Musk signals DOGE could look into gold at Fort Knox.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk signaled Monday that he will be looking into Fort Knox, where the United States has a massive and heavily secured gold reserve.
He also shared a post from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on X, in which the senator said he has been denied access to Fort Knox, an Army installation in Kentucky.
There are more than 147 million troy ounces of gold at Fox Knox, which houses more gold than other locations in the U.S., according to data from the Treasury Department. Fort Knox has a strict no visitors policy, which was broken when members of Congress inspected the gold in 1974 after former President Franklin D. Roosevelt previously visited in 1943, according to the U.S. Mint.
Fort Knox would be the latest target of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has led President Trump’s overhaul of government agencies including the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Education Department, among others.
Source: THEHILL