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Chapter 1: 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.
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Chapter 2: What is Elon Musk's role in the government according to Congressman Moskowitz?
And we just got to just like not give that the oxygen. We got to focus on on these other issues. But, you know, we're like squirrel, squirrel.
greenland right and we're just that's that's not what the american people voted for although i will say this i do feel i mean i'm not i'm not happy that they're executing on project 2025 but you know i'm sure like maybe like republicans and independents were looking at democrats carrying around this giant book you know like moses carrying around two tablets
They were like, why are these Democrats carrying around this giant book? They look ridiculous. We're like, Project 25, these are all the things they're going to do. And Republicans are like, no, we're not going to do any of that. And now that they're actually doing it, like chapter and verse from the book, I guess I feel a little vindicated. I'm not happy about it. But at least we were right.
We don't look crazy carrying around that book anymore.
Well, look, your constituents, many of them maybe thought that no tax on tips was going to be the first priority, which it isn't in the budget or no tax on social security. We don't see that in the budget or no tax on overtime. And, you know, the priorities seem to be, how do you help the billionaires and the, you know, deca millionaires and how do you focus on them? But like,
You know, do you think, though, it is a little bit breaking through to some people that, whoa, even if they're now waiting, whoa, whoa, whoa, what about these things? Do you see at all, you know, people in your district starting to call your office and ask questions like we feel a little bit rug pulled here or not yet? I'll give you the final word.
So chaos, it's been chaos. Right now I'm a former emergency management director, so I know how to deal with that. But it's the chaos that has people worried because if everything is chaotic, they start to care about their things like social security or my veterans benefits or my Medicare or my Medicaid.
They start to worry about these programs that people depend on, people that voted for Donald Trump, by the way. Donald Trump only lost my district by one and a half points. And there are people who voted for him that are on Social Security and the people who voted for him that are on Medicare and their people voted for them about their veterans benefits.
And with all the chaos about getting into these systems and changing all these things, you know, that breeds a lot of anxiety, which then breeds a lot of those phone calls because it breeds a lot of uncertainty. And so I'm seeing a lot of that with the folks I'm talking to. And Elon has created a lot of that by all of these stories that Doge is going everywhere.
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