Elon Musk Spent $239 Million on His Pro-Trump Super PAC — and Maybe More – Rolling Stone

                        By  <a class="c-link  lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-color-brand-primary-dark:hover lrv-u-text-decoration-underline:hover lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/"            >   Miles Klee</a>                      <br>    In an election cycle where <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/billionaires/"  id="auto-tag_billionaires"  data-tag="billionaires"  >billionaires</a> flooded the race with hundreds of millions in cash to support their preferred candidates, apparently no one spent more than <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/elon-musk/"  >Elon Musk</a>, who donated a grant total of $239 million to <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/america-pac/"  id="auto-tag_america-pac"  data-tag="america-pac"  >America PAC</a>, a Super PAC he initially formed to support <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/"  >Donald Trump</a>.<br>   Musk had poured $119 million of his personal fortune into the organization through mid-October, chipping in $15 million of that total before President <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/joe-biden/"  >Joe Biden</a> dropped out of the race, leaving Vice President <a  href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/kamala-harris/"  >Kamala Harris</a> to assume the Democratic Party nomination. America PAC had spent nearly $10 million against Biden when he was running as the incumbent candidate. The group eventually burned through $87 million in support of Trump while laying out $57 million opposing Harris.<br>  Musk funneled another $120 million into America PAC from-mid October through late November, per new Federal Election Commission filings. The Super PAC also received $40 million through his <a  rel="nofollow"  href="https://www.chron.com/culture/article/elon-musk-texas-companies-19846342.php"  target="_blank"  >two new Texas companies</a>, Group America LLC and United States of America Inc. The latter was the entity that <a  rel="nofollow"  href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/11/01/elon-musks-united-states-of-america-inc-is-mailing-checks-to-his-pro-trump-pac-supporters/"  target="_blank"  >cut checks to registered swing state voters</a> who participated in America PAC&#8217;s controversial drive for paid petition signatures. In the closing weeks of the election, the group awarded a daily $1 million prize to voters in critical battleground states who had signed their petition in support of the First and Second Amendments. Trump went on to win all seven of those states.    <div class="admz" id="adm-inline-article-ad-1">                     <div class="adma boomerang" data-device="Desktop" data-width="300">                  <div style="min-width:50px;min-height:75px;"   class="pmc-adm-boomerang-pub-div ad-text"   data-priority="10" >    <div id="gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody-uid0"       class="adw-300 adh-250" data-is-adhesion-ad="">         <script type="application/javascript">

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