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Sen. John Kennedy defends DOGE: "President Trump ran for office saying, "I'm going to review every single penny in the federal budget." Now, how are you going to review the spending in the federal budget without reviewing the spending? And that's what Mr. Musk is doing. Now, many of my Democratic colleagues and some of the tofu-eating wokarati at the USAID are screaming like they're part of a prison riot because they don't want us reviewing the spending. But that's all Mr. Musk is doing, and he's finding some pretty interesting stuff. To my friends who are upset, I would say with respect, you know, call somebody who cares. They better get used to this. It's USAID today, it's going to be Department of Education tomorrow. And really, here's what's going on. For four years under President Biden, the people in charge asked one simple question: "Who needs to pay more in taxes? Who needs to pay more in taxes?" Well, that's not the question that the Republicans and President Trump are going to ask. Our question is, "What the hell happened to the money?" And that's all that's going on. ...If you notice, my Democratic colleagues and the USAID officials, they're not defending the spending. All they're talking about is process. "Oh, it's an insurrection," and "Elon Musk doesn't have the authority." Well, sure he has the authority. The President gave it to him. And all he's doing is looking at the spending. Just what the President said he was going to appoint Musk to do. Here's what I hope Rubio and Musk do. I would put together all this absurd spending into a booklet. I'd call a press conference, and in front of God and country and the corporate media and the USAID folks and my Democratic colleagues, I'd go over it item-by-item, every bit of it. The DEI comic books, the transgender operas, the funding of gain-of-function research. I'd go over every bit of it and say, now, do you want to defend this? And they won't. They can't."