[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 58 (Tuesday, April 1, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H1386]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
DEMANDING ANSWERS
(Ms. Stansbury of New Mexico was recognized to address the House for
5 minutes.)
Ms. STANSBURY. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to ask a question
that millions of Americans across this country are asking right now.
That question is, ``What is Elon Musk doing with our data?'' because I
think that none of us can figure that out.
For the last several months, we have watched as Elon Musk, DOGE, and
his team of hackers have infiltrated agency after agency and database
after database, downloading, accessing, and applying artificial
intelligence systems to those data. Yet, when we have tried to bring
Mr. Elon Musk in front of the Oversight Committee, or any committee of
this body, the GOP has consistently blocked us day after day.
Mr. Musk claims to have maximum transparency, yet all he has done has
created a B grade Twitter in which he is posting Twitter posts claiming
that he is cutting government spending. Meanwhile, he is dropping
millions of dollars in Wisconsin today, trying to buy a judicial race.
Republicans in this body are readying legislation this week to try to
block the judiciary from holding and reining in Donald Trump and Elon
Musk from data mining, firing Federal employees, freezing Federal
funds, and dismantling Federal agencies. It raises the question: What
are they doing inside our Federal agencies?
That is why, today, I have introduced legislation and a resolution to
get to the bottom of what Elon Musk and DOGE are doing with our data
and how they are using artificial intelligence.
Last week, Elon Musk did an interview with his DOGE hackers on FOX
News, yet he still will not come in front of this body under oath and
testify. During that interview, he claimed, as he has many times, that
what he is using this data for is to make the government more
efficient. Yet, over the course of the last several months, not only
has he not made it more efficient, but he has mired the Federal
Government in constant litigation and constant dismantling, disruption,
and chaos of our agencies.
Now, he is telling us that he is going to leave the Federal
Government in just a few weeks to expand his data and AI operations, as
he announced last week, with his own AI company, of which a number of
the executives are actively operating inside the Federal Government
with DOGE right now.
It raises a lot of questions, doesn't it? That is why every single
day, my constituents and Americans across this country are asking us:
What are they doing with our data? Why are they inside these systems?
Why are they downloading Treasury payment data? Why are they
downloading IRS data? Why are they downloading our Social Security
data? What are they going to do with it?
That is why this resolution will demand answers. This resolution,
which has been introduced in the Oversight Committee, will demand that
they produce documentation, names, datasets, and information about what
they are doing. This is crucial to understanding not only how they are
utilizing our private and confidential data as Americans but also the
ways in which they are hacking those systems and illicitly using that
data for their own policy and political ends and the way in which they
are threatening our national security.
What they are doing is not legal. They cannot do this. We know that,
but without the proper oversight that our Republican colleagues across
the aisle are refusing to provide, we must use every tool that we have
at our disposal.
That is why this resolution of inquiry is necessary to demand an
investigation into what DOGE and Elon Musk are doing with our data, how
it is impacting American privacy, and how it is impacting our national
security. We will not back down until we get those answers.
Mr. Speaker, I humbly say to the Members of this House: We demand
answers, and we demand answers now.
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