Elon Musk’s six major conflicts of interest with the federal government

As co-chair of Trump’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’, the world’s richest man is likely to get richer

The Federal Advisory Committee Act says in plain language that an advisory committee – as Elon Musk proposes the “Department of Government Efficiency” to be – must ensure that its recommendations are not biased by any special interest.

Yet, Musk, the richest man on Earth, has a wider and deeper range of potential conflicts of interest with the federal government than perhaps any person has ever had.

This article was amended on 13 December 2024 to correct that Elon Musk had tweeted his intent to take Tesla private, not public, as previously stated.

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