An official who is in charge of the Fort Knox $400 billion gold supply has responded to Elon Musk’s claims that the gold could have gone missing.
Musk has been making some wild claims about the state of government expenditure since taking over as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
While it’s not technically a government department, President Trump stated that the team would act as an outside advisor on federal spending.
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Since taking on the role, Musk has been hacking away at the government’s budget by canceling contracts and making mass layoffs.
Now, the Tesla boss has gone one step further to claim that the US government’s famous gold reserves at Fort Knox have gone missing.
Taking to his own social media platform X, formerly Twitter, the billionaire began to question whether the gold was ‘still there’ or if it had ‘gone’.
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On Monday (February 17), Musk wrote: “Who is confirming that gold wasn’t stolen from Fort Knox?
“Maybe it’s there, maybe it’s not. That gold is owned by the American public! We want to know if it’s still there.”
Musk even went as far as to call for a ‘live video walkthrough’ to make sure it was there.
Trump weighed in on the matter, telling the press: “We hope everything’s fine with Fort Knox, but we’re going to go to Fort Knox...to make sure the gold is there.”
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“If the gold isn’t there, we’re going to be very upset.”
Now, the official who is in charge of the gold has set the record straight.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, said: “I can tell you that we do an audit every year. I can tell the American people on camera right now that there is a report from September 30th 2024, all the gold is there.
“Any US senator who wants to come and visit it can arrange a visit through our office.”
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Musk has also sparked controversy this week by throwing slurs at an astronaut who called him out for a ‘lie’.
This is after the SpaceX CEO claimed two NASA astronauts, Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams and Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore, had been left in space ‘for political reasons’.
Reposting the clip on X, astronaut and former SpaceX pilot Andreas Mogensen criticized the comment, writing: “What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.”
Musk then shocked people with his response as he wrote back: “You are fully r*******. SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused. Return WAS pushed back for political reasons. Idiot.”
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Mogensen replied: “Elon, I have long admired you and what you have accomplished, especially at SpaceX and Tesla.
“You know as well as I do, that Butch and Suni are returning with Crew-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home. They are returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on ISS since last September.”