Summary
Congressional Democrats are escalating efforts to block Elon Musk’s influence over federal financial systems, rallying outside the Treasury Department and proposing the “Stop the Steal” Act to restrict unauthorized access.
Lawmakers accused Musk and Trump of a “hostile takeover” and vowed to obstruct Trump’s nominees, including his budget chief.
Protesters chanted “Lock him up!” as Democrats warned Musk could misuse sensitive taxpayer data.
Despite their push, passing legislation will be difficult with Republican control of Congress.
Threaten this, finger-wag that, “concerned” legal expert opinions… As a Canadian looking in, your “opposition” leaders better start getting results quickly because Trump’s administration is demolishing your country’s organizations and checks/balances VERY quickly. If official opposition through established means doesn’t deliver wins in the near future I’m worried about what happens when half your population loses faith in legal ways of resisting. I don’t want to see either a civil war or an unchecked dictatorship a few hundred kilometers south of me.
It is astonishing isn’t it? Why does a Dem Congressman just walk into the OPM with an official entourage, tear the Musk server out of the wall, and tell the guy to stuff it for example? Or something? Why does Musk have more power than elected officials?
I thought my country’s opposition is ineffectual, but this is a new level of idiocy.
I think you’re going to be getting some bad news in the relatively near future then
I’m worried about that. I’m hearing a lot of people either giving into despair or openly discussing what I’ll call “illegal opposition”. I really like a lot of Americans and I don’t want to see war and/or oppression hit. But I’m bracing for it, as I think a lot of nations are.
Hey, there’s a silver lining here: If a civil war does happen, the blue-dominated North will be aligned with Canada so there’s little worry of a civil war leaking North. If anything Mexico has a lot to worry about because their immediate neighbors are… yeah.
If anything, Mexico has a chance to get back Texas because their immediate neighbors are… yeah.
I mean the South is more than half the US by land area. I don’t think that’s a winning fight for Mexico. Now I wish we could get the interesting geopolitical history without the untold death and destruction part of civil war.