While addressing a crowd at a Wisconsin town hall event over the weekend, DOGE head Elon Musk confirmed that he will soon be diving into how certain members of Congress got so rich.
Some lawmakers, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Musk’s comments came in response to one town hall attendee who asked if DOGE had uncovered evidence of funds wired from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Pelosi, and others.
Musk described the process — the strange pattern he and his team are seeing.
“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?’”
“How do they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year?” Musk added. “We’re going to try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening.”
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Two of the wealthiest members of Congress are former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), with an estimated net worth of $250 million, and Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), whose fortune is around $552 million.
Pelosi’s wealth primarily comes from investments made with her husband, venture capitalist Paul Pelosi, in companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Netflix.
Scott built his fortune before joining the Senate, co-founding HCA Healthcare, which operates hospitals across Florida, and launching the urgent care chain Solantic.
What will Musk uncover?
