Democrats haven't won anything yet, but they've already picked their first target.

According to Politico, senior Democrats are drawing up plans to investigate Elon Musk if they win control of Congress in November. The report put the motive plainly: Democrats "have long eyed investigating the world's richest man and the GOP's top donor." Senior members, it said, are mulling how "a range of panels could target Musk and a huge swath of his businesses."

So the plan is to use congressional subpoena power against the biggest donor to the other party.

Musk saw the report and answered on X. "Live by the sword, die by the sword," he wrote. Then he added: "Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets."

This is the same party that spent this month accusing President Trump of "weaponization." When federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's home with a warrant signed by a judge, House Democratic leaders called it "the continued corrupt weaponization of the federal government against Donald Trump's adversaries."

Now those same Democrats are openly planning investigations aimed at Trump's biggest supporter, before they even have the gavels.

Their wish list starts with DOGE. Musk spent his time in government leading the Department of Government Efficiency, which estimates it saved taxpayers $214 billion by canceling contracts, leases, and grants, cutting fraud and improper payments, and shrinking the federal workforce. Democrats fought DOGE at every step. Now they want hearings on the dismantling of USAID and on what data DOGE could access.

They also want to talk about Starlink. Some Democrats want to investigate whether Musk ordered Starlink service slowed for Ukraine's military last week. Sen. Adam Schiff wants a full Senate investigation with Musk testifying under oath, and he called Musk "an unstable executive."

The facts are murkier than Schiff lets on. President Trump has denied ordering any restrictions. Musk has said decisions like that belong to the military and the President, not to him.

Schiff also skipped the history. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ukraine's government asked Musk for help. Within days, Starlink terminals were arriving in the country, and SpaceX kept Ukrainian soldiers, hospitals, and government offices connected while Russia tried to knock out the country's communications. For years Democrats praised Musk for it. They changed their minds about him when he started supporting Republicans.

That's the common thread in every probe on the list. None of them aims at the waste DOGE uncovered or the agencies that wasted the money. Democrats want to investigate the man who went looking for it, and who then spent his own money helping Republicans win.

Musk is not a typical target. Most people facing a congressional investigation hire lawyers, go quiet, and hope it blows over. Musk owns one of the world's biggest social media platforms and has more than 200 million followers on it. He has spent the last two years fighting the federal bureaucracy in public, and he's made clear he intends to fight this too.

"Those who pick fights with me," he wrote, "should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings."

The midterms are 12 days away. Voters will decide whether the next Congress spends its time investigating Washington's waste or investigating the man who tried to cut it.