
民主黨奪回參眾兩院控制權,馬斯克豪擲近5億美元捐款成頭號金主卻吞敗
全球首富馬斯克在X上發文,自嘲他砸近5億美元力挺共和黨卻在美國期中選舉中失利。民主黨成功奪回參眾兩院控制權。
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馬斯克在今年美國期中選舉豪擲近5億美元支持共和黨,但民主黨成功奪回國會參眾兩院控制權。
全球首富、美國科技界億萬富豪馬斯克(Elon Musk)4日在X上發文論及共和黨在美國期中選舉中吃敗仗,自嘲他選前砸重金力挺共和黨根本沒發揮作用。
民主黨在3日的期中選舉中奪回美國國會參眾兩院的控制權,導致共和黨籍的川普總統未來2年的施政恐在國會遭民主黨人處處掣肘。
「看來我那些『干預選舉的太空雷射武器』這回沒發揮作用啊」,馬斯克在X上如此寫道,還配了一個「聳肩」表情符號。
根據追蹤政治獻金與競選資金獨立組織「公開祕密」(Open Secrets),馬斯克在今年期中選舉中豪擲近5億美元(約台幣164.42億元),不但是共和黨頭號大金主,也是自2010年美國不再對競選支出設限以來、對聯邦級選舉捐款額最高的個人金主。
馬斯克的捐款,主要流向他的親共和黨的「美國政治行動委員會」(America PAC),以及名為「共和黨參議院領導基金」(SLF)的超級政治行動委員會。
今年9月,SLF動用馬斯克捐贈的1.58億美元,來為共和黨德州聯邦參議院候選人派克斯頓(Ken Paxton)助選;但派克斯頓在3日的選戰中敗給民主黨候選人塔拉里格(James Talarico),這是民主黨人自1994年以來首度在德州贏得州級公職。
塔拉里格勝選後在德州奧斯汀的集會上也提及馬斯克。「我們在這場選戰中挺身對抗我們(指民主黨)的歌利亞巨人─世上最有錢的人(指馬斯克)、世上最有權勢的人(指川普),以及整個華府建制派」。

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan's campaign team launched the "Vietnam Security Alert" propaganda, and the Kuomintang distributed "Republic of China streamers", which were questioned as plagiarism from the Democratic Progressive Party's Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang. Democratic Progressive Party legislator Lin Junxian said that the Kuomintang, on the one hand, said that the ocean currents had receded and then raised alarms, which was conflicting. The Democratic Progressive Party would respond with caution and fear, and go out to vote.

The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Legislative Yuan reviewed 163 budget freeze cases for the Ministry of National Defense. Kuomintang legislator Ma Wenjun questioned the inclusion of many cases on the agenda before meeting the conditions for unfreezing, and criticized the military for wasting time and breaking the tacit understanding of negotiations, causing many generals to stand up for questioning. After questioning by the government and the opposition, it was finally agreed to unfreeze 54 cases and unfreeze 20 other cases after submission of reports.
Former South Korean President Yoon Seok-yue was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison with a three-year suspended sentence in the second instance of violating the Public Office Election Act on the 4th. The court dismissed the appeal and upheld the original verdict. If the judgment takes effect, his presidential election will be invalid, and the National Power Party must return 39.7 billion won in campaign subsidies.
The 75th Chairman's Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress was held in Beijing on the afternoon of the 4th. Chairman Zhao Leji presided over the meeting. The meeting heard multiple opinions on revising the draft law and reports on the deliberation of the bill, and decided to submit it to the Standing Committee meeting for review.
Zhao Jiangping, former counselor of the Chongqing Municipal Government, was expelled from the party and had his retirement benefits revoked for serious violations of discipline and law. His suspected criminal issues have been transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution in accordance with the law.
The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a regular press conference in Beijing on the 4th. Spokesperson Zhu Fenglian responded to reporters' questions on recent hot topics such as the so-called "intermediary election" theory in the mainland by the Democratic Progressive Party authorities and the incident of Taiwanese actor Ming Dao presenting a banner, criticizing the Democratic Progressive Party authorities for betraying the spirit of Sun Yat-sen.