Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) pressed the State Department on Monday for answers about the agency’s plans to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas after new reporting disputed its initial claims about the contract.

The State Department faced backlash last month after it appeared that Elon Musk’s Tesla was set to receive a $400 million contract for “armored Teslas.”

The agency emphasized at the time that the contract originated in the Biden administration and that there were “no current plans to issue it.” The document featuring the contract was later........

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