A Republican congressman clashed live with a CNN anchor
during a discussion Tuesday about an effort led by President Donald Trump to
reduce government waste.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) sparred with CNN anchor Pamela
Brown after she essentially accused Trump and his replacement, Department of
Government Efficiency Chief Elon Musk, of taking reckless steps to sharply curb
federal spending amid a growing $36 trillion national debt.
Brown repeatedly pressed Burchett on the Trump
administration's efforts to reduce government waste, specifically questioning
whether the approach was “more clumsy than methodical.” Brown further argued
that the administration was making “high-risk mistakes” in its execution.
“Humans will make mistakes, ma'am. But currently these are
bloated programs. There are employees who are not showing up and who are angry
because they have to go back to work, because they have moved and they are not
even far from where their original jobs were,” Burchett said while Brown
acknowledged that “no one” disagreed with getting rid of waste.
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