Musk spent more than $250 million to help elect Trump

Elon Musk spent more than $250 million to help Donald Trump will win the presidential election November, according to new filings, underscoring the influence one of the world’s richest people had on this year’s race for the White House.

The billionaire owner of electric car maker Tesla and SpaceX donated $259 million to groups supporting Trump’s 2024 campaign, according to new Federal Election Commission filings released late Thursday.

The huge donations made Musk one of the largest underwriters of a presidential campaign in American history, helping him become a powerful political ally of Trump and someone who now plays a key role in setting the agenda. policy of the incoming government.

Musk donated $239 million to America PAC, a super PAC he founded to help turn out voters for Trump.

In late October, Musk donated another $20 million to RBG PAC, a group that sought to convince voters that Trump would not sign a law banning abortion nationwide, according to Commission filings.

The group’s name is a reference to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon known for her support of abortion rights.

Musk, who also owns social media platform X, has emerged as a close adviser on Trump’s transition team. The Republican has tapped him, along with former Republican presidential candidate and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead a task force aimed at cutting public spending and regulations.

The two men have called for laying off thousands of federal workers, cutting regulations and eliminating programs whose authorization has expired, such as health care for veterans.

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