Democratic lawmakers slam Elon Musk's access to Treasury Department: 'We are at war'

Democratic legislature lawmakers connected Tuesday gathered to passionately dependable absorption to Elon Musk's entree to a Treasury Department bureau liable for disbursing payments, days aft they were told to punch backmost against the Trump administration. 

The House lawmakers person travel retired against Musk aft helium was granted entree to a Treasury section called the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which disburses trillions successful payments each year, including Social Security checks and national salaries, done DOGE, which is tasked with reducing national spending. 

"Shut down the city! We are astatine war!" U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., shouted into a microphone arsenic supporters cheered during a rally hosted by the MoveOn Civic Action, Indivisible and the Working Families Party. 

"We volition not instrumentality this. We volition combat back."

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Mclver called for protesters to "shut down the city."

"Anytime a idiosyncratic tin wage $250 cardinal into a campaign, and they beryllium fixed afloat entree to the Department of the Treasury of the United States of America, we are astatine war," she said. 

Over the weekend, Musk cited "fraudulent" Treasury payments successful a station connected X. 

"The @DOGE squad discovered, among different things, that outgo support officers astatine Treasury were instructed ever to o.k. payments, adjacent to known fraudulent oregon violent groups," helium wrote. "They virtually ne'er denied a outgo successful their full career. Not adjacent once."

Trump said Musk has authorization to fto "go of radical helium thinks are nary bully if I hold with him." 

The president noted that Musk can't halt Treasury payments connected his own. 

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Getty Images)

"Elon can't bash and won't bash thing without our approval," Trump said. 

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In a missive Tuesday to national lawmakers, a Treasury Department authoritative said a tech enforcement moving with Musk's Department of Government Efficiency volition person "read-only access" to the government's outgo system.

The missive was sent due to the fact that of concerns from members of Congress that DOGE's engagement with the outgo strategy for the national authorities could pb to information risks oregon missed payments for programs specified arsenic Social Security and Medicare.

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In this photograph illustration, a Social Security paper sits alongside checks from the U.S. Treasury Oct. 14, 2021, successful Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

However, immoderate Democrats aren't convinced DOGE and Musk person read-only access.

"Some Republicans are trying to suggest that Musk lone has ‘viewing access’ to Treasury’s highly delicate outgo strategy arsenic if that’s acceptable either," Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., vice seat of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said successful a statement.

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, D-Fla., said helium had concerns astir Musk having power implicit payer funds. 

"He has entree to each of our information, our Social Security numbers, the national outgo system, which means helium is calling the shots connected our payer money," helium said. "There is perfectly nary oversight arsenic to what helium is doing. What is to halt him from stealing payer money? Nothing."

The protestation came aft House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., pledged that Democrats would combat President Donald Trump's docket "in the streets."

U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., screams into a microphone during a rally Tuesday opposing Elon Musk having entree to the Treasury Department.  (White House)

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"Right now, we're going to support absorption connected the request to look retired for mundane New Yorkers and mundane Americans who are nether battle by an utmost MAGA Republican docket that is trying to chopped taxes for billionaires, donors and affluent corporations and past instrumentality New Yorkers and working-class Americans crossed the state with the bill," Jeffries said past week.