Exclusive Interview with Congressman Jared Moskowitz
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How is Congressman Jared Moskowitz holding up in Washington, D.C.?
Congress member Jared Moskowitz, just want to start off by asking you how you holding up there in Washington, D.C. How are things going there?
Hi, Ben. Do you know something that I don't know? I haven't been watching the news over the last couple of weeks. Is something been going on? I mean, I'm doing fine. So but you wanted to talk to me during lunchtime. So I hope you don't mind if I just, you know, pour myself some wine. eat while we talk, I'm sure everything is fine then.
You know, I'm sure. You seem to be a-okay, but Congress member, we... We absolutely.
Is there something going on in D.C.
that we absolutely need you in the fight? So let me start off by asking you this question, though, which is Elon Musk. There was a declaration that was submitted either on his behalf or by the federal, by the Trump White House, basically saying Musk is not running Doge or he's not an employee of Doge, but he's an advisor to the White House. You sit on the Doge subcommittee. What is Elon? What's his role if he's saying that he's not actually working for Doge?
Well, we don't we don't know. Right. And I'm a part of the Doge caucus. I joined very early because I do believe Americans don't want the status quo with government. I do believe government become more efficient. First of all, they're using computer systems from like decades ago. OK, so I do think government become more efficient. And I do think we can probably save a lot of money in government. And if you look at some of the things that Doge has found, by the way, these programs go back decades. In the government, Democrat and Republican administrations, Democrat and Republican Congress. And so I do think the American people want to see us save money. But we don't know Elon's day to day role or his involvement. We've not had that transparency. Now, Elon, look, Elon's a very smart guy.
We can't take that away from him. He's created some unbelievable technologies. There's no doubt about that. And and he feels very comfortable in his ability tweeting or X-ing, whatever we call it nowadays, you know, three, four hundred times a day. So probably he should come to Congress and tell us he doesn't think much of us or any of our abilities. So he shouldn't be afraid to come. He should want to come. No one should make him. Right. Like we'd be like, make him come. But he should want to come. He should come and talk about all the things that he has found. Tell the American people, tell Congress. I mean, remember, they're going to need Congress to do something. And I've talked about this, Ben.
They can find fraud, they can find waste, they can find abuse, and they can nix it in the executive. But at the end of the day, the only way we're going to get at the debt issue, which is one of the principles of Doge, is to get at the debt issue is they're going to have to come to Congress. So this is going to have to happen on March 14th. is the date that it's going to have to happen by. Otherwise, the government is going to close because I just don't believe that we can continue doing what I think Mike Johnson, Speaker Johnson, wants us to do. Speaker Johnson is going to propose us to do a clean CR to fund the government. Well, by the way, if Doge has found all this fraud, waste, and abuse, again, that's what they say.
If we take them at their word that they have found all this, we can't do a clean CR because that would refund all the fraud, waste, and abuse. They would love to trap Democrats with that. Speaker Johnson needs to come with his 12 spending bills, individual spending bills, which, by the way, he promised to do, but so far has taken no steps to do. All of this is going to come to a head on March 14th, in my opinion.
I want to talk about the 12 individual spending bills that Speaker Johnson claimed that he was going to bring, but he's not. I want to talk about clean CR, clean continuing resolution and what that means. But we know that it's possible Elon Musk is going to be watching this interview. These clips circulate far and wide. So maybe you speak to him right now and make that invitation
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