DoomsdaysCW<p>🎶 "Never again is what you swore the time before..."🎵 - Depeche Mode, Policy of Truth.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> Swear They’ll Fight <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>. But What About the Cash They Took From <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a>?</p><p>Musk has emerged as Trump’s far-right-hand man, creating some awkwardness for the president’s Democratic foes.</p><p>Matt Sledge<br>February 14 2025,</p><p>"There’s a pesky fact for congressional Democrats crying foul about Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of the U.S. government: Many of them took campaign cash from a Musk company PAC.<br> <br>"The SpaceX political action committee doled out more than half a million dollars to Democrats during the last campaign cycle — including thousands that flowed to Democrats after Musk became a party pariah by campaigning for Donald Trump.<br>SpaceX revenues have been buoyed by more than $15 billion in government contracts since its 2002 founding. The company made headlines this week when, amid Musk’s attempts to purge federal employees and starve numerous agencies to death, SpaceX received another $39 million contract from NASA.</p><p>"Like many Beltway players, the company gives out cash on a bipartisan basis through an employee-funded PAC.<br>Over the last two years, its spending began tilting toward Republicans, and the PAC’s payouts paled in comparison to the $290 million that Musk himself spent on the election. Nevertheless, the SpaceX donations could open Democrats to charges of hypocrisy."</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/02/14/democrats-elon-musk-spacex-donations/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/02/14/de</span><span class="invisible">mocrats-elon-musk-spacex-donations/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateDems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateDems</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OnTheTake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnTheTake</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GetMoneyOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GetMoneyOut</span></a>!</p>