{"id":115332,"date":"2026-06-16T19:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/us-senator-says-tesla-benefited-from-govt-support-elon-musk-replies\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:42:29","slug":"us-senator-says-tesla-benefited-from-govt-support-elon-musk-replies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/us-senator-says-tesla-benefited-from-govt-support-elon-musk-replies\/","title":{"rendered":"US senator says Tesla benefited from govt support, Elon Musk replies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has refuted claims that his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, owe their success to government aid, stating such incentives represent less than 2% of their value. The debate ignited between Senators Mike Lee and Ed Markey over taxpayer contributions to Musk&#8217;s wealth. Musk asserted that removing EV tax credits actually boosted Tesla&#8217;s market share.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has refuted claims that his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, owe their success to government aid, stating such incentives represent less than 2% of their value. The debate ignited between Senators Mike Lee and Ed Markey over taxpayer contributions to Musk&#8217;s wealth. Musk asserted that removing EV tax credits actually boosted Tesla&#8217;s market share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":115333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}