On Sunday, Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) spoke to CNN's Manu Raju about DOGE and the congressional budgeting process.
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00:00We talked about how Congress, quote, outsources lawmaking to the executive branch.
00:05What about Elon Musk and Doge, the way that they have shuttered federal agencies like USAID, cut programs without the consent of Congress?
00:14Look, if you and I had an hour, we could talk about how Congress has abdicated our responsibility.
00:20And budgeting has opened the door for Elon Musk to come in because we haven't done our job.
00:26We should be doing this. We should be making these hard decisions.
00:30But do you think that what they've done is okay, the way that Doge has come in and Musk has come in and dealt with USAID, shuttered USAID in particular?
00:38We need to cut. And I talked about it over and over again.
00:42Like, we're spending $2 trillion. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have compassion.
00:47That doesn't mean, when we're letting a federal employee go, that we shouldn't be thoughtful about perhaps that's the worst day of their life.
00:53And I think that was one of the problems with Doge, is it lacked what people saw as compassion and thoughtfulness.
01:00And I do think we need to make cuts.
01:03And I think Doge has opened the door, opened our eyes to some doors that are very problematic.
01:08But having run a business, having been mayor, I know this goes over a lot better if you have a dose of compassion when you're doing it.
01:16And there's-
01:16And there's-