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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) highlighted the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) success in identifying and eliminating instances of waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video can be found here.
“This has long been a bipartisan issue.”
“I can think of everything dating back to the Grace Commission where waste, fraud, and abuse was a bipartisan target, but apparently not with President Trump in the office and not with Elon Musk in charge of the effort to identify this spending.”
“DOGE found payments to illegal immigrants using multiple Social Security numbers to submit Medicare claims, something for which they are not legally entitled.”
“In one particularly egregious instance, an illegal immigrant with a warrant out for her arrest was receiving more than $100,000 in loans from the Small Business Administration.”
“Some of the other line items on the DOGE cutting floor are so patently absurd it would make your blood boil.”
“A group called the Inter-American Foundation has been significantly reduced after DOGE found egregious misuse of tax dollars, including over $900,000 going towards alpaca farming in Peru.”
“That’s on top of… more than $700,000 to improve the marketability of mushrooms and peas in Guatemala. I know that children frequently squirm at the dinner table when they’re told they have to eat their vegetables, but I don’t think this is an area where most people think our tax dollars should be spent.”
“Many people who benefit from this gravy train don’t want it to end.”
“They see these stats and they tell you, ‘Don’t believe your lying eyes,’ but those of us who have looked into it, who have taken the time to study what’s been exposed, know otherwise.”
“I’d like to do something that you don’t hear very often here in D.C. these days and thank Elon Musk for his service to our country in performing this essential and long-overdue role.”
