"#Musk immediately attacked USAID, which accounts for all of one half of one percent of the budget, and is tasked with providing the impoverished with food and water and services like HIV prevention. But USAID was investigating Starlink, and so it was gutted. He went after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which exists only to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions and has returned $21 billion to those who’ve been defrauded. But the CFPB was fielding over 300 complains about Tesla and would’ve had oversight into X’s payment processing, and so it was gutted. In fact, every single agency that Elon went after - #USAID, #CFPB, #DOL, #NLRB, #EPA, #DOT, #USDA - just so happened to be performing oversight into him or #SpaceX or #Starlink or #Tesla. And all of those agencies paid the price."
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