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Musk Set to Score Massive State Department Contract for Armored Tesla Cybertrucks

The $400 million contract is expected to be finalized in Q4 and is forecasted to last for about five years.

All Elon Musk’s work ingratiating himself with Donald Trump appears to be paying off. His electric vehicle company Tesla just won big by earning the largest projected State Department contract of 2025, Drop Site News reported Wednesday. The company is expected to make somewhere in the ballpark of $400 million on a multi-year contract for armored versions of its Tesla cybertruck, according to the State Department’s procurement forecast. The multi-million dollar contract is expected to be finalized in Q4 and is forecasted to last for about five years, according to the forecast’s last update on Dec. 13, 2024. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) boss has earned plenty of detractors in recent weeks for his cut-first, ask questions later ethos. After the DOGE’s subcommittee hearing on Wednesday—during which Democrats ripped into Musk’s government-slashing panel—Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D- TX) told CNN: “This is nothing more than another payday for Elon Musk because we know that if there is any government welfare to be handed out, it is consistently being handed out to Elon Musk, who stopped all the money to USAID while at the same time deciding that he would get another contract for over $300 million.”