Steny Hoyer Reads Elon Musk's Brutal Takedown Of GOP Budget Out Loud To OMB Director Russell Vought

During a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MA) read Elon Musk's criticism of the Republican spending bill.

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00:00Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm at 517 already. Am I over?

00:14I am against dynamic scoring, not because I don't believe there is a dynamic score,

00:26but because I think it is a gamble. And one of the reasons we've gotten to places where we are

00:31is because it's been a gamble. I've been here a long time, as you know, when Ronald Reagan's

00:37David Stockman said, tax cuts going to pay for itself. Ronald Reagan increased the deficit,

00:44only one man can stop spending, or one person, the President of the United States, by 189%.

00:50Mick Mulvaney told us that the Bush tax cut would pay for itself. And Mitch Daniels also told us,

01:06excuse me, Mick Mulvaney was Trump's, that Bush's tax cut would pay for itself.

01:12They didn't do it. And we ran deficits. And we ran deficits. The only one that really had a low

01:19deficit was Bill Clinton and a balanced budget, as you probably recall. Now, the budget you've

01:26now said, we've had a lot of talk about Doge. Mr. Musk, of course, headed up Doge and was regaled

01:34as somebody who was a genius and could do everything. He said this, I'm sorry, but I just can't stand it

01:39anymore. This massive, outrageous, pork filled congressional spending bill is a disgusting

01:47abomination. Shame on those who voted for it. You know, you did wrong. You know it. So that at least

01:58one person that has been high up in this administration, who being worth $450 billion is prepared to tell the

02:05truth. This bill is not going to pay for it itself. And we are not honest with one

02:13another. The discretionary part of the budget, which you talked, you said 30 percent, defense,

02:19veterans, homeland security, take it far above that. So we deal with 14 or 13 percent of the

02:27budget to try to balance the budget. That's dishonest. It cannot be done. If you eliminate

02:33all of non-defense, non-veteran discretionary funding. So David Stockman ended up with a book

02:40said, we lied. I hope you won't do that.