from? And what is it that makes you choose, you know, the Treasury or Social Security or USAID? How does it work? Let the public know, please.

ELON MUSK, DOGE: Right. Well, we just basically follow the money. You know, we look at the president's executive orders and we also just follow the money.

So we started looking closely at USAID because they were completely violating the president's executive orders to suspend foreign aid, you know, what's called foreign aid, but in our view is a lot of corruption. So what we saw there is just a tremendous amount of money being sent to non-governmental organizations. But actually, this, by the way, is, I think, one of the biggest sources of fraud in the world is government-funded, non-governmental organizations.

This is a gigantic fraud loophole where the government can give money to an NGO and then there are no controls over that NGO. So they've given billions of dollars, in fact, we estimate tens of billions of dollars to NGOs that are essentially scams. By the way.

I'm trying to put a stop to that.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: corruption; fiduciarymalfeasance; fiduciarymisconduct; fraud; loophole; misappropriation; ngos; ripoff; scam
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1 posted on 03/11/2025 5:41:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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I wonder how many tricky ways there are to pay off congress members for voting for this funding?


2 posted on 03/11/2025 5:42:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

HOORAY Elon & individuals in D.O.G.E.


3 posted on 03/11/2025 5:46:49 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Employment of family members at large unearned salaries, no show jobs for girlfriends, stock tips...


4 posted on 03/11/2025 5:51:12 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber

THEN STOP IT.


5 posted on 03/11/2025 5:52:30 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MtnClimber

He implied much more than scams.


6 posted on 03/11/2025 5:52:39 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: MtnClimber

[[Elon Musk: We’re Giving Billions Of Taxpayer Dollars To NGOs That Are Essentially Scams]]

Well stop it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhQGzeiYS_Q


7 posted on 03/11/2025 5:59:29 AM PDT by Bob434 (...Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: MtnClimber

SAheldon White house RI Democrat voted for millions
to an NGO that paid his wife’s consulting firm.


8 posted on 03/11/2025 5:59:46 AM PDT by Liz
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To: MtnClimber

And as DOGE starts looking into NGOs, Tesla vehicles and dealerships come under attack by the Antifa wing of the Democratic Party. It’s not a coincidence - the violent shock troops of the Left are funded and guided by NGOs which receive money from USAID and other agencies of the Executive Branch.


9 posted on 03/11/2025 6:07:37 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: MtnClimber

These NGOs not only use government money to bribe politicians, they also fund an army of activists and launder government money into Democrats’ campaigns and PACs. Democrat voters are generally not generous people. They are known not to give much to charities and I doubt many of them give much to political campaigns. If DOGE can stop this corruption, the whole leftist machine will be paralyzed.


10 posted on 03/11/2025 6:09:51 AM PDT by Pres Raygun (Repent America)
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Illegal (extra-Const.) funding of NGOs ARE, at minimum, a scam


11 posted on 03/11/2025 6:25:47 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

BINGO! We are paying for ALL these rioters


12 posted on 03/11/2025 6:30:23 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MtnClimber

If you look at the design....you give $5k to some House member, and then ask for a USAID situation, with a fake charity...like saving some Elephant herd in Africa. You make pictures...draft the charity paperwork, and submit to USAID, with the House-member pushing approval, and once you get the $3-million...you funnel 10-percent back to the House-guy, via Act-Blue. You take the remaining cash in Africa....convert to BitCoin and retire to Panama.

You could do this once a year for 10 years.


13 posted on 03/11/2025 6:35:08 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

“THEN STOP IT.”

Musk himself has no power other exposing the fraud and financial failings. The President and Congress must stop the spending.
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The test will be the budget Congress prepares for fiscal year 2025-26 which begins October 1. Will the Republican Congress put together a zero based budget which prioritizes required spending and eliminates the pools of slush fund money going to unaccountable organizations in bed with Congress and the bureaucracy.

If a Republican Congress and Senate passes another last minute omnibus budget with a $2 plus trillion deficit, then DOGE will have failed and the Republic will fall. Trump and Musk have exposed the waste, the grift, the fraud, and the corruption. If Congress doesn’t take definitive and effective action, the entire exercise is a waste of time.

Look at your GOP Congresscritter or Senator. Is he or she hiding in the bushes today, waiting to see how the wind blows, or is he or she standing publicly with Mrs and demanding a responsible budget process this year? I hear very few calls for slashing a trillion from federal spending in the upcoming budget.


14 posted on 03/11/2025 6:53:22 AM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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What motivation do our congressional representatives have to stop this? It doesn’t hurt them when tax dollars are being wasted.

What is more, there are probably some financial advantages to waste and fraud like this, albiet via some rather circuitous routes.

In other words, there is some RISK of loss for them here, and almost zero REWARD.


15 posted on 03/11/2025 7:09:32 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: MtnClimber

IDENTIFY AND PROSECUTE.


16 posted on 03/11/2025 7:21:27 AM PDT by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-e et )
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To: Pearfect

Biggest corruption lies in the deals between Congresscritters, their families, and NGOs! It’s a slush fund for gov’t workers.


17 posted on 03/11/2025 8:00:49 AM PDT by princess leah ( )
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To: MtnClimber

We tried to tell Bush that this was going on with Solindra.
His response was to attack Iraq.


18 posted on 03/11/2025 8:27:45 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


19 posted on 03/11/2025 8:31:40 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

You’re a Texan, get your ass on the border and stop those Mexicans!


20 posted on 03/11/2025 8:34:24 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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