Posted on 02/04/2025 7:22:35 PM PST by Red Badger
Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley said she would bring “fire” to Republicans Tuesday if they ignore her party’s concerns about Elon Musk and his access to the Treasury Department.
Democrats and activists gathered outside the Treasury Department to protest Musk having access to the agency’s data. In a speech during the rally, Pressley warned Republican lawmakers about this issue and called for people to resist if this situation continues.
“With unprecedented organizing, mobilizing, agitating. We will see you in the courts, in Congress, in the streets,” Pressley said. The rhetoric escalated with direct attacks on Musk.
“Elon Musk is a Nazi nutball baby. A godless, lawless billionaire. No one elected Elon. This is the American people. This is not your trashy cyber truck that you can just dismantle, pick apart and sell the pieces of,” Pressley said.
“I want to say to our Republican colleagues — pay attention. We’re here today in the hopes that you will see the light. But if you do not see the light, we will bring the fire. Resist,” Pressley said.
Treasury Department officials said Tuesday that federal expenditures would continue unabated.
“Treasury has no higher obligation than managing the government’s finances on behalf of the American people, and its payments system is critical to that process,” wrote Jonathan Blum, a legislative affairs official at the Treasury Department, as reported by the New York Times.
Democratic lawmakers vowed to stall President Donald Trump’s agenda. Party strategists set up a new war room at their headquarters. Democratic demonstrators, joined by a growing number of elected officials, spoke of what they said was a potential constitutional crisis.
Under Trump, the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) called for major changes at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Plans were announced to shut down USAID on Monday. Musk said in an early Monday X Spaces conversation that he and Trump decided to close the agency.
The Trump administration instructed agency staff to work remotely, according to an overnight email, as reported by NBC News. By Monday afternoon, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had taken over as USAID’s acting director and criticized the agency for operating like a “global charity.”
Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst backed Musk and Trump and said she had her own concerns about USAID and how it handles money. She said that the money frequently fails to reach its intended targets.
The rhetoric is really getting out of control..... I might even say... insurrectionary....
Yeah. They act like cleaning up the Treasury payment system and shutting down the USAID department was taking money out of their hands and bread out of their mouths. I wonder...
She’s planning arson?
Just the usual hags bitching that someone’s stepped on the spigot of free money. She could care less about the data. She’s afraid of the people he will catch with their hands in the till.
Sounds like an insurrection to me. She must want to hide something.
in the executive branch
there are two elected officials
are they supposed to run the executive branch all by themselves?
Ok. Lets take it to the streets. I’m beyond sick of these corrupt cimmie bastards.
No one elected the garbage man either, but he shows up every week to take away the trash.
She’s just playing to her idiot base.
Democrats are threatening an insurrection again.
-PJ
If you hit the streets, more than likely some of you will die. Don’t do it.
maxine looks like she has already been prepared for burial
or maybe it is just the lighting
They sure don’t want any oversight on how they’re looting the treasury, do they?
People like Pressley are a cancer on our body politic.
I really hate it when they say “No one elected Elon.”
He is a federal government EMPLOYEE, no different that everybody at USAID, Treasury, DHS, the FBI, etc. NONE of those employees were elected, either.
Musk works for and reports to the person who WAS elected, President Trump.
Maybe the Dems should urge that the Secretary of DOGE be made a cabinet level position and the secretary be confirmed by the Senate.
Nazi again. Pro- Israel, and pro- Jewiah Nazis are a strange breed.
What did we all expect? We’ve gored their scared cow, walked on places they see as exclusive territory and started kicking in closet doors that have thousands of skeletons inside. Get used to the screeching…it’ll be with us for a while.
That covers them only ON the House and Senate floor. Not in the street................
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