The hosts of “The View” took Elon Musk to task for a couple items, including his access to the federal government’s “bank account.”
The panel also does not approve of President Donald Trump making Musk a “special government employee.”
The ladies were loaded for bear when they sat at the table Tuesday morning, per Mediaite.
They spoke of Musk’s DOGE teams as host Whoopi Goldberg asked, “Who are these people? And why do they have access to any of your business?”
“Are Americans going to be OK with Musk?” Goldberg asked. “A guy nobody voted for having all this kind of power? You know the news outlet Wired found out six of the gentlemen on Elon Musk’s team are between the ages of 19 to 24 with little or no government experience and no one is in college.”
Cohost Sara Haines chimed in, “What they’re doing is illegal.”
Haines continued by talking about Musk closing down the USAID agency.
“Everyone knows that the separation of power allows for Congress… They have the power of the purse. This is money that was already allocated from taxpayer money and to stop it is actually…, Haines said. “There was an act passed in 1974, I think it was the Impoundment Control Act because they feared [President Richard] Nixon was blocking programs where Congress had already approved funds because he didn’t like them.”
She went on about the powers Trump does or doesn’t have.
“So, it’s beyond Elon Musk. Donald Trump doesn’t have the power to do what he’s doing right now but I wonder where the screaming is, because Donald Trump floods the zone,” Haines said. “We talked about how the last couple weeks have felt like a year. It’s only been a couple weeks.”
Cohost Sunny Hostin remarked about Musk’s “special” status.
“I’ve given so much thought to it when we first started learning about Elon Musk being a special government employee, which means he has top security clearance, but he doesn’t have the obligations that a full federal employee has, so he doesn’t have to give the same amount of disclosures, he has less conflicts of interest and, it seems to me, that when I put my legal hat on, what Donald Trump is trying to do, he’s trying to expand the powers of the executive branch,” she said.
“What he is trying to do is trying to figure out how he can expand his power, the power of the executive branch and have a little more power over Congress, and he certainly has kind of a bit of power over the judicial branch because the top of the judicial branch is the Supreme Court which he has packed with loyalists,” Hostin added.
She called his actions a “constitutional crisis.”
“In my view, I think… he’s causing a constitutional crisis intentionally so that this goes to the Supreme Court and if the Supreme Court, ladies and gentlemen, say, ‘yeah, he can do this’ our constitution as we’ve known it…,” Hostin said.
“Is in the toilet,” Goldberg added.
