C-SPAN Is Not Legally Allowed To Ask Hard Questions

 That’s in the Constitution. I’m pretty sure:

During a Thursday interview on C-SPAN, host Pedro Echevarria noted that Burchett and other DOGE subcommittee members recently met with Elon Musk.

"If he says the things that DOGE has found and the savings they found, how do you verify that other than the fact that it's the word of Elon Musk?" the host wondered.

"They document it," Burchett replied. "There is a, um, paper trail and a computer. It's computer-generated. I have a 17-year-old daughter that shows me how stupid I am with my computer every day."

And the internet is a series of tubes...or is it rubes?

"But he had another gentleman there with him who verified everything that he said," he insisted.

You can’t ask for better'n that!

Burchett then veered into recalling how Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had appointed him to sit on the DOGE subcommittee.

"And we are actually delving into all that, and I don't want to disclose too much of it because that means that most of the time that those folks will try to close up that paper trail," he claimed. "But it's very well documented, and I'm very confident in what's going on."

The lawmaker also accused the government of paying Social Security benefits to people "that were even older than our country."

"You have to wonder, is that just a computer glitch?" he suggested. "So there's quite a lot there, and I think my biggest fear is that we can stay focused. There's just so much corruption, and it goes so deep."

No, Senator. That’s just you being ignorant. Again. There are two recent audits of Social Security, one in 2015, another in 2023.  Both found there not only was no such fraud, but that there was a harmless error in the database that would cost more to fix than it was worth.

So they saved money by leaving it alone.