Elon Musk’s The Boring Company might be in line for an Amtrak contract

Federal railroad regulators are successful talks with Elon Musk’s tunneling firm, The Boring Company (TBC), implicit a multi-billion Amtrak project, according to The New York Times. 

Citing sources acquainted with the matter, the NYT reports that Federal Railroad Administration officials person spoken with TBC to larn whether the Musk-owned institution could prevention the bureau wealth connected the Frederick Douglass Tunnel program. 

The project, which is being built to link Baltimore to Washington and Virginia, was initially projected to outgo $6 billion, but existent estimates suggest it could outgo arsenic overmuch arsenic $8.5 billion. 

While TBC was 1 of respective companies to beryllium considered for a caller engineering contract, the talks rise reddish flags astir Musk’s galore conflicts of involvement arsenic helium splits his clip betwixt his companies, his relation arsenic President Trump’s right-hand man, and arsenic overseer of DOGE, which has chopped resources to agencies that regulate his businesses.