Billionaire government efficiency chief Elon Musk has repeatedly spread baseless or false claims about government spending, including by the U.S. Agency for International Development and other agencies, making various unsupported allegations of criminal activity and a recent misleading claim that disaster relief funds were spent to house migrants in “luxury hotels” in New York.
Many false and misleading claims about government spending practices by various agencies—including USAID and the Federal Emergency Management Agency—have spread quickly on X, propped up by billionaires including Musk and Bill Ackman.
Musk has even acknowledged “some of the things that I say will be incorrect” while speaking at the White House with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, stating “nobody’s going to bat 1.000” in response to a reporter who questioned his claim, made without evidence, that USAID spent $50 million on condoms in Gaza. MORE