Elon Musk reportedly offered to pay unpaid Transportation Security Administration agents, but the White House rejected his initial offer.
U.S. law bars the executive branch from accepting private donations to cover federal employee salaries, a legal concern cited in coverage of the rejection.
The article and other commentators say Elon Musk could legally donate to worker hardship funds run by the American Federation of Government Employees, which distribute relief directly to union members. The piece notes direct peer-to-peer transfers would be impractical and points to union relief funds as a scalable alternative. Covering all unpaid TSA salaries was estimated at about $250 million, and Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, is named as the union leader who could receive or oversee such donations.
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