Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday slammed the Trump White Home’s reported inserting on go away of two prime safety chiefs on the U.S. Agency for International Development after they reportedly declined access to labeled supplies to staffers from the Elon Musk-led, spending-slashing-seeking non-official Division of Authorities Effectivity.
“This can be a 5 alarm hearth,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on social media.
“The individuals elected Donald Trump to be President ― not Elon Musk,” she continued. “Having an unelected billionaire, along with his personal overseas money owed and motives, raiding US labeled data is a grave menace to nationwide safety.”
“This shouldn’t be a partisan concern,” Ocasio-Cortez concluded.
Billionaire tech mogul Musk, who poured more than $290 million into boosting Donald Trump and Republicans within the 2024 elections, himself early Monday claimed the president had agreed with him that the company ought to be shut down.
“It grew to become obvious that it’s not an apple with a worm it in,” Musk said. “What we now have is only a ball of worms. You’ve bought to principally eliminate the entire thing. It’s past restore.”
Ocasio-Cortez final week claimed the ultra-rich in America are actually in a “kiss-ass race” to suck as much as the president, whose inauguration celebrations have been attended by Musk, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and extra.
“All of those folks that have been scared earlier than about being related to him, from the commonest primary degree to probably the most elite degree, they’re all all-in now as a result of that is now a billionaire feeding frenzy,” she mentioned on Jon Stewart’s “The Weekly Show” podcast.
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“It’s, ‘How can I present how a lot fealty I’ve to Donald Trump to be able to get my digs?’ I feel what’s actually necessary for individuals to grasp, now and day-after-day of this administration, is that you just’re being ripped off,” the New York Democrat added.
