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Democratic legislators of Congress met on Tuesday to passionately express the opposition to Elon Musk’s Access to an office of the Department of the Treasury responsible for paying payments, days after they were told to go back against the Trump administration.
The legislators of the House of Representatives have faced Musk after access to a Treasury Department called the Fiscal Service Office, which disburse billions of payments every year, including social security checks and federal wages, to federal salaries, through Doge, which has the task of reducing the reduction of federals. spent.
“Close the city! We are at war!” The American representative Lamony McIver, Dn.J., shouted in a microphone when supporters cheered during a demonstration organized by the Moveon, indivisible civic action and The Working Families Party.
“We will not take this. We will fight.”
Mclver asked the protesters to “turn the city.”
“Every time a person can pay $ 250 million in a campaign, and he is given full access to the United States Department of the United States, we are at war,” he said.
During the weekend, Musk cited “fraudulent” treasure payments in an X publication.
“The @Doge team discovered, among other things, that the officers of approval of payments in the Treasury always received instructions to approve payments, even to fraudulent groups or known terrorists,” he wrote. “Literally they never denied a payment throughout their career. Not even once.”
Trump said Musk has authority to “go to people who believe they are not good if I agree with him.”
The president pointed out that Musk cannot stop the treasure payments on his own.
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk (Getty images)
“Elon can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval,” Trump said.
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In a letter on Tuesday to federal legislators, a Treasury Department The official said that a technology executive who works with the Efficiency Department of the Musk government will have “reading only” to the government’s payment system.
The letter was sent due to the concerns of the members of the Congress that Doge’s participation in the federal government payment system could lead to security risks or payments lost by programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
In this photographic illustration, a Social Security card is found together with the United States Treasury checks on October 14, 2021, in Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
However, some Democrats are not convinced of Doge and Musk have only reading access.
“Some Republicans are trying to suggest that Musk only has ‘seeing access’ to the highly sensitive treasure payment system as if that were either,” said Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., Vice President of the Senate Assignments Committee, Senate Committee, In a statement.
The Maxwell Alejandro Frost representative, D-Fla., Said he had concerns that Musk had control over taxpayers’ funds.
“It has access to all our information, our Social Security numbers, the federal payment system, which means that it is calling the shooting in our taxpayer’s money,” he said. “There is absolutely no supervision about what you are doing. What is it to prevent taxpayers from stealing money? Nothing.”
The protest occurred after the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y., promised that the Democrats would fight against the president Donald Trump‘s Agenda “in the streets”.
The American Lamony representative McIver, Dn.J., shouts in a microphone during a rally on Tuesday that opposes Elon Musk who has access to the Treasury department. (White House)
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“At this time, we will remain focused on the need to monitor everyday New York New Yorkers and working -class Americans throughout the country with the bill, “Jeffries said last week.
