Politics Corner February 12

  

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Texas Rep. Greg Casar on President Musk as quoted by Charles Pierce.

At least five inspector generals that were looking into Elon Musk’s companies were fired by the Trump–Musk administration. These inspector generals, who were independent, protected by law, the people who find the waste, fraud, and abuse, they were fired because they were looking into Elon Musk. The National Labor Relations Board, which is supposed to protect workers from getting their unions busted by folks like Elon Musk, has been functionally broken by the Department of Government Efficiency.... They are trying to shut down the Department of Education, the Department of Labor. Do you know what Elon Musk does not seem to be looking into? His own contracts. Do you know how much money a day Mr. Musk will receive from the federal government?

Rep. Greg Casar

via House.gov

The answer is $8 million a day. Just last year he was promised $3 billion from close to one hundred contracts with the federal government. Do you know how much the average person in this country who survives on Social Security, a senior who has worked their entire life, has to survive on? Sixty-five dollars a day. This subcommittee, chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene, is looking into your grandmother’s $65 a day.

I think we would all support taxpayer savings. Look into money we might needlessly send to billionaires and big corporations. Find taxpayer savings and send it back to your hard-working families. But instead what Republicans and the Trump–Musk administration want to do is look into your kid’s lunch money. Your kid’s teacher’s salary. Your grandparents’ Social Security. They want to take that money and give it out in billionaire tax cuts, and they are talking about that at committee tomorrow. They just released their plan. When Republicans talk about government efficiency in this Congress, they are not looking into billionaires who do not pay their taxes. They are not looking into Elon Musk firing watchdogs who are supposed to keep him accountable. They are looking at cutting your public schools. They’re going straight for Social Security. They’re coming straight for cancer research. They are not looking at Big Tech or Big Pharma, because those people fund their campaigns. If this committee was serious, this meeting would be about how Musk and Donald Trump are firing the independent watchdogs who have done this for decades. Instead, the goal of this committee is to distract from Trump and Musk’s corrupt war on accountability. This will not be a subcommittee dedicated to making government efficient for everyday people. It is about helping Elon Musk and Donald Trump be efficient as possible in robbing our government and handing out our government services to the rich. [Esquire] 

Greg Casar, fastest person in Congress

via Roll Call

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