Elon Musk Wages New Capitol Hill War With Blitz of Posts

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Source: The Daily Beast

Elon Musk Wages New Capitol Hill War With Blitz of Posts

Musk said House Democrats should be voted out of office for opposing a bill that domestic violence groups say could get women deported for defending themselves against their abusers.

Sean Craig
Updated Jan. 5 2025 10:20AM EST /
Published Jan. 5 2025 10:15AM EST

MAGA billionaire Elon Musk has called on Americans to kick out over 150 Democratic House legislators who voted against a Republican bill that critics said could lead to the deportation of sexual assault survivors.

In a series of tweets posted late Saturday night, the Tesla CEO and confidant of President-elect Donald Trump expressed fury at House members who voted nay in September 2024 on the “Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act” put forward by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).

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What Musk left out of his latest attack, trained on Democrats, is that opponents of Mace’s legislation said, despite its name, the bill won’t actually do anything and may end up punishing victims of domestic and sexual violence.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who voted nay, accused Mace of putting forward “purely a messaging bill,” invoking a term for legislation introduced for political reasons to rile up voters and that either has little chance of passing or does little to address the issue it raises.

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