Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk went after corrupt DC politicians with a vengeance on X, noting what his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is doing and how odd it is that so many DC types are freaking out about it. Responding, “Squad” member Ayanna Pressley lost it, accusing him of being a Nazi and attacking his cars.
The fight began with Elon’s DOGE accessing the Treasury Department’s payment system so that it could track where money was going and why fraud was occurring and eliminate it. Elon defended the move as necessary to combat fraud, while his leftist enemies lost their minds over the idea that he would be watching their spending.
Amongst those who freaked out was Chuck Schumer, who said, “If the Treasury Secretary does not remove DOGE’s access to the Treasury payment systems at once: Congress must immediately act. That is why @RepJeffries and I will work together on legislation to stop unlawful meddling in the Treasury Department’s payment systems.”
Continuing, Schumer suggested, quite falsely, that Musk’s keeping abreast of inflows and outflows would damage Social Security. Doing so, he said, “We must protect people’s Social Security payments, Medicare payments, and tax refunds from any possible tampering by DOGE or other unauthorized entities.”
Mark Pincus, responding to Schumer, said, “The Dem machine puts out a new message and every rep and MSM outlet parrots it back in unison. Now my X feed is full of them saying its about protecting privacy from ‘unelected billionaires’. Do they ever even stop to check if any of this makes sense? Why would @elonmusk ever want people’s pvt data?”
Elon, responding to all that in a comment post, said, “Doge has not looked at, nor is there any interest in, private financial data. What would we even do with it? The outgoing payment review process just looks at potential fraud and wasteful spending to organizations. Corrupt politicians are the ones complaining. I wonder why?”
Ayanna Pressley couldn’t handle it. Speaking about the DOGE head during a rally, she accused him of being a Nazi and attacked his cars, saying, “Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby, a godless lawless billionaire, who no one elected. Elon, this is the American people. This is not your trashy Cybertruck that you can just dismantle, pick apart, and sell the pieces of.”
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Making the same claim in a fury-filled post on X, Pressley declared much the same thing about Elon’s political beliefs and, like Schumer, accused him of attacking Social Security. She said, “Elon Musk isn’t elected. He’s a Nazi nepo baby who breaks everything he touches. And right now he’s locked himself in a room with grandpa’s Social Security check.”
Similarly, in another post about DOGE watching the Treasury’s outflows, the Squad member declared, “This is not normal. No one elected Musk—but Trump is letting him raid classified material and people’s private financial information. A billionaire with his own motives and foreign entanglements. This is a dangerous, unprecedented power grab.”