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DOGE was by no means about discovering waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal authorities. DOGE was a pretext for finishing up an unlawful shutdown or choking off of applications that the Trump administration needed to kill, however required Congressional approval to formally change.
DOGE was additionally about Elon Musk shutting down investigations into his companies and sending extra authorities contracts to himself.
The Home Oversight Committee was set to carry a listening to on the Authorities Accountability Workplace’s report on DOGE’s errors, duplications, and the true numbers associated to their claims of financial savings, however Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) moved the dialogue behind closed doorways and away from tv cameras and reporters.
Oversight Committee member Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) blasted Republicans for refusing to speak about DOGE in public:
Regardless of their public campaign for ‘effectivity,’ Republicans are afraid to confront the fact that Elon Musk and DOGE illegally fired 1000’s of federal staff — together with FAA staff, medical researchers, and meals inspectors — making Individuals much less secure and making our authorities much less environment friendly.
Republicans know they’ll’t defend the destruction and devastation Musk and DOGE are leaving of their wake, in order that they’re kicking out the general public, shutting off the C-SPAN cameras, and hiding behind a ‘closed-door briefing’ as an alternative of holding an actual listening to the place they are often held accountable.
Republicans are attempting to cover from DOGE. There is no such thing as a different approach to put it. They don’t need to talk about the truth that there may be already a Authorities Accountability Workplace that focuses on what Republicans declare DOGE does.
If DOGE is so nice, why received’t the Oversight Committee maintain a public listening to?
The reply is that polling exhibits that each Musk and DOGE are unpopular. Home Republicans are attempting to distance themselves from the destruction brought on by Musk with Trump’s approval.
Cowardly Home Republicans are hiding as an alternative of telling the American individuals what DOGE has carried out to them.
Republicans conceal from city halls. Home Republicans conceal from their constituents, and now they’re hiding from public hearings.
This isn’t an indication of success. It’s a signal that Republicans are heading for a massacre subsequent November.
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