As Elon Musk continues to dismantle government agencies, threaten workers with layoffs and gain access to government data, congressional Republicans on Wednesday blocked Democratic efforts to compel him to answer for his actions under oath.
Today Republicans blocked Tesla CEO Elon Musk from a congressional subpoena as DOGE scrutinizes NOAA and USAID for President Donald Trump .
Republicans on the committee pushed back and engaged in a shouting match with Democrats over Musk. When GOP chairman Rep. James Comer put the motion to a vote, it failed along party lines. Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter in 2022 has been seen by some business analysts as an unsuccessful investment as the company's value has gone down sharply over the years with users and advertisers dropping the platform.
"Yeah, this is where the big money fraud is happening," Musk wrote in his post without any further details or evidence to back his claim.The Treasury Department said that officials connected to DOGE have been granted "read-only" access to the sensitive Treasury system that manages trillions of dollars in government payments.
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