US Democratic Representative Mark Pocan plans to introduce a bill intended to ban “special government employees” such as Elon Musk, that they have federal contracts so that they cannot drive expenses to their own interest.
The proposed bill is called Elon Musk Act, which aims to remove a looting of our nation by mitigating unethical state kleptocracy.
“No government employee, ‘special’ or not, should have a financial interest in who the government is doing business,” Pocan, the house -Democrat of Wisconsin, said in a Statement. “Elon Musk is the poster child for this kind of abuse. After more than $ 20 billion in federal contracts, Musk can not be objective about what he does. Protecting taxpayers must be our first priority. ”
Musk’s Spacex holds federal contracts with NASA and the Defense Department.
The federal government has in place ethical rules for how Special government employees must behave. Musk seems positioned to ignore some of these. For example, the governing statute on financial conflicts of interests prohibits special employees to “participate in things that are effective [their] Financial interests. ”
When President Donald Trump entered the Oval Office, he commissioned Musk about a controversial new advisory group called the Department of Government Performance (DOGE), which has great power through federal agencies, many of which regulate industries in which Musk has participation.
Ethics rules also advise that such employees generally do not have to engage in external activities, including employment, that conflict with official duties. In addition to being the Director General of Tesla, Spacex, and Xai, Musk also owns X (formerly Twitter), Neuralink, and the Boring Company.
The infiltration of federal agencies of Musk has already created the public Protests and political opposition, as he demanded unlimited access to computer systems from a federal government agency, including the The pay system of a treasury section which deals with social security and Medicare.
House and Senate Democrats as well introduced a bill Tuesday to block “illegal access” to the treasury pay system, and two federal employees have Archive costume To block Dogean access to the system.
