Tech billionaire Elon Musk still has more work to do to win over lawmakers on Capitol Hill who remain skeptical over his true intentions as head of the Department of Government Efficiency initiative, or DOGE.
“I don't trust Elon Musk, and I don't trust DOGE,” Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) said Monday while delivering a forceful condemnation of President Donald Trump’s top ally and his supposed cost-cutting goals that have wreaked havoc inside federal agencies, and left many government employees suddenly without work.
“I don't trust anything that they're saying about the efficiencies that they hope to achieve,” Alsobrooks told Jake Tapper during an interview on CNN’s “The Lead.”
The Maryland lawmaker, elected this past November, added that Musk isn’t actually “concerned about efficiency.” She used as an example his buyout offer to pay federal employees for 8 months if they resigned.
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“What they're really interested in is making sure that they clear enough dollars to be able to extend the tax cuts for these billionaires,” Alsobrooks told viewers of the Trump administration's efforts led by the world’s richest person. “This is the billionaires run amok.”
She added one more jab. “You know, Elon Musk is getting what he paid for. He paid $220 million to the Trump campaign and so, I can't believe anything they're saying. All of this I think is built on a total lie.”
Alsobrooks concluded: “The public cannot trust anything coming out of DOGE, and I most especially do not trust Elon Musk.”
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