In a series of comments absurd even for him, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer alleged that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, is responsible for the recent spate of plane crashes that have shocked the nation and led to dozens of deaths and injuries.
That wasn’t all that the woke senator claimed. He also said, while haranguing DOGE and the Trump Administration, that President Trump is perfectly fine with watching Americans die in plane crashes so long as Congress and DOGE can ensure tax cuts for billionaires are secured.
The detail from DOGE that Schumer tried using to support his absurd claims, which were made on the Senate floor on Wednesday, February 26, was that it had fired excess personnel within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), claiming that doing so put lives at risk and drove up the crash rate, a claim denied by DOGE’s defenders.
During his tirade, Sen. Schumer claimed that DOGE was “hacking away” at agencies, whereas in reality it is merely pruning and trimming the obscene fat of the federal government. He said, “The more Donald Trump and DOGE indiscriminately hack away at public agencies, the greater harm to Americans’ well-being and even their safety,”
Continuing, he pointed to the FAA and lied about who was fired from the agency (in reality only a few hundred probationary workers were let go). “The FAA is a good example. Just weeks after the deadliest plane crash in a long time, and just as we see more incidents around the country, President Trump has fired hundreds of FAA workers including air safety personnel.”
Still not done misrepresenting what Elon had done by trimming the fat at the FAA and laying off an infinitesimally small number of its workers, all of whom were probationary, Sen. Schumer then said, “Firing people whose very job it is to keep air travel safe is nothing short of reckless.”
Continuing, Schumer insinuated that plane crashes are more prevalent now than they have been, which is somewhat untrue, claiming, “At a time when incidents in the air and on the runways in and our airports seem to be increasing, why would we cut the very people meant to prevent them?”
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Concluding by answering his own ridiculous question, Sen. Schumer claimed that Trump and DOGE are ok with plane crashes because they want tax cuts for billionaires, saying, “Simple. Donald Trump and DOGE are doing it like they’re doing so much else, so they can help their billionaire buddies with another tax break.” Watch Schumer here:
Commenting on Sen. Schumer’s claim in a post on X, the Western Lensman X account wrote, “It’s really unhinged, insidious stuff here: ‘Cutting waste is costing lives so billionaires can make more money.’ There is of course zero evidence to support any of these fraudulent claims.”
A commenter on Western Lensman’s post noted, “More insidious untruths to manipulate their sheeples. This is going to be the playbook for the next four years, isn’t it?” to which Western Lensman responded by saying, “Yes. They are on the wrong side of every common sense issue. They are incredibly desperate.”
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