WHERE’S THE PROOF OF FRAUD?

Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas. Why was Elon Musk in the Oval Office giving a press conference? A press conference where he freely admitted that things that he says and sends out regularly to a world-wide audience may often be wrong? This has resulted in government agencies being gutted, the federal workforce being thrown into chaos or fired, and misinformation being touted as authentic based solely on messages posted to X. All it seemingly takes for any action concerning the government and its operations to happen is for Musk to make a pronouncement. Which he confessed may be wrong. This while the actual president sits, looking like he’s wondering what to have for lunch. If a new president was really looking for evidence of waste and fraud in agency spending, he’d send in forensic accountants, investigators, and prosecutors—not coders and hackers. If he really wanted to reform government, he wouldn’t do it by breaking laws, like the ones about how to go about lawfully replacing inspectors general. The lack of commitment to good government—and by extension, to us, the citizens of this country—is apparent everywhere. As both the New York Times and the Washington Post reported today, the big winner from all the cuts to the government has been Musk himself, who has eliminated the agencies that were scrutinizing his businesses. Where’s the oversight for his actions? The accountability for spreading misinformation that results in weakening the country and its operations, all under the ever-widening umbrella of ‘efficiency’? Meanwhile Republicans submitted their budget resolution for funding the government. It calls for cuts of $2 trillion to mandatory spending, a category that includes Social Security and Medicare. Two Republican lawmakers told Politico that they expect to cut food aid for more than 40 million low-income Americans. As well, the House Agriculture Committee is eyeing about $150 billion in cuts to supplemental nutrition programs. The proposal also calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations and an increase of $4 trillion in the debt ceiling. This is what you’re calling cost-cutting efficiency? We the people expect some real hard cold facts supporting these actions done in our name.