{"id":2373358,"date":"2024-11-25T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T21:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ro-khanna-promises-support-to-doge-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T16:55:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T21:55:40","slug":"ro-khanna-promises-support-to-doge-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ro-khanna-promises-support-to-doge-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ro Khanna promises \u2018support\u2019 to DOGE &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fro-khanna-promises-support-to-doge-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2373358&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat\u200c from\u200d California, expressed his support for the newly established\u200d Department of\u2063 Government\u200c Efficiency regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-biden-administration-is-politicizing-the-military\/\" title=\"How the Biden Administration is Politicizing the Military\">defense budget<\/a>. His remarks followed the\u2063 appointment of Tesla CEO \u2062Elon Musk\u200b and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who\u200d are\u2062 tasked\u2062 with forming a team focused on \u200dimproving government operations. Khanna\u200d emphasized the need for bipartisan collaboration to address issues in the nearly $1 trillion defense budget, which he noted has been plagued \u2063by waste, fraud, and \u2064inefficiency. He\u200b highlighted the\u200d Pentagon&#8217;s failure to pass multiple audits and\u200b proposed fostering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/500000-plus-sign-petition-calling-for-olympics-to-reinstate-shacarri-after-testing-positive-for-marijuana\/\" title=\"500,000-Plus Sign Petition Calling For Olympics To Reinstate\u00a0Sha\u2019Carri After Testing Positive For Marijuana\u00a0\">open competition<\/a> among defense contractors\u200b as a potential solution. Musk responded \u2063positively to Khanna&#8217;s comments, indicating a willingness for collaboration on these \u200dissues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Ro Khanna promises &lsquo;support&rsquo; to DOGE<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1889420\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ro-khanna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Department of Government Efficiency\">Ro Khanna<\/a> (D-CA) swore his &ldquo;support&rdquo; to the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3240478\/doge-withhold-federal-aid-states-criminal-aliens-mtg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Department of Government Efficiency\">Department of Government Efficiency<\/a> when it comes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/defense-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">defense budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>In the weeks since President-elect Donald Trump won the Oval Office, he has named Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3236779\/musk-ramaswamy-reveal-top-four-things-know-about-doge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the heads of DOGE<\/a>. While they aren&rsquo;t government officials, it is their job to create &ldquo;a lean team of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-and-ramaswamy-reveal-top-four-things-to-know-about-doge-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Musk and Ramaswamy reveal top four things to know about DOGE - Washington Examiner\">small-government crusaders&#038;rdquo<\/a>; to work closely with the White House Office of Management and Budget.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite Khanna&rsquo;s disagreements with Ramaswamy, he confirmed on <em>CNN Newsroom<\/em> on Monday that there are some areas DOGE should fix.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Let me&nbsp;provide an area where there&nbsp;could be bipartisan&nbsp;collaboration. I mean, the&nbsp;defense budget, which is nearly&nbsp;$1 trillion, is dominated by&nbsp;five crimes. There has been&nbsp;tremendous reporting about the&nbsp;waste, fraud, and abuse in that&nbsp;budget. The Pentagon hasn&lsquo;t&nbsp;passed an audit and has failed&nbsp;the last six or seven audits. So, if&nbsp;they go to say there needs to&nbsp;be more open competition, not&nbsp;the monopolization in defense&nbsp;contractors, and propose&nbsp;recommendations, that&rsquo;s&nbsp;something that I think could be&nbsp;supported.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When it comes to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse and opening the 5 primes to more competition, there are Democrats on [House Armed Services Committee] who will work with @elonmusk and @DOGE,&rdquo; Khanna captioned the clip on X.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cool!&rdquo; Musk responded to the clip. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cool! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5WiVyOHAw6\">https:\/\/t.co\/5WiVyOHAw6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1861096199702618398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) will head the House DOGE subcommittee under the Oversight Committee. Sen.&nbsp;Joni Ernst&nbsp;(R-IA) will lead the DOGE Senate Caucus. Since they will be run by Republican members, Khanna issued a few warnings to avoid pushback from the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If they find areas&nbsp;of truly wasteful spending&nbsp;across the government, they&nbsp;would get support. But if they&nbsp;start to recommend cuts in&nbsp;Social Security or Medicare or&nbsp;Title I education funding,&nbsp;they&rsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">ll face strong&#038;nbsp<\/a>;resistance. So it really just&nbsp;depends on what they recommend,&rdquo; Khanna said.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy&nbsp;called to abolish the department as recently as last summer while running his own campaign for president. Khanna reacted to the news that he referred to as &ldquo;horrifying&rdquo; that the&nbsp;Education Department&nbsp;could be in Ramaswamy&rsquo;s crosshairs. According to Khanna, the investment into education between 1910 and 1940 made America the superpower it is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1889420\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1889420\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ro Khanna pledges support for DOGE&#8217;s defense budget efforts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2373359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24054551301307.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12577,23466,32530,3723,32076],"class_list":["post-2373358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-doge","tag-ro-khanna","tag-support","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24054551301307.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373362,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373358\/revisions\/2373362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2373359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}