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In a few weeks, a break in our current national situation will be reached. The federal government is about to lack funding. While the Republicans in the House and the Senate bicker on each other on the way in which they will reduce taxes for the wealthy, the deadline for financing is getting closer.
If the government has no funding, it will stop.
In this context, the transcription of Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on Face The Nation highlighted the central role that Elon Musk and Doge could play in a government closure.
Here is the transcription:
Margaret Brennan: There was therefore this email which was published yesterday to federal employees. We know that at the FBI and the State Department, management within these agencies said that employees do not respond to the email of the personnel saying to answer with your five chips. Can people working in the State Department feel safe not responding? Do they put their jobs in danger?
Sénable Van Hollen: I don’t think so, because what we are witnessing are illegal actions of Elon Musk and a number of courts, as you know, have issued temporary ban on their efforts to seize important private information, but also on their general driving. So what the head of the Department of State Department said is that Elon Musk does not have the power to demand that the employees of the State Department answer these questions. This must happen in the chain of command –
Margaret Brennan: Even if the president says that he wants them to be more aggressive?
Sénable Van Hollen: So the reality is that we do not do it – we do not know what the president meant, but as you pointed out, you have Elon Musk to take a chainsaw in the federal government and important services , and there is no article four in the Constitution which gives Elon Musk this authority, and the way in which he was in a way a delegated authority is illegal – she is illegal, and the actions he Entreprendre are illegal, and we have to close this illegal operation.
Van Hollen video:
It was not an accident that Van Hollen used the idea of closing musk and Doge. One of the things that Democrats want is a control of Trump’s power in exchange for votes on government financing.
Democrats want musk to close, but they do not have the votes to do it by themselves, so they need a way to put pressure on the Senate republicans and have them chosen between taking the fall for A government closure or fall for Doge d’Elon Musk. The two options are extremely unpopular.
If the Democrats will close Doge, the path of the exit of Musk from the executive branch crosses a closure of the government.
What do you think of Senator Van Hollen’s remarks? Share your reflections in the comments below.