Elon Musk said he intends to fund moderate challengers in Democratic primary races, with his pledge coming in response to criticism from a Democrat lawmaker that the tech mogul is using his massive reach on social media to have an outsized influence on American politics. Musk has been using X, the social media platform that he owns, to voice his opinions on federal programs, policies, and legislation that he opposes. In a flurry of X posts in recent days, the tech mogul said he was against a sweeping 1,547-page bill that would have extended government funding through March 2025, telling his 200-plus million followers on the platform to “Stop the steal of your tax dollars” while adding that any lawmaker who votes for the spending bill deserves to be voted out in the 2026 mid-term election….