Auchincloss to Rep. Tony Gonzalez after Gonzalez touts the popularity of DOGE: "Is it popular to cut healthcare for the 40% of kids in this country who rely on Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for people who don't need tax cuts?
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I’ve been waiting for any reporter at all, I don’t care if they’re from Mad Magazine to straight up ask Trump, on camera “Why do rich people need more money?”
That moron gives the stupid example of “We’re spending billions on squirrels” without saying what that research is FOR. Scientists are harvesting embryonic stem cells, are development treatments for stroke victims, and improving organ transplantation. I am so sick of these dicks who lie!!!
Bingo! I trust a scientist to advance medical research that saves lives more than a fuqqing combover grifting moron stealing billions while selling out America to Vladimir Putin who never even knew Uganda or Lesotho exist.
Even more frustrating is the lack of correct information... they constantly let these ridiculous statements go unchallenged, which is why people believe the lies
I wish they would be called out for misrepresenting what they're saying is waste, fraud, and abuse. Zamunda is a fictional place from the movie Coming To America. This guy was able to say we are spending millions of dollars on squirrels there without being checked. Do your job CNN!
Well, there are a lot of squirrels where I live, and given recent zoonoses trends, it couldn't hurt to throw some research dollars at squirrels before we blow up another rocket.
The whole MAGA movement has been based on unproven lies preying on the minds of racists, bigots & the mentally weak. Democrats employ some of the same strategies.
Trump is a psycho. Musk isn't far behind. They aren't running the show, dark money groups are.
That and Tapper trying to talk over Auchincloss to get in “we are all against waste fraud and abuse.” As if what Musk targeting has anything to do with that.
Auchincloss speaks the truth. Rural health care is shrinking, local hospitals are fighting to stay afloat. We rely on public health centers; there's no public transportation and many have no cars of their own.
hiding won't make the anger subside it will only increase the fools don't understand even all of the money Mr. apartheid has won't help them in the midterms
Ummm, Tapper is on their team, every f’n week ppl are shocked that he doesn’t react like any sane person would. It is deliberate. BUT, he will throw you a bone every 20th topic to keep you hopeful.
I won't even LISTEN to their garbage. Because the whole world KNOWS it's garbage. Utter and complete lies. Nothing more. Why listen? You know what you're going to hear and it will just disappoint you in yet another human being.
What the hell is he trying to fluff it off with "well everybody wants to cut waste fraud and abuse" he should be saying "you're right that's not what they're doing they're covering up their fraud and abuse"
47% in Rural America
Medicaid is the coverage for 47% of kids
Not 40%
Can't fucking wait for rural hospitals to start shutting down
For the job losses and tragic stories of death and disease
Can't wait for the kids to lose their healthcare
Tony gonzalez is a LYING NUTSACK OF SHIT & his “district” is CHINGO DE MEXICANOS who dont know or care about voting because they are too busy working .
I live in his district. He actually doesn't talk to any of us because we are not billionaires. He doesn't respond to constituent messages or phone calls. We get crickets. I do not understand how he got re-elected because he brings nothing to the table.
Call his DC office. I have talked to his guy every time & he is so polite and listens. It doesn’t seem as if Tony is actually listening though, because I know many have called to complain. I am in Leon Springs. Where are you?
I used to be over in the Bluffview area. Near there?
Try giving his DC office a call tomorrow. The guy who works the phones really is fantastic. But the more voices the better… they have to log their calls, so opposition is documented.
I am in his district. There is a lot of wealth on the district, but also a lot of poverty. We have been calling a lot and have complained alto about Doge and medicaid cuts.
Elon Musk posted a poll on Xwitter that received 1.5M votes, about 1.2M of which were favorable toward DOGE. Now, how many of those "favorable" votes were bots, sycophants, hard-core facist nazi-bootlickers? No idea 🤷♀️
Gonzalez has no empathy at all, much less common sense. What combats “waste, fraud, and abuse” most effectively? INSPECTORS GENERAL! Whom Trump has illegally eliminated. Disgusting and wrong.
Hold these greed monger’s feet to the fire 🔥 During the Reagan administration, I had to hire an attorney bc GOP stopped my mother’s disability payments. She was disabled and it was restored with back payments.
Republicans are mean (evil) definitely not Christian ~ they despise democracy. Sad
Hispanic politician desperately towing the company line in hopes white men in power will accept him as part of the club.
(pssst....they won't, you're just a tool, in every way)
Whatever the future, every single one of these Republicans needs to answer for facilitating the robbery of America. I'd go as far as to say nothing short of imprisonment.
Jake tapper is so full of it, if he were seriously against waste fraud and abuse he would have brought up the fact that trump fired all the inspectors generals in his first week.
Money for research on squirrels? No way does anyone who can think beyond cliches not know that's how medical research and research on the effects of say, fertilizers on human cells that can become cancerous. Gonzalez's constituents maybe should venture outside their Facebook circle?
The dumbest, most idiotic people can be elected in the Republican party.
They have an embarassment of embarassments to choose from.
Texas Republicans are some of the dumbest.
Despite all our wealth, they can't buy class.
Well Aaron, as long as the #GOPFascists don't LISTEN to what their constituents have to say, they can still 'claim' that DOGE is popular. As #MAGAtMikeJohnson lied his ass off about on FoxNoise recently, everyone at those townhalls were Dem agitators, NOT REAL Republican's mad as hell about Musk!
I just figured out why something about this brother's face doesn't sit right with me. I think this class/race traitor has had some "whitification" surgery. All that's missing is the bad bleach job.
Let me know when they like you, Gonzo.
Dearest Tony Gonzalez: Only support DOGE has is from the Bots of X and a handful of billionaires. Bots don't vote. Bots don't show at town halls. Billionaires certainly wouldn't show. Where's all the support for DOGE? The hundreds of Republicans in the senate/congresss & Putin you say? Interesting.
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Um...no. Cutting healthcare for the poor is not popular...even magas are finally waking up to find out how much trouble they are in now that they have reelected trump...
The irony here is that the birth rate among young whites is decreasing and they're enacting policies -if you can call them policies- that are going to further decrease the birth rate. They seem to think forced birth, white nationalism and phony Christianity will save the day.
Biggest case of waste, fraud & abuse: GIVING ~$5T IN TAX BREAKS TO THE WEALTHY 1% WHO ALREADY PAY LITTLE TO NO TAXES WHILE CUTTING PROGRAMS AVERAGE PEOPLE NEED TO SURVIVE!!!!!!
Tony "Zamunda" Gonzalez only holds town halls by telephone. Bad connections apparently keep him from answering real questions. Even in person. Pendejo.
I hear Texas Rep Tony Gonzales (district is along Tx/Mex border) has only done telephone town halls in 2025. I hear on those calls he does a lot of chest thumping and yapping, then allows only a handful of constituents to ask a question or speak.
At least he holds something resembling town halls. I’ve lived in the district represented by M. Amodei for 7 of the last 10 years. He attends events with supporters who live in more sparsely populated areas of his district; he hasn’t held a town hall
in the most populous area of his district
bat shit. the douche dept is nt the talk in the streets people HATE the douche dept, the convicted felon and all his russian assets. The fact we are talking about this BULLSHIT when a sitting president is committing TREASON???? FUCK THEM
Jake Tapper is such a worthless excuse for a journalist. “Everybody supports removing waste, fraud & abuse…”
Bullshit! Elon, Trump & the MAGA GOP are using this lie to foster levels of waste, fraud & abuse that this country has never seen before. These are the most corrupt gang of fraudsters ever.
Imagine being a journalist who bends over for someone who is antithetical to the idea of free speech & a free press. Then imagine also being Jewish & sucking up to antisemitic Nazi fascists. If there was a group that specifically targeted people named Jake, Tapper would supplicate himself to them.
It's a safe platitude, that "everyone agrees with" ostensibly, but the YUGE problem is : "Who gets to DEFINE waste, fraud & abuse, ADJUDICATE that it's actually happening, and then EXECUTE the correction?"
Apparently elon/trump get to do all 3, and Tapper just tut-tuts away all discussion of it.
Auchincloss wants to be a senator from Massachusetts. That would be a colossal mistake. We need those roles to groom future presidential candidates — and Auchincloss is NOT that. He leveraged his family’s connections to get where he is today (McGeorge Bundy). Enough with the aristocracy.
Republicans have wanted to make drastic cuts to Government for decades.
They now have the perfect weapon.
The Richest Man in the world.
An unelected appointed official that will cut first ask questions later.
Elected officials have shade to say "it's not my fault"
Don't blame me!
It has to hurt them personally and so far except for the price of eggs going up very little has. We’ve seen some Trump supporting Latinos angry over the immigration lies and some Trump supporting veterans who can’t get medical procedures done. It isn’t enough.
I was on a phone in town hall with Rep Ashley Hinson from IA this week. She asked us to rate our priorities - and then gave us 4 choices selected by her to validate HER priorities. Tariffs, Soc Sec, Veterans not on the list. I doubt Rep Gonzalez’ comment on DOGE TBH
People that Gonzalez represent, have NOT forgotten his lack of leadership during and after the Robb Elementary massacre in Uvalde, Texas. They’re not calling about the stupidity he spews about DOGE, they’re calling him some unmentionables.
who’s his dem challenger?
What is that person doing right now to take advantage of the current political climate?
what are dems doing to rally voters in that district?
lemme guess.
no one.
nothing.
nothing.
no wonder dems keep losing elections.
@jaketapper.bsky.social Jake. Stop saying “everyone supports getting rid of waste fraud & abuse”AS IF IT’s A sudden PROBLEM. Heard of agency Inspector Generals? If this fake-ass purge was REAL then IG’s would have been given support and mandates. Instead they were fired. This is just a money grab.
It’s ridiculous to spout off “research about squirrels” as an example of wasted tax payer money. Scientists review the grants and determine if the grants are sound and worthwhile. It’s an incredibly competitive process to get research money. But so easy for ignorant people to spout nonsense.
Who ever said trump is a moral authority on anti-Fraud, waste and abuse, when he is a Crook, Criminal, Conman and Felon, his entire career? This was NEVER about fighting fraud. This is a Totalitarian Power and Money grab and an Assault on the Constitution.
Modern medical breakthroughs with peptides partially came from studying gila lizard venom, and lead to drugs like Wegovy. But imagine DOGE running across lizard venom research.
Not forever. They weren't reached by different view points. No one is combating their world, the lies. I was one of those people. I'm now very much not. 💙 All it took was a few honest answers when I asked and patient resistors to show me my whole life was a lie.
Sad to say I live in Gonzalez’s district. We haven’t had a competitive race in this district for several cycles now. Thought about running myself but instead I’m going to move to Washington state
Ok so did NO ONE catch the fact that he said squirrel research in ZAMUNDA???? Zamunda is a FICTIONAL African country in the 1988 Eddie Murphy movie Coming to America!! This dude us stupid!
The possibility of them leaving their districts, hungry without Medicare without snap,
willing to enact cruelty so that he can give billionaires tax cuts how deplorable are these men and women who have chosen to throw their constituents under the bus for Trump! As he threatens Social Security?
Jake, has been bought and paid for by the Trump regime. Repeats traitors talking points, “waste, fraud and abuse”, which stands for, “$400B tax cut for the rich”.
Musk literally said that empathy is ruining the world. His pathetic mother went on TV to say that people should have more children, even if they can’t afford them. But they don’t need to go out to dinner or to movies. Clearly, what kind of mother was she? The daughter of Nazis.
Lets NOT give ketamine (a life saving drug) ANY BAD NAMES . Musk is an abuser. Ask him about the spoonfuls of cocaine he snorted OR the LOLLY he ate @ Burning Man.
Doge is popular ... He has no proof for that other than just saying it. But like everything else with this regime, facts don't matter, you just have to repeat the lie enough.
DOGE cuts the weather forecasting team for the country.
Texas suffers bad storms, floods, hurricanes, etc.
Little warning for the people.
I am sure as they struggle to swim to safety after getting caught in the storms - they will be glad the 1% got their tax cuts
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https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ljxdhfphnm2c
https://youtu.be/L5foZIKuEWQ?si=06iiwv50dZFtGqCV
Probably money is going to getting his royal penis cleaned
CNN is sucking at their job. There is a reason US media is declining.
The whole MAGA movement has been based on unproven lies preying on the minds of racists, bigots & the mentally weak. Democrats employ some of the same strategies.
Trump is a psycho. Musk isn't far behind. They aren't running the show, dark money groups are.
They’re making mice transgender…
Checks out.
The US problem is ignorance.
Platforming liars does not help.
What a joke.
But we're also talking about the health and stability of our communities.
This isn't a money problem. It's a values problem. What exactly do we value, and do the people we elect share our values?
How in the hell the D’s can’t take this clown out is disturbing
Nuf said.
https://www.heraldnews.com/story/news/2025/03/08/auchincloss-fall-river-social-security-office-offshore-wind-homelessness-affordable-housing/82059153007/
https://bsky.app/profile/repauchincloss.bsky.social
In the same conversation...Biden is responsible for all inflation, the price of eggs, and layoffs in 2025.
Medicaid is the coverage for 47% of kids
Not 40%
Can't fucking wait for rural hospitals to start shutting down
For the job losses and tragic stories of death and disease
Can't wait for the kids to lose their healthcare
Maybe these fuckers will figure out MAGA is a con
"Two polls found public ambivalence about DOGE, and four showed opposition against it outpacing support. We did not find polls that showed overwhelming support for DOGE"
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2025/03/09/is-elon-musks-doge-very-popular-thats-not-what-the-polls-say/81933823007/
Or maybe DOGE is eating the fraud and the waste, because he saw it on tiktok...
Try giving his DC office a call tomorrow. The guy who works the phones really is fantastic. But the more voices the better… they have to log their calls, so opposition is documented.
Median property value: $217K
Poverty rate: 14.4%
It's an Hispanic majority district. I'm guessing he hasn't talked to any of his constituents.
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/congressional-district-23-tx
Every Republican is a liar and a coward.
They saw Trump get away with literally everything and assumed the cult would be as forgiving with them even if they hurt them.
Republicans are mean (evil) definitely not Christian ~ they despise democracy. Sad
(pssst....they won't, you're just a tool, in every way)
Science, y'all!
They have an embarassment of embarassments to choose from.
Texas Republicans are some of the dumbest.
Despite all our wealth, they can't buy class.
Let me know when they like you, Gonzo.
#WhitexicansSuckAss
Really?
Why not just say Wakanda?
I was just going to post something about it.
He is terrible
in the most populous area of his district
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-vetoes-g7-proposal-establish-042731017.html
A looks a bit reddish and inflated for a young dude
Blood pressure awrite buddy or the BS gettin to ya ….
"Stop that! Elon and the CEO's need that food money"
Not a single real example of finding fraud.
Bullshit! Elon, Trump & the MAGA GOP are using this lie to foster levels of waste, fraud & abuse that this country has never seen before. These are the most corrupt gang of fraudsters ever.
Apparently elon/trump get to do all 3, and Tapper just tut-tuts away all discussion of it.
They now have the perfect weapon.
The Richest Man in the world.
An unelected appointed official that will cut first ask questions later.
Elected officials have shade to say "it's not my fault"
Don't blame me!
bash too…
This would all STOP if they objected. Treat them accordingly!
They are becoming the enemy.
What is that person doing right now to take advantage of the current political climate?
what are dems doing to rally voters in that district?
lemme guess.
no one.
nothing.
nothing.
no wonder dems keep losing elections.
Only powerful Fascists will get government printed dollars
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/tesla-protests-elon-musk-doge-cuts-20200006.php
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/austin-protest-thousands-gather-texas-capitol-rally-against-trump-policies
We see what you’re doing CNN.
You are aloud to use the firing squads with trump. Have fun and take care my good friends.
We love you.
All GOP must be in jails for a minimum of 5 years.
We / they are watching our agencies implode, services whither, international relations & markets tumble and harmful privatization forecasted.
Where are our Dem leaders? Former Prez’s?
https://theconversation.com/wegovy-was-inspired-by-gila-monster-venom-here-are-some-other-drugs-with-surprising-origins-208630
The Ketamine King must be defeated
Oftentimes people just get angry and or defensive when their worldview is challenged.
Also. When did Zamunda ever say "thank you"?
willing to enact cruelty so that he can give billionaires tax cuts how deplorable are these men and women who have chosen to throw their constituents under the bus for Trump! As he threatens Social Security?
Texas suffers bad storms, floods, hurricanes, etc.
Little warning for the people.
I am sure as they struggle to swim to safety after getting caught in the storms - they will be glad the 1% got their tax cuts