Sen. Cory Booker says he won't accept campaign donations from Elon Musk

Sen. Cory Booker said that he wouldn't accept donations from tech mogul Elon Musk but urged the former Trump advisor to invest against the GOP budget bill.

Sen. Cory Booker said Sunday he would not accept campaign donations from tech mogul Elon Musk but urged the former Trump adviser to “get involved right now in a more substantive way” in Democrats’ push against the sweeping GOP-backed spending bill.

“This bill is disastrous for our long-term economy,” Booker said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” “This is an American issue, and I welcome Elon Musk not to my campaign. I welcome him right now not to sit back and just fire off tweets — get involved right now in a more substantive way in putting pressure on Congress people and senators to not do this.”

Asked directly whether he would ever accept campaign funding from Musk, Booker said, “I would not accept money from Elon Musk for my campaign, but I would be supportive of anybody, including Elon Musk, putting resources forward right now to let more Americans know” about the bill.

Other Democrats, like Rep. Ro Khanna of California, have floated welcoming Musk into the Democratic Party after his feud with President Donald Trump exploded into public view last week.

“We should ultimately be trying to convince him that the Democratic Party has more of the values that he agrees with,” Khanna told Politico last week after Musk and Trump fired off a series of social media posts criticizing each other.