Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds testified Wednesday in entrance of a Home oversight listening to on authorities effectivity, throughout which Republicans tried to run cowl for billionaire DOGE bro Elon Musk’s brazen takeover of the federal authorities.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas, debunked the parable that authorities effectivity is solely the purview of the GOP, whereas additionally slamming Republicans’ fealty to a non-public emperor.
“Here’s the deal. I want the American people to understand that Democrats are not against efficiency. In fact, the last time that this country actually ran to the extent that there was a balanced budget and actually there was a surplus, it was a Democrat in the White House. His name was President Clinton,” she mentioned.
Crockett then reminded everybody that it was President Donald Trump and the GOP who manufactured an monumental U.S. deficit—earlier than mismanaging the coronavirus pandemic.
“It feels as if y’all have just decided that y’all are going to castrate your constitutional duty and hand it over to someone who is unelected,” she continued. “Maybe some of y’all just don’t take you seriously, but I take it seriously when I take an oath to do a job, and my job is to look out and make sure that we don’t have any kings or queens in this country.”
Crockett then took a shot at Musk and Trump, “But it seems like y’all have decided there is going to be Mr. King and his Queen, and y’all can pick which one is which.”
Crockett ended by asking the Reynolds questions that illustrated the GOP’s management over each chambers of Congress and the White Home.
“So if this is what y’all want to do, then go ahead and clean it up and fix it and just go through the process. And honestly, there’s nothing that we will be able to say about it,” she mentioned.
