Building upon a speech he gave on the floor of the Senate, Sen. Angus King (I-ME) lashed out at billionaire Elon Musk for gutting the U.S. government and questioned his motivations on Thursday morning.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," King pounced on Republicans in the Senate who have been standing by and letting Musk and his DOGE staffers arbitrarily fired federal workers and canceled funding for government programs with no oversight.
Speaking with "Morning Joe" regular Katty Kay, King complained, "If Donald Trump doesn't like USAID, come to Congress, pass a bill. He's got a majority in both houses to abolish it, but don't do it in the middle of the night with this guy, Musk, and nobody knows who he's working for or what his authority is."
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"You know, we've got a bunch of 25 year-olds deciding cutting programs," he added. "Here's another example, the other day, and this tells you where we are, someone pointed out that the ebola prevention program was cut in the USAID cuts. Musk said, 'Oh, that was a mistake, we're going to fix it.' Think of the implications of that?"
"What he's really saying is 'I get to decide which programs we fund and which we don't' –– that's not the way our system is set up," he argued. "That's not the way, the way this thing is supposed to work. Again, to protect our freedoms, people who are cheering, all of this going on."
"Boy, they're going to have some second thoughts when the eye of Sauron turns to them," he added with a "Lord of the Rings" reference.
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