All those reps are in the SEC footprint, so pretty good chance they are all good Rs....

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It's never too late to do the right thing.

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I guess not, and I'm probably jaded, but I have yet to see much real good come out of a congressional committee or have them hold anyone accountable for anything. It usually ends up being a lot of sound bites for the people back home so they can say they are doing something.

Trump and Musk are actually getting things done and holding people accountable, so it makes a new congressional sub-committee seem like a lame copycat with no teeth to me. I hope I am wrong.

The reason the Democrats are panicking about DOGE is that Trump & Musk are performing a Forensic Audit of the entire Government which will uncover everything that can be used in court !

Hopefully this committee will come up with companion legislation to keep it from happening again.

Someone damn sure better be working on that 24/7 - right now.

Democrat Congressman Garcia (CA) reveals that he's only participating in the DOGE subcommittee to sabotage the process.

"I have zero interest in working with House Republicans to help them with anything as it relates to DOGE.” pic.twitter.com/aceVBMHPSI

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 12, 2025

Mr. Fingerbottom said:

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So Elon & co have to go waste time playing patty cake in congress chambers?


Just let em keep sleuthing, live tweet reporting, & then Trump knows what to hack



Why waste time ****ing around w congress

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Seriously. This committee should just tweet DOGE their questions and they'll provide the answers & documentation over twitter for all to see.

Or host an "Ask Me Anything" session live.

Given the politics at play this would seem to be a cooperative effort to Elon's: summon revealed wasters to the principal's office for individual scrutiny.

Given that MTG will be playing the role of principal I expect red blooded males will opt for paddling over tattling.

I wish Tomas Massie was on that committee

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I wish Tomas Massie was on that committee

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I wish he was leading the committee, not MTG.

Cuts to the budget that DOGE is recommending will ultimately require congressional approval and ratification in a budget bill or formal dissolution of an agency. Executive action alone cannot make that permanent.

My Congressman Cloud is on the committee. Interested to see where this goes....

Dersh's take. This is how our government is supposed to work. Trump is the unitary Executive but the Congress also has oversight.

Thank God!

A congressional committee is just the thing to get this sorted!

I can't even recall the last time a congressional committee did anything like spend unnecessary money on an "investigation", hold unnecessary hearings that were 100% political kabuki theater and then took no action to actually deal with the things being investigated.

"Congressional committee" is the definition of taking action and solving problems! We're saved!

They need funding for technology to identify the fraud and the fraudsters.

Given that MTG is heading it (not bright, will do whatever Trump says), I'm guessing it'll be a rubber stamp committee to silence the "Elon has no authority!" Democrats. That's fine with me.

Yeah democrats are demogauging Musk and crying about all the IGs that got fired. The same IGs that did nothing to stop all the waste fraud and abuse.

The main takeaway from this committee is this. What DOGE is doing is applying technology to quickly identify the fraud and abuse. Technology that has not existed. The young DOGE engineers that democrats are demonizing are the ones inventing software techniques on the fly to find this stuff. Now once the 18 months is up and Musk and these guys leave, we will need investment in technology to keep this going and smart engineers to run it, not beauacrats. I hope they repurpose the IG salaries for engineers and and technology.

Greg Casar is quickly becoming the biggest blowhard politician of the democratic party

Ag87H2O said:

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will25u said:

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Democrat Congressman Garcia (CA) reveals that he's only participating in the DOGE subcommittee to sabotage the process.

"I have zero interest in working with House Republicans to help them with anything as it relates to DOGE.” pic.twitter.com/aceVBMHPSI

— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) February 12, 2025

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I would think this admission on his part would be grounds for kicking him off the sub-committee.

When your stated purpose is to undermine the committee's objectives and even existence, you shouldn't be on it.

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Then again, let him grandstand. Give him a stage and a microphone to throw his little temper tantrum for all to see. Then when the time comes let him defend the waste, the fraud, the abuse, the kickbacks, and all of the dirty/sleazy shenanigans that have been going on at taxpayer expense.

If DOGE, Elon, and this committee can bring out all of this dirty laundry, let him wear it proudly.

Listening to democrats fight government efficiency efforts and criticizing Elon Musk because he's a billionaire seeking "tax breaks" for his own companies is like watching a short bus-load of low IQ village idiots try to prevent the island of Guam from tipping over.

"The gravy train for a bunch of folks has been running on biscuit wheels and is about to run off the dadgum track."

“Could you imagine standing up here, and defending waste fraud and abuse?”
Tim Burchett on the DOGE subcommittee eloquently describes how this looks to the American people. pic.twitter.com/klwSC0JHor

— Joe (@MundusInsanus) February 12, 2025

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Cuts to the budget that DOGE is recommending will ultimately require congressional approval and ratification in a budget bill or formal dissolution of an agency. Executive action alone cannot make that permanent.

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So, was every federal government department and agency created by Congress?

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Multiply the wasted dollars amount by 10 and you are approaching the truth!

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Agreed. $3 trillion over the last 20 years is most definitely on the very low end.

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I heard yesterday that they believe the 4 years of the Biden puppet show yielded $1T in improper payments.

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Ag87H2O said:

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I appreciate the effort, but it's 50 years late and trillions short. Republicans should have been doing this all along. They have totally neglected their oversight responsibility and it has cost this country dearly.

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THIS! It is laughable and insincere to me to see congressmen rallying around Elon and pounding their chest and gasping in horror at what's been uncovered. This was your job to do all along! Outside of a handful like Rand Paul that have preached fiscal responsibility all along it comes across as fake.

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To be fair, some in Congress have demanded to see the books and have been refused by the bureaucracy.

They need to pass legislation that will punish bureaucrats who defy legitimate requests. We have seen it run rampant when democrats are hiding their malfeasance.

I could see some major skeletons coming out of the closets and I'm not talking waste, fraud and abuse but infidelity claims, homosexual claims (looking at you Lindsey) and ANYTHING and EVERYTHING coming out that's embarrassing to members of Congress that have been used as blackmail for control.

The Dems will want to use any distraction necessary to keep these details out of public eye. I'm just worried they will go with the nuclear option and start assassination attempts. I think it will start to get very ugly soon. We'll see.

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waco_aggie05 said:

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Ag87H2O said:

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I appreciate the effort, but it's 50 years late and trillions short. Republicans should have been doing this all along. They have totally neglected their oversight responsibility and it has cost this country dearly.

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THIS! It is laughable and insincere to me to see congressmen rallying around Elon and pounding their chest and gasping in horror at what's been uncovered. This was your job to do all along! Outside of a handful like Rand Paul that have preached fiscal responsibility all along it comes across as fake.

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To be fair, some in Congress have demanded to see the books and have been refused by the bureaucracy.

They need to pass legislation that will punish bureaucrats who defy legitimate requests. We have seen it run rampant when democrats are hiding their malfeasance.

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This right here is the problem.

So many times the agencies under Dem control (all of them?) refuse to turn over documents, then the hearings are over and they move on to the next hearing. "Hey we tried, vote for us."

Fix this BS for good with legislation…NOW is the time. We the taxpayers should be able to see where the hell our money is going at any given time. Funding mechanisms might be the answer, by triggering the immediate pause whenever information is withheld.

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Fitch said:

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Cuts to the budget that DOGE is recommending will ultimately require congressional approval and ratification in a budget bill or formal dissolution of an agency. Executive action alone cannot make that permanent.

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So, was every federal government department and agency created by Congress?

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Happy to admit I'm not smart enough to answer that, but my layman's understanding is that only Congress can formally create agencies and only Congress has power of the purse, though when the USAID stuff began hitting the fan there was a lot of talk about how it was originally setup by executive order and then there's the entire rabbit hole issue of impoundments. But whether USAID was subsequently ratified into law vis a vis Congress or simply starting getting multi-billion dollar annual budgets appropriated by Congress - I don't know - it's just one example.

Part of what's the administration is intentionally doing is pressing on the limits of executive authority in a way to force the issues (POTUS ability to direct agency cuts, impoundments, direct / kill bureaucratic authority, etc) to be taken up by the Supreme Court, so if they had carte blanche to prune agencies I think we would see them doing that without the lawsuits popping up alleging executive overreach.

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This right here is the problem.

So many times the agencies under Dem control (all of them?) refuse to turn over documents, then the hearings are over and they move on to the next hearing. "Hey we tried, vote for us."

Fix this BS for good with legislation…NOW is the time. We the taxpayers should be able to see where the hell our money is going at any given time. Funding mechanisms might be the answer, by triggering the immediate pause whenever information is withheld.

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Congress would need to pass a law mandating each administrative agency is required to file a detailed report of expenditures say...sixty days after the close of each fiscal year. The reports to be filed with the committees having oversight of each specific agency.