Elon’s Boring Company Is ‘Helping’ the Government With an $8 Billion Amtrak Tunnel Project

Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, the Boring Company, has agreed to “help” the government’s Federal Railroad Administration with a multi-billion dollar project to build a train tunnel in Maryland. While it’s not yet clear that Musk’s company will actually get a contract related to the project, it seems like yet another conflict-of-interest for the billionaire, who has exerted undue influence over the government ever since Donald Trump took office. The New York Times reports that Musk’s company is helping the government assess “the costs and progress” of the Frederick Douglass Tunnel program, a new underground Amtrak route that has been designed to replace an aging tunnel system that connects Baltimore to Washington and Virginia. Department of Transportation officials recently met with representatives from the Boring Company to discuss the project and were told that Musk’s firm could “find ways to build the tunnel more cheaply and efficiently,” the newspaper writes. The project has been in ... Read full article.