yesterday, Elon Musk took issues to my warning that DOGE is operating in many ways like a shadow government. Here is what I said. I said: DOGE is not a real government agency. DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions. DOGE has no…

In the past 2 weeks, a series of executive actions have directly targeted the LGBTQ+ community, attacking fundamental rights, fueling division, and ignoring reality. LGBTQ+ people, including trans individuals, are part of every community…

We need to get out in front of the public and say something — anything.

@ElonMusk gave Trump $250m, so Trump handed him control of America's checkbook.

before our very eyes, an unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the Federal Government. Friday night, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, led by billionaire Elon Musk, gained access to the Treasury…

If the gentleman will continue to yield, if you remember, for instance, say a group that gets veterans' healthcare, and all of a sudden, they said: The money is not being spent right. We are cutting it off. You almost have no recourse…

And it is similar. We see it repeated in place after place after place--when DOGE came into the Treasury Department and said they are going to control all of the funding and who is getting paid, what Social Security payments and Medicare…

Finally, Mr. President, on tariffs, this weekend, President Trump kick-started a golden age of higher costs for American families with his 25-percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico--two of our four biggest trading partners. By issuing his…

They have gotten chosen without any checks or balances, without ever coming before the Senate, without anything else, and they have huge power. People's privacy is at risk. But, also, we don't even know if they have made protections, so…

And we don't even know if these billionaires have any understanding of how a feeding program works, how Medicaid works, how a veterans program works, how we fund the police, how we help our firefighters--almost no understanding; just with…

In New York, the Medicaid portal was shut down. People who desperately needed Medicaid, needed to get some information and get some help, were told to go home. Now they have put it back up, but who knows when they will shut it down again.

I would say he would use it as a bludgeon, as a consolidated bludgeon, when he can just cut, cut, cut, and hurt people in so many different ways, you can't even count them. And I am so glad that we had--and the Democrats--every Democrat…

I am just going to ask the gentleman to yield for a question. Well, we have seen just this shadow government sort of trying to change America inside out, run the show, and, as you said, put power in one man, not with the usual checks and…

almost all members on the vaccine advisory committee have severe, severe conflicts of interest.

I will never, under any circumstances, turn this doctor over to the state of Louisiana under any extradition request.

Republicans are fighting to have a national abortion ban that will deny reproductive freedom to women, not just in our state, but all across America.

You’re asking me to not sue drug companies, and I'm not going to agree to that.

this morning, our hearts go out to everyone impacted by the horrible, heartbreaking incident at Reagan Washington National Airport last night. I have been briefed on the horrific incident at DCA and have continued to monitor the situation…