The richest man in the world, who acts as a non -chosen “efficiency” candidate by President Trump, has managed the rare performance of the overshadow of his boss in the past few days – provided, stormed at will and concluding government agencies.
After two weeks of chaos, which were caused by Trump's own one -sided executive commands to the radical change of the federal government, it was suddenly Elon Musk, whose name this week was all over Washington this week was in an alleged effort to reduce costs.
Disregard for established security protocols during the downplay of the Congress's Budget Authority, Ukraine and Africa south of the Sahara goods and were closed.
They suggested to anyone who stood in the way, including the career officers with the actual authority to protect finance ministries and USAD data, were the real villain agents. And she and her allies showed an increasing outrage among the Democrats as welfare resistance from political losers.
In one case, the Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), The Razed Democrat in the House Justice Committee, opened in Musk because he was broadcast. “We have no fourth government branch called Elon Musk.”
“Elon Musk, you have not created USAID. The United States congress did the American people, ”said Raskin. “And just like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he doesn't have the power to destroy it.”
Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff for politics and home protection, shot back on the social media platform X that Musk has.
“Democratic politicians hate democracy,” wrote Miller. “They do not believe that voters have the right to choose a president to relieve the constant not elected DC swamp.”
The showdown continued a growing debate about the US governance, which defined the race between Trump and former vice president Kamala Harris in 2024 and further shaped Trump's presidency in the first few days.
The struggle between Legacy Government and the legal reviews that you have kept together have loudly try to defend a system democrat-in an impact on the status quo with the fast-moving quo, slash-and-burn tactics from risk capital And Big Tech, in which the breaking of things is celebrated on behalf of the innovation.
Trump and his supporters believe that they have a comprehensive new mandate to advance changes thanks to a slim victory for Trump and tiny majorities for republicans in the house and in the Senate, some of which are driven by almost 300 million US dollars of Musk campaign contributions . They say Trump chose Muschus to take off fraud and waste, and that Muschus, as a result, has all the authority he needs to act freely.
Trump, who never appreciates that he was able to apply to the excessive power of musk from the growing alarm – although these concerns have clearly achieved him. In the recent remarks, Trump said that he had approved Musk's work so far, but also that he remains responsible as President and that he will not always agree with the Tech billionaire Playbook.
“Sometimes we won't agree with it and we won't go where he wants to go,” said Trump. “But I think he does a great job. He is a clever guy. “
Trump said he would not allow Musk to work in areas where he has a conflict but has not yet seen anything of concern.
Musk is not only the main owner of X, but also the managing director of SpaceX and Tesla. The companies have dozens of contracts with the federal government worth billions.
Democrats say it is impossible to disguise musk from his conflicts, especially if the entire federal government receives comprehensive expenditure authority. You say .
And they warned that a system that hands over the control of the government to rich campaign donors is not a democracy at all, but an oligarchy.
“In front of our eyes, an unemployed shadow government carries out an enemy takeover of the federal government,” said Charles E. Schumer, chairman of the Senate Minister (DN.Y.), during a press conference on Monday.
Schumer said that Dogy employees employees who carried out Musks on Friday had received “with violent access to the financial department's payment system and” the most sensitive information practically all US citizens “, including social security data, tax information and medical and medical Medicaid performance data.
Schumer took on a similar message with X and took Doge there as an invented unit with zero legitimate power.
“Doge has no authority to make spending decisions. Doge has no authority to close programs or ignore the federal law, ”Schumer wrote. “The behavior of Doge cannot stand. The congress must take measures to restore the rule of law. “
Musk, according to reports, acted as a “special government employee” with limited responsibilities, Schumer's answer described as “hysterical” and the proof that Doge “does work that is really important”.
“This is the one who has fulfilled the American people to defeat the bureaucracy, the rule of the bureaucrats and to restore democracy, rule of the people,” Musk wrote to X. “We will never get another chance like this. It is now or never. Their support is crucial for the success of the people's revolution. “
Elon Musk reacts when Donald Trump speaks in Washington at a rally on January 19.
(Alex Brandon / Associated Press)
How the American people feel the latest actions about Musk's latest actions is not entirely clear. But in the past few months, the Americans have shown that the Americans are skeptical about his role in the government and personally.
A Quinnipiac survey The end of the first week of Trump found that 53% of the registered voters resisted the Musk to play an outstanding role in the administration compared to 39%.
A AP-NORC survey Von Trump, before Trump took office, found that two thirds of the adults in the USA said that corruption and inefficiency were “big problems” in the federal government, and about 6 out of 10 said the same about state regulations and bureaucracy. However, only a third of the respondents had a favorable view of musk, and about 6 of 10 said that the president, who relyed on billionaires to advise advice on government policy, would be a “very” or “something” bad thing.
In the late Monday, several unions that represented the federal employees ”sued for a member who tried to block it.
“People who have to share information with the federal government should not be forced to exchange information with Elon Musk or his” Doge “,” the lawsuit says. “And the federal law says they don't have to.”
Road protests have also broken out due to Musk's movements, with one with the title “Nobody Elected Elon” being planned on Tuesday.
According to reports, Bessent had spent part of the Monday behind closed doors with Republican legislators and assured them that Musk's team had no control over a financial system that checked trillion dollars of federal financing.
Katie Miller, a spokesman for Doge, has also denied claims that Doge representatives have accessed classified information without the right security checks. She and other Trump officials partially support Doges work by claiming that both the Ministry of Finance and the USA are Trump's “America First” agenda.
The husband of Katie Miller, Stephen Miller, offered a particularly impressive assessment by USA, an agency established by President Kennedy in 1961 and anchored personally to distribute billions of dollars of foreign support.
“Bureaucrats at USAID cannot intervene in the matters of the foreign countries to support regime, to thwart the interests of America, to facilitate the illegal immigration of the masses, and not to facilitate the politics of diversity, justice and inclusion Federal law violates, “said Stephen Miller Fox News.
Musk said that USAID was “an arm of the radical-left globalists” and responsible for “crazy editions”. Musk replied to Trump's decision to convey the Foreign Minister Marco Rubio in which expenses were checked: “Cool”.
The Budget from the USA is massive in terms of abroad, but is less than 1% of the current federal budget. And his programs have been in force for years because they have made people around the world available an important lifeline for HIV medication and other health care for infectious diseases.
Dr. Atul Gawande, head of the Global Health of USA under the Biden administration, has described Musk's claims about the agency as a “willful distortion” and said that “the upcoming closure of USA is unconstitutional and reveals complete ignorance or indifference to how important its Work is. In global health, conflicts, disasters and beyond are also Americans and humanity. “
Democrats have also strongly defended USAID.
Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) Said about CNN that USAID a number of international Lebanon. “
International aid organizations alarmed about possible disorders Humanitarian aid in the Gazathat was decimated by Israel in his persistent war against Hamas, while others worried about the cuts of Ukraine, which was carried out by a Russian invasion.
Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said that Musk and his team's foray in federal authorities had an “illegal act” that the Trump government tried to justify them through mere bones.
“They depend on a feeling of boasting and inevitable, a technology company in buildings to storm.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) Said that the Americans should be extremely concerned about the fact that Musk received access to government data without legitimate authority or clear limits on how information can be used.
“Whether it is to increase your finances or to expand its political power,” she said, “everything is to Elon.”