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Start free trial →The Bulwark · Policy · November 2026
After the midterms, she runs through what a Democratic Congress might investigate in tech. She is relaying a Washington Post report on planned probes of Musk's companies, Apple and Meta; the specific items are the Post's reporting.
But compared to other American EV makers, definitely blowing everyone else out of the water, although finally facing some more competition. So, yeah. So as
long as the government protects them from BYD, they're great.
Yes. Yes. Well, government protection or government aggression also possibly playing into what's going on here in terms of Tesla and in terms of Elon Musk himself, because Democrats are figuring out how they are going to wield the gavel and wield their subpoena power once they return to the majority in both the House and the Senate in a few months. And, you know, the question is, like, how do they hold Elon Musk accountable for a bunch of the things that he has done when he was at Doge? Again, some of this, what certainly looks like self-dealing in contracts with Tesla or with SpaceX or others, the abuse of his power over some of these companies when it comes to our national security or the national security of some of our allies like Ukraine. So there was a good story today in the Washington Post that was getting into this. There's been a fair amount of coverage of what this might look like. The Post reports that the House is laying the groundwork to investigate Trump's use of Musk's AI chat bot, Grok, which I believe is under the SpaceX umbrella to plan the military operation and capture of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro. Lawmakers are also eyeing Apple over its hosting of tracking apps used by ICE. And they are also looking into Meta, Facebook, over its demands that…
Criminal defense attorney. You're going to need it.
Yeah, for some of them, they probably will. This
is an homage to Eric Hirschman. This is what he told John Eastman, if people will remember from the J6 hearings.