Transcript: Bad News for Trump as GOPers Tell Him Matt Gaetz is Cooked
Sargent: What you’re referring to there is the fact that Musk is going to be overseeing this body that’s going to advise Trump and Republicans in Congress on how to cut government—supposedly only advisory. On what you said earlier about Republican senators having to worry about crossing the MAGA masses because they’re so radicalized—well, you’re gonna have Musk’s Twitter, which has become a MAGA disinformation machine, helping to radicalize people against any Republicans who oppose Trump’s agenda. I think that could get extremely ugly.
Lawrence: It could, and, to some extent, it already is. I guess the question is: Who will have the guts, nerve, the courage to fight back? Democrats have been wiped out to some extent. That “government efficiency commission,” it’s not an agency, even though it has a silver medallion on Twitter, which is what government agencies get.
To me, it’s more like these deficit commissions and things like that, which go nowhere. Once they put their cuts to Congress, who’s going to … Why cut one third of Social Security? No, you can’t do that. These people in Congress have constituents. Trump made promises. Of course, he makes all kinds of promises on the campaign trail, but he said, This benefit won’t be cut, that benefit won’t be cut. There won’t be a national abortion ban. Who knows if he’ll keep any of his promises, but I sincerely doubt that the Department of Government Efficiency, will get anywhere.