Lisa McClain Blasts Sec. Buttigieg And Other Biden Administration Officials During Heated Hearing
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2023
- Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI) questioned witnesses during a House Budget Committee hearing about the "Woke, Wasteful, And Bloated Bureaucracy," on Thursday.
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How about freezing govt salaries, no pay till they reduce the debt!!!
@Don Jr's Coke Dealer hey hunters pimp, it’s called holding them accountable. They can reduce the debt by pulling back the unspent money from the idiotic Covid spending, start exporting natural gas to Europe, shutdown money sent to other countries, and make China pay for all the death and damage to our economy from the Covid virus they released on the world!!!
@@user-by5qo8nh7w Are you under the impression that if the debt ceiling isn't raised then the entire government shuts down? Cuz if you are, then you'd be incorrect. Tax revenue will keep pouring into the treasury and the interest on the debt will continue to be paid. So I'm not sure what you are arguing here.
How about cutting government salaries until they actually work for it?
@@kitdinker yes I’m aware! Reducing the debt was the point I originally spoke of.
@@garhumpston5495 I wasn't replying to you. I was replying to somebody that replied to you.
There is nothing in the world that is easier than spending someone else's money. That is why government costs so much.
why does the federal govt get to give themselves raises when people on social security don't get big raises?
That's why Trump is sooooooooooooo good.
why are WE THE PEOPLE paying our public servants to restrict our rights, steal our money, spy on us and be weaponized against us?
Remember, when George Washington was elected President there was no money for soldiers backpay, no way to levy taxes, not one federal building, not one federal agency, NO LAWS OR FEDERAL PRISONS.
FREE THE JANUARY 6TH POLITICAL PRISONERS BEING HELD BY DEMOCRATS ILLEGALLY
@@lauragardner7210 they don't
@@theearl1477 I'm not a fucking door matt wait a minute... Trump said he used his own money for his Candidacy but they are saying Trump is me... but I have no money on my person or accessible... where is this con getting this money and why is he doing my job how does that even fucking make sense. So it's thier corrupt assess against Kevin who's supposedly president for biden....hmmmm
Every time Republicans are asked to raise the debt ceiling, they should demand a three-letter agency be shuttered
for 20 years they have never stopped the debt from raising. and if its just about cutting the debt why are the republicans asking for so much?
and an end to jus soli. (citizenship by birth in our country)
FBI
Just like they DIDN’T while Trump was president! BTW, Ryan, have you given any SERIOUS thought to what life in this country would truly be like if we started “shuttering” three-letter agencies? You MIGHT want to ponder that for a bit!
@@theo234theo whats the cost of all these committees they got going on? and what it gotten us. you know they ran the military for 20 years and just made a par 400 course with bunkers.
How about cutting the $34000/year raise that congress just gave themselves.
they vote every year...and give themselves raises..
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QUIT GIVING FORIEGN COUNTRIES OUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS ! TRILLIONS TO UKRAINE ALONE
Almost 200 billion.
@@-redacted_by_youtube You're forgetting quite a bit of Artillery and Weapons of War , Mistle Guidance Systems

170 countries receive funds from the u.s. every year.
billions to Ukraine, trillions to Israel
agreed !!!
WOW! A Michigan politician who isn't bat-shit crazy! THANK YOU REP. LISA MCCLAIN! YOU'RE AWESOME.
Way to go Lisa I voted for you keep up the good work
Sadly I'm doomed to Debbie Stabinow, Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin
@@robertlyon4629 God help you.
That sooo inhumane for them to choose trees over children. That's pathetic.
Michelle, I think you are misunderstanding-Democrats have no plan to cut WIC but they want to say they will so the Republicans don't ask them to cut stupid things-they want to put their Arms up and say "The GOP told us to cut children's food"
How much are the ( asylum seekers ) costing us ?
especially when their cutting down trees for their solar panels and wind mills!! That will be a hazard to the environment when they need to change them!!
@@roninslv 800 billion a year....so far.
She ain’t wrong! Buttigeg doesn’t know the first thing about what he’s doing.
Rail lubricants is an important program for Amtrak. You don’t want to be rear ended at the depot.
It doesn't matter. He clicks an affirmative action box for Joe Biden.
True. He's completely qualified and in over his head.
Buttplug has went into hiding since his big buddy mayor was indicted on 80 counts of child p*rn
Common sense is absent in congress.
Especially with the despicable lying,
corruptible & hate-mongering GOPuppets.
At least the dem side has no common sense , also rinos !!!! ULTRA MAGA 2024 !!!!
Great speech. Start talking about stopping the garbage payments!!!. We the people should not have to pay for STUPID grants like learning about the sex life of salamanders in Taiwan!!!
How about money to Tom Brady, chloe Karashian, Kanye, Greene, Gaetz and many others.
DAMN RIGHT!!!! THESE IDIOTS UP THERE DAMN SURE DONT MIND SPENDING WAY OVER WHAT TAX DOLLARS ARE BROUGHT IN ON THE STUPIDEST CRAP IVE EVER HEARD OF!!!!! It’s UTTERLY RIDICULOUS!!!!!!
She's ABSOLUTELY CORRECT
She literally said she doesn't even know what she's talking about. Love that she'd rather fed the kids today even if the kids will burn alive tomorrow. We're past not fixing the environment at this point
Don’t fault Agency Heads, blame the Senators and Reps for writing and passing bloated spending bills. The House and Senate give all this money away.
Elon Musk walked into Twitter and reduced staff by half. Smart man. We need the same in US Government. A lot of bloat and waste.
elon musk lost over 5 BILLION on taking over twitter.
Twitter is currently crashing and burning and is less secure. Yeah, great job he's doing 😂
@@stevemiller9880 Twitter was losing money before he got there . Try again .
We hire govt employees then give them a box of checks with TAXPAYER MONEY in it...then they spend with abandon, line the coffers of lobbyists for some later quid pro quo and have ZERO accountability to WE THE PEOPLE...every dime they spend should require a referendum...if its approved by WE THE PEOPLE...and it doesn't take a staff of hundreds to sign the check....everything needs to go thru the channels...cut the pork the fat and the dead weight...AMERICA would turn around in months...kill the tax exemption of alllllllll charities...esp tv televangs, SCIENTOLOGY, all thrift store (hahaha) charities like GOOD WILL AND RED CROSS...or any agency that pays out billions in admin salaries but dont pay one dime in taxes....WHYYYYYYYYYY...that would put billions pack in the coffers that the dems have stolen and gave away to foreign countries...PLUS NO WHERE IS IT WRITTEN THAT WE EVER GAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ANY GOVT...LOCAL STATE OR FED TO JUST SPEND SPEND SPEND AS THEY SEE FIT W NO ACCOUNTABILITY ...on yt watch Rand Paul talk about Davey Crockett when he was a Ky senator....verrrrry moving and true😢
Actually cut 80 %.
The problem is just what you said Lisa. They don't care. Those things are ridiculous that they said to cut and yet things they don't want to cut make no sense. But then again, we are dealing with the Biden administration.
I'd rather have Biden than Dumpty, DeSantis, or any other Maga idiots have to go.
Not administration, it is called a " CIRCUS " not administration!!!!! GOT IT!!!!
@@nightstalker6291 You got that right. Thanks for letting me know.
Why not cut the 87,000 new IRS agents and their expected costs like office building rentals , new car purchases , office staffing .
@@FalconAndTrident So you are ok with the IRS investigating every American who has a banking transaction over $600.00 . I thought they were for investigating the top 10% .
@@FalconAndTrident It's called government overreach . I'll give you an example . My sister's car breaks down . I withdraw $600.00 to help with her repair bills . She pays me back the next week and I deposit $600.00 back into my account . That's two transactions that I now have to explain to a government that's just trying to tax me more . What's needed is not more IRS agents to tax people more it's less government spending where they don't need as much tax money .
Apparently she hasn't figures out that this is how the democrat roll...fear, emotion and lies.
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@Don Jr's Coke Dealer usually folks like you aren't very creative...but that was actually funny. Not true but at least it wasn't the same ole Trump Trump Trump nonsense🙏❤🇺🇸
@Don Jr's Coke Dealer You're so deluded it's almost sad. Case in point- your name- WHICH of the last two Presidents has a cokehead for a son? Hint: it's not a Trump and you know it.
@@patriciawitt8174 Only his name, which purports that Trump is the one with the cokehead children. As if.
@@patriciawitt8174 The most famous recent conservative philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton, said himself that Democrats rely too much on facts and conservatives are better as they look past facts and go with how they feel. Please don't pretend Conservatives have ever used facts
Yes Patricia. It’s the democrats that are so afraid of women, brown people, gay people, books, and voters. That’s why democrats are rolling back women’s rights, panicking about a non-existent surge of immigrants at the southern border, passing anti-human legislation regarding the lgbtq+ community, banning books and defunding public libraries, and blatantly gerrymandering political maps to disenfranchise voters. Those dems are determined to *conserve* the status quo to the point that they’re stripping Americans of constitutional rights at every turn, and then lying about it! They get caught lying, double down and lie some more, and their idiot Dem followers just eat it up and forget about it the minute their democratic representatives in the House start screeching about peeing in public and throwing their own feces against the walls.
Those democrats really are something, but the people that support them are the truly stupid ones. Oh well, you can’t fix stupid, right?
But they are really to send money to Ukraine when this country needs too be first.
finally a person with common sense....it aint pete buttigeg....
He wants to run for president again.
Totally agree! Common sense -- obviously something Dems know nothing about!
She has an excellent point. The ESG policies are pie in the sky stuff and not a priority.
If Corporations want ESGs let them pay for it. The US taxpayer shouldn't paying for it.
How about this. How about Congress pass legislation TELLING those agencies what they're going to cut from their budgets. You don't just hand them billions of dollars and let them spend it however they choose to. Put restrictions and limitations on it. Congress has that authority. Do it.
Cut Salaries from the top down. She did get the Head of Usda wrong. He is from Iowa. A bad Governor when he was. Its vilsack, or what I call him Vilesack! obama gave him Sec of USDA. So he wouldnt run for president. Now 8 yeras Gov of Iowa. 10 years of Head of USDA. What a pension!
There are too many hands in the cookie jar and that is what they want, causes confusion and is unaccountable to nothing.
We need to clean out the house first and remove corporate interests politicians. Doesn’t matter if they are (R) or (D) they can both be bought and paid for just the same
Well said Lisa McLain!
Oh my, I love her. You go, lady you put it too the metal.
It does not take much to impress the maga nuts so I see it happens again
I learned to balance a cheque book when I was 18.
They won't deduct their outrageous paycheck by one cent, but they have no problem spending our money.
Finally a real human speaking with common sense hope she rises to a better more powerful position
You lost me at "Honest" - The Democrats
Do you mean that Demo Rats suck ?
LOL that's right no honesty from the Democratic party.
You lost me at democrats with all the investigations in to your Big Orange turd he will be in court the rest of his miserable life an talk about honesty
Bootyfudge has no clue what he's doing. STOP SPENDING THE PEOPLES MONEY !
Someone indict then
Buttgrabber is very busy with his " family."
It's intentional, he's a WEF member and that's his job, to help dismantle our country for the Global Elites !!!
If we eliminate the Biden crime syndicate and the freak parade that they claim to be the administration, Buttplug being a lead freak, America would be on the path to recovery
I heard he was the new singer for Journey
The very first cut in frivolous spending needs to be the $394 m. Beautification and gentrification grant for the neighborhood that Nancy Pelosi's home sits right in the middle of. $394m tax dollars to drive up the private property values for government members and their neighbors
"""""This is what happens when the criminals are running the joint."""""
Let's cut their paychecks, I don't understand how people can become billionaires as public servants.
While NEVER showing up to work.
This lady had a hard time keeping her message cohesive. But I agree, we need to cut spending on the politicians themselves
She's probably pissed - she's from MI right? Imagine living under that governor...
She did fine. A couple of flubs but her point was clear.
She destroyed them
She said absolutely nothing at all aside from admitting that she has no idea what things are and you support her. I swear, this country has too many idiots
Excellent, Mrs McClain
Get em girl!
Get on em girl....
She speaks in generalizations and admits she has no clue what things are and yet you support her. That's terrifying
Let’s have these politicians take a cut in pay. Now I need to get meals on wheels because cooking for me is dangerous and I don’t get enough in food stamps to buy the ingredients.
Thank you for being in a country where a representitive of "we the people..." are actually important!
Buttgieg. The name fit him perfectly.
This a perfect example of "not having enough of an education to admit when you're wrong" add selfishness describe as "me myself and I"!!
It's not education it's called INTEGRITY.. 1 of the MAIN traits ur taught in the Military... But government is BOT taught integrity.
Bless Her 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I have a question: if the elected officials are planning to use the tax dollars for other than the people needs, why do we have these agencies if they don’t have customers?
Amen!
Lisa makes a lot of sense. I also love her attitude😁
She's an Italian lady !
As a man that can literally die in an hour without food.
I can't imagine people choosing to cut wic from babies, kids and the elderly on ss for any reason.
I'm a 52yr old severe brittle diabetic. It's so unpredictable I wear an insulin pump and a cgm to real time monitor my blood sugars to prevent a sudden and deadly sugar crash.
Just last night I crashed without notice or reason and had nothing to recover with because my EBT goes so fast with today's prices I can even protect my life properly because I can't afford fast recovery items like juices and fast acting snacks.
Even living hour to hour depending on this, I would still feed the children before myself.
I guess it's a good thing I live alone so I don't have to make that choice. I'd rather die than let kids suffer from hunger and bad nutrition.
I just pray daily that God finds a way to keep me with at least something to recover my sugars with.
They have denied my disability for no reason, even though multiple doctors plus an employment specialist deemed me unemployable do to liability. I have zero feeling in my feet and a neroligical disorder that makes me stumble and fall regularly...
With all this, the system ignores me and lets me struggle to survive every day by my self.
Even with all this, I feel guilty getting food stamps.
How do these people even get in power?
Great sob story. Maybe blame the orange blob for his trade war with China, and the Repugnant Party for being against universal health care. They want to cut your income in the name of fiscal responsibility.
Lisa McClain is my new favorite Rep. ! She's matter of fact with a humorous delivery...
I have never heard this lady. Bless you 🙏 ♥️ we only wish everyone in power had this frame of mind. Easy to plant trees feed our less fortunate moms and dads struggling and as a grandma I will plant some trees 🌳 I'm sure others would also won't cost a penny out of kids food $'s
How refreshing. Straight up Common Since. Thank You Lisa.
You are right on!!❤
I can think of a place to find millions of money: cut congressional and cabinet salaries. Those responsible for economic decisions affecting the entire nation should be the LAST salaries paid, esp. when faced with debt crisis such as this. Each Senator to be paid the average salary of the state they represent, and Representatives paid the average of their district, and the President paid the average of the nation. If that's not enough money for you to get the job done, then resign. If that's not enough money for you to get the job done, please explain and justify your worth above the amount. $174,000 is almost exactly 4 times the average income in the district I live in, Michigan 3rd district, represented by (D) Hillary Scholten (a district just recently gerrymandered to ensure a Democrat wins when historically it was won by Republicans.)
They should have to clock in so we can see their hours just like everyone else. These meetings are half-full all the time.
@@mattjones7226 I don't think making them clock in will accomplish anything, esp. since they have duties and meetings all over the place. In 1821 maybe, but with 535 members, having them all in one place for these meetings is an awfully high expectation. Just cut their pay, down to the level of the people they represent. If that's not enough to get the job done, they're welcome to find a different job. Also, I'm currently in communication with the office of Rep (D) Scholten about a constitutional amendment capping/pegging congressional salaries to annual averages in every district. I expect she will do nothing to voice my idea and when that happens, you'll see my name in the news. 535 handwritten letters will get a lot of attention.
@@Anne2u Though I am not Canadian, I was born in Canada, in the border towns called The Twin Saults.
Un bleeping Believable! I’m downloading this video for later receipts!
Well Said 👏👏
This woman. Facts. Truth.
Good job Lisa!
Amen, sister, loads of ridiculous wasteful spending!
Common sense from Lisa McLain thank you for speaking up because FACTS = TRUTH!! AMEN GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Give Veterans more money
She makes so much sense!! darn right!! cut that crap out!!
Excellent
She works in the government. She makes great points.
The lady is absolutely correct!
Wait, there is a Michigan congressperson who makes some sense?
She literally said nothing in that entire video. Are you that bad at English
Awesome 👍 preach it sister 🖐️👏🇺🇲
GREAT QUESTIONS AND REAL SCENERIOS
She nailed it! They threaten the programs people actually need to try and cram these through to protect their pet projects.
Pay cuts for all government employees!
Very well said!
Love you Ms. McClain!! Don’t give another penny!!
Excellent points, Lisa.
Those who wanted to raise the debt ceiling are those who worry not about the GDP & DEBT RATIO. They probably never had to balance their own / family accounts because they made sooooo much money under the table from all different sources.
This should go viral!
You go girl, name names and show us what their priorities are….
Great work
We should cut money going to other country’s
Thank you Lisa McClain
Thank you for pointing out the useless earmarks
If your husband told you that you needed to cut your spending. Because you was spending too much. Doesn’t mean that you don’t pay your debts that you have already accumulated. While trying to figure out what you are going to cut from your spending.
Thank you for being sane.
Ms.McClain,
Your music to my ears!
She is simple minded.
Assign a number to every line item in the budget that represents its priority. That way, when cuts need to be made, just say " all priority 80 through 100 are stricken from the budget." BOOM a balanced budget.
MAGA, when special education alone is not enough.
Very well put
STOP WRITING YOURSELVES CHECKS WITH OUR MONEY, CUT THIS BS OF SUPPORTING EVERYONE WHILE WE GO BROKE
That would be when the republicans who are billionaires and millionaires who took the PPP loans that increased the debt. These were personal loans. PPP loans were for small businesses.
@@noinfo326 they all did it. Democraps & Republicans BILLIONS
Bravo!
What a waste!
Good talk!!!!!
Exactly, VERY similar to a presentation I made years ago to my City Council. Priorities?--no way...
Well said Rep.McClain.
Horrible people get them out
No lies told
Awesome sensible lady!
Wic is a must
Im in agreement 🤝 1000000%
Yeah... The USGAY is done.
Right on Mrs Mclain
Lisa you Rock!
This is so horrible
Brava Ms. McClain.
Good for her great job
Thats how ridiculous they are, they don't care, defund but we need a raise.. Term Limits
Horrible wake up America
Wow so simple and True
They are so so not qualified!