Summer Lee: “I hope--and let me make a formal request that we do so and mark up that bill that had been introduced by Mr. Nadler.”

While the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has been on a rampage to root out 'waste, fraud, and abuse,' they've been ignoring the biggest money pit in the entire federal government: the Department of Defense.

The release didn’t really give us a smoking gun, but it did produce plenty of collateral damage.

We are being told that this lifeline, these very basic protections, are on the chopping block so that billionaires can get yet another tax break.

This is how dictators take power. They manufacture crises, undermine our institutions, and erode our checks and balances.