Jasmine Crockett Scorches GOP’s ‘Efficiency’ Talk With A Blistering Trump Figure | EUROtoday

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Tuesday ripped Republicans for not criticizing President Donald Trump’s {golfing} habits all whereas backing a push to chop “wasteful” spending through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

“If we are gonna talk about efficiency and worry about some solar panels, whatever, let’s talk about the fact that as of March 30, Trump’s golfing has cost us approximately $26 million,” stated Crockett in remarks at a congressional DOGE subcommittee listening to.

“And the last time I checked, we’re not getting anything in return for that. So, I will get back on my remarks, but I just wanted to point out that maybe we need to talk about the president and his golfing habits.”

Trump, whose golf outings have now value U.S. taxpayers over $30 million in his second time period, traveled to Florida this previous weekend to hit the inexperienced at his Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, solely to later brag about his win within the Senior Club Championship.

Prior to his 2016 election win, Trump routinely criticized Barack Obama for enjoying golf, and as soon as claimed he wouldn’t be enjoying a lot of the game had been he to take the White House.

On Tuesday, Crockett continued to dig into the president for skipping out on a dignified switch of the stays of 4 U.S. Army officers killed in a coaching train in Lithuania, opting as a substitute to play golf and communicate at a $1 million-a-head fundraising dinner for his tremendous PAC at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.

“He has decided that he wanted to play games while the rest of us are really trying to make sure that we can serve the American people,” Crockett declared.

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Moments earlier within the listening to, Crockett pressured that the Trump administration is “hellbent” on firing federal employees, participating in “fire sales” of presidency buildings in addition to “lighting” a number of applications like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid on hearth.

“Instead, what we need to light on fire are Trump’s tariffs. In fact, we could probably go a little bit further and fire this incompetent administration,” she stated.

Crockett: “If we are gonna talk about efficiency, let’s talk about the fact that as of March 30, Trump’s golfing has cost us approximately $26 million. And the last time I checked, we’re not getting anything in return for that … he decided he was going to golf instead of… pic.twitter.com/KV90chlz5J

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