Elon Musk spent more than $250 million to support President-elect Donald Trump, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reported by The New York Times. The report explained that Musk wrote three checks for $25 million each to give to America PAC. Musk also spent $40.5 million on voters who signed America PAC’s petition.
In total, Musk gave America PAC $239 million in cash and contributions. Another $20 million was given to a super PAC named after Ruther Bader Ginsburg, a pro-Trump PAC that said Trump would not sign a national abortion ban.
After election day, Musk gave $4 million to America PAC, and has since promised to keep the PAC active to bolster Trump’s agenda and target far-left prosecutors.
Another $12 million was given to two groups, the Senate Leadership Fund, and the Sentinel Action Fund, in order to support the election of Republican senators.
Musk will lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) along with Vivek Ramaswamy in the upcoming administration. In announcing DOGE, Trump said the two entrepreneurs “will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies — Essential to the ‘Save America’ Movement.”
“We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. We don’t need more part-time idea generators. We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting,” the new agency wrote on X last month. “If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.”
