The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chopping block is not slowing down.
So who is the agency’s next target?
It could be none other than former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Speaking at a town hall in Wisconsin Sunday night, Elon Musk suggested that his team at DOGE will investigate how certain members of Congress have achieved generational wealth despite fairly modest salaries.
Musk’s comment came after one attendee at the town hall asked Musk if DOGE had uncovered evidence of funds wired from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
“They’ll [the government] send the money overseas to one NGO [non-governmental organization], then they’ll go through a bunch of them, and then I’m highly confident that a bunch of that money then comes back to the United States and lands in the pockets of the people you just mentioned,” Musk replied.
“But it is a circuitous route. It doesn’t go directly, but let’s just say that there’s a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress where I’m trying to connect the dots of, ‘How do they become rich?’”
Rank-and-file members of Congress make $174,000 annually. Last year, Musk — whose net worth is pegged at $330 billion by Bloomberg — helped kill legislation to raise congressional pay, then later supported an increase as a means of fighting corruption.
One of the wealthiest members of Congress is Pelosi, who has a net worth of about $250 million.
According to reports, Pelosi’s wealth largely comes from her and her venture capitalist husband Paul’s lucrative investments in companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Netflix.
Could Musk investigate?
“How do they get $20 million if they’re earning $200,000 a year?” Musk further pondered.
“We’re going to try to figure it out and certainly stop it from happening.”
Pelosi has previously been a potential target of DOGE.
Recently, President Donald Trump’s administration indicated that it is looking to sell two prominent federal buildings in San Francisco, including the recently dubbed Nancy Pelosi Federal Building.
Report: Trump Looking Into Selling Nancy Pelosi Federal Building In San Francisco https://t.co/AJjRn537Jn #OAN
— One America News (@OANN) February 23, 2025
The Nancy Pelosi Federal Building, a two-decade-old, 18-story tower known as the San Francisco Federal Building until its formal dedication meant to honor the former House speaker last December, sits on Mission and 7th streets in an area that has been for years plagued by open-air drug dealing, illegal markets reselling stolen goods, and other crime, according to local reports.
In 2023, hundreds of federal employees at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) assigned to the building were instructed to work from home over safety concerns, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
At the time, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, demanded its closure due to the drug dealing at the building’s doorstep.
The building, which can accommodate roughly 2,000 workers, currently houses offices for Pelosi, HHS, as well as the Social Security Administration, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Labor, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Trump administration argues that offloading the buildings will reduce maintenance costs, and it is opting to lease office space for federal workers instead.