Wyoming Republic Rep. Harriet Hageman disagreed with a fiery city hall hearing in his home country on Thursday night when he was back and forth with the constituents above the doge and cutting Elon Musk for federal expenditure.
At one point, Hageman argued with a woman who said she was a retired military and republican officers, who baked members of the congress on evidence of fraud that Musk and the Republican party argued that they had found.
“Just to give you a little reference, I am a retired military officer,” said an unknown woman at a point at the City Hall. “At the age of 18, I raised my hand to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. …” And my question, after seeing Doge Musk, you are a lawyer. Where is this fraud? Who? What company? What organization? What personnel are we chasing now? “
Doge actions have been criticized, not only because they recommend thousands of federal workers fired, including many veterans but accusations, supported by President Donald Trump and the White House related to what they say is a large -scale fraud in government expenditure. Fraud claims, which Trump described in his speech at the congress, could not be verified.
Hageman, shooting back to the constituents, saying, “Geez, I will only start reading it. I will only start reading it now, if you like me. I will only focus on USAID’s expenses here.”
“I didn’t say expenses, I said the real fraud,” the woman shouted to Hageman.
“This is what it is,” Hageman replied. “This is an expenditure related to fraud. This is a fraud. Expenditures are fraud.”
“No, no, no,” the woman shouted. “Going after a particular company or certain personnel who committed fraud.”
Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., Holding a city hall meeting on Friday, March 14, 2025, at Evanston, Wyo.
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“This is fraud. This is a cheating expenditure,” Hageman said.
“No, it might be a rough expenditure, but that is not a fraud,” the woman answered.
“What I say is waste, fraud and harassment. Waste, fraud and harassment,” Hageman said again, before trying to give numbers about USAID expenditure.
The same constituent then pressed Hageman because of the shooting and whether they really made the government more efficient: “Just because you fire someone does not mean it is efficient because the work is still there. That still needs to be done,” he said.
“We will eliminate some of the jobs too,” Hageman said. “The work will be eliminated. They don’t need to be done.”
At another point during the city hall, another woman pressed Hageman for what met the requirements of Musk to do cutting for federal expenditure.
“You have just described the cuts to the current government as a kind of careful audit, but the cuts made by Doge do not inevitably by someone who has never served in the government, never run a non -profit organization, who is asked.
Doge claims to have saved $ 115 billion but the full amount cannot be verified because there are only receipts for some of the claimed savings.
“As I said a few moments ago, this is an audit. This is the closest thing we will get with zero -based budgeting in the federal government,” Hageman said.
“What can I understand, whether he is a billionaire, millionaire, or someone who, as he said, technical support, everything he does is just enter and see every agent and how the money is spent. Do you think that you have the right to know how your money is spent?” He added.