The House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s hearing on Tuesday plans to discuss billions of dollars in government waste identified by the Government Accountability Agency (GAO), but when a Democrat repeatedly submits it to the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) (Doge) to lead When people are human, they first turn into chaos. ) As “President Musk”, he will serve as President Donald Trump as “Chief”.
Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky).
“With it working together, Democrats told us they had modifications to the plan, but instead refused to discuss with me in advance. They kept any changes. They wanted a secret,” Comer said in his opening speech. “The Democrats refused. All opportunities to contribute to the oversight program. So, how should I include the secret opinions they refuse to share? You might ask yourself, ‘Why are the Democrats doing this?’ Democrats say they want to participate in oversight, but if that It is true that they will reject the opportunity to actually participate in the program because they do not want to participate.
Comer further accused Democrats of “will rather hear themselves talking about President Trump and the evil Elon Musk than work together under the actual supervision demanded by the American people.” Doge is doing it. ”
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Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla). (Jemal Countess/Getty Images by Moveon)
D-VA. Ranking member Gerry Connolly beat back, criticizing Republicans for oversight plans he believes are lenient to the Trump administration.
“The omissions in this plan are abominable,” Connolly said. “My amendment will restore the right role of the committee as a watchdog, not Laugh.”
When D-Fla. Tensions escalated in the aisle as Rep. Maxwell Frost addressed the committee.
Frost accused: “Like Chief Trump and President Musk, people like Grifter are publicly using public offices to enrich their billions of dollars “So if we want to see the waste, fraud and abuse I’m going to do, why is the other end of the aisle completely silent to see the presidents of the United States and the richest people on the planet… why don’t we investigate the real The corruption?”
R-La. Rep. Clay Higgins, who objected, called Comer a point of order. Frost argued that he could refer to Elon Musk as president, and Connolly asserted that the First Amendment was not suspended.
Comer asked Frost if he wanted to “modify” his remarks about the president, who was protected by the House and the Committee’s etiquette rules, but Frost did not back down.
“I’m going to say about President Musk and Chief Trump’s Grift,” Frost began another point of order.
Rep. James Comer (R-ky). (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Committee members began yelling at each other until Comer once again gave Frost a chance to modify his statement.
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“President Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump are engaged in hurting people to the American people, often using their public offices to enrich themselves,” Frost said.
Comer told Frost the motion to “demean the president”, he told Frost, “If you are willing to ask for unanimous agreement to withdraw the derogatory comments about President Trump, I think if you want, you can Belittle Elon Musk.”
“I will withdraw grifter,” Frost said. “I will say the president’s pain is because you’ve said President Biden has been corrupt in the past two years.”
“I can say Trump is working hard. What I want to withdraw is the person who calls him the main one,” Frost added.
Frost was barred from further attending the hearing, Comer said, but Connolly challenged the chairman’s ruling and called for a vote.
President Donald Trump speaks as Elon Musk, his son XæA-XII joins him on Tuesday, February 11, 2025 in Washington at the White House Listen in the office. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
According to the vote, Frost’s words should be removed and he was not allowed to speak for the rest of the hearings, but he interrupted: “This committee is mean to silence me.”
“The ranking member, if he doesn’t reject him, I will let the sergeant remove him,” Comer said.
Rep. Melanie Stansbury and other Democrats further defended “freedom of speech” before Comer once again tried to get the hearing back.
“We have hearings about waste, fraud and abuse, and haven’t even started yet,” Comer said. “Things in organizations usually last five to ten minutes. We’ve been arguing about the same thing for 35 minutes here… We have to do it Business. If we want to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, we have tried to do that.
About 40 minutes later, the hearing entered a recess. After returning, the committee heard from GAO Auditor General Gene Dodaro about the watchdog’s recommendations for Doge.
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Frost continued to have a dispute online and wrote in an X post: “James Comer can hide behind the sergeant and try to get me removed, arrested and silent…but that’s not Will stop me from calling Donald Trump and his bull market-”
He added from his campaign account: “These snowflakes said to me that President Musk felt angry and called Trump the savage. I think the facts may be difficult for some people.”
