Ocasio-Cortez: Musk 'raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said she was alarmed by reports that tech billionaire Elon Musk was able to gain access to U.S. classified information, saying it poses a “grave threat” to the country’s national security.

“This is a five alarm fire,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a post on the social platform X, which Musk owns. “The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk.”

“Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security,” she continued.

“This should not be a partisan issue,” she added.

Ocasio-Cortez was responding to reporting that senior security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) were placed on administrative leave after refusing to turn over classified material to teams from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Those officials said resistance efforts at USAID were ultimately unsuccessful and that DOGE, a commission run by Musk, was able to gain access to some of the agency’s classified information, including intelligence reports.

Musk, in recent days, has been wrestling for control of USAID, arguing it is an agency that should be disbanded. He has said Trump supports his efforts and Trump has also criticized USAID publicly.

DOGE carried out a similar operation at the Treasury Department, where it gained access to the federal government's payment system. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent asking for information on that move, including on whether the private infomration of Americans is being protected.