All your moneys are belong to Musk:
"- Largest buyer of goods and services in the world: US government
- Amount the US government spent on contracts for goods and services in 2024: $755 billion
- Amount one government agency—the Pentagon—spent on contracts in 2024: $454 billion
- Pentagon contracts as a share of total federal contracts: 60%
- Amount DOGE claims to have saved by terminating federal contracts: $18 billion
- Hypothetical DOGE cut to Pentagon contracts, if cuts were proportional: $11 billion
- Actual DOGE cut to Pentagon contracts: $8.5 million
- Cuts to Pentagon contracts as a share of all contract cuts: <0.05%
- Cuts to Pentagon contracts as a share of annual Pentagon contracts: <0.002%
- Top Pentagon contractor by market valuation: SpaceX
- Pentagon contracts awarded to SpaceX: $5.6 billion
- SpaceX CEO: Elon Musk
- DOGE leader: Elon Musk"
@remixtures Musk isn't the leader of DOGE, no matter how much Trump might try to pass off that line. He doesn't have the legal authority of leading the agency.
But more to the point, so what?
Multiple administrations and administrators figured out that those high profile, highly scrutinized contracts were positive for the US.
@remixtures since Musk doesn't have that legal authority, in part specifically to avoid conflicts of interest, I don't think you're seeing what you think you're seeing.
(Or more to the point, a lot of people are running around spreading misinformation about what's going on, and unfortunately it's spreading quite easily on social media, so a lot of people are seeing things that just aren't really true)
@volkris Don't you see any conflict of interests here? I see!