Musk appeared to be in charge of the first Cabinet meeting of the Trump administration today. As Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny of CNN reported: “If anyone was still in doubt where the power lies in President Donald Trump’s new administration, Wednesday’s first Cabinet meeting made clear it wasn’t in the actual Cabinet.” Katherine Doyle of NBC News described “Senate-confirmed department heads spending an hour as audience members.”
A photograph of the meeting in which Musk, wearing a Make America Great Again ball cap and a T-shirt that said “Tech Support,” appears to be holding court while Trump appears to be sleeping reinforced the idea that it is Musk rather than Trump who is running the government. When Trump did speak, CNN fact checker Daniel Dale noted, his remarks were full of false claims.
Cabinet officers, who had brought notes for the statements they expected to make, sat silent, while Musk, the unelected billionaire from South Africa who put more than a quarter of a billion dollars into electing Trump, spoke more than anyone except Trump himself. Trump didn’t turn to Vice President J.D. Vance until 56 minutes into the meeting, and Vance spoke for only 36 seconds.
It is obvious to me that Donald Trump has outsourced the functions of the Presidency to an unelected South African immigrant who essentially bought his position in the Oval Office. Trump only received the votes of 31.8% of eligible voters. That’s a far cry from a mandate. Yet, you seem to be OK with giving up control of Federal spending to Elon Musk. You are avoiding responsibility for allowing this to happen. Ceding control of Federal Spending to Mr. Musk and the so called DOGE group, is absolute violation of your oath to protect and defend the US Constitution. You were elected to pay attention that the Constitution was followed. You have a responsibility to reign in President Trump’s outsourcing of his job to an immature, juvenile immigrant who doesn’t even understand how the government works. Make no mistake, your constituents are not happy with Trump’s inability to function and Musk ‘s irresponsible, even reckless approach to cutting costs. Most Americans have noticed that Musk and DOGE have not used the word efficiency at all in describing what their wrecking ball approach to cost cutting will do FOR Americans. So far, the results have been disastrous and Americans are suffering because of it. Stiffen your spines and do what your Oath of Office requires you to do. Stop Trump’s rampage and shut down DOGE before it’s too late. YOUR CONSTITUENTS ARE WATCHING HOW YOU REACT TO THIS RECKLESS, IRRESPONSIBLE RAMPAGE THROUGH OUR GOVERNMENT THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH EFFICIENCY OR IMPROVING GOVERNMENT SERVICES.
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