Top Democrats on Capitol Hill are leveraging all the tools at their disposal as they rail against Elon Musk’s efforts to gut federal agencies and recent access to the federal government’s payment system.
Senate and House Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) are playing the long game in their battle against what they view as the Trump administration’s efforts to attempt to seize Congress’s power of the purse. The Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency gained access to the government’s payment system last week and shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development without congressional approval.
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