The American Democratic representative Mark Pocan plans to introduce a bill designed to prohibit “special government employees” like Elon Musk from having federal contracts so that they cannot go towards their own interest.
The proposed bill is called the Elon Musk law, which means eliminating the looting of our nation by mitigating the Kleptocracy of the opposite State.
“No government employee,” special “or not, should have any financial interest in whom the government does business,” said Pocan, Democrat of the Chamber of Wisconsin statement. “Elon Musk is the child of the poster of this type of abuse. After more than $ 20 billion in federal contracts, there is no way that Musk can be objective in what it does. Taxpayers’ protection must be our number one priority. »»
Musk’s SpaceX has federal contracts with NASA and the Ministry of Defense.
The federal government has set up ethical rules for how Special government employees should behave. Musk seems ready to ignore some of them. For example, the law governing financial conflicts of interests prohibits special employees from “participating in questions that affect [their] financial interests.
When President Donald Trump entered the Oval Office, he took charge of a new controversial advisory group called the Ministry of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) which has large -scale power in federal agencies, which Many regulate the industries in which Musk has a stake.
The rules of ethics also advise that these employees should generally not engage in outdoor activities, including employment, which are conflict with official tasks. In addition to being the CEO of Tesla, Spacex and Xai, Musk also has X (formerly Twitter), Neuralink and The Boring Company.
The infiltration of federal agencies by Musk has already triggered the public demonstrations and political opposition because he requested unhindered access to the IT systems of the Federal Government Agency, including the Treasury Department Payment System which manages social security and health insurance.
The Democrats of the Chamber and the Senate presented an invoice Tuesday to block “illegal access” to the treasury payment system, and two federal unions have complaint To block DOGE access to the system.
