Chris Young

According to the Revolving Door Project and media reporting, Young’s professional background spans Republican Party field operations and pharmaceutical trade association lobbying ⁶. These accounts indicate he served as a field director for Bobby Jindal’s 2007 governor’s race, held state-level Republican National Committee roles in Nevada (2012) and Louisiana (2014), and reached the position of RNC National Field Director, which he held from 2013 through 2017 ⁶. He subsequently served as Executive Director of Engage Texas before joining PhRMA as Deputy Vice President, rising to Vice President by 2020 and remaining until mid-2024 ⁶.

In August 2024, Elon Musk hired Young to oversee America PAC operations. Salon reported that the hire was intended to professionalize what had been a loosely organized political spending vehicle ⁶. Review of Texas corporate records and FEC filings shows that Young was simultaneously installed as Director and Treasurer of America PAC (FEC C00879510), Vice President of United States of America Inc. (TX Comptroller TID 32097038932), and placed on Europa 100 LLC’s payroll (TX Comptroller TID 32075024482, managed by Jared Birchall) ^{1 7}.

Young’s primary documented income source during the DOGE period was Europa 100 LLC, a Texas entity that corporate records indicate was originally used to pay household staff for Musk before being repurposed in 2024 ². According to his government disclosure, his income from Europa 100 fell in the range of $100,001 to $1,000,000 annually, and ProPublica reporting put the actual figure at approximately $1 million per year ^{3 7}. Jared Birchall is the manager of record for Europa 100, and the same disclosure listed Young as a participant in an Excession LLC defined-contribution retirement plan — Excession LLC being another Musk entity — during his service as a CFPB special governmental employee ⁷.

As Treasurer of America PAC, Young was the fiduciary of record for a committee that FEC records show received more than $239 million in direct contributions from Musk and spent $261 million over the 2024 election cycle ¹. The same records show America PAC directed $78.8 million in in-kind expenditures to United States of America Inc., the same entity where Young held a VP title — a structure in which the committee’s largest in-kind recipient was also an organization whose officer simultaneously served as the committee’s treasurer ¹. Media reporting indicates that Young audited Blitz Canvassing tally sheets in Nevada; Blitz Canvassing is a GP3 LLC subsidiary that received $64.6 million from America PAC in 2024 ¹.

Young’s government disclosure also identified up to $15,000 in Amazon stock, a holding the CFPB’s own ethics rules designate as prohibited for bureau employees ⁵. GovExec reported that a fellow DOGE aide at the CFPB, Gavin Kliger, separately held prohibited stocks — Tesla and Apple — valued at up to $715,000 ⁵.

ProPublica reported that Young was deployed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on January 30, 2025, as a DOGE-affiliated special governmental employee, one of three Musk deputies added to the bureau’s internal staff directory ³. Records show he obtained full system access to CFPB data — including bank examination records and enforcement materials — by February 7, 2025 ⁴. Internal emails from February 11–12 showed him participating in discussions of contract cancellations, transfers from the CFPB’s civil penalty fund, and workforce reduction-in-force planning, and reporting indicates he separately inquired about RIF implementation in March ⁴.

The conflict-of-interest question documented by reporting centers on the fact that CFPB holds jurisdiction over Tesla’s consumer auto-loan portfolio and over X Corp’s January 28, 2025 Visa payment partnership. In ProPublica’s account, ethics specialists viewed the arrangement as a likely violation of 18 U.S.C. § 208, which prohibits a federal employee from participating personally and substantially in a matter in which they hold a financial interest ⁴.

Senate press releases record that Senators Warren and Schiff wrote to the Office of Government Ethics and the CFPB Inspector General in February 2025 calling for investigation of Musk and DOGE officials ⁸, followed by a second letter to the OGE on March 26, 2025 ⁸. On May 29, 2025, Senators Warren, Reed, and Wyden sent a letter to the Department of Justice urging a criminal investigation under 18 U.S.C. § 208 of DOGE employees at CFPB, with Young’s arrangement cited as a central example ⁸. No public evidence of a formal subpoena directed at Young personally had emerged as of the investigation cutoff ⁸.

Elon Musk is Young’s employer and the ultimate source of his compensation through the Europa 100 LLC payroll chain. Review of FEC filings (C00879510), Texas Comptroller franchise tax records for Europa 100 LLC (TID 32075024482), and ProPublica reporting connects Young to Musk through multiple concurrent entity relationships — America PAC, Europa 100, and United States of America Inc. ^{1 7 2}.

Jared Birchall manages Europa 100 LLC, the entity through which Young is paid. Texas corporate records show that Birchall manages multiple Musk Texas LLCs and functions as Musk’s entity administrator, with Young’s compensation flowing through that Birchall-managed structure ⁷.

America PAC is the committee where Young held the Director and Treasurer title. FEC records show the PAC spent $261 million in the 2024 cycle, with its largest in-kind outflows going to United States of America Inc., where Young also held an officer title ¹.