Democrats have the power to hold Elon Musk accountable for his DOGE carnage. Here’s how
Musk blew nearly half a billion dollars to outrun oversight for DOGE’s unlawful data breaches and brazen conflicts of interest. The new congressional majority now has subpoena power.
Elon Musk, the Republican megadonor who spent President Donald Trump’s first few months in office clumsily disassembling whatever federal agencies he deemed too woke, poured a lot of money into the 2026 midterms—at least $474 million, according to The New York Times. Voters, however, were less enthusiastic about maintaining the status quo: Democrats are currently projected to win 259 House seats and at least 54 seats in the Senate. As an investor, even if you are capable of comfortably dropping half a billion dollars on an election, this is not the return for which you hope.
