- United States
- Ohio
- Letter
Open a formal investigation into Elon Musk's conflicts of interest, his use of federal data access through DOGE, and his campaign to buy midterm elections. One private citizen should not hold this much power over public life — government contracts, federal IT systems, a social media platform, and now hundreds of millions in election spending.
The facts demand scrutiny. Musk's businesses have collected at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, and subsidies over two decades, yet investigations into those businesses ended once he gained influence in the Trump administration. DOGE claimed massive savings that a Government Accountability Office report found were largely exaggerated or unverifiable. Meanwhile, a whistleblower warned that DOGE members accessed and shared sensitive data from the Social Security Administration. Nobel Prize-winning AI scientist Geoffrey Hinton put it plainly: getting detailed data on U.S. citizens is exactly what you'd do if you wanted to corrupt the midterms — and that's what DOGE did.
Now Musk is funneling money through America PAC into Senate races in Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, and Ohio, and running a voter registration campaign that harvests personal data — including psychological profiles — and sells it to "business partners." That is not civic engagement. It is election infrastructure built for one man's political agenda. Congress needs to act before November.