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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joined MSNBC’s The Weekend and sounds off on Elon Musk’s chaotic exit from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). While Musk might’ve left the building, Crockett makes clear the damage is done—gutting federal agencies, slashing jobs, and peddling fake savings. She calls out the sham cuts, the lack of oversight, and the GOP’s obsession with gimmicks over governance. And she’s not letting anyone forget who’s paying the price: working families, seniors, and public servants. The DOGE experiment? A disaster. And Rep. Crockett’s ready to clean house.
Transcript
musk is not completely going away
Elon has worked tirelessly helping lead
the most sweeping and consequential
government reform program in generations
I expect to remain a friend and uh an
adviser and uh certainly if there's
anything the president wants me to do
I'm at at the president's office
Doge cuts have certainly been sweeping
According to a New York Times analysis
Doge has cut 99% of personnel at
Broadcaster Voice of America and USAD as
well as nearly half the workforce at the
Department of Education and nearly a
quarter of employees at HHS As for the
$2 trillion in savings Musk Musk
promised last fall it's just 175 billion
as of this week according to Doge's
website Although the website has a
history of dubious information For it
claimed $8 billion in savings from a
contract that was actually just $8
million and posted quote unquote
receipts that save no money And there's
no real evidence of the fraud Musk has
pledged to find The so-called fraud Doge
touted was either previously uncovered
or wildly overblown
Joining us now is the Congresswoman from
Texas Jasmine Crockett who serves on the
House Doge subcommittee Congresswoman
welcome to the weekend So just your
thoughts on Elon Musk and his departure
from Washington
Hallelujah is what I got to say Is it
Sunday let us all give thanks to the
good Lord above Listen let me tell you
something He is gone but the musk is
still going to linger in the air We know
as you went through in your intro that
there are so many people that have been
impacted by these ridiculous and
notthought out cuts And it's not just
the federal workers It's those
constituents of ours our citizens that
are being impacted the hardest by these
cuts And so here it is You basically let
this guy run wild And honestly I feel
like all of the cuts to federal
employees that was nothing more than a
distraction for the things that he
really wanted to do which is to make
sure that there was no oversight over
his companies the companies that were
under investigation This was to kind of
keep us busy and distracted And
unfortunately in the process we have
harmed our federal government and
ultimately we are harming our overall
economy
Yeah Congresswoman like you said the
damage has already been done The people
have been fired The ch a lot of those
changes have been made Is there any
reason for folks to anticipate that at
some point the you guys will the
Congress or someone will be able to claw
back some of these jobs and policies
that people really need around the
country
i mean would you really want to work for
the federal government at this moment i
mean like like let's be honest Um you
know in in reality we have been down as
it relates to some of our federal
workforce Anyway this is one reason that
the Biden Harris administration invested
so much money in the inflation reduction
act when it came to the IRS because they
wanted to make sure that those people
that were best trained to do those
complicated um audits of people's taxes
basically the very very rich making sure
that we had the best of the best to make
sure that we could bring in additional
income In addition to that while we've
been talking about the reconciliation
package and we've been talking about the
cuts and how many people are going to
potentially lose their health care or
how many people are going to lose food
off of their tables one of the things
that we've not been able to do because
there's again still so much in this
terrible bill is talk about things that
happened in the oversight committee such
as deciding that they don't want federal
government employees to have the
protections the protections that the
federal court um has acknowledged and
said "Hey you've got to reinstate these
federal employees Instead they want to
change federal employees to at will So a
lot of the things that once attracted
people to want to come and work for the
federal government they are disappearing
as well as well as making them pay more
into um their furs So it's it's
absolutely insane and nobody wants to
come work for us right now Congresswoman
yesterday in the Oval Office it didn't
exactly sound like Trump and Elon Musk
were completely breaking up He sounded
like he might still be lingering in some
unofficial capacity Yet you know he had
to end his special He was at the final
day as a special employee How is the
House Oversight Committee going to keep
holding Doge and Elon Musk accountable
you said keep We never started Um Doge
was just a little pet project for um
Marjorie Taylor Green to be able to say
"Hey they gave me something I've got a
gavvel." And so you know the last Doge
hearing that we had it was on uh trans
folk doing fencing Um I mean we were
talking to people that don't get any
federal dollars whatsoever Um and
dealing with that We have a Doge
subcommittee hearing coming up and it's
to talk about NOS's and basically to go
after them We have had a hearing on PBS
and talk about why it's important to
quote unquote defund PBS I mean we've
not dealt with those things We have
tried to subpoena Elon Musk before The
Republicans did not want to do that I
don't know why you wouldn't want to have
your main man come in and tell us about
all the great work that he's doing
unless he absolutely isn't doing any
great work So listen I think that
unfortunately we're going to have to
wait until the Democrats are in the
majority which will hopefully be in the
midterms and then we can absolutely
bring Elon Musk in and we can have him
under oath and we can have him tell us
about everything that he did because as
I've been home this week to hear from my
seniors that are concerned and don't
have answers about how much information
he had access to and what he did with
that sensitive information they are
scared
Um Congresswoman have a listen to what
Elon Musk had to say in an interview on
Tuesday about his thoughts on the
so-called big beautiful bill that was
passed by the House
I was like disappointed to see the
massive spending bill frankly uh which
increases the budget deficit not does
decrease it and undermines the work that
the Doge team is doing I think a bill
can be can be can be big or it could be
beautiful
I don't know if it could be both
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Congresswoman I have no question Just
hold forth
Listen I mean you know you know I'm not
necessarily besties with Elon Uh but
when I can agree I'm just going to agree
because it's just the truth The reality
is that we saw when this bill passed the
House which it barely made it over the
finish line 215 to 214 We know that
there were two Republicans that somehow
went MIA We know that two Republicans
voted with us And then we know that one
Republican just voted present And let me
just tell you even if a Republican voted
with us it wasn't for the same reasons
okay but we got to the same result which
is that this is a big bad bill Okay and
their reasons for saying you know what
we're not going to vote for this is
because they still want to raise the
debt ceiling by five trillion dollars
And so what I have explained to people
is that the cuts that they want to give
to the rich folk in this country are so
deep that even after cutting almost 14
million people off their healthcare and
cutting over $30 billion out of SNAP
benefits as well as all the other ugly
stuff And we don't talk about the fact
that they want to have this big chunk of
money so that ICE agents can get
approximately
$42,000 a piece in a bonus So we had
money that was going up for crazy stuff
And then we also of course had to set
aside enough money so that somebody
could go golfing I believe that the
number may be a billion dollars or so um
over the four years for him to be able
to go golfing This doesn't really make
sense and frankly nobody has asked for
these things to be their priorities But
there are fiscal responsible Republicans
that are saying "Listen I don't think
they really care about the cuts but they
absolutely care about the fact that we
still are needing to lift the debt
ceiling and honestly have nothing to
show for it." One might say that you
would call this um a bad built bad built
Butch bill Go on Elise
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