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Chicago, IL — This evening, and the next three evenings, the Democratic Party of Illinois is projecting messages onto the Trump Tower from 6:30 pm to 6:50pm. Tonight’s message is TRUMP & ELON PROFIT, YOU LOSE.
“Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Trump’s failure in giant lights. The cost of living keeps rising. Working families are getting squeezed, and Trump and the unelected Elon Musk are busy looking out for themselves and their ultra-wealthy friends. We are putting the truth where he cannot ignore it, right on his tower.”
Since Day One, Donald Trump and his partner-in-chaos, Elon Musk have made it clear that they are ill-equipped to lower costs for Illinoisans as they repeatedly put the ultra-wealthy over working families.
Trump isn’t going to make corporate power players pay for his policies–working families will.
Donald has allowed his ultra-wealthy buddy to assume the role of the co-president that no one voted for:
- WNIJ News: Elon Musk targets Lutheran Social Services of Illinois:
- On February 1, Elon Musk said his Department of Government Efficiency was going to rapidly shut down what he called “illegal payments” to Lutheran Social Services, including the Lutheran Social Services of Illinois.
- Lutheran Social Services of Illinois is one of the state’s largest social service providers. Its work includes things like foster care, mental health services and senior housing.
- Musk didn’t show any evidence of why these payments would be illegal. But LSSI President and CEO Mark Stutrud said in a statement that they’re likely being targeted because some Lutheran Social Service groups receive funding for refugee resettlement or Head Start. It doesn’t provide those services in Illinois, which Stutrud says are vital.
- WIFR: Protestors condemn Trump, Musk ‘coup’ in protest at Rep. Darin LaHood’s office:
- Most protestors cite the Trump administration’s plan to temporarily freeze federal funding and planned budget cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Some attendees call the moves a “coup” against American democracy.
- For Ciemundell, the concerns hit home.
- “I’m severely disabled and I’ve already been discriminated against once for being disabled. I don’t want that to become legal,” says Ciemundell – worried how the Americans with Disabilities Act may be impacted from DEI changes.
- “Certainly nobody voted for Elon Musk,” comments Elizabeth Lindquist – a Democratic Party of Illinois committeewoman for the 16th District (LaHood’s seat in Congress). “What Elon Musk is doing is unprecedented – allowing a private individual access to the personal information of 330 million Americans.”
- ABC 7: Illinois joins lawsuit against DOGE over access to government payment systems:
- Illinois will join over a dozen states in a lawsuit against the Trump Administration over the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s access to the Treasury Department.
- Thirteen attorneys general, including Illinois’ Kwame Raoul and New York’s Letitia James, said in a statement that they were taking action “in defense of our Constitution, our right to privacy, and the essential funding that individuals and communities nationwide are counting on.”
- “As the richest man in the world, Elon Musk is not used to being told ‘no,’ but in our country, no one is above the law,” the statement said. “The President does not have the power to give away our private information to anyone he chooses, and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress.”
- Peoria Journal Star: Illinois congressman questions purpose of Musk group’s access to NOAA systems
- An Illinois congressman – and former TV meteorologist – is looking for answers from the Trump administration after reports that a group associated with Elon Musk had gained access to IT systems at the headquarters for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- Rep. Eric Sorensen, who represents the 17th Congressional District containing much of Peoria, sent a letter, along with North Carolina congresswoman Deborah Ross, to President Donald Trump on Monday asking him to clarify the purpose of allowing members of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to NOAA’s systems.
- In addition, both want further clarification as to whether DOGE was able to access sensitive data, if Trump wants to alter NOAA’s mission, restrict public access to NOAA data and if there are any safeguards preventing Musk in particular from abusing his access to the data.
