Senator Ron Wyden (D-RORE) has called on Elon Musk, the leader of Government Efficiency (DOGE) because he claims that what he claims is to “destroy the Constitution.” He criticized him sharply.
Wyden joined MSNBC's Jen Psaki on Monday to discuss ongoing changes as Musk and Doge are trying to restructure the administration's budget. Democrats and other critics have begun to raise caution about their steps to review the federal government.
“The reality is that musk destroys the constitution,” Wyden said. “He's already using social security, financial data and health data. You're giving it a name.”
“I think people need to know that these are elements of a coup,” he added.
Oregon Democrats and his colleagues are very concerned about Doji's recent actions, and with spending deadlines approaching in mid-March, their party is preparing to shut down the federal government over Trump's agenda. It claims it's done.
Doge officials essentially shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and accessed the Treasury federal payment system, which houses $6 trillion in federal funds and American tax records.
They also began an investigation into the Federal Consumer Protection Agency, which was created in 2008.
Major concerns were raised after officials accessed the federal payment system, but the federal judge was later placed on the block in Doge's ability to review sensitive information. The move comes after the Treasury was ordered to give a limited number of Doge staff only “read-only” access to information.
Wyden, who called the “read-only” rule “a blatant lie,” suggested that Musk's team is likely to have access to more information than reported.
“Later reports show that in effect henchmen, Musk's henchmen were in there and cut off payments they disliked,” Wyden said.
Pasaki, who previously served as a spokesman for former President Biden, has further instructed the senators on why he thought Doge had more impact on the payment system.
“We've received extensive reports showing that this isn't just a test of garden diversity, such as files and movies,” he said. “This was an attempt to go after payment.”
Wyden argued that Doge is not conducting routine audits, but rather targeting people and ideas that don't match their beliefs, even if they are nonpartisan institutions in America.
Harrison Fields, deputy press secretary of the White House principal, blamed Democrats for the election losses, saying they were showing embarrassment.
“Instead of working to become a party focused on people's wills, they're holding their heads in the sand and succumbing to hell to gaslight Doge's widely supported mission,” Fields said in the hill. He said in a statement to
“To cut waste, fraud, abuse and become a better custodian of the hard-earned dollars for American taxpayers may be a crime for Democrats, but it's not a crime in court,” he said. added.
