Posted on 02/08/2025 1:38:43 AM PST by Libloather
President Trump slammed congressional Democrats Friday for attempting to barge into the Department of Education – where he assigned his team of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cost-cutters to go in and “check the books.”
“The Democrats have lost their minds, and they’ve lost their confidence,” Trump said in remarks to Senate Republicans at his Mar-a-Lago estate, after highlighting massive GOP Senate election victories last November.
“They looked foolish today. They tried to break into the Department of Education just because we want to go in and check the books,” the president continued, referring to the fracas outside the DOE and his latest directive to DOGE, led by Elon Musk.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) shouted “get out the way!” as a man who identified himself as a “federal employee” blocked a handful of House Democrats from storming into the DOE building earlier Friday.
The lawmakers had demanded a meeting with the department’s acting secretary Denise Carter amid reports Trump is seeking to dismantle the agency.
“Maxine Waters is a lunatic,” Trump said. “They are all lunatics. It’s so sad to see.”
The president told senators that after Musk’s team uncovered the “horrible things” that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was “spending money” on, he directed the DOGE chief to look into the Department of Education next.
Trump said he expects DOGE to find “similar” spending patterns at DOE and hopes the government-wide spending cuts will soon allow lawmakers to pass a balanced budget.
“Why don’t we balance the budget? Why should we wait 10 or 15 or 20 years to balance it?” Trump argued.
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They are worried about their slush fund, as well as making sure they get the photo op to document their legacy of “fighting”.
I’m waiting for the Democrats to go Full-Circle and start chaining themselves to the Pentagon in order to protect its budget (and especially the grift).
YES!!the average electric bill on the Westside in Los Angeles is in the $10,000 range per month depending on the size of the shack you have. I know some that are $25K and I know some who have a Water Bill of $100K per month. A guy I have known for 40 plus years lives in BelAir, he bought the whole street over time, 6 houses I think and made it one nice little place, when the city asked him to cut down on water he told them to go pound sand, the ended up giving him permission to drill a well for his landscaping and nobody but a few know about it.
“That was that ghetto trash maxine yelling “get out of the way”?”
Its get out da way, fool.
lol
I dunno...slang has changed a little..it might be
“get outta the way, (racial slur)!!”
The slur would make no sense as it would be calling a white guy a slur for blacks, but whatever :)
The more they dig their heels in, the worse it will get.
The “Inspector Generals” and their Ivy League minons found no waste or corruption
Took four or five motivated interns a few days to find the big steaming mess
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