Posted on 07/25/2017 3:41:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Awkward! After someone forgot to switch off a microphone at the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, July 25, two senators were caught dissing President Donald Trump on a hot mic.
Chairman of Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee Susan Collins and Sen. Jack Reed were unknowingly recorded discussing the federal budget and calling 71-year-old Trump “crazy” in audio obtained by The Washington Post.
“I swear, [the Office of Management and Budget] just went through and whenever there was ‘grant,’ they just X it out,” said Collins, a Republican senator from Maine. “With no measurement, no thinking about it, no metrics, no nothing. It’s just incredibly irresponsible.”
“Yes,” Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, responded. “I think — I think he’s crazy. I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.”
“I’m worried,” Collins added.
The two senators continue to discuss the budget and their concerns before the topic changes to Representative Blake Farenthold, whose appearance they discussed. “I don’t mean to be unkind, but he’s so unattractive it’s unbelievable,” Collins said.
Collins’ spokeswoman Annie Clark released a statement after the conversation went public, saying: “Senator Collins is worried about the elimination of transportation and housing programs in the president’s budget request that are critically important to local communities across our country, such as: TIGER, CDBG, Essential Air Service, HOME as well as major reductions to FAA, Amtrak, and rental assistance, which serves predominantly older and disabled individuals.”
Trump was caught on a hot mic himself in 2005 with Billy Bush in a now infamous lewd exchange about women that also was made public by The Washington Post in October 2016.
I believe Billy Bush lost his job over it.
That waffle voiced Susan Collins is the crazy one.
This is why we will get nowhere with the current GOP in Congress.
They are rectally tied to the uniparty.
People really don’t know how to read something like this. She’s just saying that IT is crazy that they want to do away with a lot of crap.
has she looked in a mirror lately? That was a disgusting comment.
And if a man had been caught saying a female representative was unattractive he’d be resigning before the night was out.
No that video was from 2005 where he made some crude comments about women. NBC released the tape in Oct to hurt Trump just before the election..
Man that Susan Collins is an airhead.. That is what you do to the budget to get it in balance. You x out programs that are a waste of money..
Those people have to leave Congress.
They are right about Blake Farenthold but it is irrelevant in comparison to his politics and ability. Poor guy but he must have shown his voters something they like.
Some people have an amazing talent for picking the wrong enemy
These same people probably think Nazi Peelousy is normal.
“Yes,” Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, responded. “I think — I think he’s crazy. I mean, I don’t say that lightly and as a kind of a goofy guy.”
Read it again.
Uniparty cowards. They live slopping at the trough
Issue Trump a plethora “x”es.
Probably deliberate.
“Those people”, funny choice of words. The same term Gen. Lee used when referring to the Yankees.
This is to set up the next narrative and the media will of course help them. Drain the swamp!
Susan Collins is a DEMOCRAT, MAINERS...you dumbasses.
Why doesn’t Collins change over to the Dems and be done with the charade?
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