Multi billionaire & twitter CEO Elon Musk donates $45 million every month for Donald Trump re-election campaign
Billionaire Tesla and Space X head Elon Musk will donate $45 million per month to a pro-Trump political action committee ahead of the November election, marking one of Musk’s biggest steps in his months-long shift into Republican politics, though the billionaire has a long history of donating to presidential candidates.
Musk will donate $45 million per month to the super PAC America PAC, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, though Federal Election Committee filings do not show Musk has yet contributed to the PAC as of June 30.
Musk, the head of electric vehicle giant Tesla, social media platform X and aerospace company SpaceX, first made a political donation in June 2003, contributing $2,000 to then-president George W. Bush in his 2004 re-election campaign, before contributing the same amount to Bush’s competitor, then Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and longshot Democratic candidate Wesley Clark, according to records from the FEC.
Musk continued to support candidates from both parties, including a committee to re-elect then-Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Cal., in 2003, former Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., former Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Calif., former Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., former House Speaker John Hastert, R-Ill., and late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
In 2004.The Tesla chairman in 2005 donated $25,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee, his largest political donation to date, before sending another $25,000 to the GOP committee in 2006 and 2007, and another $28,500 to the GOP committee in 2008—while donating just over $38,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and over $40,000 to the Democratic National Committee between 2007 and 2010.
In total, Musk has made nearly 200 political contributions, split between leaders of both parties, including several big names, such as Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., former Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and late Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., all from 2008 to 2010.
In 2011, Musk donated to presidential campaigns, donating over $40,000 to former President Barack Obama’s Obama Victory Fund in his 2012 re-election campaign, and $5,000 to Hillary Clinton’s PAC Hillary for America in 2015.
One lawmaker who has received some of Musk’s largest donations is former Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., whose campaigns took in $100,000 between 2011 and 2017—Musk has made smaller donations to a group of lawmakers, including Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Maine’s Republican Gov. Susan Collins and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.
