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Velshi: “I just I want to be clear, I’ve talked to a number of your colleagues in the last couple of days. I want to be clear that elections have consequences, and you can disagree with the policy prescriptions and goals of, of a particular administration. But your responsibilities as a member of Congress are outlined in the United States constitution in article one. Your responsibility to appropriate money and distribute it is a constitutional responsibility. I’m not sure where the fuzziness is around here. Elon Musk and his people have no business in the systems of our government.”

PRESSELY: “Elon Musk is unelected, unaccountable. He’s a greedy billionaire. He should not be accessing the. American people’s private information and data. You know, he’s in he’s got his hands, his grubby hands on meemaw and granddad’s Social Security information. No private citizen should be accessing a Social Security information, Medicare payments, your tax refund. And that’s why, you know, we have to match their energy. That’s why, as a member of the committee on oversight and reform, I was there in front of the treasury building conducting some real time oversight. We are a co-equal Branch of government in Congress on the Oversight Committee. It’s our job to hold federal agencies and the government accountable. Where there is corruption, where there is abuse, where there is fraud. And what we are experiencing is a power grab. It is a constitutional crisis. It means wholesale harm for everyone who calls this country home. So we have to litigate, we have to legislate, we have to agitate. We have to organize peacefully in these streets. So they’re going to see us in the courts, in Congress, and in the streets. And I just hope I don’t even feel like I can call it a Republican Party anymore, because it’s really operating much more like a cult of cowards. If there are any Republicans that will center the American people and join us in supporting our legislation that we’ve introduced, our leader, Hakeem Jeffries, the taxpayer data protection act, to protect people’s data. You know, they’re not centering the American people. And I’m sure Trump’s fragile ego had a problem with Elon Musk on the front cover of Time Magazine there. But he’s operating as a as a co-president. He was elected by no. One. He was this is not normal. This is not normal. And we cannot act as if business conduct business as if it is normal and there should be no—“