2 April 2025: Elon Musk has called for the arrest of leaders of “fake” NGOs that receive federal funds. The Tesla owner said on Tuesday, March 1, that these people represent a politically connected “uniparty” that is involved in “money laundering” of taxpayer resources.
‘These are fake charities [run by] mostly Democrats’
Musk’s comments come as he is busy leading efforts to trim annual federal spending by $1 trillion to halve the deficit. “With respect to the non-governmental organizations, these sort of fake NGOs, I think there needs to be a number of arrests,” the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chief said in an interview on Fox News’ ‘The Five.’ “These are fake charities [run by] mostly Democrats… there’s sometimes a little bit of Republican in there, because they sometimes throw the Republicans a bone to say, ‘Hey, be quiet about this.’ So that’s where you start getting the uniparty thing going on.”
“But it is overwhelmingly to Democrats, and they give these billions of dollars to NGOs run by Democrats that then go through a whole network of additional NGOs — it’s a giant money laundering scheme. Really at this point, I think the word NGO and money laundering are almost synonymous,” he added.
Summary: Elon Musk alleges that federally funded “fake” NGOs are part of a massive money laundering scheme and calls for the arrest of those responsible.