Summary
Hundreds of protesters, joined by Democratic lawmakers, rallied outside the Treasury Department, condemning Elon Musk’s “hostile takeover” of federal financial systems.
Lawmakers, including Maxine Waters and Ayanna Pressley, attempted to enter the building but were turned away.
Treasury officials later claimed that Musk’s team had “read-only” access to coded payment data, but concerns persist over security risks and misuse of taxpayer information.
Protesters fear Musk’s influence is part of a broader effort to dismantle government institutions and exploit federal systems for financial gain.
this matters a LOT, and it was illegal… they DON’T have the authority to just take over the treasury like that….
musk doesn’t even have the security clearance to enter the treasury, nor do his lackeys….
they’ve already begun “heavily modifying” their system… meaning they must have had access to it BEFORE trump was sworn in as president….
meaning, an APT hacked the treasury and gave the source code to musk…
this is literally a foreign attack. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-cronies-dive-into-treasury-dept-payments-code-base
Yes, it matter to us, but it doesn’t matter to them. And there’s nothing we can do anything about it. That’s the point. They have the power to do whatever they want right now, every branch of the government, and their supporters and voters with find any excuse to defend their actions no matter how wrong those actions are, because it’s “necessary.”
they have a very thin majority in congress, they don’t actually have every judge… there are things that can be done….
there are things we could do about it and you should stop being defeatist
Not being defeatist, just a realist. Judges don’t matter when SCOTUS is in Trump’s pocket. Republicans know they have these two years to dismantle the government and set it back decades while they have literally all the power. They have everything they need to get it done.
This is what happens when some people choose to stay home on election day because “the Democrats are not doing enough for Palestinians.” Now watch what happens to Palestinians.
the democrats were enthusiastically supporting a genocide and calling protesters of that genocide “anti-semites”.
myopic of anyone to think trump would be better, but hardly inspirational to say “we’re only doing genocide-lite!”.
trump inspired his base, the democrats alienated theirs…