Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is having an almost daily meltdown about DOGE and the work Musk is doing to identify government waste.
He recently admitted that there is waste that can be cut, but claimed that DOGE is using a ‘meat axe’ to do it. Watch:
Sen. Chuck Schumer says “everyone knows there’s waste in government that should be cut.”
He adds that, “If you want to do cuts, you do it through a debate in Congress.”
Schumer had decades to do this but never did.
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Maybe a meat axe is exactly what is needed, considering how long this has been going on.
Back in 2009, right after Obama was sworn in as president, Democrats passed a massive spending bill of almost a trillion dollars, which they claimed was an ‘economic stimulus’ bill. In fact, it was money that the Democrats would use to line the pockets of their allies and favorite organizations.
At the time, Chuck Schumer defended the spending and all of the ‘porky’ amendments in the bill.
The New York Post reported at the time:
SCHUMER: AMERICANS DON’T MIND A LITTLE PORK
What’s wrong with a little pork in a more than $800 billion economic stimulus bill?
That’s apparently the stance taken by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer.
“And let me say this to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little, tiny, yes, porky amendments, the American people really don’t care,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “The American people care far more that there’s a proposal in the bill, this one I pushed, that gives a $2,500 credit to families who pay tuition to put their kids through college. Great relief.
“They care far more about that than about some small provision in the bill that shouldn’t be there because the tax relief from tuition costs that they’re going to get means far more to them. They care more about a provision that keeps the teachers in their schools.”
Here’s the video:
This is an excellent reminder of what brought us to where we are now. The American people have been calling for this kind of reform for years and it’s finally here. Schumer has been wrong this entire time. The American people do care about the porky spending.
