U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer thinks that Democrats may now be unhappy with their shifty decisions to get Joe Biden elected president in 2020.
In an interview Thursday on FMTalk 106.5’s “The Jeff Poor Show”, the congressman said that Democrats are seeing the results of President Trump’s sweeping executive orders and strategy of government accountability through DOGE — and might have second guesses.
“The fact that he didn’t get re-elected in 2020 has probably turned out to be a blessing because this guy is focused. He had four years to think about what he wanted to get done. He had four years to think about who he wanted to bring in to do it,” Palmer (R-Hoover) said.
“I think the Democrats regret stealing the election now.”
Palmer spoke to the efforts of Elon Musk and his team of tech experts at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who have been busy carefully combing through government expenditures to find instances of fraud.
“What Elon Musk and his team have done is incredible. It showed what’s wrong with the federal government. We’ve been exercising oversight and management using 20th-century methodologies and couldn’t find all the misspent money, all of the fraud, all of the spending that they couldn’t account for.”
According to Palmer, as a member of the DODGE caucus, he will personally be leading hearings to look into the large-scale fraud now being reported.
“So Musk comes in with a group of people who know how to use technology, writing algorithms, and they’ve discovered billions of dollars,” Palmer said. “We actually had a meeting about that this morning, and I’ll be chairing a hearing in a couple of weeks looking into some of this. I think the real message here is that this is not really about government efficiency. It’s about bringing the oversight and management of the federal government into the 21st century.
Austen Shipley is the News Director for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten
