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Though Democrats don’t have a majority within the Home or Senate, they’re nonetheless utilizing their oversight authority to conduct casual investigations. The most recent investigation has been launched by Home Oversight Committee rating member Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) who desires info from the Trump administration about Elon Musk’s position within the White Home.
On January 20, 2025, you issued an Govt Order titled, “Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Division of Authorities Effectivity.’” In that order, you define the duties of the USDS Administrator to, amongst different issues, “work with Company Heads.” This official motion adopted your November 2024 announcement that Musk would lead the DOGE effort alongside Vivek Ramaswamy, who has since departed the initiative.
You have got repeatedly portrayed Mr. Musk as the pinnacle of DOGE, together with at an Oval Workplace press convention during which you referred to DOGE as Mr. Musk’s “crew” in response to a query, and during which Musk repeatedly referred to DOGE’s efforts as his efforts, saying, for instance, that “we publish our actions to the DOGE deal with on X and to the DOGE web site.”
Nonetheless, in a sworn assertion filed with the US District Courtroom for the District of Columbia, Joshua Fisher, the director of the White Home Workplace of Administration with “private information of Mr. Elon Musk’s employment standing with the federal authorities[,]” acknowledged below penalty of perjury that Elon Musk “isn’t an worker of the U.S. DOGE Service or the U.S. DOGE Service Non permanent Group[,]” that “Mr. Musk isn’t the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator[,]” and that “Mr. Musk has no precise or formal authority to make authorities choices himself.”
In direct contradiction to Mr. Fisher’s sworn assertion, at a press convention on the night of February 19, 2025, you acknowledged, “I signed an order creating the Division of Authorities Effectivity and put a person named Elon Musk in cost.” This contradiction raises important considerations that both you might be mendacity about Mr. Musk’s position or Mr. Fisher perjured himself—a prison offense that may result in as much as 5 years in jail.
To know Mr. Musk’s position and the authorities below which he’s exercising widespread entry to authorities information, please present the next info and paperwork and solutions to the next questions and request by March 6, 2025:
1. Who’s the present administrator of the U.S. DOGE Service?
2. What’s Elon Musk’s position in relation to the U.S. DOGE Service?
3. Has Mr. Musk ever decided relating to the operations of the U.S. DOGE Service or one other federal company?
4. Has Mr. Musk ever issued a directive to a member of the U.S. DOGE Service?
5. What authorized authority does Mr. Musk should entry Individuals’ delicate information?
6. An organizational chart for DOGE and the U.S. DOGE Service, together with all workers whose e-mail addresses embrace “doge.eop.gov” or worker presenting themselves as representing DOGE at any federal entity.
Democrats are doing all the pieces that they’ll do to dig into what’s going on with Musk and Trump. What these casual investigations are helpful for is to put the inspiration for deep formal investigations if Democrats take again the Home in 2025 through the particular elections or 2026.
The percentages are that Trump will ignore Connolly’s request and never comply, however that ought to not deter Home Democrats from persevering with to push and name consideration to what’s going on.
Individuals have to preserve pressuring their members of the Home and Senate. Democrats don’t have energy, to allow them to’t do that alone.
Public protest and talking out are the gas that may energy actual change.
Democrats are asking the appropriate questions, and with a bit of assist from the American folks, they’ll be capable to get the solutions.
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