Elon Musk’s six major conflicts of interest with the federal government

As co-chair of Trump’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’, the world’s richest man is likely to get richer

The Federal Advisory Committee Act says in plain language that an advisory committee – as Elon Musk proposes the “Department of Government Efficiency” to be – must ensure that its recommendations are not biased by any special interest.

Yet, Musk, the richest man on Earth, has a wider and deeper range of potential conflicts of interest with the federal government than perhaps any person has ever had.