Ever since Elon Musk’s DOGE team gained access to the Treasury’s payment systems, Democrats have been in a frenzy.
Two Democrat lawmakers were so miffed by this that they actually barged into Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s office to confront him about it.
Democrat Rep. Judy Chu and Gwen Moore both forced their way into Mike Johnson’s office, unannounced and uninvited, on Wednesday to demand answers about why Elon Musk was allowed to ‘steal’ the private information of Americans.
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BREAKING: Congresswoman Gwen Moore and Judy Chu just walked right up to Speaker Johnson’s office and demanded answers to why Elon Musk and his teenage cronies are looking at confidential American taxpayer information. This is the type of resistance we need.pic.twitter.com/vLLQarX11k
— Democratic Wins Media (@DemocraticWins) February 6, 2025
Um, hello?
It’s called an audit.
Let’s get this straight: Elon Musk’s team has permission and clearance to access taxpayer records in order to find out where the American people’s well-earned taxpayer dollars are going…
We, the American people, deserve to know how every last cent of the taxpayer money we pay is used.
The real concern is: why are Democrats so freaked out about this?
What do they not want us to find out?
From Politico:
Reps. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) and Gwen Moore (D-Wisc.) barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office unscheduled on Wednesday and challenged him about Elon Musk’s team gaining access to a sensitive payment system at the Treasury Department.
Their intrusion, amid an escalation of Democratic backlash against Musk’s sweep through the federal government, came shortly after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrived at the speaker’s office to discuss how to implement President Donald Trump’s tax agenda.
However, Moore said that Bessent was not in the room when she and Chu confronted Johnson.
“Gwen Moore forced her way in there, and then I got to go in right behind her,” Chu told reporters. “And she was already confronting Speaker Johnson about Treasury Secretary Bessent and the stealing of Americans’ private information, tax information that should never be stolen and given to this billionaire Elon Musk.”
Bessent, who was in Johnson’s office to meet with House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.), gave members of Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the payments system last weekend. The system controls trillions of dollars in payments for Social Security, tax refunds and myriad other government functions.
The Washington Times added:
A pair of House Democrats barged into House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office at the Capitol on Wednesday demanding answers on why Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has access to taxpayers’ data.
Reps. Judy Chu of California and Gwen Moore of Wisconsin barreled into the speaker’s office during a scheduled meeting with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith, Missouri Republican.
A person who witnessed the interaction told The Washington Times that “in the face of incredibly rude, extremely aggressive and frankly unhinged behavior, the speaker was more than gracious and allowed the members into his personal office to hear their concerns.”
The lawmakers said their main focus was to find out why Mr. Musk and his associates at the Department of Government Efficiency were able to gain access to the federal payment system at the Treasury Department, which has drawn sharp criticism and questions of its legality from congressional Democrats.
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