‘You will do whatever Elon Musk and Donald Trump tell you to do.’ Conn. congressman blasts Republicans at hearing.

A Democratic congressman on Wednesday blasted Elon Musk for what he described as the billionaire’s plan to privatize Social Security and slammedhis GOP colleagues for blocking Musk’s testimony during fiery remarks at a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Representative John Larson of Connecticut accused Republicans on the powerful budget writing committee of essentially declaring that “you will do whatever Elon Musk and Donald Trump tell you to do,” tapping the table at the end of the sentence, his voice tinged with rage.

Larson continued in a shouting tone, “Where’s the independence of the committee? Where’s the Legislature? We’re an equal branch of government.”

Larson noted in a statement that he had filed a resolution, blocked by committee Republicans, to compel President Trump to provide Congress details of his administration’s plans to “close field offices or cut staff” at the Social Security Administration.

Musk, the world’s richest man who’s heading up the Trump administration’s drive to slash the federal workforce and government spending, recently appeared on Fox Business, where he suggested that Social Security was rife with fraud that must be stopped.

“There’s a massive amount of fraud of, basically, people submitting Social Security numbers for Social Security benefits, unemployment, Small Business Administration loans and medical care,” Musk told Fox Business. “We’re trying to put a stop to all of that.”

Musk added that the “waste and fraud in entitlement spending ... that’s the big one to eliminate.”

But during his remarks Thursday, Larson said Musk’s true aim is clear.

“If he’s so great, if these plans and all the fraud and abuse that he’s found are so imminent, why isn’t he here explaining it?” Larson fumed. “You know why. Because he’s out to privatize Social Security. He’s been on television the last couple of days talking exactly about Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and what he intends to do: privatize it. The American people, some of them may have been born at night, but not last night.”

Musk’s vast wealth, Larson said, doesn’t shield him from an obligation to explain his plans and findings to Congress.

“I’m sure he’s a genius,” Larson said. “But that does not put him above the law, or the responsibility to come before this Committee in this Congress.”