Monday, November 25, 2024

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Tell us what you see as the most government waste," the Fox News host asked the lawmaker, who has been tapped to lead the House DOGE subcommittee. 
"It's all over," Greene insisted. "Every single government department program, grant programs, contracts, it is everywhere." *
"We'll be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda," she continued. "We'll be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa, all kinds of programs that don't help the American people." 
"We're going to look in every single aspect and we don't care about people's feelings."
Every GOP President has entered the White House promising to cut waste. The only president in my lifetime to balance the budget was Bill Clinton. Everything MTG said there? I’ve heard it, almost word for word, for 60 years.

It’s also worth noting nothing MTG mentions would add up to $2 trillion. Not even close. And while she promises to go after contracts…
Greene’s money is not where her mouth is. It never is. Nor is Elmo’s:
As Balz wrote, Musk and Ramaswamy "have huge ambitions and no humility about what they are undertaking," before adding, "What they have talked about amounts to a wholesale attack on federal agencies designed to eliminate thousands of regulations, reduce the federal workforce by an order of magnitude that could cripple the delivery of vital services, and effect cost savings that would amount to nearly one-third of the federal budget, or the entire discretionary part of the budget and then some." 
Karmack cited the Border Patrol, with 19,000 Border Patrol agents, and asked where the cuts would come from when border security was the main plank of the Trump campaign. 
According to Balz, "There are about 1,800 air traffic controllers, she said. Would Trump’s team cut that workforce significantly, causing potential flight cancellations and disruption?" with Kamarck predicting " “It will take about a week and Congress will say, ‘Hey, you can’t do this." 
"And how deeply would he try to cut the workforce at the Social Security Administration, at the risk of checks not being sent out promptly or other breakdowns in a program that he has otherwise vowed not to touch?" Balz asked. 
With Ramaswamy and Musk boasting, "We expect to prevail," Balz wrote, "Those words no doubt reflect the aggressive approach the president-elect and his advisers hope to take once he is sworn in. Meanwhile, executive branch employees are bracing for what could be coming and opponents are preparing to resist through legal and other channels. Whether Trump’s shock troops, led by Musk and Ramaswamy, are truly ready will be known soon."
Pro-tip: they aren’t. Musk and Ramaswamy are completely clueless clowns. Did you miss Musk’s offer to “employ” volunteers to work 80 hours a week and, in the end, accomplish nothing? Somehow, I think Balz did. Elmo and Vivek are not to be taken seriously.

And still no mention of cutting contracts to SpaceX. 🤔 
Although the reference to SS checks going out is a tired one. Among other things, SSA administers Medicare, which keeps a lot of people employed doing more than making sure the computers deposit monthly payments in bank accounts (checks stopped being mailed shortly before buggy whip manufacturers went out of business). But sure, fire half of them randomly. That’s a good idea. 🙄

I would also note Ramaswamy has promised to cut federal employees based on the numbers in their Social Security numbers. So: Border Patrol; Secret Service; air traffic controllers; FBI Agents; food inspectors; DEA agents; IRS employees processing tax returns and refunds. You get the idea. Not sure how much support that gets in Congress.Also don’t understand how he can be taken seriously.

Been watching this movie for over 40 years. It always ends the same.

*Except FEMA. When Georgia gets hit by a hurricane.🌀  Then we hire all those people back. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 
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