Democrat Introduces Bill Mandating Elon Musk, DOGE Drug Test | EUROtoday

A Democratic lawmaker has launched a long-shot invoice to require particular authorities staff, like Elon Musk and his DOGE cohort, to endure common drug testing.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey accused Musk of a “well-documented history of drug use” (allegations that he denies) whereas asserting the Drug Testing for Special Government Employees Act on Tuesday.

“Donald Trump has given billionaire Elon Musk the keys to our government, and with it, access to highly sensitive information — from Treasury and Social Security data to even our most guarded military plans,” Sherrill wrote in a press launch. “Those with access to sensitive information must be thoroughly vetted, clear-eyed, and exercise good judgment.”

Sherrill argued that Musk and his underlings on the so-called Department of Government Efficiency ought to be held to the identical requirements as different executive-branch staff, whether or not for conflicts of curiosity or passing a drug take a look at.

The invoice, which has little hope of passing by way of the Republican-dominated legislature, would require particular authorities staff to move a drug take a look at earlier than their first day on the job and to endure common screenings thereafter. Anyone who checks optimistic for unlawful substances can be barred from federal service for at the least a 12 months.

HuffPost has reached out to representatives for Musk and DOGE for remark.

Sherrill’s announcement linked to a January 2024 Wall Street Journal investigation, during which a number of sources near Musk reportedly mentioned that they had witnessed or had direct data of him utilizing LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine.

The report additionally claimed that a number of Musk insiders, together with high-level Tesla and SpaceX executives, have been alarmed by his more and more “volatile behavior.”

In response, Musk’s legal professional, Alex Spiro, advised the Journal that his consumer is “regularly and randomly drug tested at SpaceX” and has “never failed a test.”

The billionaire has overtly admitted to utilizing physician-prescribed ketamine for therapeutic functions, nonetheless.

While questioning the impression of SSRI-style antidepressants in a 2023 tweet, Musk known as ketamine, an anesthetic drug with dissociative and psychedelic results, “a much better option.”