Andy Harris
Appearances
Morning Wire
Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
We have to bring down the federal deficit and control the federal debt.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
Well, what the bill does is essentially freezes spending for the rest of the year. In fact, it actually lowers it a little bit. It makes some upgrades to the defense appropriations. So what we call stops and starts, stops some programs that are unnecessary, starts others. Provides a little extra money for the deportation of the illegal alien criminals that's underway.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
Provides a little extra money for the Women and Infants Children Food Program. just in case we need it for the rest of the year. And then also provides a little more money to the VA health system because, again, after the PACT Act, we do have more veterans seeking care and we provided funding for them.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
And by removing funding for some of the new IRS agents that the Biden administration planned, we can pay for it all and, again, still decrease spending a little bit.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
That's right. Again, because we have the IRS rescission. The bottom line is this not only would freeze spending, it actually reduces spending a little bit. And that's why I think that it's going to pass with Republican votes this week. And then again, in the Senate, I don't think the Democrats are going to unite to shut down the government.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
Well, I hope so. You know, Joe Biden took four years to increase the cost of everything and to bring on the inflation and to stop energy exploration, for instance. It's going to take a little while to get it started back up. But once we get it started back up, I think you're already seeing the effect at the gas pump where the price of gas is coming down a little bit.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
I think it'd come down way more. And when that comes down, the cost of energy and electricity and all the things that run our economy is going to go down. So it'll take a little while. But again, we're going to turn this ship around.
Morning Wire
Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
Look, if the Democrats aren't willing to control spending and get our debt deficit under control, then I don't know how we're going to see eye to eye. The bottom line is we have to control spending. We have to make sure that when the Doge committee finds savings, potential savings, we have to incorporate that into next year's spending. We have to make sure we cut the waste, fraud and abuse.
Morning Wire
Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
If they're willing to be partners on that, we're willing to work with them. Up until now, they haven't been.
Morning Wire
Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
Well, I don't think we give up that much control. I think Congress, you know, sets a ceiling on spending. And obviously, if the president finds that some of that spending is wasteful, I think the president should withhold it and then we should do rescissions of that spending. Again, we're still setting the ceiling on spending and that'll be set in the continuing resolution.
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Trump’s DOGE Double Down & Federal Worker Competency | 3.10.25
And again, I want to give the administration discretion. If they find fraud, waste and abuse, they should stop spending money on it.