Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said the pressure Elon Musk is putting on Congress is what he receives on a regular basis.

“I know that some people out there are saying, ‘Well, he’s putting pressure on everybody.’ That’s nothing new. We get that kind of pressure on a regular basis,” Rounds said in an interview on Monday’s Politico Tech podcast.

Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, co-heads a new agency, the Department of Government Efficiency, and has quickly become a major adviser to President-elect Donald Trump as the transition to the new administration continues.

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