The DOGE damners on Capitol Hill are going to hate Elon Musk’s latest target: congressional wallets.
Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin Sunday night, Elon Musk suggested that his Department of Government Efficiency will investigate how certain members of Congress got “strangely wealthy” despite their comparatively modest public salaries, the New York Post reported.
The deep pockets of some in Congress help explain the disconnect between those in power and the ordinary Americans who elected them to serve, and the political distaste for term limits.
Rank-and-file members of Congress make $174,000 annually, and yet scores of lawmakers who have spent decades on Capitol Hill are millionaires.
“How do they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year?” Musk asked. “We’re going to try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening.”