The billionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX gave $259-million to groups supporting Trump’s 2024 campaign, new Federal Election Commission filings show
Elon Musk, billionaire owner of electric car maker Tesla and SpaceX, is pictured at Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 5.win November’s presidential election, according to new filings, underscoring the influence one of the world’s wealthiest people had on this year’s White House race.
The huge donations made Musk one of the biggest underwriters of a presidential campaign in U.S. history, helping him to become a powerful political ally of Trump and someone who now plays a key role in shaping the incoming Republican administration’s policy agenda.In late October Musk gave an additional $20 million to RBG PAC, a group that sought to convince voters that Trump would not sign into a law a national abortion ban, according to the FEC filings.
Musk and Ramaswamy met on Capitol Hill on Thursday with lawmakers whose support they will need to win the sweeping spending cuts Trump has asked them to find.
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