Republican Rep. Mike Turner (Ohio), the previous prime Republican on the Home Intelligence Committee, mentioned tech billionaire Elon Musk is performing like a “bull in a China shop” however defended his actions as authorized.
In an interview with CNN’s Pamela Brown on Wednesday, Brown was requested if he was snug with Musk’s affect over the federal authorities as his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) enters varied companies and departments.
“Well, I think we certainly are always concerned when there’s a bull in the China shop, and that’s certainly something that we’re seeing here,” Turner mentioned.
Turner mentioned there are processes concerned and are “certainly” going to be limits to what Musk and DOGE are doing, however he additionally believes that the reporting across the matter are “exaggerations of what’s occurring.”
“This is going to be messy and sloppy and not pretty, but … it’s not going to be illegal,” Turner mentioned.
Turner simply weeks in the past was eliminated as the highest Republican on the Home Intelligence Committee by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). A number of Republicans on the time mentioned Turner misplaced the place due to opposition from the MAGA wing of the Home GOP convention.
There was widespread shock and concern amongst Democrats because the Trump administration basically shut down the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth (USAID) and DOGE officers gained entry to the federal cost system on the Treasury Division.
Democrats failed on Wednesday to subpoena Musk into testifying earlier than the Home Oversight Committee and White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned Musk will decide his personal conflicts of curiosity when engaged on issues associated to his companies.
Turner defended the Trump administration’s actions, at the same time as individuals assume they’re “running amok in government.”
“They’re not,” he mentioned. “They’re reviewing systems that we need to understand so that we can understand what’s going on and put reforms in place.”
