Source: Common Dreams
“Hours after Democratic lawmakers warned that billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of federal agencies ‘is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like,’ expressed outrage at being barred from entering the U.S. Agency for International Development, and vowed to take legislative action and launch legal challenges to stop Musk’s ‘outrageous’ maneuver, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke out against Democrats who are proceeding as though a constitutional crisis isn’t taking place. ‘No Democrat should be voting to advance [President Donald] Trump’s nominees while all of this stuff is going on,’ said the New York Democrat in a 90-minute Instagram Live video Monday evening. ‘There has to be a political price to pay and we have a responsibility as a party to block everything that is happening while they’re setting a literal mash to the federal government.'” (02/04/25)