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Feb 4 2025
08:13 am
“This is a five alarm fire,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on social media.
“The people elected Donald Trump to be President ― not Elon Musk,” she continued. “Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security.”
Democratic members of Congress were denied entry Monday to the U.S. Agency for International Development, after billionaire Elon Musk, empowered by President Donald Trump, worked to close the nation’s humanitarian arm.
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“We are not going to let this injustice happen. Congress created this agency with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and if you want to change it, you got to change that law,” Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia...
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