Elon Musk has spent more than $250 million supporting President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, campaign finance records filed Thursday showed.
The amount makes Musk, the world’s richest man, the largest donor to either party in the 2024 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
The bulk of Musk’s spending has been through his America PAC, to which he has donated $239 million. However, the filing alleges that Musk used late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s namesake, RBG PAC, in an ad that misleadingly claimed that Ginsburg had similar views on abortion as Trump. It has also been revealed that he was also behind the political action committee that did this.
Ginsburg’s granddaughter, Clara Spera, told the New York Times in October that the PAC was an “insult to her grandmother’s legacy” and that Ginsburg’s name was being used to support Trump’s re-election campaign. “I can’t help but be surprised,” he said. Ginsburg openly supported abortion rights, but playing cards It placed three conservative justices on the Supreme Court who were part of majority opinions in cases criticizing the federal right to abortion.
Musk poured $20.5 million into the PAC, which was the only donation he received. The group ran ads highlighting President Trump’s statements. rejection Pointed out Ginsburg’s statement that if elected, she would ban abortion nationally and end Roe v. Wade. too far.
Musk also gave $10 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, which supports Republican Senate candidates, and $3 million to MAHA Alliance PAC, an organization associated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” message. donated dollars.
Musk and a small number of other donors, through his primary campaign vehicle, America PAC, funded vote-getting efforts through door-knocking, text messages, phone calls, mailings, and advertisements.
The US PAC’s biggest expense so far was a $40.5 million payment to United States of America Inc., a company registered last month at an address associated with Mr. Musk. Exactly how these funds were spent is unclear.
In October, Musk also pledged to donate $1 million a day to registered voters in Pennsylvania who signed the petition. The prize is challenged in courtbut the judge ruled that it could proceed. Musk’s lawyers said the winners were not chosen by chance, but based on their personal stories, and that the money was part of the contract they signed to become spokespeople for Musk’s America PAC. He said it was. Musk is currently facing multiple lawsuits from participants who claim they were falsely charged lottery tickets.
He quickly emerged as a major political donor. In March, Musk posted on social media platform X that he would not donate to either presidential candidate. And on July 3, he made his first $5 million donation to America PAC. Ten days later, he publicly announced his support for Trump and quickly became a central figure in the former president’s campaign.
At a rally for Trump in Pennsylvania on Oct. 20, Musk reiterated the message featured in many of his X posts.
“This is the most important election of your life,” he said. “If there’s ever an election to vote in, it should be this one.”
After Trump’s victory, the next president will be Government Efficiency Bureau Along with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswami, he advised the president on cutting spending by $500 billion a year and cutting federal government positions.
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