Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has taken aim at Elon Musk, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s top advisers, over potential conflicts of interest with his billion-dollar business holdings.
In a letter sent Monday to Trump, Warren requested to hold the tech mogul to the same ethics standards as the rest of the president-elect’s transition team. Musk, along with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, is leading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group created by Trump to recommend federal spending cuts and regulatory rollbacks.
“Mr. Musk’s substantial private interests present a massive conflict of interest with the role he has taken on as your ‘unofficial co-president,'” Warren said in the letter. “Currently, the American public has no way of knowing whether the advice that he is whispering to you in secret is good for the country — or merely good for his own bottom line.”
“President Trump has assembled the most impressive and qualified team of innovators, entrepreneurs, and geniuses to advise and staff our government, ” said Trump-Vance transition spokesperson Karoline Leavitt in response to a request for comment.
