Earlier this year Maye Musk, the mother of Kimbal and Elon Musk, was a headliner at a government conference in the Emirates. And Errol Musk, Elon Musk’s father, has said that he is in talks with an Emirati firm to build a Musk Tower in Dubai to house the Musk Institute, a planned technology hub.

Elon Musk is still filling his own pockets with federal welfare, even if his Department of Government Efficiency was all smoke and mirrors.

Musk told an economic gathering that he wants to own more shares of the company in order to hold greater sway in key decisions.

The Federal Railroad Administration has brought in the tunneling company to see if it could help with a multibillion-dollar rail project.