WASHINGTON — Democrats wish to know if President Donald Trump ever seen his former adviser Elon Musk utilizing medication whereas working within the White Home.
Rep. Stephen Lynch (Mass.), the highest Democrat on the Home Oversight Committee, requested Trump in a letter Wednesday about latest reporting that Musk used ketamine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms throughout the 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
“The drastic and erratic nature of Mr. Musk’s decisions and actions as a government employee, coupled with the reports of his drug use, begs the question whether Mr. Musk was under the influence of illicit substances while working in your White House,” Lynch wrote in his letter.
“The American people deserve to know whether Mr. Musk was under the influence while he gleefully took a ‘chainsaw’ to our federal government,” Lynch wrote.
Musk served as a particular authorities worker heading up Trump’s so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity, an initiative geared toward tackling wasteful spending. Musk and his group recognized a tiny fraction of the $2 trillion of allegedly wasteful spending he as soon as boasted he’d get rid of.
Most of the DOGE group’s efforts, together with mass firings, allegedly improper entry of delicate information techniques, and the wholesale elimination of federal companies, have been tied up in courts. In February, Musk gleefully wielded a chainsaw onstage at a political convention, describing it as a logo of his efforts to destroy the federal paperwork.
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Lynch first pressed the White Home for Musk’s nationwide safety questionnaire kind, which incorporates questions on illicit drug use, after The New York Instances reported final week that Musk’s drug behavior “went well beyond occasional use.” The story didn’t element drug use by Musk whereas working within the White Home.
“Given his prominent role in the Trump Administration, the American people deserve to know the history and extent of Mr. Musk’s drug use and any influence illicit drugs may have had on his efforts to illegally and recklessly dismantle our government,” Lynch wrote. “If Mr. Musk is struggling with substance abuse, it is our hope he gets the assistance and treatment he needs.”
The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a HuffPost request for remark.
Musk has denied being a drug person and claimed the Instances was mendacity. He stated he had as soon as been prescribed ketamine a couple of years in the past, one thing he’s beforehand been open about. “It helps for getting out of dark mental holes, but haven’t taken it since then,” Musk wrote on social media.
Musk left his place, which was restricted to 130 days, after that deadline handed final week. This week, in a surprising flip, he harshly criticized the laws Republicans are shifting on Capitol Hill to enact Trump’s home coverage agenda. Musk known as the invoice a “disgusting abomination.”
Democrats have cheered Musk’s flip towards the invoice, which mixes tax and Medicaid cuts and would widen federal funds deficits, opposite to DOGE’s mission of enhancing the federal government’s funds.
“Now even someone on ketamine, mushrooms and Ecstasy can see it,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) stated on-line.
Lynch is serving as the highest Democrat on the Republican-led Oversight Committee on a brief foundation after the demise of Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.). Lynch is one in every of a number of Democrats vying for the “ranking member” place that shall be determined by an inside get together election later this month.
