Jasmine Crockett Tears Apart GOP's 'Absolute BS' Using 1 Simple Game
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Tuesday slammed Republicans for wanting to take a “victory lap celebrating the pain of their constituents” via a push to codify cuts put forward by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Crockett — in remarks at a DOGE subcommittee hearing — played a game with the House Democrats’ witness, Emily DiVito, senior adviser for economic policy at the progressive Groundwork Collaborative. Crockett asked DiVito if a series of GOP-backed moves were “harmful or hurtful” to Americans.
“Stripping health care away from 16 million people?” she asked of those estimated to lose health coverage under President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
“I would say ‘harmful,’” DiVito answered.
“Laying off hundreds of thousands of federal workers?” Crockett asked.
“Harmful,” DiVito replied.
Crockett went on to ask about proposals to cut Social Security, Medicaid and federal food assistance, along with cuts to the budgets of the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Food and Drug Administration.
DiVito indicated that all the moves were “harmful.”
Crockett chimed back in, “All right, seems like you understand the assignment.”
She then summarized the GOP’s “entire agenda” as harming working-class Americans before swatting down “absolute BS” talk that the cuts — championed by former White House adviser Elon Musk — were about “reducing waste” in the federal budget.
Crockett claimed the proposals would make the federal government “so weak” so GOP lawmakers could benefit and billionaires could take in tax cuts.
“Their agenda is pro-disinformation, pro-obstruction, pro-greed and pro-exploitation. If you didn’t know, that’s what DOGE actually spells out,” she said.