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We do have to really make sure that the spending and the appropriation and the power of the purse remains with the House and Senate,
said Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican senator for West Virginia I have felt for a long time that USAid is our way to combat the Belt and Road initiative, which is China’s effort to really gain influence around the world, including Africa, South America and the western hemisphere,
said Roger Wicker, a Republican senator for Mississippi The president is suggesting that [Musk] has authorisation. I think there is more than some question,
Lisa Murkowski, a Republicans senator for Alaska known as a moderate, told the Hill Whatever Doge is doing, it is certainly not what democracy looks like, or has ever looked like in the grand history of this country, because democracy does not work in the shadows, democracy does not skirt the rule of law,
he said in a Senate floor speech At some point, it’s going to require congressional action to have staying power,
he told Semafor, while praising Musk for “coming up with good ideas”. There is a requirement in the law for 15 days’ notice of any reorganisation. We clearly did not get that. We got the letter yesterday,
It would be helpful” if Trump or Musk sought congressional approval before ordering such drastic changes
I don’t think they’re closing an agency, but I do think they have the right to review funding and how those decisions are made and what priorities are being funded,
Musk should exceed any of the transparency rules and recuse himself from meetings that conflict with his companies' contracts and regulatory interests,
said Scott Amey, general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight There are an overwhelming number of ethical issues that are raised by his appointment as an SGE and the range of access he seems to enjoy across the executive branch,
Elon Musk is selflessly serving President Trump’s administration as a special government employee, and he has abided by all applicable federal laws,
If he goes to 131 days, somebody is going to go into court and say he’s really a full-time employee and demand to see his financial disclosure forms,
Special government employees have been a pain in the neck since Day One,
said Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer for former President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007. We think the idea that if you’re rich enough, you can essentially buy opacity over transparency is a real problem,
Great, bigballs has my social security number, now I feel better!"
Elon was able to buy his way into the government and now he’s blowing it up like a Tesla in Self Driving Mode,
said Stephen Colbert on The Late Show on Tuesday, taking time in his monologue to call out the Trump-supporting tech billionaire's aggressive White House takeover You’re the richest man on Earth! You want to take over HR?"
Those of us who have worked at Elon's companies can see his fingerprints all over what's happening inside the federal government right now,
said Thomas Moline, a former SpaceX senior avionics engineer Musk has unprecedented and centralized control of the basic plumbing of government,
They could get to pick and choose which payments the federal government makes,
Linden said in an interview
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