Democrats on the House Oversight Committee attempted to subpoena Elon Musk Wednesday morning while some GOP members of the panel were absent, but were ultimately defeated by a 20-19 vote along party lines.
Musk has been leading a sudden and sweeping takeover of federal agencies, locking government workers out of computer systems with little notice and forcing access into sensitive databases, including lists of every American's Social Security information. Legal scholars and Democratic critics have described the foreign billionaire's efforts, including the dismantling of USAID, as an affront to the Constitution,
