Below is my column in The Hill on Musk-mania gripping Washington. Democrats are using Musk to double down on rage rhetoric and rallying supporters to “fight in the street” in a declared “war.” It is a familiar pattern for many of us.
Here is the column:
Across the Internet, politicians and pundits are in a monstrous mood. The same people who spent the last year declaring the imminent death of democracy if Donald Trump were elected are now insisting that the real threat is the “monster” he has unleashed upon the federal bureaucracy.
It is the thing of legend, a Beltway monster that you told your children about around campfires late at night: An outsider who comes to town and lays waste to government waste, firing thousands and slashing budgets. Part Frankenstein, part Bigfoot, that creature never had a name, but would be beholden to no one and uninterested in the status quo.
The monster now has a name, and it is Elon Musk.
Democratic politicians are now claiming that reducing government is equivalent to destroying government. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) yelled dramatically to an outdoor crowd this week that Musk’s government efficiency efforts are “taking away everything we have.”
For decades, both Democratic and Republican presidents have run on reducing government and making it more efficient. But everyone knew that such campaign pledges would be quickly discarded after each election.
What is so terrifying this time is that Musk means it. We know that because he has done it before.
When Musk bought Twitter with the promise of dismantling its censorship system and culture, he started by firing virtually everyone. Critics immediately declared that he was a fool and did not understand how to run a social media company. Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich said that Musk’s firings meant the death of Twitter and triumphantly declared, “You break it, you own it.”
It did not exactly work out that way. Musk fired as much as 90 percent of his staff and the company survived. Liberals only grew more determined, seeking even to boycott his other companies and bar Space X from needed national security missions.
As liberal media and pundits raged, Musk stayed firm and survived. Now Amazon has increased advertising on X, which is now the sixth most popular social media site. It has reportedly hit 500 million subscribers and a reported 40-plus percent profit margin. It is set to make billions with a greatly reduced overhead due to the firings.
Musk’s model has been watched — and to some degree replicated — by other companies. The only way to change a culture is sometimes to change the people.
Take the U.S. Agency for International Development, where Musk led an effort to freeze operations at the agency and move it to within the State Department. Notably, they are not shutting down the agency, and Trump has said that he wants to continue foreign aid needed for core missions like clean water and disease prevention, for example.
There are good-faith reasons to be concerned that vital programs must not be abruptly ended. However, the complaint is that USAID is the ultimate example of a bloated agency with a high percentage of funding going to administrative costs over field operations.
The State Department reportedly plans to reduce the USAID workforce from over 10,000 to less than 300. It is vintage Musk. It is easier to take the trauma upfront and then rehire the employees needed to fulfill the mission with a leaner workforce.
That process is easier if you can get people to leave voluntarily. Part of it is performative like Musk showing up at Twitter with a sink — to let reality “sink in” for the thousands of employees.
It appears to be working. Many employees are taking an offer to leave with a generous severance package. The idea is simple: If you throw a badger into a crowded car, people will get out. Musk is that badger.
As for Musk being a democracy-devouring Frankenstein, the rhetoric is again outstripping reality. The fact is that liberals rarely hunt monsters, they create their own monsters.
The making of “Muskenstein” can be found in the cancel campaign launched against him as soon as he pledged to restore free speech on Twitter. An unprecedented alliance of government, corporations, media, and academia were arrayed against him.
This same alliance has worked countless times to get corporations and CEOs to comply with its demands for censorship. But Musk, the wealthiest man in the world, was unbowed.
Liberals correctly saw Musk’s defiance as an existential threat. For years, they had exercised virtual total control of social media, legacy media, and academia. Opposing views were denounced as dangerous disinformation.
The key to their system was that you maintain orthodoxy by coercing people into silence. During the COVID pandemic, scientists who challenged the enforced view of masks, COVID-19 origins, and other issues were banned or fired. Others remained silent as they watched colleagues exiled for expressing their opinions.
Musk had to be destroyed, or others might start to believe that they could also defy the groupthink.
The problem is that intolerance for opposing views creates thousands of renegades and outsiders. I was one of them. I was once associated with liberal academia, which frankly worked to my advantage in favorable media and academic opportunities.
I then began to question the growing orthodoxy in academia over the loss of free speech and viewpoint diversity, including the purging of faculties of conservative and libertarian voices. I was quickly targeted for it. But that campaign gave me an even greater understanding of the dangers of the anti-free speech movement from outside the system.
On a much higher level, Musk seems to have felt the same liberating aspects of being declared persona non grata. They turned Musk into the very monster they feared.
They are now doing the same thing with Mark Zuckerberg. After the head of Meta announced that he was going to end the robust censorship system on Facebook and other sites (as well as downsizing staff), the left went after him with the same unhinged hatred.
Like Musk, Zuckerberg had been celebrated as an industry icon, but is now condemned as a grotesque abomination. Politicians such as Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) — who once threatened Zuckerberg not to restore free speech values like Musk — are now set against him. There is talk of boycotts as many liberals retreat into the safe space of BlueSky, a site that essentially protects liberals from opposing views.
BlueSky’s appeal is that it stays close to shore, where the waters are safe and shallow. The problem for many on the left is that more and more people want to venture beyond those navigational buoys. Like Musk, they want to consider new horizons and possibilities.
In Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Hector Barbossa warns Captain Jack Sparrow, “You’re off the edge of the map, mate! Here there be monsters!” For liberals, we are now off the map where creatures of mythological shapes dwell.
They found them exactly where they thought they would be. After all, they created them. They have made monsters of everyone who challenges the confines of their known world.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
The Democrats are in a tizzy over Musk, an “unelected” individual doing an audit. They do not seem to see the irony behind their outrage. Think about the vacuity of their complaint: An “unelected” person is reviewing the spending of other “unelected” persons.
Accessing your data in the US Treasury’s payment system is not “reviewing the spending of other ‘unelected’ persons.” You don’t understand what the real issue is.
Anonymous, it is you that do not understand. Look up the meaning of audit.
What is the “real issue”? Nobody in the Treasury Department is elected. Yet they access our personal data every day. Why is it different when unelected Musk accesses the same data thousands of unelected Treasury department employees access it?
I imagine you may say there are lots of internal controls to send up red flags if data is accessed improperly. Except those internal controls did not stop Edward Snowden – who was not a federal government employee – from illegally stealing tons of classified information. Snowden was given full access to sensitive confidential data as a result of being employed as a consultant with federal contractor Booz Hamilton, who had access to classified info and systems.
If you don’t want Musk to have access to confidential info, then you have to explain how federal contractors like Booz Allen have access to top secret classified data.
The irony is Republicans have always been complaining about unelected bureaucrats making decisions. Now they are giddy about one deciding unilaterally what entire departments should or shouldn’t be spending.
He’s openly calling for impeaching judges who get in his way. He can just ignore court orders and Trump can choose not to enforce the orders. That’s how dictators work. It seems Trump is letting Elon be his dictator longer than just one day.
Your “logic” fails. Trump was elected. He appointed Musk to look into spending. This is what the people that voted for Trump wanted. That is govt actually working. This is quite different than administrative state bureaucrats, that are not elected, making decisions and rules at their whim, with no functional electoral oversight.
An open question for Schumer, Schiff, and their pals: Who actually ran our government on President Biden’s watch? Clearly Mr. Biden was not up to the task, so clearly an unelected and unnamed person or persons were involved to an unseemly degree. And yet you challenge the right of President Trump to openly appoint a consultant, who works under his direction. It feels like the Left’s usual double standard on steroids.
Best post yet.
As per chuckles schumer, Musk is, most assuredly, going to try and “take away” all that the prog/left has by eliminating their corrupt grifting system.
Ronald Reagan, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Barry Goldwater would be totally opposed the today’s Republican Party!
Reagan’s Torture Treaty would have criminally indicted any American official supporting torture, covert blacklisting and cruel treatment – including George W. Bush’s DOJ. Reagan’s treaty was and is federal law (Article VI of the Constitution) and there are no statute of limitations on prosecuting 21st Century war crimes.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was strongly opposed to Senator Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn. Eisenhower actively worked to defeat McCarthyism. Trump then hired Roy Cohn.
Barry Goldwater, leader of the Libertarian wing of the Republican Party made the famous quote supporting gays in the military “You don’t have to be straight to shoot straight”. Goldwater also supported racial integration of the military.
Goldwater was also the one that told Nixon he needed to resign for betraying his Oath of Office to the U.S. Constitution.
The reality: in 2025 we have RINOS (Republican in Name Only) in the Republican Party! Reagan, Eisenhower and Goldwater would be disgusted and ashamed of today’s Republican Party! Can’t scapegoat Democrats for that, Republicans should take personal responsibility for destroying their own party!!
Let’s hope that the trickle-down effect of scrubbing the budget is that the grifters in our midst do actually lose all they have, from the government institutions to the press, from the educational institutions to, well, just everything. What we need is honesty and transparency, not thievery.
And if it appears they may have committed crimes related to their grift, they should be prosecuted and, if convicted, be jailed and ordered to pay restitution to the US Treasury.
Strange but I had this same article e-mailed to me on 2/8/2025 but did not see it in the usual lineup so I thought it was probably a glitch. Read it and waited.
Anyway I like the column and I sense some exasperation in the Professor that I have not seen previously.
I felt the same way far back in the 1970’s when I saw the rushed exit from Saigon because a Democratic Congress turned it’s back on promises made to the people of Viet Nam and refused to allocate the money to help them deal with an overt invasion.
I was embarrassed and angry (having been brought up in a military family) and then I saw Pres Carter start well (I voted for him) and then he turned feckless.
I started to think “republicans” and then in 1984 I just could not stand it anymore and left and have never voted Democratic again. Does not mean I would vote for every Republican because they had some losers also. I voted down ticket in 2008 (could not vote for McCain or Obama) but otherwise voted for all Republican Presidential nominees.
I like the Republican Party we now have. It fights and is no longer a mealy mouthed alternative (except for Lindsey Graham) to the Molotov cocktail throwing Democrats. It has substance and freshness and is brash and young (except for McConnell) Even Charles Grassley acts younger.
Musk is great and the United States is lucky he is with us. I would point out to all that SpaceX presently accounts for 80-90 % of all tonnage lifted into space (that includes China and the EU, Russia). Also within the last month it has launched Payloads from Florida, Texas and California (I suppose that is during Musk’s spare time).
I regard him as a National Treasure.
Funny how Apple News refers to his computer brain trust as “inexperienced”. Young maybe but these guys are not inexperienced. Apple itself might benefit from consulting them.
Is the House that Obama built starting to burn?
So what’s the point. Just bloviating?
I like the Republican Party we now have. It fights and is no longer a mealy mouthed alternative (except for Lindsey Graham) to the Molotov cocktail throwing Democrats. It has substance and freshness and is brash and young (except for McConnell)
Disagree. I joined the Democrat party in the 1990s for two reasons; Jeb Bush whom I met personally at University of Florida as a medical student when he was running for FL governor (along with his pleasant and petite wife, Columba), and later came to loathe Jeb, and Sen. Daniel Moynihan whom I admired greatly. I admired Ronald Reagan greatly as any Cuban refugee would. But the Bushes were such distasteful beta males, that they were a sharp contrast to Reagan. Jeb got me to get involved politically and I registered Democrat.
The alignment of Republicans with the religious Christian evangelicals meant that Republicans had to walk the talk. It is not any more complex than that. When you claim to represent Christian principles and morality, the obvious is expected. You walk it. And yet sadly Republicans have been a disaster when it comes to the message of Christianity. Theirs is such a complete cluster f*** party that they’re just as bad as Democrats are today at being millstones. Neither has anything to do with the religious principles, virtuous living, the gold standard of the Good Samaritan, doing right by people. In my book Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin including today. I’ve said this many times on this forum.
The only relief in having Trump and Republicans in office today is that Democrats can’t push their far left Marxism on America for now. The Republicans with their rage, grandstanding and virtue signaling are truly cringe on so many important issues like sanctity of marriage, primacy of family, parents taking responsibility for their children as opposed to expecting public schools to educate and inform the conscience of their offspring, generational families staying together and parents modeling to their children what kind of adults they should be in the future, Americans communicating with each other face to face, breaking bread, helping each other in their neighborhoods, in their churches and their immediate regions, etc. The list is practically endless as to how our nation is committing suicide much like cells do in apoptosis, you may recall from biochemistry. We just are not working as an organism, as a nation. We are self-destructing with our selfishness, me, me, me focus, disregard for e pluribus umum.
JD Vance recently advanced the salient point of Saint Augustine of Hippo’s “ordo amoris”. It was brilliant. But I ask you, what percentage of Americans even understand “ordo amoris”, have an intact marriage, have intact children that are developing psychologically, emotionally, physically, spiritually, intelectually in the way that St Augustine of Hippo espoused in the 5th century A.D. during the collapse of the Roman empire? Very few Americans even have any clue who St Augustine was, or what he taught, as the single most important figure that shaped western civilization.
In summary the 7 Deadly cardinal sins apply with Pride being the worst of all. Until Americans truly focus on correcting themselves, experience an inner conversion like most religions and even the 12 Step Program of Alcoholics Anonymous, promotes, we’re not going to see any changes in this country, if anything our apoptosis is being effectuated.
Bishop Robert Barron delivered an excellent sermon yesterday on the above topic.
“You walk it.”
That “walk” has a name: Theocracy.
“Very few Americans even have any clue who St Augustine was, or what he taught, as the single most important figure that shaped” the Dark Ages.
Now your statement is accurate.
“Jeb got me to get involved politically and I registered Democrat.”
Estovir, Jeb was a good governor for Florida, but the Bushes are globalists and do not always think in the right direction.
” Republicans have been a disaster when it comes to the message of Christianity.”
The government was formed not to promote a form of religion but to protect the freedom of religion. We should not ask our government to promote religion.
“In my book Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin including today. I’ve said this many times on this forum.”
I was born a Democrat but was independent. I changed parties to the Republicans, but that was for convenience when voting in the primary, where I had specific people running who I knew and trusted. Today, the Democrat Party is so bad I call for its destruction until the Party reforms itself. Because of that, I will only vote Republican as good people in lower offices are food for the corrupt Democrat Party.
In America, the Torah is a choice, not a demand.
“Apple News refers to his computer brain trust as “inexperienced”. ”
Sort of like Jobs and Wozniak were, eh?
The same people that swore that Biden was as “sharp as a tack” and “fully in charge” are the ones complaining that Musk was “unelected”.
Did I miss when Musk was on the ballot?
“Did I miss when Musk was on the ballot?”
He was on the primary ballot. Right under KH.
by your logic, every Federal employee other than Trump and Vance should not be in government. You’re a smart one aren’t you?
Second guessing Musk is a fool’s game
https://youtube.com/shorts/dqgQbHgCpOo?si=5zN4IHQWBpeD5aZM
Musk is more like a wolverine than a badger….
Muskratt
Says the toad tadpole
It is easy to assess that the Democratic party is a socialist state without a state. In fact, they form a double oligarchy of government agencies (FDA, USAID, etc.) that control the cash with individual party members who control the agencies. What Musk has done is wreck some of the agencies, so far through exposure. By destroying or restructuring some of the agencies, Trump is ruining the Dems toolbox of governance. BTW, the Dems still hate Trump.
Hate, however is a cruel mistress, that doesn’t like to share. So, Musk has to endure the punishment for a while longer.
“USAID is the ultimate example of a bloated agency with a high percentage of funding going to administrative costs over field operations.”
Once upon a time in Boston a business student friend worked as an intern at NPR Boston, and set out to learn everything. After almost a year he quit, because,
putting together the (so-called) nonprofits’ 990, he saw that the 12+ VP’s each made over $225k/year, people who had a few years experience and same or less education.
Whose responsibilities were less than his as an intern. Their sole talent, they knew how to politic with top mgmt. They were crazy liberals.
Again, dumber than dirt, yet making the big bucks for basically doing ass-kissing.
Long story short, nowadays, thankfully, NPR Boston has fired a lot of employees because donations have dropped dramatically. Yet they’re crazier than ever.
“thankfully, NPR Boston has fired a lot of employees because donations have dropped dramatically. ”
You do realize that they probably axed competent employees like your friend, and retained the ninnyot anus-tonguers?
You say, “…The only way to change a culture is sometimes to change the people.” I have spent my career (40+ years) as a consultant working at the C-suite level of major corporations (GE under Jack Welch and IBM under Lou Gerstner to name two as examples) and I can attest that it’s almost NEVER possible to change an organization’s culture without changing a significant number of people, mostly at the top. The top 20% of any company ARE its culture. Not all are happy with or agree with that culture but go along for the sake of their jobs. But, it’s not that hard to find those who carry the flag of the current culture by word and deed. You MUST have them leave the organization if you expect meaningful change.
Musk knows what he’s doing. Even Jack Welch, who was known to “blow things up” (“Neutron Jack”), said after he retired that he then realized he could have and should have moved faster and more aggressively. He was right. Musk learned the lesson. Fire the people who represent the culture you do not want, hire new people who understand what is needed and any organization will get better. It might take a little time for the healing to occur, but it will.
You go Elon!
There are clearly many positions in the federal government that could be eliminated. All the DEI programs, the excessive layers of management, and so forth. But government is not a tech company. You can’t fire everyone in the CIA, for example, and then go out and hire new employees off the street with decades of experience in foreign cultures, with contacts and informants among enemy nations. Nor can you fire all the scientists at NIH or the FDA and expect to call an employment agency to find someone with deep knowledge of infectious diseases or food born illnesses. These employees have unique knowledge that is irreplaceable. Musk can fire 80% of his coders, and easily replace them as needed with new coders coming out of U.C. Berkeley and Stanford. But coding is not the same as the sophisticated knowledge possessed by many federal employees. What is alarming about Musk is his not knowing the difference.
Clearly? You indicate you know everything about gov waste. Are you employee, manager, exec?
“There are clearly many positions in the federal government that could be eliminated. ”
I think that you would have a much more difficult time listing the positions in Fedgov that are actually needed for any version that comes anywhere near to adhering to Constitutional restraints. Those positions would be few and far between, and I strongly suspect that an estimate of expendable employees @ 80% is far too low. Pre-Musk Twitter, after all, for all it’s stupidities and excesses, lacked taxing authority and a >200 year legacy of unaccountability to nourish its bloated payroll.
Great column professor! I stated the other day, we all know fraud, waste and abuse run rampant in the government. We all want it reigned in. Past presidents have ran on doing it and now we have a president that is in fact doing it! Of course the Democrats are having a melt down as Musk and DOGE are exposing the fraud, wast and abuse they have been perpetuating for years. This is exactly what we voted for!
Matt Taibbi titled a article Nation Shrugs as Godzilla Eats Washington. Yes. As Musk and DOGE lays carnage to the fraud, waste and abuse in Washington most are saying, “Finally!”
As a now eighty-one year old intellectually, politically and religiously independent lay American male I can personally trace the beginning of the end of democracy in America to the Reagan era tax cuts and ‘trickle down economics.’ There is no Democratic agenda; there is no Republican agenda; there is only a constitutional agenda. Simply put, anyone who aligns themself with either side of two major party politics and or is obscenely wealthy concurrent with abject poverty is less than a real American. The real monster is that cohort which is too highly educated to still be independent, objective and loyal to the letter of the law of the Constitution of the United States of 1787 as since ratified and lawfully amended and modified (e.g., Citizens United v. FEC; corporations have ‘subsidaries’ not “posterity;” not lawful). Now that ‘traitor Joe’ Biden is gone, please share this with ‘President Musk’ and his lackey ‘Humpty Trumpty.’
It may have taken you81 years to get to the ideological point where you are now, but it seems like 81 wasted years.
Democracy didn’t end when Reagan managed to get the government to take less of people’s money and “anyone…that is obscenely wealthy (an amorphous barometer that I’m sure you will determine) concurrent with abject poverty (another term that I’m sure you will define) is less than a real American.” So everyone from Lincoln (was he wealthy for his times), FDR, Kennedy, Reagan, GHW Bush, Obama, Biden and Trump are all “un-American” by your terms?
I guess Cuba and the old USSR is where fair minded leaders reside??
Logic check, fact check, grammar check please.
I guess false claims of logic and grammar without examples or responses is easier than defending your incoherent and radical rant. But hey, you are 81 and I guess that qualifies you to be a Bernie Bro emerita.
We have now identified Benson’s age, now if we can locate the care facility we can get him help ….
Can you recite the Preamble to the US Constitution? It’s as much an integral, inseparable and enforceable part of the ‘letter of the law’ of the Constitution as any other, a rather clear, concise and statement of the intentions, principles and purposes of the Founders as any other part of the Constitution, intended to color, flavor and provide legal context to all that follows. Go to the Congressional record and check-out the very bipartisan vote on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 which repealed Sections 20 and 32 of the Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 which helped to prevent another “Great Depression” for some sixty-five years, to collapse the US economy in 2008 (never just a “Great Recession;” always just another ‘great redistribution of working-class wealth to the rich, who never pay their fair share of taxes’) and, perhaps, a trial run for the multi-trillion dollar Covid-19 ‘scamdemic.’ Worse; yet: (https://odysee.com/@charlesgshaver:d?view=about). As to Cuba and the USSR, extremism/totalitarianism is the monster, not communism, socialism or capitalism.
Exceptionally well said. Just goes to show that age is not always associated with wisdom. Some people stay stupid their whole lives.
Nice try “President Musk”! Musk is President Trump’s General Patton. Just like Eisenhower used Patton to smash the Nazis, Trump has Musk on the front lines exposing and smashing fraud and waste. Thank God someone is finally doing something! You are basically aligning yourself with the money grubbing politicians on both sides of the aisle. Disgusting
Democracy didn’t die with Reagan and indeed hasn’t died. Things started to go downhill when we elected a president (Obama) who hated America and all we stood for. In biblical terms, Obama begat Trump who begat Biden who begat Trump again. Let’s see where we go from here. I’m personally hopeful that Trump keeps his cool and Vance is elected in 2008.
As a 74 year old, college educated business owner, I would suggest that we began to crumble as a federal republic of states with the passing of LBJ’s great society legislation that has ruined us, both culturally and economically to the point that Trump might not have the ability to pull this out of the fire of destruction made by prog/left experiments and gross blunders
the death throes of a once great Party.
Great party. You jest.
No, it was always a party on others money! BYOB and Coke party favorites.
The “left” all seem unhappy with life. Rather than trying to improve their own situation their solution is to blame the rest of us and make our lives as miserable as theirs. It almost worked.
and to give Americans tax dollars to invading non-citizens and foreign countries that dispise the USA..
The last grasp at maintaining the status quo by the DNC is the complete take-over of the Executive Branch by the Judicial Branch. It appears that a Federal Judge in the NY District has initiated that part of the plan………
I read, actually the Dems want congress to take over the exec branch. They are well on their way. Civil War 2.0 please.
“I read, actually the Dems want congress to take over the exec branch. They are well on their way. Civil War 2.0 please.”
EXACTLY what do you wish for Civil War 2.0 to accomplish? Some reclamation of powers vested by the Constitution in Congress (and therefore denied to the Executive branch) IS warranted. See Anthony Napolitano’s article linked below. However, it would be suicide to do that with the way Congress is currently structured. Repealing the 17th Amendment (popular election of U. S. Senators) might go a long way toward fixing that. See Jeff Tucker’s article at the 2nd link (if the site disallows the 2nd link I will post it in a following comment). A very wide and tangled web has been spun to disorient this nation away from the vision of the Founders; the road to solution(s) will not be simple, short, or easy. I fear that facile slogans such as “Civil War 2.0” do not, by themselves do anything to advance us on that road.
Tariffs & the US Constitution – Andrew P. Napolitano on the origins of the supercharged American presidency
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/06/tariffs-the-us-constitution/
“FDR gave us the welfare state. Perhaps Donald Trump will undo it. But all this happens at the price of constitutional norms. Before Curtiss-Wright — and even since — the Supreme Court ruled that all federal power comes from the Constitution and from no other source. That’s because James Madison and his colleagues created a central government of limited powers — limited by and articulated in the Constitution.”
Restore the Bicameral Congress – by Jeffrey A. Tucker
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/restore-the-bicameral-congress-5805384
“I would like to see the bicameral Congress restored. It was obliterated in 1913 with one Constitutional amendment that hardly anyone truly understood at the time. What they did seemed like an advance on democracy. What it achieved was to wreck the functioning of the federal legislature.”
Perhaps chuck Schumer was just stating the obvious when he said that they are taking away everything we have. We being the democrats and the politicians
Logic check!