WATCH: Rep. Min on MSNBC: “They Are Attacking Our Constitution”

Rep. Min announced his new bill, the BAD DOGE Act, which would repeal Pres. Trump’s executive ordering creating DOGE

Washington, DC — On Way Too Early with Ali Vitali this morning, Representative Dave Min (CA-47) slammed the “blatant attacks on our Constitution that Elon Musk and DOGE are engaged in right now.” Watch the interview here.

Rep. Min also announced his new bill, the Bolstering America’s Democracy and Demanding Oversight and Government Ethics Act or the BAD DOGE Act, which was first reported by Way Too Early. This bill would repeal President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing and implementing DOGE. Read the bill text here.

On the BAD DOGE ACT:

“This is the Bolstering American Democracy and Demanding Oversight in Government Ethics Bill, and it’s meant to address the abuses of power, the illegalities, the blatant attacks on our Constitution that Elon Musk and DOGE are engaged in right now… If Donald Trump had said that we’re going to have an agency that sweepingly fires millions of federal employees, to delete agencies with a flick of the switch, that would have required an act of Congress. It would have required Senate confirmation. And it would have required Elon Musk and his 25-year-old buddies to have complied with a lot of different laws out there which they are not complying with right now. Every day they’re out there, they’re violating the law.”

On the attacks on the Constitution and rule of law: 

“But the real thing that they’re engaging in that I think is so problematic is that they are attacking our Constitution. Even my 14, 12, and nine-year-olds all know this because they learn it in elementary school, the Congress and only Congress is tasked with making laws and appropriating money. And what Elon Musk is asserting right now is the ability unilaterally to be able to rewrite law, to delete agencies we’ve created, to redirect funding that we have authorized from Congress … But at the end of the day this is about the rule of law. I started my career, as I mentioned to you earlier, at the SEC, as a law professor. I’ve worked hard my whole career in trying to uphold the rule of law. And all of this offends my sensibilities.”

On opportunities for bipartisanship: 

“I’m getting to know my colleagues still, right, still believing in the American experiment and democracy. And I’m hoping that we can get some Republicans on this bill. We have a three vote minority right now. They have a three vote majority on the Republican side. And I’m hoping that a few of them, at least, maybe more than that, will remember the oath that we all took when we entered office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. It doesn’t say anything about Donald Trump or the president in that oath we took. It’s about the Constitution of the United States. That is what I’m hoping Republicans will do here.”

On the chaos and fear caused by Musk and DOGE:

“Right now, people are terrified. They’re uncertain. I’ve talked with food banks, I talked with different environmental organizations, I talked with health services, with UC Irvine, who I represent, they’re all worried right now because many of them have already received notices that they’re going to lose funding. Illegally, again. For example, UC Irvine, if the NIH freeze or cuts go through, they’re going to lose $125 million, which is an existential threat to their budget. This is money that’s already committed, that they hired people based on it, they engaged in cancer trials, among other things, based on that funding promise. And Elon Musk is trying to take it away. You multiply that across the board.”