US Democrat leader Mark Pokan is planning to introduce federal contracts on bills designed to ban “special government officials” like Elon Musk, so they will be in their own interests. You cannot entrust your spending towards it.
The proposed bill is called the Elon Musk Act, which aims to eliminate looting our country by mitigating unethical state bandits.
Pokan, a House Democrat in Wisconsin, said in a statement. “Elon Musk is the child of this type of abuse poster. After a federal contract of over $2 billion, there’s no way Musk is objective about what he’s doing. Protecting taxpayers is , it must be our number one priority.”
Musk’s SpaceX has federal contracts with NASA and the Department of Defense.
The federal government has in place ethical rules on how special government officials should act. It appears that Musk is trying to ignore some of them. For example, the Financial Conflict Management Act prohibits special employees from “participating in issues affecting (their) financial interests.”
When President Donald Trump entered the oval office, he took charge of a new controversial advisory group called the Government’s Department of Efficiency (DOGE). Stakes.
The Ethics Rules also advise that such employees should not generally engage in conflict with official obligations in external activities, including employment. In addition to being CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Xai, Musk also owns X (formerly Twitter), Neuralink and the boring company.
Musk’s intrusion into federal agencies already requires free access to federal agencies’ computer systems, including the Treasury’s payment system that handles Social Security and Medicare, and is already publicly protested and political opposition. is causing the
Democrats in the House and Senate also introduced a bill on Tuesday blocking “illegal access” to the financial payment system, with two federal employee unions suing to block access to the system.