{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://balint.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397", "Rep. Becca Balint Protests Elon Musk\u2019s Hostile Takeover of the Treasury Department", "2025-02-04", "2025", "2025-02", "Democrat", "House", "VT", "Becca Balint", "B001318", "balint.house.gov", "balint", "https://balint.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) joined her colleagues, including Senator leadership and Ranking Member Raskin and others at the Treasury building to call out Musk\u2019s hostile takeover of the Treasury Department. Members of Congress demanded to speak to the Secretary and conduct oversight of the department but were denied entry.\n\nPresident Trump has handed over the keys to the federal government and its checkbook to an unelected billionaire. He\u2019s invading financial systems that hold all Americans\u2019 addresses and personal information. This information is used to send out Social Security checks, Medicare reimbursements, and tax refunds\u2013upwards of $5 trillion in transactions a year.\n\nA lawsuit was filed this week against the Department of the Treasury for sharing confidential data with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), run by Elon Musk.\n\n\u201cWe need all of you to be our eyes and ears,\u201d Balint urged the crowd of over 1000 gathered in Washington. \u201cAuthoritarians win when we stop paying attention. You have to tune in. You have to get the truth out. I know how tired you are. I know it. You are not just doing this for you. You\u2019re doing it for your neighbors who don\u2019t have a pot to piss in. You're doing it for the folks who don\u2019t know if their kids are going to get fed tomorrow. This is not just about us. It\u2019s about everyone. We know the people who did not let us in today, they are not thinking about us. They are only thinking of them.\u201d\n\nView her remarks here.\n\nView photos of the rally here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T23:42:11Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://balint.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9020077995955944, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}