Congress was very close on Wednesday to put billionaire Elon Musk in the hot seat over his ongoing attempts to effectively control the US government infiltrating each federal agency. But the effort failed in a decision of 19-20.
The US House Superman and Government Reform Committee held a vote to submit Musk, proposed by Ranging Member Rep. Gerry Connolly, Democrat from Virginia. Republican representative James Comer, President Donald Trump’s chairman and longtime ally, has tried various tactics to prevent the motion, including insistence that it cannot be discussed.
“Mr. President, why don’t we want to debate Elon Musk coming in and talking to us about his work and how he got rich for $ 64 billion? “One Democrat asked.
The room then erupted into chaos, with members of Congress shouting with each other, captured by cameras on the committee Hearing. Comer then tried to get a vote vote, but in a really thin fashion, Comer stated that the motion failed. Democrats demanded a suitable vote.
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The final vote was 19-20, causing the motion to fail, and Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California was especially absent. X -users claimed that Khanna had “abstained” from the vote, which was not correct and the congressman emptied things in tweet.
“I would have voted yes. They called a procedural vote without notice and I like 8 others did not do it in time,” Khanna wrote on x. “Musk’s attacks on our institutions are unconstitutional. He should be submitted and respond to our committee. They must call the vote by notice. ”
Musk answered with “Don’t be a thick. ”
Khanna explained that he was in a meeting with the ambassador in Mexico to discuss the “terrible rates” that Trump threatened against the country. Khanna said he could not do it in time and “they must properly notice and call the vote.”
Protests have exploded across the country to be aware of Musk’s ongoing coup, with people singing “No one voted for Elon Musk” and demanding an end of the oligarchic takeover. Some people in New Jerseyerze even arranged signs along Route 4 on Tuesday, who read “Musk stole your tax data”, a reference to the entire penetration of government computer systems taking place now.
But it remains unclear what can be done to stop any of it. Each report seems to indicate that Musk and his goats are only intermingled into agencies such as the US Treasury and USAID, requiring full access to issues such as payment systems. Several reports in major news sites have claimed that Musk’s staff have something similar to “readable” approach, but Wired reported on Tuesday that is not true.
A 25-year-old member of Doge named Mark Elez, who previously worked at Musk’s companies, actually has access to the US Treasury’s payment auto manager and a secure payment system at the office of the fiscal service, according to Wired. This means that Musk can theoretically stop payments about anything he doesn’t like. Trump’s press secretary repeated This Doge reads only access on Wednesday.
It is still unclear whether Musk has actually stopped payments, but there are countless anecdotes online from congressional authorized programs that have not yet received funding. As always, it is not clear whether Trump’s Henchman and their intermingling with these systems accidentally broke things or if they have really broken them intentionally.
President Trump and Musk promised Close USAIDThe foreign auxiliary agency, which cannot be technically by any president without an act of the congress. But again, no one seems able to stop them at this moment. The USAID website darkened on Saturday But now only has a notice that all employees are put into administrative leave.
Many members of the congress and government officials have said that Doge’s activities are Dimly illegalBut the United States now learns quite quickly that laws are false unless someone surrounds them to apply them. And right now the people who are supposed to comply with laws are all by Trump.
