Congressional Democrats denied entry to Treasury Department

• A throng of congressional Democrats were blocked Monday from entering the U.S. Agency for International Development, which Musk and President Trump have moved to shut down.
• Tuesday's rally outside Treasury — entitled "Nobody Elected Elon — was in response to DOGE staffers' efforts to gain access to Treasury's payment systems, which disperses funds to federal agencies.

What they're saying: "We went because we wanted to speak with the representatives of DOGE that were in the building and representatives of the Treasury Department to ask about Elon's unfettered access to the federal payment system," Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) told Axios.

• Frost said that it "seemed like [Secret Service] were going to let us in," but that they said, "We can't let you in because the president and the people you want to speak with are in a meeting right now with Bibi Netanyahu."
• "At first security said we needed an appointment. Then we pressed the issue, and they said they would bring someone down," said Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.).

• "No one came down, so we decided to leave and talk to the people."

Zoom out: The rally, which Frost and other lawmakers led with progressive groups MoveOn, Indivisible and the Working Families Party, is part of a broader effort by Democrats to display staunch resistance to Trump.

• Democrats have been inundated by their grassroots base with demands to do more to counter Trump.