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They’re worried about their jobs. They’re worried about their families. They’re also worried about their work and the communities they serve,
said Helen Bottcher, a former Environmental Protection Agency employee and current union leader in Seattle So, what I really would say is it's not optional for us to reduce the federal expense,
What we have is this unelected, fourth unconstitutional branch of government, which is the bureaucracy, which has, in a lot of ways, currently more power than any elected representative,
A guy who, if he were president, would be impeached immediately because he’s taking billions of dollars in foreign government emoluments from all over the world,
At this point, they're either out there cheerleading for Elon Musk or more and more of them are getting real quiet because they see the public does not like this,
said Raskin, who is proposing the legislation Elon Musk would really like to completely overthrow our system of government and move us into some kind of techno monarchy under the geniuses of Silicon Valley,
A Fork in the Road.
At the time, he sent a letter to staff titled One of the things I’ll be doing with President Xi and with Putin and everybody else is saying, let’s ease up on all this, you know, building all of this, you know, the bombs,
he said, calling it “crazy” to spend large amounts of money on weapons that may not be used There's plenty of places (at the Pentagon) where we want the keen eye of DOGE, but we'll do it in coordination,
Hegseth said, referring to Musk's Department of Government Efficiency We want to raise defense spending. I think we have to have it,
the president said in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier, which was broadcast Monday I think that there are some worth things but overall, if you say, what is the bang for the buck, I would say it's not very good,
We do find it sort of odd that, you know, there are quite a few people in the bureaucracy who have ostensibly a salary of a few hundred thousand dollars but somehow managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars in net worth while they are in that position,
And we are moving fast, so we all make mistakes, but we'll also fix the mistakes very quickly,
the SpaceX, X and Tesla head said Well, first of all, you couldn't ask for a stronger mandate from the public,
We don't want an unsuccessful guy doing this.
Trump rubber-stamped what Musk was up to, telling reporters I fully expect to be scrutinized and get a daily proctology exam, basically,
The people voted for major government reform and that’s what the people are going to get, ... That’s what democracy is all about.”
If I need a vote of Congress to find fraud and abuse, it’s fine with me,
I don’t know a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization,
You f***ed up and picked the wrong psychopath on the spectrum because he's going to hunt you down,