‘I will have subpoena power’:
Marjorie Taylor Greene threatens Dr. Fauci with DOGE hearing
Daniel Hampton
November 21, 2024
Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warned Dr. Anthony Fauci — the chief medical advisor to the president during the COVID-19 pandemic — that she will have subpoena power soon as a member of a new House subcommittee that will work with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Greene and House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) reportedly met with Ramaswamy and were “already working together,” CNBC reported Thursday. Comer hoped to establish the subpanel early next year.
Greene’s group will reportedly be named the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency — sharing the famous DOGE acronym with Musk and Ramaswamy's largely symbolic entity.
When asked on Real America's Voice about whether her committee will look at Fauci as part of her subcommittee's role in investigating "waste, fraud, and abuse," Greene threatened that "we can definitely bring accountability as far as COVID is concerned."
"Not just with Anthony Fauci," she said, adding that she hopes Trump's next attorney general — since announced as Trump loyalist Pam Bondi — will also take on the effort.
Marjorie Taylor Green (Erin Scott/Pool/AFP)
"I believe that Dr. Anthony Fauci is guilty of crimes against humanity and maybe some other things," she said, without evidence. "I think that's something the next attorney general should pursue and many Americans would support that."
Greene said there's "outrageous waste" throughout government with regard to pandemic-era spending.
"All types of agencies and grant programs. These are the types of things I'll be able to do on the subcommittee," she said.
Daniel Hampton
November 21, 2024
Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene warned Dr. Anthony Fauci — the chief medical advisor to the president during the COVID-19 pandemic — that she will have subpoena power soon as a member of a new House subcommittee that will work with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Greene and House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) reportedly met with Ramaswamy and were “already working together,” CNBC reported Thursday. Comer hoped to establish the subpanel early next year.
Greene’s group will reportedly be named the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency — sharing the famous DOGE acronym with Musk and Ramaswamy's largely symbolic entity.
When asked on Real America's Voice about whether her committee will look at Fauci as part of her subcommittee's role in investigating "waste, fraud, and abuse," Greene threatened that "we can definitely bring accountability as far as COVID is concerned."
"Not just with Anthony Fauci," she said, adding that she hopes Trump's next attorney general — since announced as Trump loyalist Pam Bondi — will also take on the effort.
Marjorie Taylor Green (Erin Scott/Pool/AFP)
"I believe that Dr. Anthony Fauci is guilty of crimes against humanity and maybe some other things," she said, without evidence. "I think that's something the next attorney general should pursue and many Americans would support that."
Greene said there's "outrageous waste" throughout government with regard to pandemic-era spending.
"All types of agencies and grant programs. These are the types of things I'll be able to do on the subcommittee," she said.
David Edwards
November 19, 2024
House Oversight Committee/screen grab
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) slammed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) conspiracy theory that Jewish space lasers ignited forest fires in California.
During a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday, Moskowitz said he agreed with the decision to dismiss an employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, after she suggested that homes displaying support for President-elect Donald Trump should be avoided while providing hurricane relief.
"Disaster aid should never be declined based on support of any political candidate," Moskowitz insisted. "As the world is becoming more partisan, the world is becoming more divided. You're seeing it here in the country."
Moskowitz argued that Trump's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, should focus on the size of the Department of Homeland Security when making improvements.
"But the last two Trump [FEMA] administrators will tell you, previous administrators will tell you when they leave the job, is that Homeland has become too big," he explained. "FEMA can't make the changes you want them to make... Homeland won't let them."
"So for the people at DOGE, if Vivek [Ramaswamy] and Elon [Musk] are listening, you need to look at Homeland," he continued. "And so what I'm saying is that don't look at [FEMA] Administrator [Deanne] Criswell or this FEMA administration or in this Biden administration."
Moskowitz concluded with a warning about politicians who politicize disasters.
"It is so important that we don't allow FEMA to become politicized and that we don't allow disaster aid to become politicized," he insisted. "Laser beams do not start fires in California. We cannot guide where hurricanes go."
The Florida Democrat noted that foreign adversaries have amplified the conspiracy theories "to divide Democrats and Republicans."
"They want us fighting over disaster aid because it helps their goal," he said. "We can't participate in that. We shouldn't amplify that."
Watch the video below from the House Oversight Committee or at this link.
RFK Jr. planning major changes to Medicare: report
Matthew Chapman
November 21, 2024
Sarah K. Burris
November 20, 2024
The video, revealed by The Bulwark on Tuesday, shows Kennedy — President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services — talking about the pandemic, and that "a lot of it feels very planned to me."
Also read: RFK Jr. earns millions from conservative and anti-vax companies: disclosure
“Many people argue that this pandemic was a ‘plandemic,’ that it was planned from the outset. It’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me,” Kennedy told the press while he was opening a new chapter of his group, the Children's Health Defense, which has promoted vaccine conspiracies in online ads, according to The Washington Post.
“I don’t know. I will tell you this: If you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people who created them," he said.
Tapper came back from the video clip to say, "Okay, so I can tell you the answer to that. I have enough evidence, and that's insane. That's not what happened. Horrible."
He turned to Trump supporter and Republican strategist David Urban to point out that Kennedy "isn't even a Republican" and ask why his party is standing behind him.
Urban and Kate Bedingfield, former White House communications director for Joe Biden, began talking over each other in an attempt to talk about Kennedy.
Bedingfield and Tapper both pointed out to Urban that Kennedy was saying that about Trump, who was president at the time.
Urban said he found a meme funny because Trump is nominating Democrats such as Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Kennedy and others.
See the video below or at the link here.
- YouTubeyoutu.be
Matthew Chapman
November 21, 2024
RAW STORY
FILE PHOTO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump greet each other at a campaign event sponsored by conservative group Turning Point USA, in Duluth, Georgia, U.S., October 23, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, is best known for his conspiracy theories about vaccines, COVID-19, and AIDS — but those are not the only ideas he has for overhauling the federal government. In particular, according to The Washington Post, he wants to make a significant technical overhaul to the way Medicare works.
Specifically, according to the report, he wants to audit and overhaul how medical billing codes work for the national insurance program for America's seniors — an idea that even many Democrats have pushed for years.
Medical coding in the United States "tends to reward health-care providers for surgeries and other costly procedures. It has been accused of steering physicians to become specialists because they will be paid more, while financial incentives are different in other countries, where more physicians go into primary care — and health outcomes are better," wrote Dan Diamond, national health reporter for the Post.
"Medicare’s billing codes are shaped by the American Medical Association, which represents more than 250,000 physicians. The lobbying group oversees a panel of several dozen physicians — known as the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee, more commonly referred to as the RUC — who study the resources needed for each medical service and issue recommendations to the federal government," the report continued.
However, the RUC's advice has "historically been skewed by misleading estimates of how physicians spend their time, according to a 2013 Washington Post investigation," which has raised concerns about corruption from everyone from former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
This comes at the same time that Trump has tapped TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, a thoracic surgeon infamous for downplaying the COVID-19 pandemic and pushing unsupported dietary supplements, to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
While there appears to be some level of bipartisan agreement on the medical coding issue, some conservatives are expressing alarm at the fact that Kennedy, who used to be a Democrat, has wildly unpredictable views on GOP orthodoxy. The National Review recently blasted the pick in light of Kennedy's longtime support of abortion rights.
'That's insane': CNN's Jake Tapper stunned as he mocks RFK's 'plandemic' conspiracy theory
FILE PHOTO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump greet each other at a campaign event sponsored by conservative group Turning Point USA, in Duluth, Georgia, U.S., October 23, 2024. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, is best known for his conspiracy theories about vaccines, COVID-19, and AIDS — but those are not the only ideas he has for overhauling the federal government. In particular, according to The Washington Post, he wants to make a significant technical overhaul to the way Medicare works.
Specifically, according to the report, he wants to audit and overhaul how medical billing codes work for the national insurance program for America's seniors — an idea that even many Democrats have pushed for years.
Medical coding in the United States "tends to reward health-care providers for surgeries and other costly procedures. It has been accused of steering physicians to become specialists because they will be paid more, while financial incentives are different in other countries, where more physicians go into primary care — and health outcomes are better," wrote Dan Diamond, national health reporter for the Post.
"Medicare’s billing codes are shaped by the American Medical Association, which represents more than 250,000 physicians. The lobbying group oversees a panel of several dozen physicians — known as the AMA/Specialty Society RVS Update Committee, more commonly referred to as the RUC — who study the resources needed for each medical service and issue recommendations to the federal government," the report continued.
However, the RUC's advice has "historically been skewed by misleading estimates of how physicians spend their time, according to a 2013 Washington Post investigation," which has raised concerns about corruption from everyone from former Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
This comes at the same time that Trump has tapped TV personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, a thoracic surgeon infamous for downplaying the COVID-19 pandemic and pushing unsupported dietary supplements, to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
While there appears to be some level of bipartisan agreement on the medical coding issue, some conservatives are expressing alarm at the fact that Kennedy, who used to be a Democrat, has wildly unpredictable views on GOP orthodoxy. The National Review recently blasted the pick in light of Kennedy's longtime support of abortion rights.
'That's insane': CNN's Jake Tapper stunned as he mocks RFK's 'plandemic' conspiracy theory
Sarah K. Burris
November 20, 2024
RAW STORY
CNN's Jake Tapper (Photo: Screen capture CNN video)
The normally straight-faced CNN host Jake Tapper couldn't hold back his skepticism after airing a newly unearthed video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggesting the U.S. government secretly orchestrated the COVID-19 pandemic.
CNN's Jake Tapper (Photo: Screen capture CNN video)
The normally straight-faced CNN host Jake Tapper couldn't hold back his skepticism after airing a newly unearthed video of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggesting the U.S. government secretly orchestrated the COVID-19 pandemic.
The video, revealed by The Bulwark on Tuesday, shows Kennedy — President-elect Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services — talking about the pandemic, and that "a lot of it feels very planned to me."
Also read: RFK Jr. earns millions from conservative and anti-vax companies: disclosure
“Many people argue that this pandemic was a ‘plandemic,’ that it was planned from the outset. It’s part of a sinister scheme. I can’t tell you the answer to that. I don’t have enough evidence. A lot of it feels very planned to me,” Kennedy told the press while he was opening a new chapter of his group, the Children's Health Defense, which has promoted vaccine conspiracies in online ads, according to The Washington Post.
“I don’t know. I will tell you this: If you create these mechanisms for control, they become weapons of obedience for authoritarian regimes no matter how beneficial or innocent the people who created them," he said.
Tapper came back from the video clip to say, "Okay, so I can tell you the answer to that. I have enough evidence, and that's insane. That's not what happened. Horrible."
He turned to Trump supporter and Republican strategist David Urban to point out that Kennedy "isn't even a Republican" and ask why his party is standing behind him.
Urban and Kate Bedingfield, former White House communications director for Joe Biden, began talking over each other in an attempt to talk about Kennedy.
Bedingfield and Tapper both pointed out to Urban that Kennedy was saying that about Trump, who was president at the time.
Urban said he found a meme funny because Trump is nominating Democrats such as Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Kennedy and others.
See the video below or at the link here.
- YouTubeyoutu.be
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