Greg Murphy, Chuck Edwards help preserve MILLIONS in wasteful spending
Soooo many Republican elected officials think they can snow us and sneak back into office by simply chanting TRUMPTRUMPTRUMPTRUMPTRUMP ad infinitum. Folks, it was never about the man. It’s the message. Trump has merely been a vehicle for pushing the agenda – the message.
Much of the good stuff that has happened in DC has come about as a result of Trump’s executive orders. The problem? Those orders can be reversed with a change in majorities on Capitol Hill or a change of party in The White House. Stuff needs to be codified via congressional action.
Unfortunately, a lot of the Rs we’ve sent to DC are not really bought into the whole DOGE / MAGA thing. *Spending other people’s money can be soooooo much fun.*
Despite partisan control of Capitol Hill, we can’t seem to get much of anything MAGA-related passed through Congress. Those folks have more fun running investigations that lead nowhere but earn the “investigators” all kinds of face-time in the media.
There are still a hell of a lot of open prosecutor and judge slots still open that could help Trump push the MAGA agenda. WHY? (Seriously, WHY?)
It took a major arm-twisting effort to get a measly $9 billion in spending cuts through the Republican Congress. Again, WHY? Why is something like that such a chore? I thought we were the party of less government, less spending?
Our federal debt is currently at $38.6 trillion. Our debt to GDP ratio is 124.9 percent. In other words, our current debt is valued at 124.9 percent of the value of our entire economy.
An example of how bad things are in the world of the GOP and conservatism happened today on Capitol Hill.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an even bigger waste of money than USAID was. The Trump team had to kill it off internally. The NED is something that could disappear and not even be noticed by most Americans.
Yet, we have 81 Republicans to keep spending $315 million of our money on this nonsense. As far as the GOP delegation from North Carolina goes — eight of our ten Republicans voted to defund the NED.
Chuck Edwards voted with Alma Adams and the rest of the Democrats to keep spending money on the NED. That’s probably on the advice of his sugar-daddy Thom Tillis. *You know, the guy who stopped running his mouth and retired once he learned Republican polling showed him losing by nine points to a generic Democrat.*
I wonder what Adam Smith thinks about all this.
According to the House clerk, Greg Murphy couldn’t be bothered to show up and vote on this. (*Perhaps Nancy Mace took his lunch money and had him stuffed in a locker again.*)
Here is another travesty from this same pair. Most Republicans are familiar with the huge problem of highly partisan Obama and Biden judges in federal district courts blatantly abusing their powers for political purposes, and the worst actors among those partisan judges are in the DC district courts led by James Boasberg. The outrages of Boasberg include participating Jack Smith’s fishing expedition investigating Republican senators and congressmen and issuing a gap order to be sure they were unaware of Smith’s outrageous actions. There are well hustified calls for impeachment of Boasberg over that abuse of power.
Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas) offered an amendment to address the problem with Boasberg and the DC district court by cutting their funding by 20%. Edwards voted against the Roy amendment, and Murphy took a walk, cowardly not voting on it at all.
https://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/94194/greg-murphy-takes-a-walk-on-amendment-to-defund-activist-judges-incl-boasberg.html
Republicans deserve better.