Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has hinted that the department may soon look into “strangely wealthy” members of Congress.
Musk made the remarks in response to a question during a town hall in Wisconsin, where he was visiting ahead of the state’s Supreme Court election on April 1. Unfortunately, despite Musk’s efforts, conservative Brad Schimel lost to radical leftist Susan Crawford, meaning that the Democrats will be able to redistrict the state in a way that will likely cost Republicans two U.S. House seats.
However, one piece of positive news came out of Musk’s town hall, as he hinted that DOGE may soon be targeting the “strangely wealthy” members of Congress, whose net worths have skyrocketed while in office at a level disproportionate to their salaries. Some question if these lawmakers obtained some of their wealth through what is effectively government money laundering, like USAID or other grants that could make their way back into lawmakers’ pockets.
🚨 Artificial intelligence payment tracking reveals Democrats have been laundering our money to NGOs from USAID to fund their campaigns
Joe Rogan “55,000 Democrat NGOs were discovered that had been contributing to campaigns and moving things around and pushing propaganda. They… pic.twitter.com/ykANphUYhr
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 10, 2025
Their wealth is also concerning because Congress has a lot of insider knowledge that allows them to trade the stock market, though they are technically banned from insider trading. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is most notorious for this, making such shockingly good trades on the stock market that people have begun following and copying her trades, knowing that she somehow always knows when a stock is going to skyrocket.
Congress vs Warren Buffett.
Absolutely no Insider Trading pic.twitter.com/QzakBVtMD0
— StandAndDeliver (@WhollySmokes2) March 26, 2025
One attendee at the Wisconsin town hall asked Musk about these “strangely wealthy” members of Congress like Pelosi, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), or Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The attendee wondered whether any of these lawmakers’ wealth was funneled from USAID.
“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,” he added. “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,” Musk continued. “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?’”
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
— America (@america) March 31, 2025
