02/27/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 02/27/2026 18:41
Washington, DC - United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, released the following statement:
"Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are trying to extort an American company into removing common sense guardrails that protect Americans from mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, with no human decision-makers, that can kill with impunity.
"Congress needs to put in place restrictions to stop this Administration from using bipartisan national security authorities to bully and punish American companies that won't advance their authoritarian agenda. Secretary Hegseth must testify immediately before Congress to explain this extraordinary abuse of power and address the serious adverse national security consequences of his decision."
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