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U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett Rips Elon Musk, Says DOGE Is Illegal
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2/5/2025
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett is ripping Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency ... she says he needs a lesson in how the federal government is supposed to run.
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Our Republican colleagues are kind of okay with ceding their constitutional authorities
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over to a guy that given maybe a few years ago, they would have been trying to deport.
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I mean, we understand that Elon was not born here.
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And so it's interesting that they now are like, oh yeah, well, because Trump said it,
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then it's all good.
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No, it's not all good.
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We have processes, we have rules, we have a constitution, we have laws, and they have
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decided that they want to eviscerate all of that in front of our eyes.
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And everybody wants to yell at the Democrats, but let me be clear, it's not the Democrats
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doing this.
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It's the Republicans.
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The main thing, I think, that prompted this was the dissolution of the USAID department.
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And perhaps I'm guessing the talk about the Department of Education.
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The CIA, the FBI, there are a lot of people.
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I would love for you to respond to what JD Vance just posted, and this is what he said.
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Elon Musk is supposed to be advising the president.
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That is the role that he is supposed to play.
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No one ever thought that he would have this authority that no one has ever been given.
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What people don't understand is that when you sign up to work for the federal government,
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such as myself, unfortunately, I had to give up practicing law.
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I am not allowed to do that anymore.
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This guy is still literally taking government contracts.
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And also the guy that has the power of the purse, there's not even a such thing.
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I mean, the power of the purse lies with Congress.
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And that's all we're trying to get people fired up about is understanding basic civics.
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This is illegal.
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I remember when I was a young man, when Richard Nixon was president, he had a kitchen cabinet.
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There was a dude named Bibi Rebozo who used to advise him all the time.
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And you look at first ladies who had enormous influence and sometimes could direct their
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husbands such as Nancy Reagan, you know, to do certain things.
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So I guess the argument might be Elon Musk is really part of the kitchen cabinet.
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Ultimately, Donald Trump can say yay or nay, but it's not that different from all those
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other people, just in terms of Musk.
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No, it's absolutely different.
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I don't care who he has advised him.
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I mean, I kind of do, but I mean, like he does have a lot of unintelligent people within
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his cabinet and advisors like that, fine, whatever.
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That is someone that is serving at the pleasure of the president.
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That is perfectly fine.
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The issue is that he's been empowered.
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You've never seen a first lady somehow get ahold of treasury and be the one that can
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turn on or off the spigot for money, can decide whether or not that military officer is going
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to get that check.
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Now, whether or not he says or she says, if it's, say, a first lady, hey, I think you
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should go into war.
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I mean, she can say it, but ultimately the president is the one that's going to still
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have to come to Congress and try to do it.
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There's still processes, and that is how you preserve a democracy.
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So yes, Elon Musk, go advise him.
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Do whatever y'all want to, but stay up out of the U.S. Treasury.
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Stop locking out the people that actually work for Treasury.
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Stop pushing out the people that decide on whether or not the money goes out, the people
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that have cleared a security clearance so that when your social security number is being
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made available to them, we can have some confidence that you actually were secured in some way.
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We know that you're not going to hopefully sell that information out to the highest bidder.
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We have no assurances whatsoever of anything, and they are blocking us out.
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And even today, we tried to bring in Elon Musk with a subpoena, and the Republicans
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shut us down.
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Now, the Congress has oversight over everything, especially when we start talking about the
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Oversight Committee.
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And we were having a hearing on right-sizing the government, and they don't want to bring
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in their newest savior, Elon Musk, to talk to us and tell the American people what exactly
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is going on.
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They don't want to do it.
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