Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk went to the White House on Tuesday to meet with President Donald Trump, where the president then signed a new executive order that mandates federal agencies to work with DOGE.
Musk then announced that DOGE will start investigating federal workers who have managed to acquire tens of millions of dollars in net worth, despite being paid a wage that would not allow that.
“We do find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who who have essentially a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars, but somehow manage to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position,” Musk explained.
“We’re just curious as to where it came from. Whether they have very good investing in which that case we should take their investment advice perhaps,” he continued. “They seem to be mysteriously getting wealthy and we don’t know why – where did it come from? I think the reality is that they are getting wealthier at the taxpayer expense.”
Musk added, “There are massive amounts of blank checks that just go out…”
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Elon Musk has said:
"Maybe Congress is really good at investing [because] we find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow manage to accrue tens of millions of dollars."
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