Are Republicans starting to express some concern about Musk and DOGE? Better late than never.
As soon as Trump took office, Musk and his DOGE team took over the Office of Personnel Management, and by February 14 they had begun a massive purge of federal workers.
As protests of the cuts began, Trump urged Musk on February 22 to be “more aggressive” in cutting the government, prompting Musk to demand that all federal employees explain what they had accomplished in the past week under threat of firing.
That request sparked a struggle in the executive branch as cabinet officers told the employees in their departments to ignore Musk. Then, on February 27, U.S. District Judge William Alsup found that the firings were likely illegal and temporarily halted them.
This past Tuesday, Senate majority leader John Thune weighed in on the conflict when he told CNN that the power to hire and fire employees properly belongs to Cabinet secretaries.
Yesterday, Musk met with Republican members of Congress. Senators reportedly asked Musk—an unelected bureaucrat whose actions are likely illegal—to tell them more about what’s going on.
Did you say pretty please too?
(I guess Democrats weren’t invited to the party because they probably wouldn’t have been as polite i.e. deferential as I expect you were.)
Musk apparently gave some of the senators his phone number and said he wanted to set up a direct line for them when they have questions, allowing them to get a near-instant response to their concerns.
And Senator Lindsey Graham told reporters that Musk told the senators he would “create a system where members of Congress can call some central group” to get cuts they dislike reversed.
Egads. Y’all have bent the knee so much you’ve broken both your legs.
The Constitution gives Congress alone the power to make appropriations and pass the laws that decide how money is spent.
That’s you guys, remember?
As was posited: “How on earth are we in this position where members of Congress, the ones who write the budget, appropriate and assign the money, now have to go hat in hand to beg for changes or even information from the guy who actually seems to be running the government?”
At this rate DOGE is gonna figure out that maybe you serve no practical purpose after all? And we know what that means don’t we?
I’m embarrassed for you. And I’m embarrassed for the country that elected you to serve it
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