Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday slammed the Trump White House’s reported placing on leave of two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development after they reportedly declined access to classified materials to staffers from the Elon Musk-led, spending-slashing-seeking non-official Department of Government Efficiency.
“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.”
“This should not be a partisan issue,” Ocasio-Cortez concluded.
Billionaire tech mogul Musk, who poured more than $290 million into boosting Donald Trump and Republicans in the 2024 elections, himself early Monday claimed the president had agreed with him that the agency should be shut down.
“It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm it in,” Musk said. “What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair.”
Ocasio-Cortez last week claimed the ultra-rich in America are now in a “kiss-ass race” to suck up to the president, whose inauguration celebrations were attended by Musk, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and more.
“All of these people that were scared before about being associated with him, from the most common basic level to the most elite level, they’re all all-in now because this is now a billionaire feeding frenzy,” she said on Jon Stewart’s “The Weekly Show” podcast.
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“It is, ‘How can I show how much fealty I have to Donald Trump in order to get my digs?’ I think what’s really important for people to understand, now and every day of this administration, is that you’re being ripped off,” the New York Democrat added.