During Wednesday's House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) discussed Democrat rhetoric surrounding DOGE and government spending.
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00:00I can hardly sit here. I was hoping to just let my Democrat colleagues sound
00:07off this morning, get through their one-act plays, but I can't. I can't sit
00:18here and listen to this grandstanding. They wear their armor of indignation
00:26proudly, but we know what's underneath that. And I hate to question the motives
00:30of my colleagues, but we have touched a nerve, Mr.
00:38Chairman, and we have entered the inner sanctum of the Democrats' temple. And I
00:46think that holy grail is the government and their unionized government
00:54employees. And if you get anywhere near it, this is the reaction you're going to
01:00get. My friend said they didn't vote for these things. They didn't vote for this
01:05deep cleaning in the bureaucracy. They didn't vote for the kind of rooting out
01:11of waste and fraud, but they say that with a false narrative and
01:17with fear-mongering for Medicaid beneficiaries. And they try to scare,
01:22sir, I got to finish this. They're trying to scare our seniors and scare the most
01:26vulnerable. That's a long-standing tactic. But the American people
01:33didn't vote for transgender operas in Columbia. But where's the indignation on
01:38that? I haven't heard a single person talk about that. What about the
01:43transgender comic books and the DEI musicals in Ireland and all this absurd
01:49and insulting example after example of just complete and utter wasting the
01:56taxpayer dollar? The GAO, the Government Accountability Office, that's a
02:00government entity, so you ought to bow down to that authority as well and
02:05accept it hook, line, and sinker for their data and statement on fraud, which is up
02:11to five trillion dollars over the ten-year window. Five trillion dollars.
02:15Where is the outrage on all of that? I've never heard it, not one time.
02:22I hear about the unelected billionaires because you all love class warfare.
02:30You love to divide people by race and gender and class. That is the MO.
02:36I mean, God, I love you guys as people, but your party's broken and
02:44bankrupt and that's why the taxpayers put this president in office and
02:49gave us unilateral, unified Republican leadership because they want us to make
02:58sure that their tax dollars are protected and that they're being spent
03:03wisely and that we act as fiduciaries and that the people who were intended to
03:09get benefits from these programs are getting them, but not illegal immigrants
03:14and not people that are not qualified. I see the list you're
03:19holding up. Enough with the theater. Where is the outrage? Are you
03:26not insulted by this list? You want me to read this list? You want me to go through
03:32the same list of indigenous people, inclusive justice, primary literacy,
03:39female empowerment, personalized 3D avatar tools for gender identities?
03:45This is stupid. This is stupid.
03:50Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time.
03:52You got your time.
03:55Where was the concern for conflicts of interest and abuse of power when the IRS
04:04leadership and the special prosecutors from the Biden DOJ were obstructing the
04:09investigation into the Hunter Biden scheme and your president said,
04:15I don't know anything about it, never been involved, and we knew that wasn't true
04:19and we discovered it wasn't, but where was the drive and the passion that I see
04:24from you all, my colleagues, on that issue and the transparency or lack
04:32thereof for the last two or three years? I never see this until we're talking
04:39about the tip-to-tail audit of the federal government to root out wasteful
04:45spending and act as fiduciaries on behalf of the taxpayers. It's
04:50unbelievable to me. It's unbelievable, but I think it's on such display today that
04:59the American people, in their good judgment, are reading right through it
05:02just like I am, and again, if you want to wander in the wilderness for 40 years,
05:08you're making a good case to do that to the American people.
05:12They're on our side on this issue. With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back.
05:18Mr. Davis.