When you think about it, two hundred ninety million bucks is not a lot to pay for a country that takes in over 4 trillion dollars a year. Somebody must have read Art of the Deal.
Surprisingly, that's all it took a South African alien to buy the right presidential candidate. By the "right presidential candidate" we mean the one who was most likely to give him the key to Fort Knox. And who could be more right than the convicted felon with a lot more to lose than just an election.
So now Elon has access to your social security information, your medicare and your medicaid information. If you get a payment from the government, Elon has your address and probably your bank account numbers.
Elon now has access and control of the systems that make all federal government payments. Nothing in the world to stop him from adding a few 0s to the values of his billions in government contracts. At the very least, expect NASA funded SpaceX flights to increase by a few hundred percent.
I know what you're thinking. Surely congress is keeping an eye on what's going on. He can't do these things without congressional approval, where's the oversight?
In the words of Kentucky's own James Comer Rhymes With Gomer, "Out of order, out of order, out of order!"
Gomer says all Elon is doing is working to make government agencies more efficient. "Mr. Musk trimmed the fat on X and we have the chance to do the same here."
Gomer's grasp of business practices are clear given Musk hugely overpaid for a social media company that had never made a profit and has since lost over 75% of its value (according to that liberal mouthpiece Forbes). Mr. Out of Order probably hasn't read about Tesla's declining sales and rapid loss of market share. The self-wrecking taxis aren't breaking much ground and those Star Wars looking pickups will not roll coal no matter how hard you push that "gas".
Rhymes With may not have clear business insight, but he gets something you might not have caught up with. The House Oversight Committee isn't about overseeing the things congress is responsible for, not anymore. The committee Comer chairs is an oversight on the congress to make sure it does what the White House wants.
And right now, the White House wants Elon to start cashing in on some dividends. Access to every American's social security files is a good start. Imagine what that'll be worth on the black market. A lot more than Twitter the X could ever be worth.
If Elon, however unlikely, is unfamiliar with how to make contact with the black market, there are plenty of others in the Trump cartel who know all about the black market. Or he could just ask his own staff at Starlink.
However he does it, the goal of Musk and the rest of the family is to gut what they can from the American people and leave this sign on the government's door.
Out of order, out of order, out of order.