Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) stated tech billionaire Elon Musk and President Trump are “proving every single day they do not know what they are doing.”
“Elon Musk and Donald Trump are proving every single day they do not know what they are doing, and they do not know what our federal workers actually do, and they don’t care if their firing spree ends up burning down something really important,” Murray stated in a video posted to YouTube on Wednesday.
Murray made the feedback all over a digital press convention, in keeping with a remark from her workplace.
“Just this week, they fired another 1,400 staff at the VA, people who are helping serve our veterans gone, for no reason,” Murray stated later within the video, regarding the Division of Veterans Affairs. “And here’s the thing: They are still trying to fire even more people with even less forethought. The Trump-Musk firing spree continues to be as surgical as a wrecking ball.”
All over the primary assembly of President Trump’s Cupboard on Wednesday, Musk defended his contemporary e mail soliciting for federal employees ship an inventory in their accomplishments to his workplace, regarding the message as a “pulse check.”
The tech billionaire stated he asked the emails from federal employees about their accomplishments so he may be certain that other people getting paychecks are are in fact running.
“There are fictional individuals collecting paychecks,” the tech billionaire stated concerning the govt. “Are they alive, and can they write an email?”
Senate Republicans previous this week expressed distaste with the e-mail directive from Musk, with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) announcing she didn’t consider “it was handled very well in terms of the surprise element of it or what the point of it was.”
“President Trump has consistently stood up for our brave men and women in uniform – delivering crucial reforms that improved VA healthcare, decreased Veteran homelessness, and enhanced education benefits. His efforts to cut wasteful spending and make agencies more efficient will ensure our government can better serve all American families, especially our Veterans,” White Area spokesperson Anna Kelly stated in an e mail to The Hill on Wednesday.
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