Political Quotes

“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 authority to shut programs down or ignore federal law. DOGE's conduct cannot be allowed to stand. Congress must take action to restore the rule of law. His response? Here is what Musk said: Hysterical reactions like this is how you know that @DOGE is doing work that really matters. This is the one shot . . . American people have to defeat BUREAUcracy . . . and restore DEMOcracy. . . . Give me a break. Nothing screams democracy like having a secret squad of company men pull off a hostile takeover of America's Social Security and tax information in the dead of night. That is democracy? No openness? No hearings? No discussion? No hearing the other side? From a small group of limited people who have limited backgrounds, who probably don't even know about the programs they are cutting and how they actually work. Whatever DOGE is doing, it is certainly not--not--what democracy looks like or has ever looked like in the grand history of this country, because democracy does not work in the shadows. Democracy does not skirt the rule of law.…”