Democrats have been going crazy over the work Elon Musk’s DOGE team has been doing to root-out corruption, wasteful spending, fraud and good old DC graft and grifting. They’ve even gone so far as to claim that he is somehow getting richer off his public service.
(Note to self-righteous Democrats: Please check Nancy Pelosi’s stock trades.)
However, as our friend Stephen Moore pointed out in a recent edition of his must-read Committee to Unleash Prosperity Hotline, nothing could be further from the truth.
Indeed, not only has Elon not used his influence to try to change Trump policies, like President Donald Trump, it appears Elon’s public service is costing him a lot of money.
In a Hotline article titled “Trump Pulls Plug on Electric Vehicle Chargers” Mr. Moore pointed out:
The Left and the media keep claiming that DOGE is only targeting left-wing pork and not programs that benefit conservatives.
But the Trump Transportation Department is ordering a halt to a $7.5 billion Biden program to build electric charging stations in all 50 states. The program passed almost four years ago, but has so far installed a total of just - count 'em - 55 stations. And guess who is one of the biggest beneficiaries of that historically wasteful boondoggle: Elon Musk and Tesla.
As we've reported many times on these pages, the original Biden goal was to have half a million chargers up and running by 2030. This is the program that former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will be defending (good luck!) when he runs for the U.S. Senate in Michigan next year.
Lawsuits are already being filed demanding that Trump "unfreeze" the pause that blocks federal money for chargers flowing to state agencies.
Musk's Tesla electric car company has received at least $31 million in federal funding for charging stations, or about 6% of the money already allocated. It also won't be happy with Trump revoking the 2021 Biden executive order that strived to make 50% of new vehicle sales electric or plug-in hybrids by 2030.
Will this stop progressives and the media from charging that Musk is using DOGE to make himself richer? Nah.
What’s more, Democrats and their Far Left allies have mounted campaigns to boycott Tesla and other Musk-related ventures.
Inside EVs reported that over the weekend, protests erupted in California and New York at Tesla showrooms to take a stand against Musk. Those involved specifically called for the boycotting of Tesla because of Musk, urging anyone who would listen to consider an EV made by—quite literally—any other automakers.
"Stop Musk's coup," read one protester's sign.
"Don't Buy Swasticars," read another plastered to a Tesla logo, while a second taped to a Cybertruck read "Elon Musk is not my president!"
And it's not just protests, either. The FBI recently became involved after a Colorado Tesla showroom was vandalized. Police say that the words "Nazi cars" were spraypainted on the building and someone attempted to set the showroom ablaze. Posters on Reddit are reminding EV shoppers not to buy a Tesla whenever given the opportunity and urging Tesla to move on from Elon Musk's leadership.
Democratic voters are much more likely to buy electric cars but are more likely to object to Musk. The Ethical Consumer reports you can now buy a bumper sticker for a Tesla which reads “I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy.”
And there’s an international dimension to the boycott.
The New York Post reported Tesla sales in France plummeted 63% in January compared to the same month a year earlier.
In Germany, the decline was nearly as sharp, with sales falling 59.5%.
In the UK, Tesla sales have also slipped, while Scandinavian markets, where electric vehicles have been widely adopted, are seeing similar patterns.
In Sweden, new Tesla registrations were down 44% from last year, while Norway recorded a 38% drop in the same period.
Perhaps more concerning for Tesla is the downturn in China, one of its most critical markets. January sales fell 11.5% compared to the previous year — while local competitor BYD reported a nearly 50% surge in sales.
In the last month, shares of Tesla have fallen 13% — though its stock is still up more than 86% in the last 12 months.
Now, the Leftwing activists attacking Elon Musk have been joined by Far Left Members of Congress, including Red Diaper Baby Communist Democrat Rep. Jaime Raskin of Maryland.
Raskin at a rally to oppose DOGE’s work at USAID said, “Elon Musk, you didn't create USAID. The United States Congress did for the American people … like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he doesn't have the power to destroy it. And who's going to stop him? We are.”
“This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today,” he added.
Far Left Massachusetts Democrat James McGovern at the same rally went even further claiming without evidence, "This is a brazen attempt by a billionaire who nobody voted for, to illegally and unconstitutionally steal from taxpayers so he can give himself a tax break."
The vitriol being heaped on Elon Musk by Democrats is even more hypocritical given that it was Democrat President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who set the precedent of using wealthy “dollar-a-year” industrialists and entrepreneurs to help America win World War II. However, now that Republican President Donald Trump is using a patriotic billionaire to root out waste, fraud, grift and graft in the government it is somehow a constitutional crisis.
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