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We should expect hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful spending at the Department of Defense. It's unacceptable that a full audit won't be completed for four years. The Pentagon needs to be able to pass a budget now, and while the Marine Corps has passed a clean audit for two years, this needs to be department-wide. We need to know exactly where every dollar is going. This is basic accounting, and it's something the Defense Department has lacked. We're committed to fixing this. With America's $37 trillion debt, we must use resources wisely. We welcome partnerships, like with Doge, to streamline processes, cut waste, and ensure every dollar goes to our warfighters. The Defense Department has a huge budget, and responsible spending is crucial.

This year has been a disaster, reflecting the failures of Washington, D.C. I ran for Congress to address these issues, but it seems nothing has changed. It's frustrating to see celebrations over Doge while we're about to add another billion dollars to the deficit. Regarding Speaker Johnson, I'm disappointed; he has the potential to communicate more effectively. It's unacceptable that we haven't seen the proposed language yet, especially with a vote scheduled for this week.

"it's not antisemitic to talk about this, and it's not antisemitic to question any foreign country's government secular government, including Israel." "We fund a lot of other countries' borders better than we fund our own." "it's over $800,000,000,000,000, actually, close to 900,000,000,000,000 is the total bill." "the 500,000,000 for Israel." "They already received $3,400,000,000 annually every single year through the State Department." "Taiwan for 500,000,000 and for Jordan for 500,000,000 as well." "There's 15,000,000 in there for AIDS prevention education activities." "America's broke. We're $37,000,000,000,000 in debt." "we just can't pay for the world anymore." "Not being an isolationist. That's actually being smart and serving the people that that pay for all of this stuff and have been chained into 37,000,000,000,000 in debt." "And that's not being mean to foreign people and foreign countries, but America's broke."

A recent poll reveals that 67% of people believe the US federal debt is unsustainable, and 60% think Doge is helping make major cuts in government expenditures. Robert Blouie notes that people are fired up about Elon Musk making cuts that politicians have only promised. Dan Turrentine agrees, stating Democrats are too focused on how Musk is doing it. The poll shows 72% of Democrats want reduced government expenditures, but creating that change can be chaotic. Turrentine believes Democrats need to be more open to cuts and not just raising taxes. Blouie thinks Musk could be more aggressive given the massive deficit, as it is a spending problem, not revenue. Turrentine says the real test will come when Congress starts trying to pass the reconciliation bill because it is the only way to get real deficit and debt reduction.

President Trump's administration is uncovering wasteful spending, like millions on sex changes in Guatemala, girl-centric climate change in Brazil, and social media influencers in Ukraine. Even worse, hundreds of thousands were spent on sending designers to a Paris fashion show. Instead of funding these crazy projects, let's redirect that money to secure our border. Fiscal conservatives are proposing to increase spending, but there's a way to cut it. It's called rescission. The administration can bundle savings and send it to us for a simple majority vote, no Democrats needed. There's a debate about whether our biggest threats are internal or external. I believe they're internal. We don't need unlimited military spending or to be everywhere in the world. If we want more money for the military, take it from overseas spending like climate change initiatives. We're giving billions to dictatorships without elections.

Speaker 0 argues Republicans pretend to care about the debt yet vote for spending, noting they would "expand Social Security by a $100,000,000,000" while "Social Security's already gone bankrupt." He warns of a possible "sudden loss of confidence in the dollar" and cites debt costs: "a trillion dollars a year" in interest (18% of tax revenue). He says Democrats rely on "modern monetary theory" while Republicans "pretend to care" but keep spending. His cure is the "penny plan"—freeze, then 1% cuts, then a "6% cut of everything" across the board, with means testing for Social Security/Medicare and a gradual retirement age to 70. He criticizes the "$500,000,000,000" "not so beautiful bill" and backs a "rescission package" to roll back existing approvals, e.g., capping Obamacare expansion and shifting Medicaid costs to the states, saving about $1 trillion over ten years. He outlines three scenarios: deflation, domestic unrest, and war, and notes currencies, gold, and crypto havens. He praises Elon Musk; Mille could not run for president because he was born in Argentina.

Scott and Mike Pence, both Republicans, voted to raise the debt, while Donald Trump added a staggering $8 trillion to our national debt. This is a burden our children will bear. Looking at the 2024 budget, Republicans requested $7.4 billion in earmarks, while Democrats asked for a mere $800 million. It's clear that the Republicans are the big spenders. We need an accountant in the White House to address this issue.

The speaker opposes attaching the SAVE Act to the continuing resolution (CR), calling it a repetitive tactic that results in a clean CR after Senate removal. Passing the SAVE Act would lead to excessive spending: $6.3 billion a day, $3 billion in interest, and $77,000 per second, increasing the $36 trillion debt. Interest payments could exceed the annual national defense spending. The CR also restricts new military programs. The speaker notes that 73% of appropriations have passed, with 27% remaining. The speaker questions the point of passing the SAVE Act if the Senate won't consider it or HR 2 to secure the borders. The speaker claims adding debt will cause inflation, harming the middle and lower classes. The speaker is willing to shut down the government or the border to protect elections.

I wear a debt badge synced to the treasury to highlight the urgency of our national debt. It's hard to grasp trillions, but seeing the numbers climb rapidly makes it real. We're essentially launching cyber trucks of debt into the ocean every second. Lawmakers are apathetic, but we can't keep ignoring it. We're taxing the world by printing money as the reserve currency, but that won't last. We're weaponizing the dollar with sanctions and seizing assets, discouraging other countries from using or buying our debt. Some colleagues understand the problem, but vote for it anyway because it's popular. Our military-industrial complex drives endless spending, creating ill will and creating enemies. I try to make people realize there are consequences to their actions on the floor of the House, but I still am against sending our money overseas for these purposes.

Let's put aside the fear mongering. No one in the Trump administration has advocated using Social Security money for other purposes. However, there are real questions about spending. The other side calls funding pauses illegal, but pausing spending for a month isn't impoundment. This is a separation of powers issue. I voted against repurposing money for the wall. When money was stopped at USAID, $2,000,000 was found for sex changes in Guatemala. Should a president be able to execute their policy? The bureaucracy is unmovable and skewed towards spending more. Should we spend millions on things like girl-centric climate change in Brazil or microaggressions among obese Latinx individuals? Scrutiny is good. I want the discovery of waste to lead to permanent change. The minority party likely won't want to cut funding for things like sex changes in Guatemala. If we can save money, like $200,000,000 on an aircraft carrier, we should do a rescission package and fill our $2,000,000,000,000 deficit.

I'd love to have Elon Musk come to the Briefing Room, especially after his informative visit to the Oval Office yesterday. We've been incredibly transparent about Doge's work. They're actively tweeting updates and posting contract receipts on their website, showcasing how they're making our government more efficient. Before Doge, these issues were handled by unknown bureaucrats. Now, Elon Musk, is under scrutiny for bringing these issues to light, providing needed transparency. We're happy to provide the receipts, like these DEI contracts totaling millions, including one for climate change in Sri Lanka. These are the kinds of wasteful expenditures Doge is uncovering daily. Many Americans weren't even aware of things like the federal employee retirement system being processed in a mine in Pennsylvania until Elon Musk spoke up. This is fraudulent, wasteful, and an abuse of taxpayer dollars.

I consider myself a humble tech support, and that’s almost a literal description of the work the Doge team is doing to help fix government computer systems. Many of these systems are extremely old and don't communicate, and the software doesn't work. The overall goal is to help address the enormous deficit. We simply cannot sustain $2,000,000,000,000 deficits. The interest on the national debt now exceeds the Defense Department spending. If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt. It's not an optional thing; it is essential. If we don't do this, America will go bankrupt. I'm confident that we can find a trillion dollars in savings.

The speaker asserts there is waste in government spending, which was the idea behind "doge." Elon Musk did not find $2 trillion, but he only worked on it for 130 days. The idea that there must be a perpetual audit of government is now embedded in everyone's head, regardless of political affiliation. The brand for this idea is "Doge."

We're discussing a proposal where Trump and Musk would send US taxpayers $5,000 checks, funded by savings from government efficiency. The idea is to save $2 trillion and return a portion to households. While it sounds good to give money back to the people, I think it's gimmicky. Cutting taxes would be a better approach. Savings from cutting back on spending should reduce the budget, interest rates, and debt. Perhaps Musk is trying to create a sense of ownership in the cutting process. During COVID, stimulus checks ended up costing more through inflation. Printing more money for these checks invites further inflation, negating any benefit. People are upset because they aren't getting honest answers about debt and the Fed's role in monetizing it.

The DOGE program is targeted at bureaucrats. Take the Department of Education, for example. They have a budget of about $280 billion a year, but less than 25% goes to educating students. The other $220 billion goes to bureaucracy, consultants who donate money back to Democrats, NGOs—it's money laundering. You can find this in almost every agency. The brilliance of DOGE is not that he is cutting spending, he doesn't have the authority to do that, we do. I want him to create a report, going agency by agency, identifying programs we shouldn't fund, and attaching a number to it. We then put a preamble on the front of that report and say every agency's budget will be cut by X amount as shown in the report, and none of those programs can continue.

I'm wearing this debt badge that syncs to the treasury, showing the debt to the penny and how fast it's growing. It's a hundred thousand dollars a second, like launching cyber trucks into the ocean continuously. Lawmakers are apathetic, but I'm trying to make them realize the consequences. We're able to finance this because we're the world's reserve currency, effectively taxing the world through inflation. But this won't last. Ironically, sanctions are pushing countries away from using the dollar. Seizing other countries' assets is immoral and shortsighted, discouraging them from buying our debt. Some colleagues understand this, but vote for things anyway because it's popular. I keep dissenting, voting against foreign aid and proxy wars. It's not about right versus left, but honesty versus falsehood.

We are working to cut a trillion dollars from the deficit because if we don't get the deficit under control, America will go bankrupt. A country is no different than an individual. If you overspend, you will go bankrupt, and the massive waste and abuse that has been going on has led to a $2 trillion a year deficit. That is what the President was handed on January 20th: a $2 trillion deficit. It's insane.

"when we went off the gold standard, the governments had to convince people to accept money backed by nothing, Just be on paper that had no real value." "But what would happen with a return to a gold standard, it would require a lot more prudence on the part of governments that adopt gold again." "It would be much harder for governments to run large deficits, especially The United States." "Governments would have to act fiscally responsible in order to stay on a gold standard, which is another reason why we should be on one because they don't let governments run huge deficits when there's a gold standard." "Without a gold standard, governments can get away with this. They can create a lot of inflation and they have created a lot of inflation." "That's what's going to precipitate a return to the gold standard because otherwise, we have runaway inflation." "Otherwise, the dollar can become completely worthless and then you have real economic chaos."

Speaker 0: "Republicans pretend to care about the debt... then they vote for all the spending." "We're gonna expand Social Security by a $100,000,000,000." "Social Security's already going bankrupt." He links the debt to inflation: "inflation that's linked to the debt." He proposes drastic cuts: "the penny plan"—"a freeze in all spending" to "balance within five years," then "a 1% cut" and "the six penny plan." He argues for means testing and raising the age to 70: "the richer would get a lot less." He critiques both parties: "top 1% pay 40% of the income tax. The top 10%, people making 200,000 or more pay 90% of the income tax." He cites "the big not so beautiful bill" and calls for capping Medicaid expansion and shifting Medicaid to the states. He condemns anti-immigration talk as "morons" and says "I commend for the president shutting the border down. I'm a big fan of Elon Musk." He lists three scenarios: "deflating the currency," "domestic unrest," and "war."

President Trump promised to review federal spending, and that's what Musk is doing. Some Democratic colleagues are upset about this review, but it's necessary. For four years, the focus has been on who should pay more taxes, while Republicans are asking where the money went. Examples of questionable spending include $520 million for ESG investments in Africa and $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma. Democrats are not defending this spending but are instead focused on process and authority. Musk has the president's backing to examine these expenditures. It would be beneficial to compile this spending into a booklet and publicly address each item, challenging Democrats to defend it, which they likely cannot do.

There are no Doge cuts, and this is not USAID. The speaker is talking about waste and fraud, specifically in Medicaid, and claims no one has been turned over to the DOJ for fraud. Elon Musk gave false hope to a political class that doesn't want to cut anything. The big bill has problems, but it passed because Musk promised a trillion dollars. The rescission next week is $9 billion, with $2 billion from PBS and NPR. There's supposedly $7 billion in fraud on a $7 trillion budget. Musk committed $1 trillion to the President, leading to questions about whether it's all "BS."

parliamentarian ruled that sections of it were outside of the process that they're using to get this through. Do you think that senators should respect the decisions of the parliamentarian? And what have you personally done in the last forty eight hours to try and get Republican senators who are against the bill to a yes? 'If it's not approved, your taxes will go up by 68%. Think of that. 68, a record, the highest in the history.' 'The Democrats won't approve it only because, politically, it's so good for the Republicans.' 'They're not approving border security.' 'We've done a great job at the border, but we have to add some wall.' 'We have no money for that.' 'But if the Democrats it'll be interesting to see if we get any Democrat votes. We should.' 'If I were a Democrat, I would vote for this bill all day long because it's tax cuts and so many other things that are common sense.'

I've got one question before I leave: how much can we cut from the $6.5 trillion Harris Biden budget? I believe we can save at least $2 trillion.

Speaker 0 expressed disappointment with a large spending bill, claiming it increases the budget deficit. Speaker 0 connected this to the work being done by the Doge team. Speaker 1 stated that everything done on Doge gets wiped out in the first year due to the bill. Speaker 0 stated that a bill can be big or beautiful, but not both, in their opinion.

The American people are sick of the lies, cheating, and spending. We're seeing the climax of living beyond our means, fueled by the dollar's reserve currency status. The country is bankrupt, morally and financially, with moral bankruptcy leading to abuse of power. Some in Congress want to cut back spending, but there are loopholes. Congress is not doing its job by passing appropriation bills. Trump is asking Republicans to vote for a bill that largely maintains current spending levels, with an additional $8 billion for military spending. They are always trying to kick the can down the road, they are not cutting spending. The whole system is massive, abused, and immoral. It's going to take some time to fix this issue.