Mark Alford (r) steps on a rake, yet again.
Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].
Congressman Mark Alford
[February 15, 2025]
We’re glad to have someone like Elon Musk to go into these agencies to find the sickness infecting these programs.
With the intelligence and the ability to lead his team under the authority of the executive, the Chief Executive, Donald J. Trump, we will drain the swamp.[….]
What a putz.
Some of the responses:
And no accountability. You’re letting him destroy this Republic.
he doesn’t have the authority to override the laws or congress. Try again. He’s not “providing feedback.” He’s acting like a bulldozer. This isn’t his private company.
Mark apparently you don’t even understand the basic principles of The Constitution which you took an oath to preserve, protect and defend, and which you have broken your oath to do so. The sickness you mention is actually your cult leader thinking he is a dictator and can do anything he wants without any checks and balances of the other two branches of government and ignoring the very Constitution we hold dear. The key principles of the US Constitution are: popular sovereignty, separation of powers, checks and balances, limited government, federalism, and individual rights; essentially meaning that the government derives its power from the people, is divided into three branches with distinct powers, each branch can limit the others, the government’s power is restricted, power is shared between the federal government and states, and citizens have guaranteed fundamental rights.
Explanation of each principle:
Popular Sovereignty:
The idea that the government’s authority comes from the people and exists to serve them.
Separation of Powers:
The division of governmental power into three branches: legislative (making laws), executive (enforcing laws), and judicial (interpreting laws).
Checks and Balances:
A system where each branch of government can limit the actions of the other branches, preventing any one branch from becoming too powerful.
Limited Government:
The government only has the powers explicitly granted to it by the Constitution.
Federalism:
The division of power between the national government and state governments.
Individual Rights:
Fundamental liberties and protections guaranteed to citizens, often detailed in the Bill of Rights.
PLEASE tell me what is Elon Musk’s expertise in ANY of these departments! How is he, or any of his computer techies, qualified to read a job description and decide that it’s not necessary? The Department of ENERGY now? Ludicrous!!! and DANGEROUS!
BREAKING: Elon Musk and Donald Trump have fired the federal workers that ran the Veterans Crisis hotline.
Are you aware that Elon Musk doesn’t get to bulldoze our agencies without going through Congress? We don’t GAF if you cultists don’t care what they do, but we do.
You know about audits, huh?
Are you an auditor? Have you been through proper audits? Do you have a background in them? I go through audits every couple years. We are a tiny agency, so the ‘audit’ part takes only a few days (based on us getting information together ahead of time that is requested) and usually we get our report back in a month or so. Large agencies can take several months. Our auditors never have ‘backtracked’ on issues they claim to have found and admitted that they were inaccurate – Musk has. There’s probably a reason for that.
I’m unsure how the ‘waste, fraud and abuse’ will be exposed as ‘bipartisan’ when the guy directing it is doing so on behalf of one side specifically, but maybe you know something I dont’. Thus far, it seems to be more about ‘I don’t like this spending’ rather than “this is illegal”. I mean they directly withdrew funds out of a bank account for NYC that had been legally appropriated through Congress….that’s illegal as fuck on multiple levels.
Your claims about ‘Democrats’ show your blatant bias and ignorance to actual cases that have already been adjutucated. Want to compare crimes and indictments by party over the last many years? I’m happy to jump into that rabbit hole.
I don’t know which ‘Christian principles’ you speak of?
Is it the ‘take care of the poor’ Christian framework?
Or is it the ‘treat the foreigner as one of your own’ Christian framework?
It certainly isn’t the ‘rich getting to heaven is like a camel through the eye of a needle’ is it?
So which specific ‘Christian framework’ are you referring to? More importantly, doesn’t the First Amendment say there should be no ‘Christan framework’ guiding our country – but that we are supposed to have FREEDOM OF RELIGION? Or do you not value our Constitution?
I’m also more than happy to go down that rabbit hole, as what the modern GOP represents is blatantly the opposite of what Christ preached.
I also notice you accurately claim that the Dems have been in power of the executive for 12 of 16 years..
Why didn’t you also specificy who was in charge of Congress during that time?
Last 16 years
Senate – 9 – GOP – 7 Dem
House – 12 – GOP – 4 Dem
You know – the people who actually write and control the purse strings – wouldn’t THEY be the ones we’d be looking at if we’re talking about misadventures in spending? But THAT wouldn’t necessarily back your biased position, would it? That’s what we call ‘cherry picking’.
You gave a lot of BS responses with zero substance and a lot of obvious partisanship….yet you still haven’t ‘shown the receipts’ that I asked you about and you assured me were out there. So why don’t we do our best to stay on topic and let your well grammared self educate me on where the proof of Musks claims are rather than just giving me your personal opinion on how things are.
I’d prefer to deal with fact and reality. Thanks.
If musk and minions are auditing, why did he bring in IT people instead of accountants? Why are you willing to surrender the country to an autocrat?
No we’re not!! Your view is all one sided. You do not represent your constituents.
President musk was not elected.
You should be embarrassed of yourself and party. You are the swamp.
Last I checked, no one elected Elon Musk; no one in Congress approved his minions, that are unvetted, as is Musk, to take a chain saw to the federal government’s executive branch. People will die, food and medicine will rot or expire on the docks. Farmers will be hurt financially by these actions and the tariffs. These are your constituents . Aren’t you pro-life?
who in their right mind believes the lies of djt, musk and Alford without Any proof of fraud while all your financial data is in the hands of inexperienced hackers to be sold to the highest bidder?
ridiculous comment. It’s not a matter of opposing getting rid of fraud. It’s allowing unrestricted access and power to an unelected individual and his juvenile minions to dismantle agencies and access systems without clearance, oversight or authority. Contrary to trump’s belief, elon’s belief and apparently the maga cult, the executive branch does not have unlimited powers. Nor can he just hand over the reins without repercussions. Making nonsensical statements like “oh you must be against exposing fraud” just shows you don’t understand the basics of checks and balances and how this country was set up.
they dont. They oppose that it’s being done illegally and with a slegdehammer by a person with zero accounting or government experience who also is a recipient of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.
Because he’s going after the federal agencies investigating him.
Because this country is a rule of laws. And Musk and Trump are violating those laws.
CONGRESS is in charge of budgets. And Republicans have been in charge of Congress most of this century.
Elon Musk is going after programs that help poor people, hungry people, inner city people, etc.
Notice he’s not cutting one penny of corporate welfare. LIke the $35 billion a year HE gets.
What did he find wrong with the people who keep our nuclear stockpiles safe? It must have been pretty bad to fire them. Oops, the next day when they realized what these people actually do, they wanted to rehire them. It’s a shame they didn’t bother to get updated contact information on many of them. Now they can’t don’t know how to reach them. Tell us again how brilliant the DOGE team is.
B61.
“Big mistake. Big. Huge.”
The emperor has no clothes
This is a lie. IRS workers are aging out. These 87K were more clerks, data input, Customer Service Reps, and mailroom than they ever were gun carrying agents or auditors. You’ve been had by a big lie. You should really research the subject matter before posting something like this. No need to support the lie.
that one man is the world’s richest man who only wants to make more money at your expense. He has already recovered his campaign contributions with a huge Space X contract, a 400 million defense contract for Tesla armored trucks, and multi millions for his inexperience hackers who have downloaded all your financial data to sell to who knows who. Plus musk wants to get rid of all regulations so that he can make more money at the expense of your safety and finances. Why aren’t you concerned about the fraud and corruption of musk?
you will believe anything. Once again, NO PROOF! The USAID is important to our ALLIES all over the world. There are much better ways to root out some fraud rather than tearing down a whole organization and punishing starving, innocent people!
Lady, the House Budget just ADDED $4 trillion to the national debt, in the form of TAX BREAKS FOR THE RICH.
Is he a forensic accountant? Did he bring them to look at the programs?
Isn’t that Congress’s job? And as a Congressman, what exactly do you do here?
Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].
Sometimes he takes pictures.
He isn’t “telling us about fraud”.
He’s making claims without supporting evidence.
And contrary to the modern MAGA belief ‘fraud’ isn’t ’causes I don’t like’. It specifically means monies spent in ways that they were not designated or was hidden as something it was not.
None of that has been proven thus far. In fact, Musk has already had to walk back a few of his claims.
This is what happens when you have a blatantly partisan hack with no knowledge of how to do an ‘audit’ do an ‘audit’.
Do you also think it’s honorable’ that he has directly attempted to shut down agencies who were actively investigating some of his companies, because most folks would see the blatant conflict of interest in that.
Yeah – it’s the goddamn EVIDENCE thing.
It matters if what is being said and done is based on fucking truth, Rick.
At least to ‘honorable’ people, the truth still matters.
I don’t know who ‘you guys’ is – nor do I understand what you think USAID is ‘getting away with’ – You have been lied too and apparently you’re either too intellectually lazy or too brainwashed to care.
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Ya’ll have got to get off the Fauci shit.
Who was Fauci put in charge by?
Trump (mind you, he served many on both sides prior)
It wasn’t Fauci who admitted to downplaying the virus and sitting on it – not taking action – saying it would just be ‘gone by April’ and said it was just the flu. That wasn’t Fauci – but ya’ll won’t hold THAT guy to account, will you?
I’m not sure why the buck always stops below the President when Trump is in charge, but when Biden or others are, the same folks have no issue giving them the blame.
It’s very telling.
Fauci has worked for NIH since 1968. He is a qualified American citizen who has given years of service to the American people.
Point in fact – he is NOT a rocket scientist – you twits seem to think he is because he bought a rocket company and hired rocket scientists.
And no – being an owner who fires people has zero to do with conducting audits.
holy fuck, dude
Oh, and twitter has lost over 70% of its value since he bought it! What a great businessman! Maybe next, he can rip off charities, crash a ‘university’, do felony fraud and go bankrupt multiple times like his puppet and you’ll all applaud at his brilliance!
Who needs nuclear regulators, right?
B57
Yeah, let’s fuck around and find out, shall we?
His team? You talking about Big Balls?
Good luck getting re elected! You are a spineless follower.
Don’t you have real work to do?
Yeah, Elon is so fcking smart. We’re in the golden age of ignorance. So much losing!
Ok two things are burning a hole in my brain.
First, Social Security computer systems are antiquated and run on an old version of cobol. The basis for all dates is May 20th, 1875 – the date that the International Bureau of Weights and Measures was established. That’s the ISO 8601 standard. All dates are essentially marked by how many days have passed since that date, 5/20/1875.
If an age is unknown, it goes in as that date plus 0. So it’s read as May 20th, 1875.
This is why Musk thinks there are Social Security recipients who are 150 years old. Because there’s no DOB listed and the system defaults the date to 1875.
He does not have any idea what he’s doing, and every time he’s challenged he lies. Hamas didn’t get $50 million in condoms. Reuters (news) is not Thomson Reuters (information services). Defending against and promoting disinformation are not the same thing. Politico and NYT were paid for subscriptions, not biased media coverage. Many of the initiatives now being framed as radical liberal policy were introduced and enacted during Trump’s first term. Including many DEI initiatives, and the payments to news outlets listed here.
Second, for every $1.50 “saved” by gutting the government, the already-very-wealthy are set to receive $4.50 in tax breaks. The average non-millionaire should expect to receive somewhere around $3 per month in tax savings while approximately $4 trillion is set to be transfered to corporations and the 1%, and our debt limit is being increased by… $4 trillion.
Meanwhile every aspect of consumer protection, public benefit, and corporate oversight is being handicapped.
For all of you cheering the decimation of the government, cool. We spend a lot of money on stuff we probably shouldn’t. And while there is absolutely some “fraud,” the operating definition of “fraud” within this administration is simply “stuff they don’t like.”
If you think any of what Trump and Musk are doing results in your life being made better somehow, you’re just objectively wrong.
You may be on their team, but they’re not on yours.
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you are speaking truth against their power. And no one, especially alford, hawley, schmidt and certainly not a single trumper will believe you. The maga cultist has fully bought into the lies. It will takes massive hits, painful hits and losses before a single one of them come to believe they have been duped.
But thank you for trying. Saying, “we fkg told you so,” in a couple of years will be sweet.
Alford and the rest of them do not care about facts. If it comes out of the cults mouth, their puppets will suck it up and believe it forever.
Elon Musk, who has raked in $18 billion in government subsidies is now being allowed to gain tax and financial information on business competitors as well as dismantling government departments that are tasked with regulating and investigating businesses like his. I can’t figure out if your support of his many illegal actions and shredding of the Constitution stems from ignorance, hate, threat of blackmail or harm to you/your family, bribes, or a combination of all these. Whatever it is, you are acting against the best interests of your constituents. [….]
At that same press conference that Musk took over from (a barely there) Trump, he rambled on about how we do not need a Judicial branch.
“There needs to be an immediate wave of judicial impeachments, not just one,” Musk posted on social media later.
This is not how AMERICA works Elon Musk. Was the 3 branches of government not on your citizenship exam? You don’t impeach judges if you dont agree with them.
Mark Alford do you agree with Musk?
Evidently, yes he does.
Hey Congressman Mark Alford take a look at those cheering you and the musk/trump regime. Not one of them can reasonably or factually respond as to why they like what’s going on. Not one of them has an inkling of the powers of the Congress, why we have three branches, the responsibilities, power and restraints of each branch.
You have brain dead, parrots of fox on your side.
Now either you don’t have a clue and are in way over your head, OR you are actively participating in this treasonous behavior. And make no mistake, it is treasonous. It is being done with intent, it is purposeful and with malicious purpose to harm the United States and our Constitution.
There are two ways this ends. And neither one will benefit those you sat back, allowed it or worse, reaped temporary rewards.
Choose wisely, history will not be kind.
Congressman Mark Alford, Again you are showing your STUPIDITY. Do us all a favor, RESIGN. Your bowing to Musk just shows that YOU are part of the fraud and waste that need to be eliminated, after all both of the current Presidents are by passing you and the House by FAILING to follow the Constitution.
President Musk and Man in Waiting Trump fired nuclear employees…who oversea our weapons supply. They want to hire them back but can’t find them! [….]
There was a government agency that returned nearly $22B in fraud and abuse to the American people. Oompa Loompa fired them.
What a sycophant piece of pure garbage you are, Mark Alford. You lie. You lie because your supporters aren’t smart enough to know the difference, and you know that. When all of this Musk/trump crap falls apart, and it will, you should go to jail. You’re as ignorant as you are worthless.
Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].
