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Dozens of elected Home and Senate Democrats tried to enter the US Treasury however had been denied entry and advised that they wanted an appointment. The Democrats staged a protest outdoors the Treasury the place they vowed to struggle Trump and Musk.
Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) mentioned:
Members of Congress, we’re right here in the present day as a result of an unelected billionaire and his workforce have been given full and unfettered entry to our taxpayer cash and our authorities.
We simply tried to enter the Treasury constructing as members of Congress, and we’ll as a result of we have to present oversight to Elon Musk and his workforce. We do not know what they’re doing behind these closed doorways. The folks deserve transparency. The truth that an unelected billionaire has all of your personal info is an issue.
He has entry to all of our info, our Social Safety numbers, the federal fee system, which suggests he is calling the photographs on our taxpayer cash. You imply to inform me a person value over $400 billion goes to determine what occurs with my grandma’s Social Safety test? There’s completely no oversight as to what he is doing.
What’s to cease him from stealing taxpayer cash? Nothing. That’s the reason we’re right here as Home Democrats to carry the road and struggle for our constituents.
Hear, they campaigned throughout all the nation telling folks they had been going to struggle for working folks however they lied. They wish to use the federal government to additional enrich these corrupt billionaires and firms. They need us to imagine that the explanation we will not pay for our medical insurance, the explanation we will not cowl hire, the explanation children are dying on the streets on account of gun violence, the explanation there’s a lot wealth inequality, and that so many individuals dwell paycheck to paycheck is due to the immigrant, or due to the trans particular person, or due to your neighbor.
They lied. It is due to corrupt billionaires like Elon Musk and firms, not our fellow working folks. I will finish by saying this. We’d have a couple of much less seats in Congress, however we’re not going to be the minority, we will be the opposition.
We’re not going to permit them to steal from our folks, from working-class folks. And we’ll struggle, we’ll present oversight, and we’ll win. Let’s go!
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) was up subsequent and mentioned:
I’ll attempt my greatest to not preach.
