They ain’t Happy…
The Lawmnakers of President Trump’s OWN party spent some time chewing on Trump’s chief of staff….
(Cabinet members are mumbling also)
Sooner or Later?
SOMETHING gonna Have to Give on Trump’s actions….
Do Lawmakers have the ‘Ball’s?’ to get serious on pushing back against ole ‘ 78 years Trump who ain’t running for office again and doesn’t do Town Hall’s to get screamed at?
The lawmakers asses may in-fact be on the line come election day…..
Not Musks’s…
Republican senators vented their concerns about tech billionaire Elon Musk’s aggressive approach to freezing federal spending and cutting government jobs during a private meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Wednesday.
Gathered in the historic Mansfield Room outside the Senate chamber, some GOP senators complained about what they view as a lack of transparency about what Musk and his team of engineers are doing at federal agencies.
They flagged cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs, which fired 1,400 employees Monday, and said Musk’s team hadn’t responded to their requests for information, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
“Every day’s another surprise,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said of the daily bombshells from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“It would be better to allow Cabinet secretaries to carefully review their departments and then make surgical, strategic decisions on what programs and people should be cut and then come back to Congress for approval,” she said.
Collins argued a methodical approach to reforming government would be better than what she called Musk’s “sledgehammer approach.”…
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Musk spoke to Trump’s departmental leaders shortly after OMB and OPM circulated a memo instructing agencies to conduct a governmentwide reduction in force and to report their plans for mass layoffs by March 13.
Some Republican senators say Musk needs to step back and let Trump’s Cabinet officials take the lead in deciding whether layoffs are consistent with their other priorities.
And they want more information about how Musk and his team are going about their effort to reshape the federal workforce..
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“We’re talking about governmental entities, a lot of complexity. That’s why I believe that DOGE will most likely morph into being an adviser to these Senate-confirmed heads of agencies fairly soon,” he said. “Otherwise, I just have a real problem.
“If I get confirmed as the head of an agency, a Cabinet-level position, [and] I’ve got somebody else that is pretending — or that is acting as my boss, that’s a real problem,” he added. “At the end of the day, you’ve got to have all those employees thinking that you’re looking out for the agencies and their best interests.”….
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“They need to say, ‘This is all good stuff, but now it has to go into the context of everything else I’m doing to run this agency, not just efficiencies.’ Because you’ve still got to keep the lights on, you’ve still got to provide acceptable service levels for the people that you’re tasked with serving,” he said.
Some Republican senators note they’re hearing complaints from constituents who are alarmed about the potential freezing of federal grants or losing their jobs.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday urged Musk to treat federal workers “respectfully.”…
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