Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) pointed out that Elon Musk, chair of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), “admitted that he was lying” about government waste at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) first subcommittee hearing on the billionaire’s efforts to cut spending.
During Wednesday’s subcommittee hearing chaired by Greene, Crockett noted that the Georgia Republican “missed every single one” of the hearings on improper payments in the previous Congress.
“In fact, I’m trying to figure out exactly what it is that the Republicans believe our job is, because right now, they have relinquished their constitutional duties over to an unelected bureaucrat, someone who no one went out to vote for,” Crockett said. “And absolutely, he is occupying the Oval Office, as we saw yesterday.”
“And that is a first for me, to see someone occupying the Oval Office who’s never actually been elected to the Oval Office, and actually answering more questions than the person that allegedly got elected,” she continued. “But for whatever reason, this is the first time we’re having a DOGE subcommittee hearing, and that guy’s not here.”
Crockett noted that Musk admitted Tuesday to spreading misinformation by claiming the U.S. funded $50 million worth of condoms for Gaza.
“I’m upset about the guy that runs Twitter, who for sure is doing nefarious things,” she explained. “In fact, he sat there in the Oval Office yesterday, and he admitted that he was lying.”
“And he was using his propaganda machine to do it, when he said that we sent millions of dollars to Gaza for condoms,” Crockett added. “That was a lie.”
During his Tuesday Oval Office meeting, Musk retracted earlier claims about the U.S. providing condoms to Palestinians.
“Some of the things that I say will be incorrect, and should be corrected,” he admitted, despite failing to correct the misinformation on his X (formerly Twitter) platform. “So, nobody’s going to bat a thousand. I mean, any – you know, we will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes.”
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