To Democrats, Elon Musk’s reported breaching of the U.S. Agency for International Development, sensitive data held by the Treasury Department, and, now, the Education Department, is a “blatantly illegal” intrusion and an affront to the constitutional separation of powers, which gives Congress, and not an unelected billionaire, the power to stand up agencies and dictate spending.
At least one Senate Republican agrees that he’s infringing on Congress — but treated Musk’s promised sledgehammering of great swaths of the federal government as a hypothetical exercise that will likely never come to fruition.
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