If the guy thought he was gonna Bull Shit his way with these guys?
He was sadly mistaken….
Stung by DOGE’s meat cleaver cuts across the Government and his showboating with Trump while they have had to deal with angry REPUBLICANS at home?
Elon Musk ran into a political beehive….
Donald Trump may think the World of Musk
But US Senator’s do NOT…
They want him to work WITH Congress BEFORE chopping much of anything ANYMORE….
The “System’ IS catching UP to Elon Musk….
Republican senators told tech billionaire Elon Musk at a closed-door meeting Wednesday that his aggressive moves to shrink the federal government will need a vote on Capitol Hill, sending a clear message that he needs to respect Congress’s power of the purse….…
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who largely supports Musk’s mission, told him DOGE’s efforts to cut spending and reduce the federal workforce reductions won’t pass muster with the courts unless Congress codifies them by passing a spending rescission package.
“To make it real, to make it go beyond the moment of the day, it needs to come back in the form of a rescission package,” Paul said after the meeting, pointing to 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning rejecting the Trump administration’s argument that billions of dollars in foreign aid should remain frozen.
“I love all the stuff they’re doing, but we got to vote on it. My message to Elon was: Let’s get over the impoundment idea and let’s send it back as a rescission package,” he said.
“Then, what we have to do is get to 51 senators or 50 senators” to vote “to cut the spending,” he added. “We talked a lot about, how do we make these things permanent? Rescission was a big part of the discussion.”…
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GOP lawmakers say Musk’s failure to brief them in advance about impending cuts and funding freezes — or to respond to their questions and concerns about actions taken by DOGE — reflected his belief that he thought the administration could largely bypass them by simply impounding funds lawfully appropriated by Congress…
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Many Republican senators have complained publicly and privately about being blindsided by Musk’s proposed funding freezes and reductions in workforce.
“Every day’s another surprise,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said last week of the frequent news bombshells from DOGE….
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Musk told the senators he would set up a process to respond quickly to their concerns and questions, something that appeared to please the Republicans sitting around the room.
While a number of GOP senators have complaints about Musk’s aggressive tactics and lack of collaboration with Congress, they are leery of confronting him directly, fearful he could pour tens of millions of dollars into backing Republican primary challengers next year….
image…Elon Musk leaves a Senate Republican luncheon after discussing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 2025.
This was more in the nature of a slap on the hand.
Your faith in the Republican Party reflects a political naïveté that is alternately sad and amusing.
At the end of the day?
These Republicans are going to go along with Trump and Musk.
They’ve got no choice.
I do NOT agree….
In the end?
Senator’s WILL be office and Musk will be gone….
I have and will continue to point to ‘revisions’ in Musk’s DOGE actions….
Several members of his consulting outfit are about to face lawyers in dep’s….
Musk himself has admittred NUMEROUS mistakes by his people….
There are over 100 Federal lawsuits pending I believe and judges and courts have acted against him and the Felon President he leads around by the nose…
And the Supreme’s…
The ‘System’ IS Slowly catching up to Trump & Co. like it HAS done for CENTURIES…..