Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) promised to subpoena Tesla CEO Elon Musk once her Democratic Party has the majority in the House, which she predicted could happen with the midterm elections.
Musk finished working at the Department of Government Efficiency in the capacity of a non-career special government employee this past week. He was the volunteer head of DOGE, a brand-new position in a brand-new department created by President Donald Trump. According to the Office of Administration, Musk only advised the president as he “has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself.”
“Hallelujah is what I got to say. Is it Sunday? Let us all give thanks to the good Lord above,” Crockett said of Musk’s exit on MSNBC News’s The Weekend. “He is gone, but the ‘musk’ is still going to linger in the air. We know, as you went through in your intro, that there are so many people that have been impacted by these ridiculous and not-thought-out cuts. And it’s not just the federal workers, it’s those constituents of ours. Our citizens that are being impacted the hardest by these cuts.”
As a member of the DOGE House Committee, Crockett referred to the committee as a “pet project” of Chair Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Crockett also suggested that the DOGE cuts were “nothing more than a distraction for the things that [Musk] really wanted to do, which is to make sure that there was no oversight over his companies, the companies that were under investigation.”
“In the process, we have harmed our federal government and ultimately, we are harming our overall economy,” Crockett said. “We have tried to subpoena Elon Musk before. The Republicans did not want to do that.
“So listen, I think that unfortunately, we’re going to have to wait until the Democrats are in the majority — which will hopefully be in the midterms — and then we can absolutely bring Elon Musk in,” the congresswoman added. “And we can have him under oath, and we can have him tell us about everything that he did. Because as I’ve been home this week, to hear from my seniors that are concerned and don’t have answers about how much information he had access to and what he did with that sensitive information, they are scared.”
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Musk’s companies have not been entirely free from investigations from the Trump administration. The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring SpaceX to conduct a mishap investigation after the failed test flight of Starship Flight 9 earlier this week.
As he exited his DOGE position this week, Musk spent 130 days as a special government employee.
