'You can't just use guns': Maddow raises concern over DOGE's use of weapons

Rachel Maddow expressed concern about what she described as a troubling development in the Trump administration's efforts to reshape the federal government.

On her Monday evening MSNBC show, she highlighted recent actions by DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), a cost-cutting agency led by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, suggesting it may be evolving into a forceful entity reminiscent of an army.

Maddow's opening monologue focused on reports that DOGE staff, allegedly accompanied by U.S. Marshals, had forcibly entered the U.S. African Development Foundation. This incident followed earlier reports of DOGE breaking into the U.S. Institute of Peace building after failing to gain entry with FBI agents days before.

The MSNBC host criticized these entries into independent agencies' buildings, arguing that these actions represent a dangerous overreach, stating, "There are legitimate legal disputes as to whether this DOGE group has any legal authority over some of these agencies that they're trying to get into, so they can take over their systems and fire their staff and shut them down. Those disputes are legal disputes that need to be sorted out legally."

Maddow emphasized the severity of these incidents, saying, "You can't just use guns to force your way in, in the meantime, as a means of settling that dispute." She went on to characterize these actions as "an armed assault on the U.S. government," warning that if legal disputes are being resolved through force, it crosses into dangerous territory.

The incidents led Maddow to question whether DOGE has transformed into something more menacing than initially thought, especially if U.S. Marshals are now working for them "against other parts of the government."

She raised a chilling question: "Did they have an army?"

Maddow concluded by expressing alarm at the possibility that the president might have granted his top campaign donor the authority to use physical force against other parts of the U.S. government, suggesting this development places the country in uncharted and concerning territory.

“I mean, if the president has given his top campaign donor the ability to use physical force, the ability to use the force of arms against other parts of the U.S. government, we are in a different place than we thought we were.”

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