‘I Still Believe In This Bill’: Dem Rep Willing To Tank Legislation She Supports As Payback Against Elon Musk

Democrat New York Rep. Yvette Clarke said on Tuesday that she will vote against Democrat-led bills in an attempt to stick it to Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk and congressional Republicans.

Clarke claimed she will continue to vote “no” on every piece of legislation until her Republican colleagues stop allegedly taking orders from Musk, who she accused of holding overbearing influence on the party. The congresswoman accused Republicans of taking orders from Musk by voting against the first version of a continuing resolution (CR) bill in December.

“Just as I was proud to join with Congressman Torres in supporting this bill last Congress and I am grateful for his continued leadership. And while my belief in this bill’s necessity remains absolute, I am simply stunned that it is not already law,” Clark said. “The leaders of this committee along with a bicameral, bipartisan group of congressional leaders negotiated an end-of-year package that included this very legislation along with a number of other bills being considered at today’s markup. Democrats and Republicans were willing and ready to pass this legislative package, most of which went through the regular order in December of 2024. The only reason these bills are not already law is because they were killed on the orders of one man, Elon Musk.”

The first version of the spending package, which contained 1,500 pages, intended to extend authorization for the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which had allegedly been involved in censoring the speech of conservatives, increased the debt limit without significant spending cuts and included $110 billion in disaster relief. Musk expressed his strong opposition to the bill in two X posts from Dec. 18, calling