Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) knocked billionaire Elon Musk within the first Delivering on Authorities Effectivity subcommittee listening to Wednesday, whereas referring to the tech mogul as a “d–k.”
Garcia cited Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) earlier show of sexually specific footage of Hunter Biden throughout a Home Oversight and Accountability Committee listening to in 2023.
“In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a d–k pic in an Oversight congressional hearing, so I thought I’d bring one as well,” Garcia mentioned, earlier than his employees displayed a poster of Musk to laughs within the listening to room.
He then went on to check with the mogul as “President Elon Musk” and accused him of “leading a power grab,” because the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), which is helmed by Musk, units sights on bold cuts to federal spending.
He additionally invoked Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” in his statements criticizing Trump and Musk.
After reviews emerged of a 19-year-old “DOGE engineer,” Garcia quipped, “They’re trying to rob you … and they’re probably a minor.”
The listening to marks the primary of the yr underneath the newly fashioned subcommittee complementing the work of DOGE and its give attention to improper funds and fraud.
Democrats have been needling President Trump and Musk as his administration works to shrink the scale of the federal government and conducts efforts to dismantle places of work together with the USA Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID), though lots of their makes an attempt to take action have been curbed within the courts.
Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) took purpose at Democrats shortly after Garcia’s feedback, whereas defending latest actions by the Trump administration to chop spending.
“I find it sad that my colleagues across the aisle can’t take this seriously. We have $36 trillion in debt,” he mentioned. “We run an annual almost $2 trillion deficit.”
“President Trump ran on fixing this problem,” he mentioned. “President Trump told the American people he would right the ship financially, and he said during the campaign that Elon Musk was going to be the person to lead this charge, the man that has turned business after business around.”
