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Elon Musk has been slammed after the government revealed a plan to buy $400 million worth of ‘armored Teslas’.
The State Department released their procurement forecast for this fiscal year and people were surprised to see a familiar company mentioned.
Musk seems to have well and truly taken on the role as ‘First Buddy’ to President Donald Trump after donating $260 million to his election campaign.
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Since Trump’s victory at the polls, Musk has now taken center stage in the new administration under his new position as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
It’s not technically a government department and is more of an outside advisor, but that didn’t stop Musk and his DOGE employees from blocking elected officials from entering the Department of Education building in Washington DC.
Fears have grown over Musk’s involvement with the government, which have only heightened since he was granted full access to the Treasury payment system.
Now, it seems that there could be other parts of the system which may hold an interest to him.
Musk’s electric vehicle company, Tesla, was named in the State Department’s forecast where they cited plans to spend $400 million in buying armored Teslas.
It stated that the plan would start in 2025 and last for five years.
However, now the document has been edited to remove any mention of the company’s name.
While Musk is usually very vocal about criticism against him on X, formerly Twitter, he is yet to comment on this.
Musk’s access to Treasury financial data has been halted for now after New York judge Paul A. Engelmayer placed an injunction to block him.
The preliminary injunction came into effect on Saturday (February 8), and will last until the next court hearing tomorrow (February 14).
As part of the ruling, Musk and his team have also been ordered to immediately destroy any copies of records that they have.
This comes after the Trump administration was sued by 19 state attorneys general, who claim that giving DOGE access to the records violates federal law.
Musk didn’t seem best pleased by the injunction, which he has taken to X to describe it as ‘absolutely insane’.
He wrote: “How on Earth are we supposed to stop fraud and waste of taxpayer money without looking at how money is spent?”
In the judge’s order, it said that states would ‘face irreparable’ harm if immediate relief wasn’t implemented.
The order continued: “That is both because of the risk that the new policy presents of the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information and the heightened risk that the systems in question will be more vulnerable than before to hacking.”
