From: mxplztylc <mxp@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: DOGE Slashes 3,600 Wasteful HHS Jobs-Saving Taxpayers $600
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:40:53 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:27:08 -0800
Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
> If they had absolute proof they were cutting waste...
>=20
> ...they would absolutely present the details.
Did and done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D0azUfIopvV0
NewsNation=E2=80=99s Mills Hayes reports that DOGE claims to have uncovered
billions in wasteful and potentially dangerous federal spending. Elon
Musk is now aiming to cut $2 trillion from the budget in the coming
days.
https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-doge-subcommittees-firs=
t-hearing-uncovers-billions-lost-to-fraud-and-improper-payments-launches-wa=
r-on-waste/
The Biden-Harris Administration exacerbated an already massive improper pay=
ment problem by expanding faulty welfare programs without proper oversight =
mechanisms in place and by failing to hold America=E2=80=99s bureaucracy ac=
countable.
Stewart Whitson, the Senior Director of Federal Affairs at the Foundation f=
or Government Accountability, described how policies pushed by the Biden Ad=
ministration exacted a cost on Americans: =E2=80=9CCongress can strengthen =
the Medicaid program through legislative action. That would include repeali=
ng Biden=E2=80=99s disastrous Medicaid streamlining rule, which ties the ha=
nds of states trying to remove ineligible release=E2=80=A6.Congress can hel=
p President Trump=E2=80=99s DOJ=E2=80=99s effort by ensuring that entrenche=
d partisan bureaucrats don=E2=80=99t stand in the way of reform so much as =
DOJ=E2=80=99s team of 30 found hundreds of billions of dollars funneled int=
o wasteful, fraudulent and flat-out insane projects. But they=E2=80=99ve on=
ly scratched the surface if this much fraud has been exposed in just a few =
weeks. Imagine what else is buried under layers of red tape and government =
excuses.=E2=80=9D
Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) slammed former President Joe Biden for abusin=
g federal payment systems and contributing to the dangerously high national=
debt: =E2=80=9CJoe Biden signed his name and wanted the American people to=
believe he had the ability to forgive $250 billion with a signature. Guess=
what? The Supreme Court ruled he did not. That=E2=80=99s our system of che=
cks and balances. The President, Biden, he clearly was experiencing cogniti=
ve decline. He didn=E2=80=99t even have the ability to be charged with a cr=
ime as determined by his own Department of Justice. But he signs his name, =
and he thinks it gives a quarter of trillion dollars away, redistributes ta=
xpayer dollars. It=E2=80=99s just crazy that we can=E2=80=99t come together=
to address the greatest national security threat facing this country, our =
debt.=E2=80=9D