Cornyn locked the doors on us. PROTECT AMERICANS! PROTECT HEALTH CARE!

 

Ted Cruz isn’t the only one who’s abandoned Texans during this shutdown. Our other Senator, John Cornyn, has too.

Yesterday, I showed up at Cornyn’s office with messages from the people he’s supposed to represent — Texans demanding that he stop the cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act that would kick millions off their health care.

But instead of listening, his staff locked the doors. They wouldn’t even accept letters written by his own constituents to be delivered. I’ve never seen any politician’s security contractors say, “no, letters from constituents cannot be accepted by this office.”

Cornyn doesn’t want to listen to the millions of Texans facing higher health care costs, but I’m going to make sure we’re too loud to ignore.

While government employees go without paychecks and working families face the threat of losing their health care, Cruz and Cornyn are hiding — doing the bidding of Donald Trump and their billionaire donors.

But locking the doors on us won’t stop me. I’ll continue to fight back, because Texans deserve leaders who show up, listen, and fight for them — not politicians who go behind closed doors to do the billionaires’ bidding.

And if you’re with me, I’m asking you to help us send that message loud and clear.

Will you chip in $3, $25, or whatever you can to help our grassroots campaign hold Cruz, Cornyn, and their MAGA allies accountable in Congress?

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Our movement doesn’t have billionaire donors or corporate PACs. We’ve got something better: people who believe in a government that actually works for working families.

Let’s prove that when Republicans hide, working people organize — and we fight back stronger.

In solidarity,
Greg Casar

 

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Elon Musk’s Companies Were Under Investigation by Five Inspectors General When the Trump Administration Fired Them and Made Musk the Investigator

 

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Elon Musk’s Companies Were Under Investigation by Five Inspectors General When the Trump Administration Fired Them and Made Musk the Investigator

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 13, 2025 ~

Yesterday, the newly formed House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) held its first hearing titled: “The War on Waste: Stamping Out the Scourge of Improper Payments and Fraud.” The Subcommittee appears to be part of an echo chamber attempting to bring legitimacy to President Donald Trump tapping his largest campaign donor, billionaire Elon Musk, to lead an effort to gut federal law enforcement and regulatory agencies and create enough savings to give tax breaks and other perks to the ultra-rich.

Musk should be immediately disqualified from any such watchdog role for the following reasons: he effectively put Trump over the election finish line, giving $288 million to PACs or Super PACs supporting Trump; the Wall Street Journal (paywall) reported that Musk has been communicating with Russian President Vladimir Putin since 2022, notwithstanding the fact that Musk’s company SpaceX is a U.S. military defense contractor and Putin is on a U.S. sanctions list for launching a war on Ukraine.

In addition, Musk’s companies have received $19.8 billion in U.S. government contracts since 2009. (See chart above.)

And finally, and most importantly, Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (with the same acronym as the Subcommittee, i.e. DOGE, and the same name as a crypto coin Musk has boosted) is now investigating the same federal agencies whose Inspectors General were investigating Musk’s companies until they were sacked by the Trump administration last month.

Yesterday, during the DOGE Subcommittee’s first hearing, Congressman Greg Casar (D-TX) revealed that the Inspectors General of five federal agencies that were investigating Musk’s companies had been fired by the Trump administration last month. Casar said that the Inspector General of the Department of Labor had 17 open investigations into Tesla and SpaceX, where Musk is the CEO of both and a major shareholder. Casar also called out that the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation was investigating Tesla when he was fired by the Trump administration.

According to Casar, the Department of Defense’s Inspector General was looking into SpaceX when he was fired. The investigation was potentially a result of the Wall Street Journal’s reporting on Musk’s use of illegal drugs and secret conversations with Putin, both of which would be highly problematic for a defense contractor with security clearance.

Also, according to Casar, the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was investigating Neuralink, another Musk company (experimenting with computer brain implants) when he was fired; and the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was repeatedly “taking on” Tesla, when he was fired.

Musk’s companies currently have over $3 billion in existing contracts with the U.S. government. In that regard, Casar told the witnesses at the hearing that Musk will receive an average of $8 million a day from his companies’ contracts while the Social Security recipients that he’s investigating receive an average of $65 a day.

You can watch the Casar exchange with the hearing witnesses here.