
Musk has 'no business' in Pentagon, Dems say amid report he'd get top secret China briefing
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While the New York Times reported that Musk was set to receive details about a potential China conflict, the Pentagon and White House pushed back and said Musk’s briefing wouldn’t cover China.
"Elon Musk is an unelected, self-interested billionaire with no business anywhere near the Pentagon," Gillibrand said in an X post Friday morning with a photo of the Times story, just after Musk arrived at the Pentagon. Gillibrand is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House.
The possibility of Musk receiving information on China raises a possible conflict of interest, given the fact that Musk has financial interests in China stemming from Tesla, and SpaceX is working with the U.S. federal government on military space capabilities.
However, the Trump administration swiftly pushed back on the Times’ reporting, and Trump issued a post on social media discrediting the story as "completely untrue."