Hi everybody. I'm Brittany Lewis, a breaking news reporter here at Forbes.

Joining me now is my Forbes colleague's staff writer Zach Everson. Zach, thanks so much for joining me.

Thanks for having me, Brittany.

You have some reporting on Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. You're saying that she could

have violated House ethics rules. Can you explain?

Sure. So she recently all of the demonstrations going on against Tesla and Elon Musk from her

position as the chair of the Doge subcommittee in the House wrote a letter asking the

Department of Justice and the FBI investigate what is causing those protests.

Representative Green owned shares in Tesla.

So expert I spoke to said that could be problematic because members of Congress are not

supposed to take official action, which may have a financial benefit for them.

And that certainly can be the case given her stake in Tesla.

I want to first talk about the Tesla portion of this. Elon Musk, as we know, is the CEO of that company.

And he's become more and more of a polarizing figure as of late with the

doge cuts and the influence he seemingly has on both the Trump administration and the president

himself. So can you talk to us about these Tesla protests? Yeah. So Elon Musk took the position

back in July shortly after the attempted assassination of Donald

Trump, that he became a big Trump supporter all in, who spent about $250 million trying

to help Trump win the election.

And then, you know, as Trump went Trump won, he put Elon Musk in charge of Doge, which

is looking for government efficiencies, places to cut.

There have been major cuts, both in terms of services and in government employees.

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