My friends, a lot of people have been asking me about Elon Musk.

Here’s the truth: He’s essentially becoming the president. It’s a huge problem.

He’s ignoring the law and using private workers from the companies he owns to come into the government and hack our systems — trillions of dollars in payments at the US Treasury, classified files at USAID, people’s social security numbers, and more every day.

He thinks the government is some big tech company. Move fast and break things.

Look, I have friends in tech. Smart people. But if you found a start-up and it fails, you move on to the next thing. Money might be tight, but you keep going.

The government is not a tech company. It provides services for American citizens. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, food assistance, disability payments for veterans. Musk and these 20 year olds working for him just see the government as a bunch of numbers — but those numbers are people. It’s their lives.

When the government fails, people die. I deployed to Iraq after the Bush administration lied us into a war that we didn’t need to fight. That’s a government failure. A million Americans dying in a pandemic is a government failure.

The de-facto president, Elon Musk, the richest man on earth, is ripping critical systems out of the government and setting it up to fail. He is putting everyone at risk so he can get a tax cut.

So, I want to emphasize this: I understand what’s happening. I hear your concerns, and I share them. In the Senate we’re looking at all the leverage points we have, but it’s not easy. Republicans have all the levers of power, and that won’t change for at least two years.

But we’re picking fights — we’re working to block Trump’s nominees. We’re gearing up for budget fights to restrict the actions they can take. Lawsuits are rising all over the country, blocking potentially illegal actions from the administration.

It’s going to take time, we’re going to take some hits, but we’re going to get through it. Arizona sent me to the Senate to fight, and that’s what I’m going to do.

Semper Fi,

Ruben



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