Ocasio-Cortez: ‘If Republicans wanted to avert a shutdown, they can’

This continuing resolution codifies much of this chaos that Elon Musk is—is wreaking havoc on the federal government,

the New York congresswoman said

There are members of Congress who have won Trump-held districts in some of the most difficult territories in the United States, who walked the plank and took innumerable risks in order to defend the American people ... just to see some Senate Democrats even consider acquiescing to Elon Musk, I think it is a huge slap in the face and I think that there's a wide sense of betrayal."

Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday

This turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk,

Ocasio-Cortez added

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezrepresentative

American people, whether they are Republicans, independents, Democrats, are up in arms about Elon Musk and the actual gutting of federal agencies across the board."

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went off on members of her own party Thursday amid a looming government shutdown, saying

We have time to correct course on this decision. Senate Democrats can vote no. We can correct course, and that is the most important thing in front of us right now,

Ocasio-Cortez said

I think there is a deep sense of outrage and betrayal,

Ocasio-Cortez told reporters in Leesburg, Virginia, where House Democrats are huddling for their annual policy retreat

Jake TappercNN anchor

Everybody knows that Donald Trump is president, that Republicans have the Senate and Republicans have the House, ... They have the keys to the entire United States government,

Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.” ... she added

Voters sent a clear message in support of affordable, reliable and secure American energy, and the Trump administration is answering the call,

American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers said in a statement

Administrator Zeldin clearly lied when he told us that he would respect the science and listen to the experts, when decades of science—including from Exxon's own scientists—have established the truth about climate change,

Whitehouse said

It would remove the whole legal basis for setting all the greenhouse gas standards for any major sector of the economy,

Freeman said

That case would have come out differently if it were in front of this court, I'm certain of it,

Freeman said,

Lee ZeldinePA Administrator

We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America's Golden Age,

Zeldin wrote in an essay in The Wall Street Journal timed to coincide with the flurry of announcements

These businesses rely on settled regulation to make long-term investments,

Freeman said

Sheldon Whitehouseu.S. Senator

Today is the day Trump's Big Oil megadonors paid for,

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island said in a statement Wednesday

Gina McCarthyePA Administrator

The agency has fully abdicated its mission to protect Americans' health and wellbeing,

McCarthy said in an email to Newsweek

All told, it adds up to a complete unraveling of any serious climate policy,

Harvard Law School professor and Environmental and Energy Law Program Director Jody Freeman told Newsweek

I think they're going to run into some trouble in the courts if they go for broke,

she said

The Government's arguments paint with a broad brush and threaten to upend fundamental protections in our Constitution,

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan wrote

In the nearly fifty years since the FLRA's creation, no President has ever removed a Member,

Sooknanan wrote

James K. Bredaru.S. District Judge

Move fast and break things,

Bredar said, referring to the philosophy popularized by Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and supported by Musk that guides Silicon Valley