Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government

As part of his mission to cut government spending, Elon Musk is going after federal workers who he thinks are richer than their government salaries allow them to be, somehow through the use of taxpayer money.

The world’s wealthiest man, who is acting as a special government employee as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force, laid out his thinking in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

“We find it sort of rather odd that there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow manage to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position,” Musk said.

“I think the reality is they’re getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,” he added.

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