Rep. Melanie Stansbury (DN.M.) was the first broadcast at a government efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee hearing on Wednesday after President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk, and lawmakers said “I said I can't sit here today and pretend everything is normal.”
Stansbury, a top Democrat on the subcommittee, accused Republicans of protecting masks and Trump “as they're clearly breaking the law.” Justice. ”
At the end of her opening remarks, Democrats also sent a “direct” message to the mask, telling them to come to the committee to see if there is a serious desire to “encourage democracy and transparency.”
“We want to know what you're doing, so we'll come and testify before the American people under oath,” she said.
Musk attempted to dismantle federal agencies, offer federal workers acquiring takeovers to cut government, and provide shopping to federal workers to raise lawsuits from Democrats. Leading efficiency.
Stansbury's comments include Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who heads the Doge subcommittee, at the top of the hearing, saying that the legislative division would “fight war with President Trump, shoulder to shoulder.” Then came right away. Mask and the Doge team.”
“We as a nation are in debt of $36 trillion,” Green said at the hearing.
“In 2025, interest payments are projected to be $952 billion, which is more than our overall military budget,” she said.
Stansbury said Democrats have organized a bipartisan list of proposals “to work together to eradicate waste, fraud and abuse.” But she warned of Trump's recent executive order to freeze federal spending that has been intertwined in court, among other actions.
“The people who actually investigate waste, fraud and abuse at these agencies are inspector generals who fired Donald Trump for the first week of the midnight massacre,” she said. “So we have to ask ourselves, what's really going on here?”
