During Wednesday’s House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) discussed the need for transparency in Elon Musk's work through DOGE.
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00:00Mr. Horsford.
00:13Thank you, Chairman Smith.
00:15I move to strike their last word.
00:27To the American people, I want you to hear this.
00:32Today we are voting for transparency in government.
00:37There is only one person who's unelected and a bureaucrat who is causing havoc throughout
00:45the government.
00:46That is Elon Musk and his hackers.
00:50Now my constituents need and want to know who accessed their sensitive data and for
00:57what purpose.
00:59I want you to know that this inquiry specifically states that within 14 days the president provide
01:09and direct to the Department of the Treasury, to the House of Representatives, all communications
01:16related to the access to or the use of the Treasury payment system by Doge, Elon Musk,
01:25or any member of his team.
01:28It also calls for the access to or use of confidential tax returns or tax return information
01:36by Doge, Elon Musk, or a member of his team.
01:40And any screenshots taken of the data or records in the Treasury payment system by
01:46Doge, Elon Musk, or a member of his team.
01:51This is common sense.
01:54This resolution of inquiry is simple.
01:58We are doing our duty as elected members of Congress.
02:02I don't work for Elon Musk and he wasn't elected to do anything on behalf of the American
02:09people.
02:11So I'm asking for simple information.
02:14Information that should be shared with Congress.
02:18Now to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
02:21I want to work with you on government efficiency.
02:25There's several of you that we are actually in those efforts involved with.
02:31I want to be able to identify ways to make government work for the working people of
02:37this country.
02:39But there's a way to do it.
02:42And this is not it.
02:45Chaos only breeds further chaos.
02:48And my constituents are scared.
02:52They're worried.
02:54They're concerned about their personal information being used by Elon Musk and his hackers.
03:02From Pahrump to Mesquite, my office has received calls from constituents concerned about their
03:09information being stolen.
03:12And they have a right to know by whom and for what purpose.
03:19Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
03:23My constituents deserve to know why an unelected bureaucrat, Elon Musk, who is the richest
03:29person in the world, and his hackers are illegally accessing tax data, Social Security
03:38information, bank information.
03:41Why do they have it and what is the purpose?
03:45That is the purpose of this inquiry.
03:48I am defending the rights of my constituents to know what has been accessed by whom and
03:57for what purpose.
03:59I don't understand, for the life of me, how my colleagues on the other side would not
04:04support this resolution.
04:07I'm here to defend my constituents.
04:10That's what I was elected to do.
04:11Elon Musk, you were elected to do absolutely nothing.
04:17Get your grubby hands off of the data of the people of America and the information that
04:23they're entitled to remain confidential.
04:27With that, I yield back.