Elon Musk Reveals DOGE Will Investigate Congress Members Who Got “Strangely Wealthy”

Elon Musk just revealed DOGE’s next target: members of Congress who got mysteriously rich.

Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin last night, Elon Musk took aim at “strangely wealthy members of Congress.”

He said that he’s “trying to connect the dots of, ‘How do they become rich?'”

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🚨 ELON MUSK: "There's a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress. I'm trying to connect the dots. How do they become rich while earning? How do they get $20 million of they are earning $200,000 a year? Nobody can explain that. We are going to try to figure that out." pic.twitter.com/TXV7zPtjqj

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Despite fairly modest salaries of $174,000 per year, there are many multi-millionaires in Congress.

Here are some notable figures:

Thank you, Elon! pic.twitter.com/zguYXfiVuI

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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?’”

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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 corruption.

Scores of lawmakers who have spent decades in Congress are millionaires.

Two of the wealthiest include former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has a net worth of about $250 million, and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), whose personal fortune hovers around $552 million.