Dems Introduce the ‘BAD DOGE Act’ to Kill Elon Musk’s Group

Final evening California Congressman Dave Min introduced a new bill into Congress known as Bolstering America’s Democracy and Demanding Oversight and Authorities Ethics Act or the “BAD DOGE Act” for brief. The invoice is considered one of a pair of recent items of laws launched by Congress up to now 24 hours that’s geared toward reigning in Elon Musk as he rampages by the federal government.

The payments are so new that the textual content isn’t even a part of the Congressional report but, however you’ll be able to read both of them in full on the websites of the Congresspeople who launched them. The opposite, which was launched by Rep. Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia is named The Legislative Enforcement Towards Setbacks from Dangerous DOGE Actions Act or “LEASH DOGE Act.”

Of the pair, BAD DOGE is extra strident and forceful. It’s calling for an outright repeal of the Govt Order that created the division and makes use of the textual content of the EO itself to argue for its dismissal. “The DOGE Govt Order specifies that the USDSTO shall be headed by the USDS Administrator, who’s to be appointed by the Workplace of Administration and Price range, and shall be devoted to advancing the President’s DOGE agenda,” the BAD DOGE Act says.

“In truth, each the USDS and USDSTO are being led by Elon Musk, who was not appointed as USDS Administrator,” the Act says. “There are not any authorities data indication that Mr. Musk has any formal function with the Federal Authorities, or that he’s complying with any disclosure or conflict-of-interest necessities that will apply to Federal staff or officers.”

In a authorized submitting, the White Home has stated that Musk is not an employee of DOGE, isn’t in control of it, and doesn’t have the flexibility to make choices. “Mr. Musk isn’t the U.S. DOGE Service Administrator,” the White Home stated in a authorized submitting in a case it’s combating towards the state of New Mexico proper now.

That is, in fact, bullshit to anybody with eyes and ears. Musk tweets about what DOGE is doing on a regular basis and it’s following the playbook he used when he took over Twitter and turned it into X. Over the weekend and into Monday, Musk posted on X over and over about making federal staff respond to an email about what they did final week. He’s in cost, even when he hasn’t been formally appointed to the place.

“Proper now, persons are terrified,” Min stated in a statement on his website concerning the BAD DOGE Act. “They’re unsure. I’ve talked with meals banks, I talked with totally different environmental organizations, I talked with well being providers, with UC Irvine, who I characterize, they’re all anxious proper now as a result of a lot of them have already obtained notices that they’re going to lose funding. Illegally, once more.”

“For instance, UC Irvine, if the NIH freeze or cuts undergo, they’re going to lose $125 million, which is an existential risk to their price range,” he stated. “That is cash that’s already dedicated, that they employed individuals primarily based on it, they engaged in most cancers trials, amongst different issues, primarily based on that funding promise. And Elon Musk is making an attempt to take it away. You multiply that throughout the board.”

Min’s proposed laws has 4 co-sponsors proper now, all of them Democrats. LEASH DOGE Act has 12 co-sponsors, additionally all Democrats. It’s additionally much less forceful.

BAD DOGE desires to repeal the EO and ship Musk packing. LEASH DOGE desires a report. The Act would compel the Comptroller Basic to review what DOGE is doing and discover out what the “long-term monetary, public well being, and security pursuits” are. It additionally desires the report back to look into the chance that DOGE broke U.S. privateness legal guidelines. The deadline for the report could be December 31, 2025.

Thrilling.