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On the recordMarch 27, 2025
Mr. President, reserving the right to object. Listen, come on, this resolution is not about violence or domestic terrorism. It just isn't. This is a resolution that says one thing and one thing only: Elon Musk is in charge. He matters more than anybody else. Musk is subject to a different set of rules than everybody else. The Trump administration serves him, not us. The Republican Party serves him, not us. Elon Musk, right now, is effectively stealing from the American people. He is combing through our government, awarding himself contracts and canceling contracts for his competitors. He is shutting down Agencies that stand in the way of his business, its growth. He is giving himself access to secret information about government enforcement actions against his competitors. He is also, at the same time, currently the largest funder of Republican politics in the Nation. He spent a quarter of a billion dollars backing President Trump's campaign. He recently told the President that he would contribute another $100 million to the President's political arm. And guess what? At that same time, the President stood on the White House lawn to give a taxpayer-funded commercial for Elon Musk's cars. That is corruption at a scale that we have not seen before in this country: the integration of the Trump White House and the Republican Party and the business interests of the richest man in the world. It is wrong.…
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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