'It's computer-generated': GOP lawmaker struggles to explain how Elon verifies 'waste'
Rep. Tim Burchett struggled to explain how the billionaire face of the Department of Government Efficiency verifies that his recommended cuts actually came from government waste, fraud, or abuse. "If he says the things that DOGE has found and the savings they found, how do you verify that other than the fact that it's the word of Elon Musk?" The lawmaker also accused the government of paying Social Security benefits to people "that were even older than our country." Burchett said he told President Donald Trump that "the war pimps" in Congress would try to redirect any savings into Pentagon spending. "They're wanting to soak it up at the Pentagon with some new weapons defense system, and a lot of these things, as soon as they come off the production line, are mothballed," he remarked.
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