Schumer, Waters Fail To Start Anti-Musk Chant At ‘Rally’

A widely mocked video clip featuring Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Rep. Maxine Waters attempting to energize a rally fell flat, as most attendees refused to join their anti-Elon Musk chant.

The event reportedly took place soon after the Trump administration closed the USAID offices in Washington, D.C. The decision followed an announcement that all foreign aid routed through the agency would be paused and, for the first time in history, placed under the jurisdiction of the State Department.

According to a C-SPAN chyron, the rally was also held in opposition to reports that Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team had been granted access to Treasury Department payment system data.

As Fox News reported, Musk and DOGE had been given entry into a Treasury agency known as the "Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which disburses trillions in payments each year, including Social Security checks and federal salaries, through DOGE, which is tasked with reducing federal spending."

“We cannot allow Elon Musk and a small group of people to secretly, behind closed doors, take away our privacy, take away our dollars, take away everything we have,” Schumer, the New York Democrat, declared at the rally, according to a video clip posted—ironically—on Musk’s X platform.

“We are gonna fight this fight! I am gonna stand with you in this fight!” Schumer continued, raising his arms as he led a chant: “We will win!”

After several repetitions, Schumer hesitated, seemingly noticing the crowd’s lack of enthusiasm, and altered his chant to: “We won’t win!”

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The clip sparked a wave of responses, most of them mocking or critical.

“This doofus will be ousted from his corrupt party,” one X user commented.

“If you turn the sound off, he’s doing the Trump victory dance,” another observed.

“Kinda sad. It’s like watching a corpse uprising,” said another.

“They can’t do anything right. Not even that,” another user remarked.

On Saturday, Musk denounced alleged “fraudulent” Treasury payments amid reports that DOGE had been given access to the federal government’s financial system. Fox noted that this development comes as the second Trump administration continues its initiatives to curb what it considers government waste and excessive spending.

“The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once,” Musk, the chair of DOGE, posted to X early Saturday morning.

Musk’s post appeared just before the New York Times reported on Saturday afternoon that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had authorized DOGE personnel to access the payment system. The Treasury Department oversees roughly $6 trillion in annual payments for federal agencies.

Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, took to social media on Saturday to confirm that he, too, had received reports that DOGE had been granted access to the payment system.

“Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk’s own companies. All of it,” Wyden posted on the left-wing social media platform BlueSky on Saturday evening.

Additionally, reports surfaced on Friday indicating that civil servants at the Office of Personnel Management—the federal government’s HR division—had been locked out of their computer systems by DOGE, Fox further noted.