Letter to the editor: How can people not be alarmed by Musk's actions?

People say I’m an alarmist. How can anyone not be alarmed by the takeover of our government by an unconfirmed, unvetted, unelected South African billionaire taking it upon himself to tell the American people what we need and don’t need?

In his personal opinion, we don’t need the National Institutes of Health. In his personal opinion, the American people don’t need the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In his opinion, Veterans Affairs doesn’t need all of the people it had working for veterans. Who needs the National Park Service?

There are many more examples of entire institutions set up by Congress for the benefit of working people that Elon Musk disagrees with. In my opinion, Musk’s goal is to find enough money in savings so the American people will swallow the billionaire welfare budget that just passed Congress. The bill benefits those who wrote it, the billionaires.

This is not an audit. To me, it is rooting through our institutions that have investigations on Musk, whose government contracts made him a billionaire in the first place.

Call your congressman to let him or her know that Musk is making their jobs irrelevant. President Trump seems to be fine with that, as he rules by executive order. Who needs Congress or the Constitution?

Chris Baldonieri

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