Billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to pay TSA personnel during the partial government shutdown poses “great legal challenges,” according to the White House.
The world’s richest man recently shared a social media post offering to pay TSA employees amid the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, which began in mid-February after lawmakers failed to reach a deal on funding the agency. TSA employees are working without pay which has led to staffing shortages and long security lines at airports nationwide.
Ask yourself why he would offer to pay them directly instead of routing that same money through established vehicles like taxes.
Because the reason the TSA isn’t getting paid isn’t because there’s no money…
It’s because the money has to appropriated to the TSA first.
Like, that’s just the basics of how our government works…
He should pay his taxes, the vast majority of his wealth should go to taxes, but that wouldn’t change a single thing about this.