Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt skewered U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) after the progressive Democrat called on the president-elect to establish a series of conflict-of-interest rules for Elon Musk, the incoming head of the new Department of Government Efficiency.
Musk has bent President-elect Donald Trump’s ear since helping him win a second term, investing more than $250 million in outside groups that mobilized swing state voters during the campaign’s final days. In return, Trump has appointed the Tesla and SpaceX founder to the pinnacle of the federal government, giving him a perch that he has promised to wield in slashing inefficient bureaucracy and forcing remote government workers to return to their offices. Warren, whose prized Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is in Musk’s crosshairs, sent a letter to the Trump campaign last week asking that its team implement guardrails around Musk to “avoid both actual and apparent conflicts of interest.”
“Putting Mr. Musk in a position to influence billions of dollars of government contracts and regulatory enforcement without a stringent conflict of interest agreement in place is an invitation for corruption on a scale not seen in our lifetimes,” Warren said in her letter, Business Insider reported. “Currently, the American public