How much of Musk’s wealth comes from government help? Virtually all of it

Photo: President Trump Views Teslas with Elon Musk at The White House – March 11, 2025. Photo credit: The White House via Flickr. US government work. Article by Chris Isidore. CNN – June 13, 2026.

Elon Musk has many people to thank for becoming the world’s first trillionaire — his companies’ engineers who produced technological breakthroughs, Wall Street investors who were eager to shower him with their dollars despite questionable financials, but most of all, American taxpayers and government policymakers. “There would not be (Tesla and SpaceX) if it weren’t for the government,” said Ross Gerber, CEO of investment firm Gerber Kawasaki and an early investor in Tesla. […]

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