Democrats are speaking out, but we aren’t hearing them because the major mass media has taken as its collective project to push Trump because they believe he will plump up their bottom line. In service to that stories relating what Democrats are doing, or stories negative on Trump are nearly non-existent.

However, here we have congress member Rosa DeLauro from Connecticut ripping into OMB Direct Russell Vought. At the end DeLauro explains to Vought what he and the administration are really doing. Too bad everybody in America won’t see this video: (8:25). 

Heather Cox Richardson had some comments to clarify the significance of this confrontation: 

“Yesterday the White House asked Congress to cancel $9.4 billion in already-appropriated spending that the Department of Government Efficiency identified as wasteful, a procedure known as “rescission.” Trump aides say the money funds programs that promote what they consider inappropriate ideologies, including public media networks PBS and NPR; the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides food and basic medical care globally; and PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief that was established under President George W. Bush to combat HIV/AIDS in more than 50 countries and is currently credited with saving about 26 million lives.

Vought appeared today before the House Appropriations Committee, where members scolded him for neglecting to provide a budget for the year, which they need to do their jobs. But Vought had plenty to say about the things he is doing. According to ProPublica’s Andy Kroll, he claimed that under Biden “every agency became a tool of the Left.” He said the White House will continue to ask for rescissions, but also noted that, as Project 2025 laid out, he does not believe that the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which requires the executive branch to spend the money that Congress has appropriated, is constitutional, despite court decisions saying it is.

Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) told Vought: “Be honest, this is never about government efficiency. In fact, an efficient government, a government that capably serves the American people and proves good government is achievable is what you fear the most. You want a government so broken, so dysfunctional, so starved of resources, so full of incompetent political lackeys and bereft of experts and professionals that its departments and agencies cannot feasibly achieve the goals and the missions to which they are lawfully directed. Your goal is privatization, for the biggest companies to have unchecked power, for an economy that does not work for the middle class, for working and vulnerable families. You want the American people to have no one to turn to, but to the billionaires and the corporations this administration has put in charge. Waste, fraud, and abuse are not the targets of this administration. They are your primary objectives.” {ed. note: my bolding}

Yep, Democrats are speaking out, but the media is suppressing their speech. It is like the tree falling in the forest question. Does a tree falling in the forest make a sound if no one is there to hear it? Does a Democrat make a difference if no major news media is there to report it. The major news media was all over Jake Tapper about his load of horse crap. Thus he made a noise.

Democrats are already stepping up early and as loudly as they can. They will be hard to ignore. Already this week in a special election in deep red South Carolina a Democrat won a state legislative seat by an incredible 41%. People are really hungry for someone who will listen to them and act FOR them. The Joni Ernsts of the world are person non grata these days.

While Iowa’s current MAGA representation quake in fear of a rebuke from an increasingly unhinged Donald Trump and while Iowa’s MAGA representation pathetically tries to justify taking health care and food out of the mouths of the poor (“undeserving” Ashley Hinson? Good gawd) strong Democrats like Jennifer Konfrst, Sarah Trone Garriot, Travis Terrell, Kevin Techau and Ryan Melton are ready to truly represent the people of Iowa and will stand up to to Trump.

By the way, next Saturday is NO KINGS DAY! Be sure to get out and send your message. Locations of protests in Iowa will be found at indivisible.org. Not sure how up to the minute they will be as I understand that events are still being planned. 

Get out there and be heard. Let the right wing media know you have a voice!