House Oversight Committee to Hold First Hearing on Wasteful Pandemic-Era Spending

Breitbart ^ | 01-31-2023 | WENDELL HUSEBØ

[ChicagoConservative27]

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday will hold its first hearing on wasteful pandemic-era spending.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), committee chairman, announced the hearing last week in an effort to investigate the “rampant waste” of taxpayer dollars on pandemic relief programs.

Those set to testify are Michael Horowitz, Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General, U.S. Government Accountability Office, and David M. Smith, Assistant Director, Office of Investigations, U.S. Secret Service.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I remember so many people getting excited over that helicopter money then. New TV's for all.

[BenLurkin]

Covid didn’t crush the economy. Government crushed the economy.

[MeganC]

Yep, now we can squander money on things the GOP likes.

[Round Earther]

“I remember so many people getting excited over that helicopter money then. New TV’s for all.”

At the fist chance he could, Biden started flooding the economy Covid Stimulusand most people were all so happy to cash those checks and push us towards hyperinflation.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article ChicagoConservative27. As usual, please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"House Oversight Committee to Hold First Hearing on Wasteful [??? emphasis added] Pandemic-Era Spending"

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FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Regardless of Trump's work to primary House RINOs in the 2022 elections, it looks like more “MAGA” masks are falling off.

More specifically, instead of arguing politically correct "wasteful" spending, so-called majority MAGA representatives should be trying to stop constitutionally indefensible federal spending, spending that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

• "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• “If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).

• ”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)

• Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)

• “Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)

The bottom line...

All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.

If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.

If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.

With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 is the first president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.

I'm not holding my breath for significant MAGA legislation in the first 100 days of new term from what appears to be just another RINO-controlled House.

Hopefully Trump will do another round of primarying RINOs for 2024 elections.