Posted on 03/31/2025 8:29:19 AM PDT by thegagline
The world’s richest man is dying to figure out how lawmakers on Capitol Hill got “strangely wealthy” despite their comparatively modest public salaries.
Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin Sunday night, Elon Musk suggested that his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will investigate how certain members of Congress have achieved generational wealth.
One attendee at the town hall had asked Musk if DOGE had uncovered evidence of funds wired from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). “They’ll [the government] send the money overseas to one NGO [non-governmental organization], 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,” Musk replied.
“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?'”
Rank-and-file members of Congress make $174,000 annually. Last year, Musk — whose net worth is pegged at $330 billion by Bloomberg — helped kill legislation to raise congressional pay, then later supported an increase as a means of fighting back against corruption.
“How do they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year?” Musk further pondered. “We’re going to try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening.”
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Oh boy, this’ll be a good one!
Now, it’s getting good!
This is going to get VERY interesting...
Please let there be actual ARRESTS! Please! Please!
About time.
It’s been obvious for a LONG time. They spend million/billions to get a job that pays 200k...it’s all to get rich off the USA taxpayers.
YAY!!!
We MAY find out who our “elected” representatives are really working for...
Not all of those Congress members are RATs. I wager most are, at least the ones who got seriously rich in the last four years or more.
sounds like a good plan to me.
I expect they drop real charges in fall right before primaries heat up.
And don’t think there won’t be a bunch of Repuklicans on that list... without question they are among the most gutless and limp-wristed, but I am convinced that it primarily explains why they stand by and do nothing to support the current efforts to root out all of this corruption.
Personally, I am very conservative, but I’d bet this occurs on BOTH sides of the aisle.....
WINNING!!!
Be on the look-out for increased drone activity.
Takes investigation to turn up evidence to arrest. So I hope he finds actionable proof. This is the kind of stuff we need an investigation agency to actually investigate. Too bad they’re all corrupted.
YAY!
It doesn’t stop there.
It’s not just 10% to the big guy, the little guys need their cut too - DOJ, FBI, and Judges.
Otherwise, the corruption would’ve been investigated and resolved.
You need the right people in the right places to be on the take too otherwise the jig’s up.
As such, they should have blue AND red rope available.
As a patriot I wanna see all crooked politicians get crushed. The whole Congress needs house cleaning.
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