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The Trump administration is expected to buy $ 400 million in Tesla vehicles, according to a new document for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which separates the purchases for the fiscal year 2025.
The CEO of Tesla El Musk is an official at the Supreme White House who leads the Ministry of Government efficiency, a unit that focuses on reducing the federal workforce and clearing corruption.
The document does not determine what will be purchased from Tesla cars by American officials, but it can be Musk’s Cyblertruck, with its military and exterior design of stainless steel, option.
after Reports It was distributed on Wednesday night from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to buy Tesla cars, and the document was edited at 9:12 pm, and now it says that the federal contract is worth $ 400 million of “armored electric cars”, but the word “Tesla” has been removed.
In response to a clip by Rachel Mado of MSNBC about a decade of $ 400 million, Musk wrote at X on Wednesday evening: “Maddow, why is the lie?”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond and hold the suspension requests.
Musk, who spent more than a billion dollars to help elect Trump, used an X account for highlighting what he considers excessive or unnecessary federal contracts.
Since MUSK deputies have been able to reach nearly twenty federal agencies, ethics experts have sparked concern about the billionaire who faces conflicts of interest, because Musk runs six companies, some of which are under investigation by government authorities. Musk companies, including Tesla and Spacex, also have billions of dollars in the federal government.
Most of the federal money that Musk received to Spacex, a missile company, went to projects that include Work with NASA to launch Musk vehicle with astronauts to the moon.
The new Cyberrtruck starts about $ 82,000, and about 38,000 were sold last year, according to Cox Automotive. Since the launch of the car in 2019, the truck has faced Complaints About rust, fingers and defective pedals.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Document also shows that some Tesla competitors are expected to receive profitable, but much smaller contracts, for armored vehicles, including from BMW, which shows the document that is scheduled to provide about $ 40 million of SUVs to the federal government.