President Donald Trump is an expert at sending the left into a great many spiralling freakouts about him, and he proved his chops in doing just that yet again when, on Wednesday, June 5, President Trump’s DOGE-effected cuts to the government sent far-left Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) over the edge.
That came when the congresswoman, known mainly for her purple hair and far-left views, appeared on MSNBC’s “The Weeknight” to bemoan how the Trump Administration, particularly the Department of Government Efficiency, have supposedly been “flagrantly violating” the Constitution by trimming fraud from the budget.
Saying as much, DeLauro led off her insane rant by telling MSNBC’s viewers that Elon was “stealing” funds by cutting waste. She said, “Elon Musk knew nothing about impoundment or about the appropriations process. And I categorize empowerment as stealing, they are stealing these funds. and the president knows even less about those two issues.”
Continuing on that same ridiculous ramble about how trying to block the various high-profile forms of fraud and infuriating examples of obvious waste is unconstitutional because Congress has the “power of the purse.” She said, “It’s in the Constitution, the Constitution in Article I Section 9, Clause 7, says that the power of the purse resides in the in the Congress.”
Still not done with that absurd point, Rep. DeLauro insisted that no one in the executive branch had the power to make budgetary decisions for executive agencies like the State Deparment’s USAID program, saying, “And there is no inherent authority that he has, the president had, or Musk had in doing this. So it’s all in violation of the law.”
Changing tacks somewhat, Rep. DeLauro indicated what might really be going on here, which is that she thinks her budget and spending-determining toes were stepped on by President Trump and former DOGE head Elon Musk as they trimmed the fraud, saying, “I’m the ranking member on appropriations.”
She then started snapping about how she wouldn’t let any president determine how to spend money, snapping, “I don’t care if any president, I’m not willing to give this power to, you know, President Obama, President Clinton, anyone, and not certainly not Donald Trump or George Bush or any. It is fundamentally our jurisdiction.”
"*" indicates required fields
Not done, the purple-haired member of Congress then rambled for a bit about how the bills are “bicameral,” seemingly conflating that with bipartisan support, saying, “Understanding appropriations, when those bills are crafted, it has to be bipartisan, bicameral, if not, the president can’t sign and the government shuts down. So the bills that we fashion have bicameral and bipartisan support, and they’re signed into law.”
Finally getting to the end of her tedious freakout about Musk and Trump, Rep. DeLauro insisted that by blocking wasteful or fraudulent spending, they are acting in a very blatant unconstitutional fashion, snapping, “It’s not a directive, it’s not a suggestion, it is the law of the land which they are flagrantly violating every single day with the impoundment of funds.”
Watch her here:
Featured image credit: base picture screengrab from the embedded video