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BumRushDaShow

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Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:23 AM Monday

House Democrat: Trump administration acting 'with an unbelievable cocktail of incompetence and illegality'

Source: The Hill

03/23/25 3:38 PM ET


Democratic Rep. Jim Himes (Conn.) said he thinks the Trump administration is acting “with an unbelievable cocktail of incompetence and illegality.”

Himes, who is the ranking member on the House Committee on Intelligence, joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, where host Margaret Brennan asked him about the Trump administration’s deportation flights of alleged Venezuelan gang members and the differing messages about the legality of Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to do so.

“What people worry about is that this administration acts with a unbelievable kind of cocktail of incompetence and illegality,” Himes said of the deportation and the Department of Government Efficiency.

“When you fire all of the people at the Department of Energy who look after our nuclear weapons and then say ‘oopsie, we need to hire you back,’ that’s incompetence,” he continued.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5209815-house-democrat-jim-hines-trump-doge-migrants/

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House Democrat: Trump administration acting 'with an unbelievable cocktail of incompetence and illegality' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Monday OP
More oopsies kkmarie Monday #1
Blah blah blah. Less talk more action, such as getting quisling chuck out of the way. PSPS Monday #2

kkmarie

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1. More oopsies
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 05:41 AM
Monday

Fired staff working on bird flu
Canceled "briefly " Ebola efforts. Fuckin bastard chuckled when he told the regime's cabinet this.
Fired FAA staff and then begged retired air traffic controllers to come back to work.

Of course there's all the oopsies of firing federal workers, illegally, that are before the courts.

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