Not sure what's wrong with publicly offering to work with them to combat Pentagon theft. If they screw up or do nothing on that front, at least he can say he offered to help but they were clearly never serious. Harms them, not him.
Because they also want to cut things like veterans benefits. It’s like saying you see no problem with driving a murderer to his shift at the soup kitchen.
They also want to take away our Social Security and Medicare.
The richest man in the history of humanity, who has more than enough money to last tens of thousands of lifetimes, WANTS TO TAKE AWAY WHAT YOU AND I HAVE.
The GAO already exists. Feel free to report what you think is wastage, graft, and fraud there.
The DOGE has no funding, no auditing capacity, and no teeth. And it's named after a memecoin. The only reason to take it seriously is if you're hoping for Elon to buy you a pony
Mainly because they do not care about combating Pentagon theft. They just want to have money from the theft go to them.
Or more likely money that should go to worthy and needy folks go to them instead.
Everything skuM and Ramapharmy do is to enrich themselves and advance oligarchy. Nothing is in good faith. They'll steal billions from US taxpayers to line their own pockets.
If they want to work for govt, all their stocks and investments must go into a blind trust.
They aren't doing this to cut theft and price gouging.
The entire purpose to fire tens of thousands of government employees with low to normal pay and terrorize the rest into shutting up and helping trump and his oligarchs loot the government.
They will not end up proposing cutting the military industrial complex and Ro knows that; he’s being a stooge so the tech bros don’t fund opponents against him
They want to cut costs by outsourcing to private contractors which will be more expensive in the long run, and will use money from other programs (vets, SS, Medicare, you name it) to pay the contractors.
I suspect he’s kissing his fav Repub’s derrière. Just watch Bill Maher episode of March 15, 2024. The goo goo eyes are over the top. Best pals ever, have done so much as a team. YUK!
Why are you offering to work with a made-up gov agency run by 2 very compromised billionaires?
Democrats need to be firmly stating that they are not going to work with a phony entity created to dismantle the federal gov.
Please stop pretending that the MAGA administration is nothing except dangerous
Seriously? I hope you don't have any constituents who are veterans or receive government assistance of any kind. These fools aren't interested in your clawing back funds for the (over-funded) Pentagon. They're out to destroy the safety net.
You wouldn’t be getting all this grief if you said you’d be working with the actual, existing Committee on Oversight and Accountability to combat waste instead of gleefully and preemptively pledging your support to the Billionaire Playgroup to Shunt Taxpayer Money to Billionaires
So saving $16.1 million is worth legitimizing the government being turned over to the richest man in the world? How about you respond by doing your job and using the existing tools correctly to reach true bipartisan solutions instead? Surely they have country best interests and not their own…
Neither Elon Musk nor Vivek Ramaswamy is remotely qualified to determine what wasteful spending is, and they have no authority to slash anything. Not to mention, no one voted for them. Musk ruined Twitter. Is that what you want for the United States? Shame on you!
You're an embarrassment. Bootlicking a fake government department to ingratiate yourself with robber barons seeking to dismantle the state to facilitate their consolidation of wealth and power. You have abandoned your duty as a representative of the people. You disgust me you obsequious boob.
Be ready to explain to your constituents that their social security, Medicare, education and other programs were the main targets of the billionaires. They’re trying to avoid taxes while steering tax money to their businesses.
Imagine bragging about saving $16 million when you’re trying to find a nice way to sell cutting hundreds of billions of dollars in services Americans rely on (& it’ll be more expensive after you cut it) because you’re letting Elon sell the American government as a household budget. 😂
Let’s hope that DOGE works on real reform and not cutting or privatizing Medicare and social security. You better keep your eyes and ears open because Ramasmarmy and Musky are not here to help everyday Americans.
You useful idiot. Don’t legitimize these people. Don’t suck up to the guy that just spent 250 million dollars to take your party down with lies and manipulation.
The DOGE is not a legitimate agency. No one elected Elon and Vivek and they are hell bent on destroying the US for the benefit of themselves and Putin.
You’re a fucking sell out. You care more about Tesla operating in your district than you do about the fraudulent bigoted nepo Nazi piece of shit that Musk is.
So you base your decisions about your political policies on what gets the most likes? The Civil Rights Act wouldn’t have stood a chance using that criteria. Shame.
Do not compromise your values to work with overlord- wannabes. They will still stab you in the back at the first opportunity. Go down defending us, not accepting their lies.
Somewhere Elon and Trump are reading this and laughing their asses off. At you. I’m sure they’ve been pleasantly surprised by folks like you who castrate yourselves before they even have to bother.
How about you get Jeff Bezos to return his $10 billion dollar Pentagon contracts bribe to silence journalists at the Washington Post? Now is not the time for Nazi bootlickers before they frogmarch over everyone’s Social Security that was introduced by a radical Democrat, with guts, in 1935: FDR.
$16 mil is an infinitesimal fraction of what skuM and Ramapharmy are about to steal from the US taxpayers by firing every competent civil servant and forcing taxpayers to outsource govt jobs to the billionaires. They'll steal billions from our pockets, and you'll help. https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3lclbkoc5f22c
How many of your constituents will lose access to affordable healthcare act are going to be harmed by you siding and "working with" the people who want to take it away.
Again, COWARD! They don't play by the rules, they blocked every initiative and now you want to "work with them?" Pathetic
How many of your constituents are among the 75% of the federal employee base that they want to cut?
on SS Disability and Medicaid?
are retired on SS/Medicare?
You are siding with the party that wants to take this all away
Will DOGE be looking at universal healthcare with cost controls? I certainly hope so before another reviled master of the universe CEO is assassinated. Oh, they won’t? Oh. Not surprised.
You MUST know we do not need DOGE. It would be REDUNDANT since we already have GAO (Government Accountability Office); and redundancy is a WASTE OF TAXPAYERS MONEY. Stop sucking up to Elon, it's unbecoming.
Have you worked with GAO? If you haven't, here's the website.
It dawned on me the other day that gao exists and I wondered why there’s no sign of it in the media. I wonder if they’re keeping a low profile or maybe they’ve just been hamstrung for so long that nobody thinks about them
If he did he wouldn't spin bullshit about modeling on the Truman Commission. Anything DOGE does will be a nearly pure inverse of the Truman Commission.
I only hope you are infiltrating the predatory billionaires' DOGE operation to take it down from the inside. Because if you are truly placing their greed above the good of the American people, you are just as evil as they are.
BEWARE Ro! You may want to read Project 2025. Republicans will lie to you to the very end before you realize they are not your friend in politics. They are at war with democracy. The sooner you realize it the better off we will be defending against their destruction of everything, Medicare, DOJ, etc
I hope by "working with" you mean you are watchdogging them because they do not care about governmental waste, they care about self enrichment. To think otherwise is foolish.
This is what you call normalizing fascism and corruption. THIS is why we are stuck with Trump. When are you incompetent Democrats going to learn? How many times do we have to let a rapist criminal exert his control over us? It's sick. Especially for women. STOP IT.
Rep Khanna, it's useful idiots like you, pre-obeying an oligarchic regime before it even starts, that will decimate all our essential government services, and the $$$ carved from their carcasses will be funneled into billionaires' pockets via tax cuts.
Please call in today 12/6 to @hartmannreport.com 's show (12N-3pm ET) to ask @rokhanna.bsky.social about his willingness to work with billionaire Musk as he slashes VA healthcare and Head Start. He will be taking questions for a full hour on the show. https://thom.tv/p/coming-up-today-friday-december-6
Bernie is doing the same capitulation to Musk, too! see 👇
These fauxgressives have been a problem for a long time. Never trusted Bernie since he ratf**ked 2016 and his fanatics refused to vote for Hillary. The horseshoe ends of politics are coming closer together and soon it will be a circle.
I'm with you there. I even voted for him in the 2016 primary, but the asses that refused to vote for Hillary are as bad if not worse than the 'protest' vote of this year.
ALERT: @rokhanna.bsky.social will be on @hartmannreport.com 's show NOW for an hour.
Call in: 202-808-9925 to ask Rep Khanna why he is willing to collaborate with a billionaire oligarch in cutting desperately needed social programs and has signalled he want to slash SS and Medicare.
What the fuck is the matter with you, dude? DOGE isn’t a legitimate government agency and they want to fire a huge portion of the Federal workforce. Tell Elon and Vivek to go fuck themselves. 😡😡😡
This is from 2019. Have you done anything since then besides chastise your own party? And how did that whopping 17M you got back 5 years ago help the working class?
We’re ready to elect someone else who’s willing to fight back and not work with a shitty group of men playing with their words and toys.Stop acting and start doing something.Not walking out of a conference when Nancy Mace made transphobic remarks says a lot about your character these days. #BeBetter
You understand he is a defense contractor and will probably not look that way for cuts.
I get it. I applaud you for getting his feet toward the fire. Know what animal is lurking in the mind. He has no empathetic abilities. You are the stopgap. Godspeed.
Hasan Piker spoke at Cambridge and Oxford this week. It would be good to head back on his show to define a plan and go over cuts you see as viable. He's the road thru to the youth. You are the future the youth need to hear.
I encourage your participation if it looks at efficiency and cost savings where the president’s businesses or his “advisors” are the government contractors. We do not need to pay for hotel fees to maintain a private “winter White House” or protect profits for those with conflicts of interest.
“Slashing waste” is not what these 2 clowns are planning on doing. They will cut anything and everything that doesn’t benefit them personally. Are you really going to get onboard for that??
You are just a terrible human being. I’m glad your whole act never fooled me but it’s insane you’re anywhere near influential in Democratic politics. I hope your new right wing buddies eat you alive
You should tread very carefully with those two. The crypto bros have a lot more planned than just getting rid of govt. waste (which we can all agree on). Eyes and ears opened Ro when around those two. Act more like a watchdog and not a lapdog.
pathetic & an embarrassment… it’s not even a real govt agency & and it’s being run as by two self-dealing ultra wealthy neofascists!… capitulation like this is why the Democrats rarely succeed… shame on you!
Space X and palantir are part of the military industrial complex. Medicare for all and drug price negotiations would save trillions but you know the DOGE boys won’t hurt themselves nor GOP donors. Why is Ro volunteering to be a stooge 🤔
Medicare for All saves money. Negotiating all drugs Medicare and Medicaid buy saves money. Cutting back military hardware purchases in half. Trillions saved! Doubt the tech bros get that through Congress
Nice work Obeying In Advance. It’s pathetic. You’ve made yourself look dumb. Musk is unelected, drugged up 24/7, is threatening federal employees, is just trying to steal government money and the American people’s money to fill his pockets…oh and DOGE isn’t even a real government department 😂
Are you serious? DOGE is effn Reaganomics to the Nth degree. You're willing to work with skum (um... musk) who lost tens of millions on twitterthen spent millions more to buy a presidency.
You were just live on Hartmann talking about making sure to save SWSI and Medicare and now you're talking about working with the azzholes that want to CUT SSI and Medicare?
WhatTheFuKKKingHell, Khanna? You've already Sold American and Americans down the Sh!tter?
And just like that, Ro Khanna loses the next election.
Sucking up to the tech bro funders can’t buy you enough media to win votes next time.
People here are pissed. You cant game our voter registration here the way the GOP does elsewhere to make their unpopular guys win. SCC is still a democracy.
Speaking of wastefull spending, who is overlooking Elon Musks 20Bil contract with the US taxpayers.
Make public his Tesla subsidies too.
Seems he had an extra 250Mil to throw at the #34Felonies campaign.
Taxpayers are getting fleeced by a billionaire. Let's stop that waste , Ron Khanna.
There's a LEGITIMATE committee for that.
Work with them.
Get rid of $10K space toilets & $1K hammers, but if you go along with the list those DOGE nimrods have already supplied:
Social Security
VA healthcare
SEC
,etc.
The just f* off & accept being called a DINO.
DOGE will be less Truman Committee and more Grace Commission, and he's going to use your "affiliation" with DOGE to undermine services to the poorest Americans.
Sounds like you wanna work with the enemy sounds like you don’t want to actually stop billionaires from gouging all the wealth from the poor people of the United States, you’re just pressing on us further, and we are fed up
Given your posts on X I'm beginning to think either you are naive, or a craven opportunist also working in bad faith. Given your chosen profession I'm leaning towards the latter.
Shame on you. You know those hacks have no interest in improving things for normal Americans, and you legitimize their kleptocratic bullshit with this nonsense. Shame.
Let's start with corp welfare and defense spending. Revamp the tax code and start making the wealthy pay taxes on every penny they leverage to live on. If it pays your living expenses, it's income, not debt levaraged against assets. No deductions.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesbroughel/2024/11/15/making-the-department-of-government-efficiency-work/
We need to not be indulging every one of Trump's wet dreams.
The richest man in the history of humanity, who has more than enough money to last tens of thousands of lifetimes, WANTS TO TAKE AWAY WHAT YOU AND I HAVE.
The DOGE has no funding, no auditing capacity, and no teeth. And it's named after a memecoin. The only reason to take it seriously is if you're hoping for Elon to buy you a pony
Be serious
Or more likely money that should go to worthy and needy folks go to them instead.
If they want to work for govt, all their stocks and investments must go into a blind trust.
The entire purpose to fire tens of thousands of government employees with low to normal pay and terrorize the rest into shutting up and helping trump and his oligarchs loot the government.
Please turn over your wallet *immediately* for inspection.
What a waste of time. That's the sort of savings my gs-13 friend sometimes finds for the government.
Nobody wrote an article on him tho.
Your job STARTS at hundreds of millions
Democrats need to be firmly stating that they are not going to work with a phony entity created to dismantle the federal gov.
Please stop pretending that the MAGA administration is nothing except dangerous
Be a shame if no one asked him about his appeasing of fascists.
https://khannaforms.house.gov/forms/form/?ID=95
DOGE is planning on gutting entitlements that people earned, but you’ll legitimize them if it gets you some kudos from Nazis on Twitter.
I hope your constituents are paying attention. Hope they can vote you out before you do real damage.
WTF are you doing? Get off your pathetic knees FFS. Disgusting. You're so lost dude.
Then maybe they’ll win. Maybe they’ll be able to stop trump from destroying our country
Fight, Ro.
Stop framing them as normal for god sake. THEY DONT WANT TO HELP ANYONE
I'm sure Elon Musk will be nothing but invested in making sure that defense contractors, like Elon Musk, can't take advantage of the American people
Load the caucus with Democrats!
Way to go Neville Chamberlain.
Banks print loans
Whatever our government pays for is free from bank loans
Like medical debt, student debt, etc
He’s the worst.
You want to get rid of waste? Eliminate all the contracts going to that POS Musk. Then kick him and Thiel out of the country forever.
2019: help recoup $16.1M from $1T budget (.0016%)
2020-present: collect US gov't paycheck, dick-ride Elon Musk
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3lclbkoc5f22c
Again, COWARD! They don't play by the rules, they blocked every initiative and now you want to "work with them?" Pathetic
on SS Disability and Medicaid?
are retired on SS/Medicare?
You are siding with the party that wants to take this all away
Have you worked with GAO? If you haven't, here's the website.
https://gao.gov
or more likely, I’d say, how cynical
https://bsky.app/profile/conspirator0.bsky.social/post/3lcnjiwfrjk2m
You should be ashamed. Musk's cuts will kill.
Please call in today 12/6 to @hartmannreport.com 's show (12N-3pm ET) to ask @rokhanna.bsky.social about his willingness to work with billionaire Musk as he slashes VA healthcare and Head Start. He will be taking questions for a full hour on the show. https://thom.tv/p/coming-up-today-friday-december-6
I never expected someone who was so fervently supportive of Bernie Sanders to slide so easily into the MAGA sympathizer world.
These fauxgressives have been a problem for a long time. Never trusted Bernie since he ratf**ked 2016 and his fanatics refused to vote for Hillary. The horseshoe ends of politics are coming closer together and soon it will be a circle.
Out of their fucking minds.
Call in: 202-808-9925 to ask Rep Khanna why he is willing to collaborate with a billionaire oligarch in cutting desperately needed social programs and has signalled he want to slash SS and Medicare.
Put you in charge.
I know, I know...
I get it. I applaud you for getting his feet toward the fire. Know what animal is lurking in the mind. He has no empathetic abilities. You are the stopgap. Godspeed.
Can’t wait to get your ass out of Congress.
Maybe then you can kiss Elon’s butt full time
Trump and Musk have not an ounce of loyalty to the Constitution.
They want to "medically euthanize" seniors but gutting their access to healthcare.
You would have worked with Hitler to build the Autobahn more efficiently.
You're a motherfucking disgrace.
Have a nice day.
Oh, right, you’re kissing up to the new admin and all the tech bros. 😒😒😒✔️🗑️
WhatTheFuKKKingHell, Khanna? You've already Sold American and Americans down the Sh!tter?
Sucking up to the tech bro funders can’t buy you enough media to win votes next time.
People here are pissed. You cant game our voter registration here the way the GOP does elsewhere to make their unpopular guys win. SCC is still a democracy.
Make public his Tesla subsidies too.
Seems he had an extra 250Mil to throw at the #34Felonies campaign.
Taxpayers are getting fleeced by a billionaire. Let's stop that waste , Ron Khanna.
Work with them.
Get rid of $10K space toilets & $1K hammers, but if you go along with the list those DOGE nimrods have already supplied:
Social Security
VA healthcare
SEC
,etc.
The just f* off & accept being called a DINO.
Why validate such an egregious & dangerous act of corruption?
Musk has "bought" his own government agency, which should horrify you.
Why give a farce legitimacy, when you can work to strengthen existing & legitimate government organizations that conduct oversight?
What was your price?
No time to give up!
#staystrong #democracytakeswork
#neverfinallywon
You’re pathetic.
Your job is to aggressively represent the Opposition Party.
Your job is to OPPOSE.
What is. This. SHIT.
Snap out of it. Nobody wants this from you.
What he should be saying is "'DOGE?' Are you fucking kidding me right now?"