John Larson: “Musk set out to say, okay, that's my job. And he, he hired…”

“Trump, however, said, I'll determine what the time is going to be on that. But he gave Elon Musk a charge, and his charge was to find $2 trillion in cuts that he would make. And so Musk set out to say, okay, that's my job. And he, he hired all these young people to go in who are capable people, I'm sure, but their mission was unconstitutional and focused on making these cuts. And also looking at people in the case of Social Security, looking at their individual records and going in there and seeing what should be confidential.” (02:08–02:28)

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