Rep. James Comer (R-KY) continued to defend the Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk, saying he is “what the American people want.”
It’s been a little over two weeks since Musk began his volunteer position with DOGE to create a “lean team of small-government crusaders” that works closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget, which has proven controversial. Democratic lawmakers have protested Musk’s involvement in examining federal spending and called him an “unelected bureaucratic oligarch.”
“I find it ironic they keep referring to Elon Musk as an unelected bureaucrat — or whatever their terminology they are using — when they stood silent over the past four years when unelected bureaucrats have been running our country. They’ve been operating their agencies without any oversight, without any accountability, and they’ve been doing what they wanted to do,” Comer said Thursday on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. “I support what Elon Musk is doing. He’s being very transparent with the American people. He’s tweeting out multiple tweets per hour saying what his goals are. I think it is what the American people want.”
Comer is fresh from defending Musk during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee, of which he is chairman. He tried explaining to his fellow committee members, who called out Musk for being “unelected” and “unaccounted for,” that innovation is “necessarily disruptive and messy.” According to the chairman, it is exactly “what Washington needs right now.” Rep. William Timmons (R-SC) joined in defending Musk.
“I said this at the hearing yesterday: Trump derangement syndrome is a virus that the Democrats have had for four years. It appears that that virus has mutated into Musk Derangement Syndrome now,” Comer said.
President Donald Trump named entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to be the volunteer head of DOGE with Musk. However, Ramamswamy has since bowed out of the group and is speculated to launch a gubernatorial campaign in Ohio soon.
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Musk shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development headquarters Monday. Hundreds of federal workers received word to stay home, stoking fears of what agencies are facing shutdowns.
However, when it comes to foreign aid, Musk is seemingly aligned with the majority of people. A Reuters/Ipsos poll from earlier this week found that 56% of respondents supported freezing foreign assistance programs.
