During Wednesday’s House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) discussed the proposed inquiry into Elon Musk's access to data at the Treasury Department.
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00:00Strike the last word. I move to strike the last word, Mr. Chairman.
00:04Recognized. Thank you so much, and I want to thank my colleagues, and so I don't
00:09want to feign any outrage here. I just want to keep the main thing the main
00:15thing. What we're talking about here is a resolution that of Mr. Dawkins that I
00:21co-sponsored, a resolution of inquiry regarding the accessing of our private
00:33taxpayer data by an unelected, someone who is actually ineligible to run for
00:45president, multi-billionaire who's had no Senate confirmation, no oath of
00:52office, no ethics training, or anything that he's taken, and he has violated
00:57section 6103. Now, I've been on this committee long enough to really see the
01:02outrage that we have had on this committee about violations of section 6103,
01:08and I just want to remind you, Mr. Chairman, that we were so outraged that
01:13we increased the penalties. You know, don't forget we increased
01:20penalties on violations of section 6103, and so we simply are making an inquiry
01:26as to what this man is doing with our data, why he's accessing it, and that's
01:35really a fair question. And what do we find ourselves facing when we do this?
01:40All these non-sequiturs, you know, trans people, and what money is spent on
01:47condoms, and you know, I mean, if you don't, you know, undocumented immigrants,
01:56that's what we do for a living. We voted, you know, we've got very qualified,
02:01capable people on the Appropriations Committee on your side, you know, who can
02:06go through, you know, budget, you know, account by account and eliminate what
02:13you call waste, fraud, and abuse. It's a non-sequitur because that has nothing to
02:19do whether that's true or not. If someone is getting a Social Security check and
02:24they're 300 years old, that's a terrible thing, but it doesn't have anything to do
02:30with an ineligible person accessing our data. And so I just want to make sure
02:39that we stay on the subject. We're not talking about trans people today or the
02:450.002 percent of people in America who apparently are trans people. We're
02:52not talking about undocumented immigrants, and we certainly are not
02:57talking about anointing an unelected, naturalized citizen, not born
03:08here in America citizen, who's a billionaire, to be able to march in with
03:14federal marshals, even at the direction, and to literally threaten people out of
03:19their seats to access our information. So now, if this is not a crime that has been
03:26committed, which is what I think it is, then we should have Mr. Musk sitting
03:30there explaining to us how going through our Social Security information, our
03:38taxpayer information, is going to rid us of the problem of trans people. How it's
03:46going to solve, how it's going to reconcile, you know, the majority party's
03:51concern about diversity, equity, and inclusion. You know, what's the plan for
03:56excluding people through going through our personal information? It's a
04:04non-sequitur. And I would yield the last 55 seconds to my good friend, Mr. Larson.