Ossoff: We usually get this, which specifies how many folks you intend to employ. What we have is a 26-page PowerPoint. Here, it specifies about $17 billion in cuts to medical services. Who are you cutting? Collins: We’ll have more information as we go forward.
crazy that wildly incompetent know-nothings are wildly incompetent and know literally nothing about their job. and probably already fired all the career staff that DO know how to do their job. just brilliant strategy all around.
Another good ol boy who ain’t worth a shit and could care less about us Veterans
Typical republican non-answer and abysmal prep. All idiots with our lives in their hands.
It's like comparing a finely crafted symphony to a cacophony of air horns. One inspires, unites, and resonates for generations. The other just makes a lot of noise. History will be very clear on this.
Donvict could win 10 peace prizes and he would still be a lowlife, white trash, wannabe. And yes, I left out the lying, thieving, incompeten, stupid, racist, part.
Thank you Senator Murray.
Deny budget requests until full disclosure is completed.
Reconvene- next level incompetence as usual.
They don't know what they are doing.
Doug Collins is a babbling D bag.
This is outrageous. Repeated by all who can, but will not, answer, on record, the vandalisation of vital bills; money being mis-appropriated away from those who need it. It is both deplorable and shameful.
They stutter because they don't want to be honest about what destruction to the departments they are running is!! They're not in these positions to make the departments more efficient, every department head has been put in their departments to dismantle them!!!
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High pressure sales tactic with huge data gaps is always a good sign 😒
Isn't this about the 20th person to not have accounting for their budgets in budget meetings? I keep seeing these videos and each time the person being questioned does not have answers to their budget request.
I wondered the same thing. But honestly we both know that is code for "I don't know until I'm told and I don't care!"
I agree
Agreed, but then again you would like the clown you get the circus
None of these idiots did their homework is what Ossof is trying to say. He's being too polite.
I respectfully disagree. They are fully prepared. Do not underestimate them. They know exactly what they plan to do but do not believe they need to reveal their plans. Allows more flexibility and Congress will most likely go along. All part of the plan.
What a disgusting and unConstitutional time we are living in. They claim transparency but hide and lie all the time.
Don’t believe one word out of their mouths.
Hard agree.
They either don't know what they're doing, or they're hiding something.
It's both
The GOP wants to kill people
"You'll get my actual budget when I'm damn good and ready to get around to giving it to you"
He doesn’t have one. They’re clueless.
Was this a clip from the movie Deliverance? (1972)
Buffoon COLLINS answers questions at Senate hearing very nervously realizing he's fuc ing wasting our time?
2 weeks
Wouldn’t it be nice if Every Republicans doctor just quit retire and change their phone numbers and everyone they call to replace them put them on a 5 year waiting list at the same time?
Collins: “Another words, I am incompetent and have no clue how to do my job”.
It’s absolutely offensive that this cavalier work ethic, non answers, and “the check is in mail” approach is funded by my tax dollars. There has to be consequences for these people refusing to treat these hearings seriously and honestly.
Exactly. I would like to hear… You are getting paid a lot of money to run this agency yet you don’t know what’s going on. Do you think you deserve to be fired for your incompetency? I do.
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Only the best and brightest in the current regime.
Trump’s incompetent cronies!
😡😡😡
Not helpful, Dougie!!!!
Incompetence all around.
I presume collins is an orange sychophant?
Notice, all of of the TACO cabinet members come to congress without the relevant information, knowing it is required that they bring the relevant information. They also know nothing about the job they were hired to do. It appears to be a coordinated snub of congress.
They don't care what you say Mr Ossoff. They are not giving you anything. Nothing we can do. Except you can embarrass them . They won't answer any questions. They don't have to. Nazi's did this. CALL THEM NAZI'S
That clown was voted out of office as a Georgia U.S. Rep. by the people of Georgia and then Trump puts him on his cabinet to run the V.A. Ironically the person who beat and replaced him was John Ossoff, the person questioning him.
Has any one of these agencies come in with a prepared budget, and prepared to discuss their budget proposal?
In two weeks more than likely.
What the hell?! What services are you cutting and who are you firing?!?! BRING THE PERTINENT INFO TO THE BUDGET MEETING DUMBASS!!
Every one of them. Every hearing, "I'll be happy to get back to you with that." They all break protocol and precedent by not having it now when they're supposed to. They know all this money is being cut.But for the life of them it can't be itemized.
Big Balls and DOGE run the government. Collins will have to ask them for extra copies of the "power points". 'Big Balls' warns of 'no checks' on government spending DOGE Staffer 'Big Balls' Provided Tech Support to Cybercrime Ring www.usnews.com/news/world/a...
I’ll have an answer in two weeks..
I was just about to reply this! Good job!
Kinda wrote itself..😁
😂😂😂😥
Typical response. They always have some excuse not to answer a question.
The actual budget parts of the budget bill don't actually matter, and these slash-and-burn Republicans know that. It's the non-budget parts of the bill that codify what they're doing anyway: ignoring Congress and spending or not spending according to their whims and extremist agenda.
In other words: "they don't know what the fuck they're doing" Sounds familiar? He's always projecting www.livenowfox.com/news/trump-v...
😂😂😂😂😂😂 as if Trump does
Was he referring to Israel and Iran, or his own administration?
The whole goddamn purpose of that meeting was to have that information available. Not at a later date, right fucking now.
Fuck that ghoulish redneck mofo. Deny, delay, deflect.
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None of them ever have their shit prepared. None. Ever.
How can you know how much you will save without first determining who you will fire ? Seems they have the cart in front of the horse and do not give a shit.
Another shit bird that directly effects my well being and overall health. I think I'll start arming fellow disabled vets with slingshots and creme pies.
No Plan = No Budget
That would only hurt vets & the people, at VA, who serve them. I would suggest the VA budget remain, unchanged from its current rate of funding, unless & until they can offer numbers to support their request.
They need to come clean about their plan and the related numbers because they are looking to deeply cut VA Services. Holding them and demanding their plan is essential to fight the cut
We can't pull this kind of crap with our PTA...
It's despicable but deliberate. They have no interest or intention in keeping what we have. It's all about reducing or eliminating benefits, closing down health care services, and privatizing for profits. See Project 2025.
These buffoons are all so supremely arrogant that they feel they do not have to justify ANYTHING! And they know the republicans will not stop them.
It amazes me that these people have not done their jobs, are not prepared to answer questions honestly, and don't even follow procedure. A 27 page PowerPoint? Seriously? This is just slop. This is not how you do budget requests at all. It makes me cringe watching the VA leadership crash.
They are stealing our money.
Everyone in this Trump 2.0 administration is confirming how thoroughly incompetent they are It’s a qualification to be inept at understanding the agencies you are running
I needed to fill my bank accounts with a much cash before everyone gets wise to what we are doing and fire our asses.
As usual, the job half done because they just want the number to go down and don't have the spine to say who is getting the axe.
Unreal.
narrator: they will, in fact, not have more information as we go forward
😱. Ossoff was great! Collins thought he could roll all over him and not get any pushback
Sure glad they purged all the lifelong professional civil servants who were mucking up the system...
I’m sure you’d have more likes if more people could read sarcasm. I am highly trained in sarcasm 🤪
So there just aren’t ANY rules for this corrupt administration? This cannot continue.
They are willfully ignorant!
They are unprepared and only serving one idiot in the White House. They are loyalist and they don’t care about the rest of us.
Can Ossoff be in every meeting. Yes, please.💙
Incompetent, ill prepared pos. NONE of these people have a clue wtf department they “run”, or what it does! It’s all for show! 😡🤬
They don’t care. They are getting huge tax breaks & they really don’t care what we think. They have the power & it seems we don’t.
128 incompetent Dems in the House of Representatives certainly showcase how exhausting they really are. Shit could be over & done NOW buuuuuuut nnnnnoooooo....
Collins, full blown maga nationalist,camouflaged in honor by those who’ve served before him.Abusing his position to serve the clowns ideology while maneuvering to keeping his guilt free and hands clean. “I just work here” “I dont recall” “Give me two weeks” All Cowards Avoid Responsibility #ACAR
Hey all you Maga vets out there, happy you voted for THIS????? 😵💫😳😡
Just a bunch of circle jerking and lies. How can you even have hearings with these people because they don’t provide correct answers or even want to answer.😡😡😡😡
Like a kid arguing with their teacher wanting a good grade when they haven't turned in their homework yet.
Doug Collins has always been a despicable orange-anus-kissing POS.
So it’s time to get Rid of Collin’s too.
Trump appointees never have real answers at Congressional hearings, just dissembling, avoidance, and lies.
So approve and then we’ll just surprise everyone? 🤦🏻♂️
Douglas knows they’re cutting Medicare vote no Democrats
#ossoffsohot
CALL EVERY REPUBLICAN SENATOR FOR MEDICAID/VETERAN PROGRAM to be cut The switchboards are open 24/7. They count YOUR calls as public outrage. Leave msgs until answering machines are full …and call again the next day. threaten to vote EVERY REPUBLICAN OUT 🌟🌟🌟CALL 202 224-3121🌟🌟🌟
Collins doesn’t know jack. A Southern Baptist white supremacist who doesn’t know anything about health care and totes the party line. This guy will gladly give up the entire farm and send us all to “community care,” aka the private sector.
The GOP plan - "Trust us bro"
Under this regime preparedness is NOT a priority. 🤷🏼♀️
Unpreparedness is a prerequisite.
We all know where the Medicare waste and fraud goes to! The insurance companies, not We the people
Unbelievable & incompetent to the. point of neglegence. Collins must have been able to answer with exact numbers of staff in which departments when asked without. hesitation. He appears to treat his job as a joke which belys the serious threat to all our health.
It’s a fucking HEIST! Generations paid into these benefits, now Republicans want to break America’s promise and steal OUR money for themselves.
Not one of this administration's people come prepared with any requested materials. Ever.
Collateral damage is what that’s called
They want us to die. Well right back at you mfers.
Collins arrived utterly unprepared to justify his MAGAt grift.The tRump MAGAt admin once again proposes NO legitimate plan for their random "cuts" which is entirely unacceptable.F* off, Collins, you bloated fascist KKKracker. Well done, Sen Ossoff! BRAVO. They must ALL be STOPPED & held accountable!
@lazytato.bsky.social
Congress is a JOKE. Imagine showing up for a meeting at work & saying, "Oh I don't have the info I knew I needed for this meeting. I'll get it to you later." Imagine everyone on your team doing that routinely. How long would you & your team have a job? But in Congress it happens all the time.
Normally, he’d be fired.
"We haven't quite figured out how to personally profit from it, but don't worry. We will."
Go Jon! Thank you for your college educated Columbo grill style.
Nazis… I mean Republicans with Hitler haircuts don’t have answers in the public sphere? Huh
The traitors have no idea how to do the job they’ve been given. This is the best Ossoff will get from them.
These are just cuts for the sake of cutting. There is no reason for them.
To pay for tax cuts for the 1%.
A Trumpian response. I’ll tell you more in 2-3 weeks, which never happens.
it's always we'll be getting those to you and it never comes.
No one in this regime could run a lemonade stand without going broke.
Dereliction of duty. These bastards don’t know what their jobs even are. He should lose his position over his ignorance.
Unqualified.
Like ALL of them !
Not good enough...
Collins, you are going BACKWARD. We do not need cuts in medical services. We need cuts in tax breaks for the very rich. Someone who can rent Venice for a wedding DOES NOT NEED A TAX CUT.
What the hell 🤦🏻♀️
In all these Congressional Hearings the administration shows open contempt. Democrats should go into total opposition on vote NO an everything.
"WHY CAN'T YOU GIVE ME A STRAIGHT ANSWER"
It’s as though he didn’t expect the Democrats on the budget committee to actually read the budget
The staggering incompetence of this administration never ceases to amaze me
Orange man hires only the best and brightest.
These f🤬rs have no idea what they’re doing‼️ There need to be Impeachment penalties for failure to serve duties to Congress.
I think that they know what their end goal is. Get rid of all immigrants who aren't of the correct religion and ethnic group. Keep all non-wealthy people barely literate. If they can't work, let them die, but not before they make replacements.
The shared lack of transparency and avoidance of giving honest answers to simply put questions practised by Rs attests to their treason as much as their complicit support for attacking and abducting people and so much more. When all they do is blithely furnish glib, unhelpful responses they 1/
affirm, yet again, the unparalleled disrespect they have for America. End
What an idiot. Should have done his homework. Should have anticipated these questions. Should be fired.
Their cart before the horse methodology cannot work. Cut this much. Fire this many. Deport this amount. No audits to see who or what can be cut to be more efficient. Just quotas. And, sorry, was that a PowerPoint presentation? Ossoff was a little unclear about that. 🤣
Yes, a 26 page PPT. To justify $17,000,000,000+ in cuts to people and programs in the Veterans Administration.
They're just pretending. Like little kids at their parent's offices finding the copy machine fascinating. No way to govern a country.
Soldiers, whose side are you on?
THIS👆I think about this day and night. I still have hope in them, they can not be all under the thumb.
😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
"Can't tell you about the sabotage until AFTER we do it!"
Keep holding their nasty feet to the fire!
unprepared and inept 🙄
Okay please have no clue what they're doing what I said show every time I watch these they don't have the information they'll give it to you they don't really know no the damn answers we need all the answers
Yes definitely meet again we want answers today
Is "Hon." short for honcho?
I think it is short for Collins and many other Republican legislators for "honky" =
Ossoff is so presidential!
"We'll have more answers in two weeks."
Ossoff is Georgia's not-so-secret weapon.
Am I crazy??? Is he not presidential material? Seems he fits the Obama JFK youthful hopeful lane??? Dems usually win with these candidates
I’ve been saying this for years! 💙 him.
You may be crazy but your take here strikes me as perfect.
Well I’m certifiable but that doesn’t make me inaccurate 😂
Can we rally around this!? Please! He’s the one. 💙
The hair is a little weird but I think I read somewhere that strange hair isn’t disqualifying 😂
If he wins in the midterms I think he puts a large feather in his hat. That will be HUGELY significant
Kudos to the Ossoff team I send a couple positive post and they found me for a donation ask. Strong work… they’re listening at least
They don’t want to give any specifics but they want their money approved anyway.. Hell No.
They pretend they don't have the information at hand... Showing up unprepared to hearings... Sure, that's a good look...
Collins has always, ALWAYS been a tool.
They can’t even lie properly!!!
slash and burn GOP-Heritage want to burn it all to the ground every social safety net
His nameplate should read DIShon. Douglas A. Collins. Seriously, these people are disgustingly inhumane.
Uh...NO!
Not good enough you loser. Another incompetent cabinet member. BLOCK ALL TRUMP NOMINEES.
“We’ll have more information as we go forward.” Ffs, that’s not how government works in any era but this one. They are just lawless thieves.
Clowns all
FILIBUSTER MERIT WHITE BOY
Typical maga… Duh…idk…
The GOP intends for Americans to drop dead. It is more the plan than tax breaks for the billionaires. The billionaires are the diversion from their intent.
Why do they get away with this bullshit over and over? This is why they keep doing it. They know they don’t have to listen cause the do nothing Dems will support them by not condemning this clown show.
The people running the government have no clue of what they’re doing! For god’s sake, at least have the guts to admit you’re in over your head and step aside! This is to all of them!
Including/especially tRump et.al...
Have ANY of them supplied a legitimate budget? No budget details; no fucking money and it stays as is
Yea, we just wanna circle the wagons here, won't you please join us? And perhaps you can look at the trifold during break to get a better sense of the mission here. This what it sounds like when you don't value service to country.
No, they will not have more information later. Just more lies. Don’t approve any budget requests. And certainly don’t approve any until certain conditions have been met.
Give them NO money until they give you the justification for the budget.
Two reasons they don’t have the budget numbers. They don’t want them public during the hearing, they also don’t fucking know what they’re doing. Some high school jackass put together a PowerPoint. FFS.
Third Reason and maybe more importantly is that they just don't give a F***K. They are just a bunch of jerks and their message to everyone, except their rich constituents, is a BIG F**YOU!! The people who voted for this and support these bad people are the ones who will lose the most.
They don’t GAF about their constituents either. Jodi Ernst? She literally doubled down after disastrous Town Hall! Others don’t even show. They have both houses and a corrupt SCOTUS on the side of Oligarchy. #BigUglyPOSBill
Correction: some jackass put a prompt into ChatGPT to put together a PowerPoint
More evasive bullshit. No one from the government appears ready to give competent testimony despite having all the time necessary to prepare to give responsive answers.
That's the strategy. It's all in Project 2025.
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Show us your death panels. This time, they’re real death panels. (The death panels are congressmen who don’t read, don’t care morally cause the end is neigh(in a religious way) anyway and they’re gonna make their money, or don’t care morally cause they’re sociopaths. lol many are all the options)
Future VP or presidential pick… on my short list. Just not yet
Collin’s is such a FUCK STAIN!!!
Collins has always been shit for brains
he's lying out both sides of his mouth. youtu.be/sMShyXl2eks?...
Honorable my ass.
So he knows he’s going to a budget meeting but does not bring his proposed budget with him? Really?
See they all lie, no matter who they are. They follow Donald Trump and they all lie.
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Well, Trump bombing can be construed as a double-entendre.
How presidential 🙄
Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
Proud and ashamed to be from GA at the same time. Doug Collins was my rep. He was a douchebag then and he still is. Ossoff is awesome.
Please work to get Ossoff reelected. We need to balance/gain power in Congress to prevent the disgusting abuse and negligence happening now!
We get to vote again? We need to do a lot more, as this will just keep getting worse. He will send Dems off to, ya know.
Ooo. So these guys probably knew each other in the Before Times. Delicious. They’d make a perfect side by side protest poster, split down the middle with “Republican” and “Democrat” labels at the top of their photos. Collins looks like another evil capitalist.
They will cut everyone they deem unworthy which means everyone but the elite. An up and coming dicktator needs no one but his cult, ass kissers in Congress and most important the bought and paid for project 2025 Supreme Court.
My brain feels like it’s glitching hearing such corrupt sub human liars so frequently from this regime.
One of the BEST senators in DC!
Collin’s couldn’t put lipstick on that pig. It’s so sad that republican appointees have it all wrong…help Americans (vets) is the mandate - not hurt Americans. So fed up with these BS artists.
Hold the line Democrats - we are counting on you to vote NO on all appointments and especially this horrible bill.
👏 Ossoff
Damn straight! Oppose them at every turn, force them to realize what the people want is not more corruption, greed, and paying the billionaires!
When you have no idea what a budget is or how to run a health agency.
They’re deliberately unprepared. They don’t want to give real answers.
They do this over and over. “I will have to get back to you."
Right. The check is in the mail…
Collins, another magat imbecile trying to tap dance his way around something he doesn't have a clue what he's doing or what his job is. And Collins has an uncanny resemblance to Rodney Dangerfield. But the late Sir Rodney was infinitely more intelligent and hope I didn't insult his family.
This is how you pin down a political witness: a narrow, tightly worded question without hyperbole or judgment. The witness cannot successfully pivot, because when you repeat the “tight” question again, the listener be like “he didn’t answer that, answer that!”
Complete incompetence.
Watching from afar, we are sick of the phrase, "hold ... accountable." From here, Europe, we have not seen absolutely any of your U.S. regime people HELD ACCOUNTABLE! America has become nothing but a joke! Which daily is morphing into a global threat to human existence!
Unfortunately, we are very well aware of this. It's infuriating, frustrating, and terrifying.
Good! Don't let him stonewall. Reconvene when he has his facts.
Who needs to get fired is Doug Collins and the entire Trump Regime!!! This whole my dog ate my homework and I’ll get you those numbers to you later schtick is UTTERLY UNACCEPTABLE!!! Doug Collins needs to FATWO!!!!
This is veteran and military medical service I definitely need to know
They’re so excited to tear down the government. These are not people that know how to run things or to build things. They don’t have a clue. Remember COVID? They don’t care.
So don't approve the budget request until you have all the information. This should not be a difficult conclusion to reach. Why is it hard to get there. Send him on his way and tell him to let you know when he did his homework.
lt does not matter if Dems vote NO on 1BBBill. MAGA republicans have the majority. Unless 3 or 4 vote with Dems, the bill will pass. Call your elected officials. Urge them to vote NO.
I'm aware of that. However there are a lot of pieces in the bill that require 60 votes to pass. So if the Dems grow a pair and stonewall as much as they can than they can achieve that the bill will not pass in its entirety.
NO DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE VOTING FOR ANYTHING COMING FROM MAGA. The republicans should grow a pair and listen to their constituents instead of lying to them.
Agreed.
MAGA hate America
Only 90-99% of it.
"We'll have more information as we move forward" = everyone except mediocre, white, cis, heterosexual men. In case anyone was confused...
True. Just gonna add “wealthy” to your list
we have a semblance of a plan we will get back to you
It's a simple question, Sen.Ossoff patiently asking who and what are you cutting to make up $17 billion? Yet time and time again, Collins stutters and stammers,uh,uh,uh... we will be getting to that as we go along...uh,uh,um...🙄 Just come back later when until this idiot has some real answers.
He's not an idiot—that's the strategy. Delay, deny, lie, and don't prepare or provide complete reports with accurate facts and details. Exhaust Dems with frustrating non-answers, never provide requested data, and since there's no accountability or legal power to compel, they're Scott-free.
It's so frustrating! I was amazed Ossoff kept his composure. It must be a learned art from his days as an investigative journalist.
They have no idea what they are doing. 17 billion to veterans affairs? Nothing good will Come From that.
total incompetence
I love how Ossoff so clearly wants to follow every sentence with "you fucking moron." Also how he's trying not to laugh
Wait and see!!!!! is what he is bringing to the budget hearing. No! No "going forward"!!
I'll tell you who. My rural VA clinic fired the two doctors there. My new doc is in Texas. I'm in CA. The staff is reduced by at least 50%.
JFC!...what a buffoon Collins is.
Preacher Doug Collins wants to cut 17 billion from Veterans Medical ? WTF America?
This is criminal! Impeachment!!
Totally unprepared for the Hearing.
America, a baby nation led by kids whose dogs ate their fucking homework. What. The. Fuck. Are. We. Doing. Folks.
#DougCollins came in unprepared and failed to provide clear information on the cuts; at the time of hearing. This guys is incredibly incompetent and unprofessional!
They’ll have more information as they go forward. In two weeks?
Inexcusable
He has no idea other than they're doing it.😡
I don't manage anything, much less a federal agency. But shouldn't you have ALL the data, and decide after studying THAT how much you want to cut from your agency? How can you decide how much to cut before you know what's there?
Yes. Former bureaucrat here. Yes. If not, there is extreme incompetence or bad faith. Not a lot of other options for this kind of lack of transparency.
one would think so
Is there a single competent cabinet member?
I’m going to say no. Like these hearings are full of cabinet members just not answering questions. Are they all dumb asses? He picked the most incompetent folks he could find.
Exactly!!!
They don’t have to answer questions, because no one is going to hold them accountable.
And it'll get passed anyway
Oh yeah they are salivating for people to go back to no healthcare
2008 wasn’t that long ago. Health insurance is bad now, but holy hell it was a grifter paradise before ACÁ. Surely folks haven’t forgotten?
Yes. They absolutely have. Like it never happened.
I haven’t. But then, I’m a Democrat.
Nobody with any integrity will serve under the megalomaniac. Everyone he ropes into his circle is poorer for it.
NOT.A.ONE.
Rubio is probably the closest thing they have to a competent cabinet member. Since he sold his soul to the devil though he’s basically just another Nazi stooge.
No
No. Loyalist only who don’t seem to have a clue to exactly what they are doing. And they don’t care. They are getting huge tax breaks at our expense
Long answer - NO.
Nope. They all work for an audience of one delusional lunatic who lives in a fantasy world created from untreated STDs, drug abuse, and dementia. Everything they say and do is to appease a madman.k
Trump nominated every single one. Does that answer your question?
Ummm, it appears NO!
Nope
I’m going to say no.
No, because Trump said he would run government like his business. He hires based on loyalty because other than the ability to lie and cheat for him, they don’t need any other skills. Once he has everything he wants, he discards them.
