Steve R.
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As Musk releases his waste and fraud findings in the federal government, you have to wonder where the House Republicans have been for the past few years. Republican love to preach how the US House of Representatives controls the "purse strings", yet they never seem to actually cut government programs. The disingenuous excuse: Well we (Republicans) can't shutdown the government. Yes, you can if you had some courage.
What prompted this post is that Maria Bartiromo has been on a tear following the release of the ridiculous spending at USAID. She was actually asking in depth questions! One such question revolved around the: "$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”". The two Republicans she asked, where essentially unaware of these grants. So why? This is the type of corruption one gets when consultants write the legislation and Congressional staff fails (too lazy) to analyze the legislation before it is passed. As an associated trend, Congress has become lazy over the years with its over-site responsibilities thereby enabling the Executive Branch to make increasingly discretionary spending decisions. One such example, the Biden administration "cancelling" student loans without the approval of Congress or even the acquiesce of the US Supreme Court. (Quite ironic that Democrats now claim that Republicans can't "cancel" these programs without the authority of Congress.)
Bartiromo, asked one Democratic Congressional person. His response, in short, was obfuscation. She asked if he considered grants for DEI programs in foreign countries to be outside the purview of USAID and if that constituted waste and fraud. He did not answer the question, instead he sidestepped by responding along the lines that this is not where the "big" fraud is, that efforts to solve waste and fraud should be directed towards those "big" programs, and that waste and fraud concerns should to be discussed in Congress, essentially non-action and kicking the can down to a later date.
What prompted this post is that Maria Bartiromo has been on a tear following the release of the ridiculous spending at USAID. She was actually asking in depth questions! One such question revolved around the: "$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”". The two Republicans she asked, where essentially unaware of these grants. So why? This is the type of corruption one gets when consultants write the legislation and Congressional staff fails (too lazy) to analyze the legislation before it is passed. As an associated trend, Congress has become lazy over the years with its over-site responsibilities thereby enabling the Executive Branch to make increasingly discretionary spending decisions. One such example, the Biden administration "cancelling" student loans without the approval of Congress or even the acquiesce of the US Supreme Court. (Quite ironic that Democrats now claim that Republicans can't "cancel" these programs without the authority of Congress.)
Bartiromo, asked one Democratic Congressional person. His response, in short, was obfuscation. She asked if he considered grants for DEI programs in foreign countries to be outside the purview of USAID and if that constituted waste and fraud. He did not answer the question, instead he sidestepped by responding along the lines that this is not where the "big" fraud is, that efforts to solve waste and fraud should be directed towards those "big" programs, and that waste and fraud concerns should to be discussed in Congress, essentially non-action and kicking the can down to a later date.
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