The Trump-created and Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has revealed startling examples of waste, such as the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on DEI, and has acted to cut that wasteful spending while also highlighting potential fraud or corruption, such as the millions spent on supporting woke media outlets and missing trillions.
Predictably, that has sent the left into an utter freakout. Amongst those who is most clutching her pearls and vowing reprisals against DOGE was Sen. Elizbeth Warren, who gave a press conference in which she threatened Musk and DOGE with jail time for looking for fraud in the Treasury payment system, and potentially finding it.
In the ridiculous press conference, which was titled,” Democrats Sound Alarm Over Musk Forcing Way into Highly Sensitive, Sen. Warren began by saying, “I want to be clear about what’s going on here” and then proceeded to lie and obfuscate to attack DOGE for its investigations, making threats as she did so.
She first pretended that Musk would randomly cut off proper Social Security payments, saying, “The system that makes sure that your granddad gets his Social Security check. The system that makes sure your mom’s doctor gets a Medicare payment to cover her medical appointment. And the system that makes sure you get the tax refund you’re owed, has been taken over by Elon Musk.”
Continuing with that lie, she said, “And every organization from your state government that uses federal money on that bridge project to the local Head Start that takes care of little kids while their mommies and daddies go to work is now at the mercy of Elon Musk. Maybe you get paid, or maybe you don’t—because now it appears that all of us work for Elon Musk.”
She went on to attack Elon for investigating the Treasury payment system, claiming he will use it improperly and saying, “Elon just grabbed the controls of that whole payment system, demanding the power to turn it on for his friends or turn it off for anyone he doesn’t like. One guy deciding who gets paid and who doesn’t. It is not the law, but it is the reality.”
Not done, Warren then acted like it is a major problem for Elon to see the data rather than the normal bureaucrats, saying, “Now, there’s a second problem here. It’s not just payments from the federal government that are now in Elon’s control. Elon and his handful of friends now have full access to your personal and financial information that’s in the system. Your payment history. Your social security number. Your bank account numbers. Elon now has the power to suck out all that information for his own use. Now, whether it’s to boost his finances or expand his political power, it is all up to Elon.”
She then made a totally out of left field claim about “black hat hackers,” obviously having no idea what the term means and ignoring the government has already been hacked numerous times and lost much personal data. She said, “And there’s a third problem. In order for this handful of programmers to gain access to our $6 trillion payment system, we don’t know what safeguards were pulled down. Are the gates wide open now for hackers from China, from North Korea, from Iran, from Russia? Heck, who knows what black hat hackers all around the world are finding out about each one of us and copying that information for their own criminal uses.”
She then said, “Donald Trump and his billionaire buddies are determined to take over this government to make it work better for themselves and worse for everyone else. And this is just the start. As we gear up for the tax fight, it will become even clearer that Trump will open the doors for billionaires and giant corporations to find more ways to loot the government at your expense. Meanwhile, everyone else pays more for groceries, more for housing, more for prescription drugs, and more for healthcare.”
That’s when she got to the threats, and seemed to suggest that even prison would be used as a bludgeon, saying, “When unelected billionaires start ransacking our government offices, this is not business as usual. Nope. Nothing is normal. We are living a nightmare created by Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and we need to wake up. We need to use every tool we have to fight back, and in the Senate, we can start by saying NO to dangerous Trump nominees like Tulsi Gabbard or Russ Vought.”
Watch her here: