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You thought Bush should be on Mount Rushmore.
Why wouldn't House Republicans -- who will originate all funding bills -- go along with cuts suggested from a real audit?
You thought Bush should be on Mount Rushmore.
a forensic audit tailored to please the head of the organization being audited isn't one
that's the way we've always done it, because Article I
If you want to ditch the US Cons ution just say so
What's been cut you oppose? Who said, and what proof is given, it's being tailored for any other purpose than to identify and eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse?
Jesus, ST Trump s don't even know middle school civics.
This explains so much.
It's a partisan exercise being done by an unaccountable en y who doesn't have to follow any rules or standard practices and doesn't have to show anyone anything.
Your trust is blind as long as you think you're getting what you want, Rushmore.
they're playing dumb
the other day Rep Tom Cole (OK), chairman of the Appropriations Committee, when asked about the Musk/Trump junta nullifying appropriations, pretended he didn't know whether appropriations are laws or not
said he'd have to ask a cons utional lawyer
https://www.heritage.org/cons utio...icles/4/statesAppropriations Clause
Article I, Section 9, Clause 7
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
Your reading comprehension really blows. I didn't say it was illegal myself. Yoni asked what the allegation was and I told him because I guess he can't read well either.
Musk did back those funds without any transparent proof to back up his claim.
Again, and I'm not speaking to Rep. Cole's a en on budgets, there is a difference between appropriations and spending. If you want Congress to control every penny, they need to line item every expenditure.
I'm still curious which DOGE-recommended cuts you oppose, Winehole? Or, if you think the audit is politically-motivated and driven, which cuts aren't being recommended that should be?
there hasn't been an audit yet
there is not, spending is expressly given to Congress
Rep Cole is not a stupid man, he's just acting like one
It's not really an audit.
You've been paying attention, I trust. Which abuses, frauds, or waste have been identified by DOGE - publicly - do you oppose being rectified?
Again, I ask you, where did Congress specifically approve the expenditure of a half million dollars to buy subscriptions to Politico and other partisan publications?
I am in full support of Congress' making a budget.
I'd like to see a real forensic audit presented to Congress, I don't guess we're going to get one, huh?
Do you want Fox News to be banned from being shown at military bases?
And your ignorance of the nature of the Politico subscriptions is duly noted.
This is what I'm talking about -- you want to be outraged. You've been primed to think the absolute worst of everything you're being fed by these gatekeepers.
You're a mark.
This whole Reuters thing is just another example.
Morons.
Where did Congress appropriate funds to pay for a Politico subscription.
I keep using that example because it's the best demonstration of how wrong you are. Congress appropriates a block of funds for an agency to execute legislative mandates. How and on what they spend the money is up to the agency (Executive Branch) so long as the legislative intent of the appropriations is met.
I think the GAO has done them for the past 20 years, at least, and Congress failed to act on their findings.
that's what Congressional oversight is for
keep playing dumb for the dummies
What do you think is in those Politico subscriptions, Rushmore?
a whole half million dollars, that's the extreme fraud you've uncovered?
This is 100% not a real audit. It's a witch-hunt, you know, the kind Co-President Trump complained about without evidence for years?
Your maximum outrage mind thinks that all payments made in error are lost forever.
This is how they want you to think.
This is factually false, the GAO and agency IGs root out waste and fraud as matter of course, and Congress sometimes acts on the reports. That's our system.
Perhaps not to your personal satisfaction, but that doesn't mean they do and have done nothing
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