Elon Musk once said he could save $2 trillion for taxpayers through his so-called Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Then there is $1 trillion. Recently, he has adjusted this estimate significantly to $150 billion. Even if he can prove that he has reduced the federal budget (he hasn't yet), that doesn't explain the almost equal wasteful spending caused by its rampant, including legal fees arising from hundreds of lawsuits against Doge.
But it seems Musk managed to find his bottom line despite all the chaos and suffering he had visited in Washington and the country.
On Monday, Democrats of the Senate Permanent Committee Investigation Subcommittee (PSI), led by hierarchy member Senator Richard Blumenthal, published a report that estimates that when President Donald Trump's 2025 was formed in 2025, Musk's corporate entity had at least $2.37 billion in responsibility within the scope of responsibility, especially 65 years of continuous action, especially 65 discrepancies. These include from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation of racial harassment at Tesla facilities to the Securities and Exchange Commission investigation to the alleged misleading statements about the risk of product in neurology of biotech clothing. Now that Doge has infiltrated the responsible institutions with Trump’s blessing, this kind of execution and fine is extremely unlikely to move forward. In February, for example, the Justice Department removed a discrimination case against Musk's SpaceX, leaving it withdrew up to $46 million in civil penalties. In the early days of the second Trump administration, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee warned that Duger targeted overseen regulators and regularly investigated various parts of the Musk business empire.
The largest ticketing project on the PSI list involves the technology Musk has long been crucial to Tesla, and the future of the automotive industry: "fully autonomous driving," or FSD, a software system that allows cars to drive automatically without the need for a concentration of humans ready to control the wheels. Musk is known year after year for promising and promising people, and the fully autonomous Tesla is coming, just inevitably extending the timeline, even as competitors like Google's Waymo have already revealed driverless Robotaxi services in several metro markets. Meanwhile, he and Tesla have actively sold more advanced driver assistance features called "Automatic Driving" and "Full Autonomous Driving" - the latter renamed "Full Autonomous Driving (supervised)" - and have been criticized from safety advocates who believe that these misunderstandings have caused customers to overestimate the technology's drug resistance, preventing available Acdentes, resulting in potential Activelentes, and causing possible Activelentes.
In 2022, the Justice Department has begun criminal investigations into Tesla and Musk's propaganda methods, exposing them to possible allegations of wire and securities fraud related to misleading consumers and investors in 2016 about their technology. FSD is a subscription service for Tesla customers, and the company reported revenue from the feature for fiscal 2024 was $596 million, meaning Senate Democrats noted that it could pay at least $1.19 billion in stake, and DOJ could bring and win fraud cases. Of course, this is an impossible situation for Trump’s Justice Department and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is more focused on following people who have damaged Tesla’s property in recent months with “family terrorists.”
By 2023, the Justice Department had reportedly expanded Tesla investigation and subpoena records to examine the company's "personal welfare, involved parties, vehicle range and personnel decisions", the company said in its SEC quarterly documents that year that year that it did not provide additional details. Tesla has also been the subject of multiple investigations by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) related to the FSD, as well as “loss of steering control,” “sudden accidental acceleration,” “steering wheel disengagement,” “unexpected brake activation,” “unexpected brake activation,” and whether there are prescribed recalls to remedy issues with automatic carriers. Democrats on the Senate subcommittee submitted a memorandum on Musk's expected savings, thanks to loose regulations, without speculation that he might have succeeded in avoiding the fines he avoided in these issues.
“While the $2.37 billion figure represents a credible, conservative estimate, it is dramatic
Underestimating Mr. Musk due to his real interests may be due to his
They wrote that their position in government. In addition to the 25 pending issues that the subcommittee has not quantified yet, Musk and his company can earn millions or even billions of dollars by avoiding time, attorney fees and being ordered to take the risk of remedial work or changing workforce habits. "The fact is, the stunning scope and scale of benefits Mr. Musk has gained from his current position may never be known, and that's the design. Silence is strategic, which is dangerous. ”
While a billion dollar savings have nothing to sneeze, Tesla may not be enough for an environmental storm. This has become the focus of opposition and protest due to Musk's toxic political presence on the national stage, which has become a focus of decline in stock prices, decline in sales and competition, which has become the focus of alienating the free client base. Meanwhile, the company is at risk of Trump's chaotic tariff policies. Last week, it reported quarterly earnings fell 71% compared to the same period last year, making profits only by selling carbon tax credits to other automakers. On this income call, Musk once again mocked a "pilot" Tesla Robotaxi program that will be launched in June in Austin, Texas, using an upgraded model Y vehicle instead of the two-door "Cybercab" model he unveiled at an event last fall. While he is consistent with the details, he offers generally unrealistic forecasts and believes that "in the second half of next year, millions of Tesla people will operate independently (fully autonomously)" and Tesla will receive "90 times the ride market."
During the same call, Musk announced that his “time allocation will drop significantly” significantly in the coming weeks so that he can focus more on Tesla, and there is no doubt that he has been shocking since Musk has been investing in projects in the U.S. executive states. However, his ongoing ties to Trump and his role as a key Republican superstar must also hinder the brand, even if he is a bit far from himself and the White House. Regardless of whether he keeps his business in the short term, the public may not forgive and forget so quickly.