Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) on Tuesday interrupted a DOGE subcommittee hearing to demand that Elon Musk be subpoenaed and called to testify on the Department of Government Efficiency’s findings of waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
The House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency held a hearing on Tuesday, titled “Locking in the DOGE Cuts: Ending Waste, Fraud, and Abuse for Good.”
The purpose of the hearing is to ensure that the tax dollar savings from waste, fraud, and abuse in government, identified by the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, are locked in with budgetary cuts.
“The Trump Administration, including the Department of Government Efficiency, has worked expeditiously to safeguard taxpayer dollars, combat waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, and ensure federal programs are operating as designed for the American people. Through rigorous tracking, evaluation, and assessment of government spending, DOGE has implemented cost-saving measures that protect taxpayers,” a press release from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee states.
“These proven procedures must be institutionalized to guarantee sustained, annual savings for the American people. This hearing will assess the cost-saving measures taken by DOGE, and how they can be translated into budgetary savings for taxpayers – both now and in the future.”
However, the Democrats were more interested in attacking the Trump Administration than saving the American people money and making sure tax dollars are put to good use.
Crockett was recognized during the hearing to question the four witnesses, but she instead called for a vote to subpoena Elon Musk, the former head of DOGE.
“He is yet to come before this committee, and last time I checked, none of the witnesses sitting here know anything about DOGE except for what they read on the internet,” she said.
The witnesses included Matthew Dickerson, Director of Budget Policy at the Economic Policy Innovation Center; David Burton, Senior Fellow in Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation; Dan Lips, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation; and Emily DiVito, Senior Advisor for Economic Policy at Groundwork Collaborative. Each brought expertise on economic policy and government spending.
After a two-minute suspension of the hearing, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) introduced a motion to table Crockett’s motion to subpoena Musk, which ultimately passed after the hearing was again suspended for approximately five minutes.
Of course, the Democrats don’t want to question Musk about his findings while working with the federal government, but his recent spat with President Trump and media attacks against Elon Musk and the department he oversaw.
Eventually, after nearly 10 minutes of wasting the committee’s time, Crocket was recognized for five minutes, where she went on an unhinged rant about Donald Trump and Republicans, accusing them of unleashing “the most aggressive attack on the working class families in American history”.
“They want homeless veterans to be permanent, shuttered hospitals to be permanent, disrupted Social Security benefits to be permanent,” she claimed.
After the minority witness, Emily DiVito, agreed with her that all of the cuts to waste fraud and abuse in federal programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, Social Security, SNAP, NIH, EPA, HUD, and FDA are “harmful,” Crockett commended her, noting, “seems like you understand the assignment.” The “assignment” was ostensibly agreeing with everything the Democrats were saying, regardless of whether it was true or not.
She further claimed that DOGE actually stands for disinformation, obstruction, greed, and exploitation, claiming that the Trump Administration is being allowed to “terrorize the public.”
WATCH:
Crockett: You know what? It’s interesting because we sit here in the Department of Government Efficiency Subcommittee, and the most inefficient thing that we have done since we have had the admission of this nonsense was the fact that we have decided that we will not do accountability or oversight over those because we have failed to bring in the person who actually runs those. In fact, we have decided, or actually y’all have decided, that we wouldn’t even debate why it is that we should or should not subpoena Elon Musk. In fact, y’all are just trying to get rid of the musky smell because it wasn’t working out very well for you, and now you want to pretend as if you are coming in here to do exactly what your constituents want you to do. But the last time I checked, y’all didn’t want to go talk to your constituents because if there was one thing they were complaining about, it was Elon and it was DOGE.
You didn’t want to hear those, and listen, if I had time, I would run the tape, but I only got five minutes, because there’s plenty of video footage of all of y’all getting your butts handed to you when you went home, and people told you how they felt about DOGE. So, let’s talk about it for a quick second. Americans are looking for help, but instead of offering it to them, the Republicans have unleashed the most aggressive attack on the working-class families in American history, and they have been excited to do so. In fact, they are here today arguing to make all the chaos, confusion, and destruction caused by those permanent. They want hungry kids to be permanent. They want sicker Americans to be permanent. They want homeless veterans to be permanent, shuttered hospitals to be permanent, disrupted Social Security benefits to be permanent. They sold out their constituents to give permanent tax breaks to billionaires, and they’re doing it, and now they want to have a victory lap, celebrating the pain of their constituents.
So, Miss DeVito, let’s go through some of the things that the Republicans have done to see if they’re helpful or harmful to Americans. Helpful or harmful, stripping health care away from 16 million people? Laying off hundreds of thousands of federal workers? disrupting or delaying federal services such as Social Security? Medicaid? SNAP benefits? Cutting billions from agencies like NIH? EPA? HUD? FDA? all right, seems like you understand the assignment.
There’s an entire agenda, and that is attacking the working-class Americans from start to finish. And then the thing is, they told us that they were going to do this, but, you know, they pretended as if they knew nothing about the playbook that was laid out by good old Heritage Foundation. All of this talk about lowering costs and reducing waste is absolute BS. Their agenda is about one thing: Making the federal government so weak that they can exploit it for their personal gain. They’re stealing your data to help their companies. They’re taking away your health care and food assistance to fund tax cuts for billionaires. Their agenda is pro-disinformation, pro-obstruction, pro-greed, and pro-exploitation. If you didn’t know, that’s what DOGE actually spells out. D, disinformation, O, obstruction, G, greed, and E, exploitation. And congressional Republicans have been complicit in this agenda. They’ve helped this administration terrorize the public. They’ve allowed this administration to launch the country into a war without congressional approval, and while we’re talking about saving money, let me tell you, just dropping those few bombs in one day, that was the beginning of what is going to be a very long bill for us as they talk about being efficient.
There was nothing efficient about doing it. And maybe, if there was some consultation, maybe with those that, say, have constitutional authority, since we care about the Constitution, then maybe we could have saved the American people, not only money, but the lives that are now at risk, as we have to put out warnings for American citizens in this country and abroad. Maybe we need to start leading with the people at the middle of what it is that is guiding us, instead of following one person. The reason that people like me say things like, Y’all are in a cult is because somehow people are advocating their duties and advocating the very people that put them into office, but I got 30 seconds. They’ve allowed this administration to steal congressionally approved money, money for cancer research and food delivery to vulnerable communities. They’ve allowed Elon Musk to infiltrate your medical records and banking data. They’ve allowed this administration to ignore court rulings, and now Republicans are here patting themselves on the back, literally arguing to make this chaos permanent. So, Americans are going to continue to live through chaos and destruction that has been occurring ever since he swore in in January. And I hope y’all remember who caused this, because it wasn’t [inaudible] but it was also the Congressional Republicans who don’t have a spine to do what’s right!
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