Musk Refuses to Testify About His Cuts of Social Security/ Rep Larson had Choice Words

 

Now he gone to F* Social Security while denying it

 Out MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was astounded by the energy a top Democratic member of Congress brought to defending Social Security, the retirement insurance program that the Trump administration has set its sites on eliminating.

House Democrats wanted to call Elon Musk, who was the top donor to the Trump campaign last year and who has been using his influence in the administration to fire federal workers and cut government services, before the House Ways and Means Committee, a resolution that House Republicans blocked. 

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Maddow slammed the Trump administration’s chaotic and dangerous approach to cost-savings.

Rep. John Larson (D-CT), the former chair of the House Democratic Caucus, had some choice words for Republicans in the House who refused to bring Musk in for questioning about his potentially illegal cuts to federal spending. The Constitution says that the president and the Executive Branch are supposed to implement the laws that Congress passes, not veto them by blocking funding after the laws are passed.

“I do not understand why you would relegate this committee to no longer being of significance and resort to saying, ‘You will do whatever Elon Musk and Donald Trump tell you to do!'” Larson said, pounding on his desk. 

“Where’s the independence of the committee!” he bellowed. “Where’s the legislature! We’re an equal branch of government, and you start off with a blather!”

“Look at the empty seats here. Where is Elon Musk?” Larson said, adding that Musk isn’t “above the law” no matter how rich or smart Republicans think he is.

“If he’s so great, if these plans and all the fraud and the abuse that he found are so evident, why isn’t he here explaining it? You know why – because he’s out to privatize Social Security!” 

Larson then ran through some quotes from Musk where he called Social Security a Ponzi scheme (it is not).

“It’s the tyranny of the Executive!” Larson concluded. “It’s why these resolutions were first adopted back in 1789. Because the Founding Fathers knew that the Executive Branch does not have total authority over the Legislature unless you have a willing party that says, ‘No, we’re gonna do exactly what you tell us to do, Mr. Musk and Mr. President. It doesn’t matter to our constituents.'”

“‘We’re not even gonna tell them the truth about what’s gonna happen to them,'” Larson said, shouting “Shame!” at his Republican colleagues.

Back on her program, Maddow then discussed some of the cuts to Social Security that the Trump administration is already working to implement, including proposed cuts to claim processing so that many people wouldn’t be able to receive benefits.

“This is what’s going on,” Maddow said, but then explained how things changed because Larson “screams his frickin’ head off in Congress this morning.”

“You know what happened? They caved. They decided not to do it,” Maddow said. “Don’t let anybody tell you that pushback doesn’t work. Don’t let anybody tell you that yelling and making a fuss doesn’t matter or that journalism doesn’t matter.”

“It doesn’t always matter, but honestly it’s the only thing that ever does.”

“Every single time you don’t try, you lose. But sometimes when you try, you win.”