"But why is Washington so desperate to contain Musk? Rep. Burchett had a simple answer: follow the money.
“You’ve got congressmen on both sides of the aisle. If they follow that paper trail, it’s going to come back to them,” he warned.
The pushback against Musk’s efforts is intense, Burchett admitted, but it’s coming from the usual suspects—the career politicians who have the most to lose.
“They’ve got their wife and/or girlfriend working for some agency, quasi-agency, or some business. I’ll probably get a primary for saying that, but it’s the truth, and we all know it. This town’s crooked as a dog’s leg. Somebody’s going to straighten it out. Looks like it’s going to be Elon Musk,” Burchett said."