The amount of fraud and waste discovered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is amazing. It’s time to see the waste they discovered removed. If you found termites in your basement, you would call an exterminator. Somehow not all of Congress wants to deal with the termites!<\/p>\n
On Monday, The Daily Caller<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n Speaker Mike Johnson is putting pressure on Senate Republicans to pass President Donald Trump\u2019s rescissions package.<\/strong><\/p>\n Johnson told reporters Monday that clawing back just $9 billion in funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid should be an easy vote for Republican senators. The speaker\u2019s remarks come as several GOP senators have said they oppose some of the proposed<\/a> cuts and signaled they will vote against the rescissions request if the package is not amended.<\/strong><\/p>\n If the Congress wants to remain in Republican hands, they need to respect the wishes of the voters and cut!<\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n Collins and other GOP senators, including Lisa Murkowski of Alsaka and Mike Rounds of South Dakota, have expressed concerns about the potential impact of cuts to public broadcasting programs for rural areas in the respective states.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI hope you feel the urgency that I\u2019m trying to express on behalf of the people in rural Alaska and I think in many parts of rural America where this is their lifeline,\u201d Murkowski told White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought during an appropriations hearing in June.<\/strong><\/p>\n The White House and congressional leadership have countered that the proposed cuts are necessary to begin making headway on the country\u2019s $37 trillion national debt.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis is supposed to be the lower hanging fruit,\u201d Johnson continued. \u201cAs usual, I asked them [the Senate] not to modify our work.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Trump has said<\/a> that he will not take kindly to the Senate weakening cuts to public broadcasting within the rescissions package.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt is very important that all Republicans adhere to my Rescissions Bill,\u201d Trump wrote Thursday on the social media platform Truth Social. \u201cAny Republican that votes to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or Endorsement.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n If Public Broadcasting were an unbiased network supplying unbiased news and programming to Americans, it might be worth funding. But that is not what it is. Also, it is time we got back to funding the things that the Constitution tells the federal government to fund and defunding everything else. That would surely balance the federal budget quickly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The amount of fraud and waste discovered by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is amazing. It’s time to see the waste they discovered removed. If you found termites in your basement, you would call an exterminator. Somehow not all … Continue reading