‘Squad’ member Ayanna Pressley blasted business magnate Elon Musk as a ‘Nazi nepo baby’ and ‘godless, lawless billionaire’ during remarks at a rally.
She also seemed to take a jab at Tesla’s Cybertruck.
‘Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby, a godless lawless billionaire, who no one elected. Elon, this is the American people. This is not your trashy Cybertruck that you can just dismantle, pick apart, and sell the pieces of,’ she declared.
A video shared on the congresswoman’s @RepPressley X account shows her and others chanting, ‘Hey, hey, ho, ho, Elon Musk has got to go.’
In a post on the lawmaker’s @AyannaPressley account, Pressley had called Musk ‘a Nazi nepo baby who breaks everything he touches,’ claiming, ‘Right now he’s locked himself in a room with grandpa’s Social Security check.’
Musk backed President Donald Trump during the 2024 election and is now spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort to expose government waste.
‘Doge has not looked at, nor is there any interest in, private financial data. What would we even do with it? The outgoing payment review process just looks at potential fraud and wasteful spending to organizations. Corrupt politicians are the ones complaining. I wonder why?’ Musk has noted in a post on X.
The Treasury Department has noted that ‘the ongoing review of Treasury’s systems is not resulting in the suspension or rejection of any payment instructions submitted to Treasury by other federal agencies across the government.’
‘Currently, Treasury staff members working with Tom Krause, a Treasury employee, will have read-only access to the coded data of the Fiscal Service’s payment systems in order to continue this operational efficiency assessment,’ the department noted.
‘Mr. Krause is conducting this effort in coordination with veteran career Treasury officials, and all operational processes continue to be conducted only by career Treasury staff in accordance with all standard security, safety, and privacy standards,’ Treasury noted. ‘In order to allow him to perform this function, he has been hired as an expert/consultant by the federal government and designated in a role commonly used across Administrations—a ‘special government employee’ —pursuant to applicable law.’