Democrats Want To Probe Musk And DOGE

They’re still working on dying on the hill of protecting bloated, incompetent, wasteful government

Democrats seek to probe Musk conflicts and DOGE firings with resolutions of inquiry in the House

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are introducing a pair of resolutions demanding the Trump administration turn over documents and information about billionaire adviser Elon Musk’s potential conflicts of interest and the firings of federal workers, The Associated Press has learned.

It’s the most aggressive move yet by Democrats trying to confront President Donald Trump’s actions. The top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia, and Rep. Rep. Kweisi Mfume of Maryland are leading the effort as the party mounts a resistance against the Trump-Musk dismantling of government.

The resolutions of inquiry would launch investigations into Trump’s Republican administration and Musk through the Oversight panel. If the Republican-led committee fails to act, which is likely, the Democrats could push the resolutions to a House floor vote in a matter of weeks.

These are votes that the Republicans should allow, because, they will fail, and they will highlight Democrats as being the party of Big Government.

“President Trump, Elon Musk, and the DOGE team have been on a rampage to purge the government of non-partisan public servants and install political loyalists willing to turn a blind eye to corruption and grift,” said a fact-sheet accompanying the resolution from Mfume, the ranking Democrat on the panel’s subcommittee on Government Operations, probing the firing of federal workers.

They’re not so much installing loyalists (um, hey, Politics 101? Obama and Biden sure fired a lot of high end people and replaced them with loyalists) as just firing deadwood. Just wait till we get to the point where there are criminal investigations into defrauding the federal government.

The resolution seeking information about the firing of federal workers would require the administration to provide documents, meeting notes, phone, mail and text records, and other information regarding:

“Each Federal employee placed on administrative leave, removed due to a reduction in force action, terminated, transferred, or reassigned to another department on orders, advice, or recommendation of Elon Musk, any individual considered to be a member of a DOGE agency team, or any official or unofficial member of the United States DOGE Service.”

Say, wouldn’t that violate federal privacy laws for those terminated employees? These Democrat politicians are concerned about worker cut-backs and losing allies in the Perpetual, and unaccountable, Bureaucracy. But, their concerns are not over excessive government waste or patronage jobs, distributed like parade candy. Sending taxpayer money overseas for idiotic things while Americans are suffering. Or how a fraction of the money makes it for the stated purpose, instead, getting pocketed as it passes through the hands of all the NGOs and private groups.

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