A cringe-worthy video clip of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Maxine Waters attempting to fire up a rally failed to get most people in attendance to join in an anti-Elon Musk chant.<\/p>\n
The event reportedly took place shortly after the Trump administration shuttered the USAID offices in Washington, D.C., after announcing a pause in all foreign aid directed through the organization while also placing it under the State Department for the first time in its history.<\/p>\n
According to a chyron on C-SPAN, the rally was also in protest of reports that Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency staff had gained access to information regarding Treasury Department payment systems.<\/p>\n
Musk and DOGE were given access to a Treasury agency called the \u201cBureau of the Fiscal Service, which disburses trillions in payments each year, including Social Security checks and federal salaries, through DOGE, which is tasked with reducing federal spending,\u201d Fox News\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe cannot allow Elon Musk and a small group of people to secretly, behind closed doors, take away our privacy, take away our dollars, take away everything we have,\u201d Schumer, a New York Democrat, railed during the rally, according to a video clip posted to \u2014 ironically \u2014 Musk\u2019s X platform.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are gonna fight this fight! I am gonna stand with you in this fight!\u201d Schumer continued, raising his arms in the air and beginning a chant: \u201cWe will win!\u201d<\/p>\n