Yesterday, the House of Representative’s DOGE Subcommittee, chaired by Marjorie Taylor Greene, provided a WWE style smackdown of senior executives from National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service. The usual theater, chair shots, kissing up to Fox News, bullying, the outcome preordained.
John McGuire, Virginia’s 5th Congressional District Representative, and a member of the DOGE Subcommittee was nowhere in sight. Maybe he was teleworking? He did not make an appearance (from what I can tell) much less ask any questions. In an almost 3-hour hearing you would expect him to show up and ask a question or two. He didn’t. Was he getting his nails done? Maybe he was on some Signal group chat. The dais where the representatives lord over the witnesses was mostly empty throughout the hearing, although I must admit, that there were more chairs than members on the Subcommittee.
It was an important hearing. It was federal funding life or death for NPR and PBS. Looks like death. If the Subcommittee had its way, according to Greene, they would never get another penny of taxpayers’ money. McGuire, I suspect would agree with the Subcommittee’s sentiments.
What galls me is that federal workers have been excoriated for allegedly not showing up for work or being lazy or wasteful, by folks like McGuire. Justification for purging tens of thousands from federal government payrolls. The usual claptrap. So, where was he on Wednesday? My tax dollars, and your tax dollars, pay his salary, and I expect and demand him to put in the time and show up for committee hearings, ask questions when important issues are being discussed.
Please call or write Mr. McGuire and ask where the hell he was yesterday and why wasn’t he at the hearing to ask questions. Finally, tell him to support NPR and PBS if you are so inclined.
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