Posted on 02/27/2025 12:06:01 PM PST by RandFan
Republican senators vented their concerns about tech billionaire Elon Musk’s aggressive approach to freezing federal spending and cutting government jobs during a private meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Wednesday.
Gathered in the historic Mansfield Room outside the Senate chamber, some GOP senators complained about what they view as a lack of transparency about what Musk and his team of engineers are doing at federal agencies.
They flagged cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs, which fired 1,400 employees Monday, and said Musk’s team hadn’t responded to their requests for information, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
“Every day’s another surprise,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said of the daily bombshells from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“It would be better to allow Cabinet secretaries to carefully review their departments and then make surgical, strategic decisions on what programs and people should be cut and then come back to Congress for approval,” she said.
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Hoeven (ND), Moran (Kan.), Thune (SD), Thom Tillis (NC).
The Hellish Hill just loves those ROTTEN RINO’S.
The usual suspects. They’re the most likely GOPers (at a minimum) that are on the USAID kickback scheme.
More likely they are scared about being primary’d.
But ask Congress? No.
But ask Congress? No.
Congress has no purview over staffing needs and who is fired.
More proof that Elon Musk is doing a great job!
“GOP senators complained... freezing federal spending and cutting government jobs...”
And this a a bad thing, somehow?
Not hardly.
Musk didn’t fire 1400 VA staffers, if anyone did, Doug Collins did. So I smell BS, either from this reporter, the Senators involved, or both.
And if that was 1400 DEI program make-work jobs, good riddance.
Why even bother posting the DNC Newsletter from
old Commie Alexandra the DNC stenographer at the Shill .
This Dem shill crap is a waste of ink .
And Dem Conman Susan is a Dem plant .
Who cares.
The usual cast of idiots.
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Shove it where the sun doesn’t shine you useless POS.
Primary the crap out if them.
To hell with the GOP.
The usual suspects.
Same folk who SABOTAGED Trump’s first term.
What’s changed?
The traitor Mitch was out front and public in his treachery.
Today, the traitors are not in the public light but in the closet.
NEVER EVER a peep about Soros or the other billionaire clowns.
The Hill -BS and propaganda
Here is how you handle this obstcutionism
Good Afternoon State Chairman office X state GOP
Good Afternoon, I have a call from President Trump for the Chairman
One moment while I get them on the line
I have the chairman on the line
1 moment while I get the Presdient
\Hi Chaiman this is President Trump. How are you doing over there today? Great good to hear. Say your Senator( Hoeven (ND), Moran (Kan.), Thune (SD), Thom Tillis (NC) has decided to suck up to the DC media and defy the will of your voters
I know it terrible but something seems to happen to these people when they get to DC. Say, I would like you call to order the State Executive Committee and circulate a letter censure reprimanding the Senator willful defiance of the voter’s mandate to clean up DC.
Thank you. Appreciate your help on this. All my love to the wife and kids. Good talking to you
What? The GOP doesn’t want to actually cut spending? After 40 years of swearing they did but never doing it? Wow, didn’t see that coming.
Musk should get rid of the DEI troublemakers. The dead wood doing nothing.
else should be left to Trump’s cabinet members.
OTOH if the Cabinet Secretaries allow Musk to do all the cutting and their Department has a big phricked up problem, they can blame Elon.
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