ABBY PHILLIP: Is that true, Congressman Lawler? . . . . That [Elon Musk is] a major donor to your campaign?
MIKE LAWLER: Not directly. No, not directly to my campaign. He had an indepenent expenditure that he spent on dozens of congressional races.
We know that Donald Trump is in Elon Musk’s pocket, to the tune of hundreds of millions in 2024 campaign contributions. The richest man in the world and a South African immigrant, spreading his money throughout the land and across the globe to control the levers of power. Elon is reportedly looking to contribute another $100 million to Trump-controlled political operations. And $6M to buy a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And . . . .
Closer to home, Elon Musk’s America PAC prioritized Mike Lawler’s 2024 House campaign over all others. Lawler’s campaign received somewhere in the neighborhood of $1M from Musk-directed funds, perhaps more (one report suggesting $1.7M).
No surprise then that Lawler happily defers to the work of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Witness his answer at Wednesday night’s “tele-town hall.” This is the fiercest criticism you will hear from Lawler about their work, unless it hits his district directly:
“So, look, the work that the Department of Government Efficiency is doing, uh, yes, Congress will have an important role in that. Uh, there are things they’re doing that, you know, I think are beneficial. There are other things where I think, you know, they’re going very fast and they need to dot their i’s and cross their t’s uh before pulling the trigger.”
Just a bit of concern about dotting i’s and crossing t’s. Not the first time he has used this expression.
When we get back to our case study on Lawler and the demise of US AID, this context is critical. A federal judge found that Musk & DOGE violated the Constitution when they fed the $40B+ agency into the woodchipper, while Lawler and his House Foreign Relations Committee watched and defended. Dotting i’s indeed.
Follow the Musk.
Rule of Lawler 