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“Data control is impoundment by another name.”

The consequences of letting the President claim this emergent power are significant--for the balance of powers, for Congress’ power of the purse, and for our capacity to discipline the government’s use of our sensitive information.

"Americans must also see data as a source of governmental capacity and a form of governmental power—and view Musk’s attempts to appropriate that power to the president as an extraordinary act of constitutional field claiming”

And as the private sector well knows, valuable data is often preferable to money.