Musk Backs Florida Sen. Rick Scott for Majority Leader

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2024 – Billionaire Trump-ally Elon Musk and other Republicans are coalescing around Florida Senator Rick Scott as a potential candidate to lead the chamber.

Scott introduced a bill in April 2023 that would have removed the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program’s exemption from the Freedom of Information Act.

“​​This is not the government’s money, it is the hard-earned dollars of American taxpayers and they should know exactly how every cent is being spent,” he said in a statement at the time.