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Led DOGE while his companies received $38B+ in government funding. SpaceX contracts were not cut despite DOGE canceling 10,000+ federal contracts. DOJ dropped multiple investigations into Tesla and SpaceX during his DOGE tenure. GSA adopted Starlink broadband under DOGE pressure. Critics including Sen. Warren called it "corruption on a scale not seen in our lifetimes." Musk was the sole arbiter of his own conflicts of interest.