My colleague Fred Schneider got into this yesterday talking about CNN anchor Anderson Copper trying to get some real examples and evidence from President Trump lack John Sununu about Elon Musk's DOGE cutting "government waste".
"Anderson was simply trying to get the Governor to lay out some specific examples of "government waste" that DOGE has been cutting. And the Governor just had Elon Musk's talking points and what they've said they've done. But no evidence of what they've actually done. Anderson, like the 60 Minutes or Nightline style journalist that he is, didn't let that stand. And he asked him again to give him some specific examples of what "government waste" that DOGE has uncovered.
And John Sununu just got tired of being asked the same question that he doesn't have a good answer to, that probably no one has a good example for. And he just gave a wisecrack instead: (and I'm paraphrasing)
"You expect Elon Musk and President Trump to bring thousands of pages of direct evidence of government waste to their press conferences. You'll never be satisfied".
From The New Democrat
I guess I have several reactions here and I'll just lay them 1 after another.
To go back to Anderson Cooper's question for John Sununu about what examples and evidence of "government waste" has Elon Musk's DOGE come up with and Governor Sununu having nothing for Cooper, other than Musk's talking points about this,,, Musk and company have been at this for a month now and they haven't released any examples of what they've been finding. It's just 1 press conference after another with President Musk , I mean Mr. Musk (natural mistake) and his lapdog Donald Trump, I mean President Trump. (Another natural mistake) And they are there saying that they've found all this "waste, fraud, and abuse", but with no paperwork, or even video footage about what they've been finding and what they've been doing.
What DOGE has been doing (and I believe illegally) has been illegally laying people off and firing them. They're not a government agency. They have no authority here. They're a private group of college interns, computer geeks, caffeine freaks, (and perhaps stronger drugs, besides coffee) trying to replace the U.S. Congress (which is currently a Republican Congress) as the check on what the Executive Branch does with our tax dollars.
I'm not a Socialist, or a drunken Irish sailor (to use an ethnic joke) when it comes to how our tax dollars are spent. I believe in fiscal responsibility probably more than any so-called Republican today. (MAGA are the real RINOS) But if "government waste" is running rampant in the U.S. Government, then a real government watchdog would be able to lay out examples of that. And then report it to the Congress, as well as the President and department heads. But they're not doing that. They're just randomly trying to freeze government funding and workers from doing their jobs, because they don't believe those jobs and agencies should event exist. Not because they're actually wasting money.
And my last reaction here is, I find it really comical... I mean listening to those MAGA folks on The Five talking about how much Democrats government money and defend government waste... that should be FOX's comedy skit or something. They can't be serious:
Was Greg Gutfeld and company even in the country when Donald Trump was President the 1st time and had a Republican House his first 2 years and a Republican Senate for 4 years?
Where was all the talk about "government waste, fraud and abuse" back then, when they quadrupled the Federal deficit and added 7 trillion-dollars to the national debt in just 3 years?
President Trump added more money to the national debt in his 4 years as President, then President Obama added in his 8 years as President. And President Obama inherited the Great Recession. While President Trump inherited a growing economy, with 4% unemployment.
Where did all those tax dollars go under President Trump? Why did they have to spend and waste so much of our money, in such of short period of time?
I''ll give the MAGA Party credit for 1 thing and this might be the last time I ever give them credit for anything... that is positive: usually when Republicans come to power and they have complete control of The White House and Congress, they completely ignore the national debt and deficit, even government waste. They only make an issue about it when there's a Democratic President, especially with a Democratic Congress.
But now with a Republican President and Congress, as well as high debt and deficit, they're talking about the need to cut those things, as well as government waste. So maybe that's a step in the right direction for the Republican White House. Especially with the Republican Congress seeming to have no interest in cutting the debt and deficit. Especially with the Republican House talking about raising the debt ceiling by 8 trillion-dollars.
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