As Drop Site reported, Musk’s Tesla company is listed as the recipient of the largest expected State Department contract, in the amount of $400 million worth of “Armored Tesla.”
According to The New Republic, Tesla’s contract is worth more than $100 million and has a cap of $500 million. That seems to be quite an increase in State Department costs, one that will benefit Musk’s company by millions of dollars. “By comparison, a contract for armored sedans was capped at $100 million, and contracts for armored BMW and armored electric vehicles were capped at $50 million,” TNR said, presumably referring to a pre-Musk contract.
It’s quite a nice return on Musk’s $290+ million investment in the election of Puppet Donald Trump and the Republican lackeys in Congress.
Drop Site notes that the State Department’s procurement forecast was modified on December 13, 2024, about a month after Trump’s election.
