On Wednesday, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski released a statement that once again criticizes President Donald Trump for doing what he said he would do. She says that efficiency in government is good but it needs to be done with proper channels and procedures, not the way it’s being handled by the Trump Administration.
“Efficiency in government should be a goal for every administration, agency, and federal employee. But how we achieve it also matters. By circumventing proper channels and procedures, and creating the potential to compromise the sensitive data of Americans, we create a tremendous amount of unnecessary anxiety. That is wrong. Good governance is based on trust, not fear,” she said on X/Twitter.
Murkowski has been in office since 2002. During the past four years of the Biden Administration, as government workforce grew by 6% in four years, Murkowski never criticized Biden for it, nor did she mention government efficiency. In fact, she’s never been publicly concerned about government efficiency or reduction of tax burdens on Americans until Wednesday.
Instead, Murkowski was virtue signaling that she sides with protesters who took to the streets Wednesday to protest Trump and Elon Musk, who is heading up his Department of Government Efficiency initiative — DOGE.
These are the same protestors who are saying they “never voted for Elon Musk,” and yet it’s apparent they never voted for Trump either, like Murkowski never voted for Trump.
When President Joe Biden cancelled the Keystone XL Pipeline permit in 2021, he killed an estimated 11,000 jobs.
Where were the leftist protesters in 2021, objecting to the destruction of private sector energy jobs?
Murkowski said little if anything about Biden’s actions on Keystone.
When the Biden Administration fired 8,000 men and women from the Armed Forces because they refused to take the Covid shot in 2021, where were the leftist protesters, objecting to the release of military members who didn’t want to be part of a medical experiment?
Murkowski said nothing about the wholesale removal of America’s most patriotic warriors.
But on Feb. 5, Murkowski popped up a sniping message on social media that said government efficiency has to be done the right way, not the Trump way.
She didn’t offer what the right way would be, however, although she surely must have some ideas after serving in the Senate for 23 years.
Our government is completely out of control for a few more minutes. Lisa looks like she is about to suck an O ring. Wouldn’t that be terrible??
Lisa has used the same solution she’s used the past 23 years: spew sound bites.
Everyone… welcome to next week’s narrative:
“Efficiency in government should be a goal for every administration, agency, and federal employee. But how we achieve it also matters. By circumventing proper channels and procedures, and creating the potential to compromise the sensitive data of Americans, we create a tremendous amount of unnecessary anxiety. That is wrong. Good governance is based on trust, not fear,”
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Expect your local leftist to be parroting those words, starting by Monday, if not immediately.
The establishment Republicans are worried that their activities will be exposed. She is worried about the deep state and not the best for the taxpayers and republic.
Through channels?….we have been waiting for them to fix themselves for eons…the same as the Immigration problem and Border Control.. those same topics come up year after year. and when Biden took office and killed off 1000s of jobs, they told us we would get green jobs and to suck it up, figure out which side we were going to be on because they were going to take away our civil rights. (per circle back Psaki).Oh, and welcome to the New Democrat World Order. I like the Trump Way…. you can run your mouth year after year about doing something or just do it – He just did it and they don’t like it. which is why nothing ever changed. They act like someone just arrested their dealer
It might be efficient to reduce our Senate representation by one, but then, that’s only wishful thinking.
If Lisa is complaining we must be doing all the right things, and pressing all the right buttons.
She needs to go now, immediate RECALL!!! She embodies the distrust of all Americans in the Guv’ment largess. Everything she expresses is counterproductive and yet, she continues aimlessly forward, never listening to her constituents and/or Americans, whom have clearly elected by a landside, for change. It’s long past time we have a change in our Senator too! She is nothing short of an empty suite, complete air-thief, who offers no meaningful significance – value.
Let’s wait and see if her name is on the USAID list.
Unfortunately for Alaskans, Lisa’s learning curve is long and very slow. She has been in the Senate for over 22 years and she is just now realizing that government is too big? I knew all about that in my first year in office in 1981. I guess Lisa needs to protect her Democrat friends who work in government. She just likes to keep people employed. She certainly kept the Bar examiners employed for years…….on my dime.
Oh of course she did. She’s a democrat playing to her base. She, we, Trump all know Trump could not care less about her opinion.
If Princess loses access to the pork, the left will dump her like a bad date.
Simply amazing that this odious woman has no shame.
Murkowski and Sullivan are both complicit in this crime against ALL United States citizens. You can’t honestly tell me that they didn’t know what was going on. They have both been in DC long enough to know.
High time for Alaskans to end the careers of both Murkowski/Sullivan and send them packing!
I’ll bet she was in on the grift.. Lisa doesn’t appreciate a constitutional republic, she prefers banana republic.
She needs to go. Her TDS is hurting her constituents.
She really is a terrible legislator. I hear she’s amazing to her staff but that just makes it so much more frustrating that she is so petty & juvenile when it comes to her job. It’s about dang time someone started kicking butt & taking names when it comes to decreasing a ridiculously gluttonous & too massive to even imagine government that is in direct opposition to the US Constitution by its very existence! The Federal Government was NEVER supposed to be the big brother welfare state that it’s become for over 1/3 of Alaskans (in some form- including all the “jobs” programs infested by the work part-time get paid full-time & then whine about it bureaucrats). To even take that position given the FACTS flowing out about USAID is inane & demonstrates a level of incompetence worthy of a no confidence vote. She’s just GOT to go!
This “I never voted for Musk” faux outrage is stupid. Under Grandpa Bloodstains I never voted for the cast of mutants he had surrounding him.
Why? I voted for Trump and Trump lost. Quoting Obama (God help me) elections have consequences.
One of the big ones being POTUS gets to pick his team.
How about we get rid of her as a start. Then we know we are on the right path.
Past governance was based on fear, not trust, and I, on behalf of my constituents, resent the work that has been done to expose that, and if I am to have an indefinite future here, this malarkey needs to be stopped. USAID was perfect. I forgot to mention that. I have been here 23 years now, and it has always been perfect. So much so that I have never taken exception to any of its activities, and I certainly don’t now.
signed O.S.
I hope she knows where to stuff that!
She is nothing but a tax and spend Deep State minion.
Let’s all take a look at Murkowski’s own spreadsheet on finances … bet we would find something that might not belong there or better … contributions from big pharma or kickbacks from some of the USAID money that seems to be floating around, easy pickins for anyone leaning to the left … just saying, because Lord only knows where all that money has gone to …
Murkowski is always murky and suffering TDS.
“Proper channels and procedures.” Yes, the exact words of an entrenched career politician. Lisa received a lot of money during the Biden Admin from which we can assume some type of skim or kickbacks were taken. She knows the gig could be up soon.
Murkowski has been in office since 2002. In fact, she’s never been publicly concerned about government efficiency or reduction of tax burdens on Americans until Wednesday.
Pretty well sums up The Princess career
I just wish she would do us all a favor and just go away.
Being the good Catholic, abortion supporting scallywag that she is.
Wonder IF any of the money Biden skimmed off drops down to Lisas level?
I believe she left the Catholic church and now Lutheran or Presbyterian.
No, Princess you are simply scared feckless that you and your minions will be purged…. We really don’t care what Lisa thinks about anything. She’s only about HERSELF! Another disgusting swamp creature!
Murkowski is a liabilty. She needs to go.
Sen. Murkowski,
I have sat on several Alaska formed committees, task force groups, some of which I was appointed to by the legislature or a business/industry group to find ways to cut government costs, to even privatize services. I see no difference in this effort of investigation or recommendations by DOGE.
Please change your news channel for a different perspective. You can’t react so negatively to every suggestion and issue.
How many times did you vote in favor of a budget that funded some of the frivolous USAID grants that have been discovered by DOGE? Did you or did you not, know what you were voting for?
Creating jobs has never been Trumps strategy. Just look at the results of his first term. Why can’t he do another one of his executive orders only this time order all supermarket chains to return grocery prices to what they were in 2019. Make it enforceable all the way down to the food producers. If not deport any objectors. Show them who is in charge once again.
Sebastian; seriously, why do you have a problem with this simple word:
Relevant
adjective
rel·e·vant ˈre-lə-vənt
Synonyms of relevant
1
A : having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand
B : affording evidence tending to prove or disprove the matter at issue or under discussion
relevant testimony
c: having social relevance
Are you still on grocery prices? Didn’t you hear, this weeks source of outrage is “No one voted for Musk.”
Next week’s will be “This is not the right way to make the government efficient!”
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Please try to keep up.
She makes me sick. So tired of this crap. Anyone want a bridge to nowhere, er Gravina Island. There is nothing that she doesn’t want US, the taxpayers to pay for. She makes me sick.
Sorry, while the Princess is not a fan favorite, the Bridge to Nowhere was on Palin’s watch.
This is what the Princess would rather have.
“Our government was instead run by unelected bureaucrats who ruthlessly weaponized state power against their political enemies, engineered mass illegal voting in our elections, installed a draconian censorship regime, instituted a colossal system of state-sponsored racial discrimination, orchestrated a vast border invasion to try to permanently alter the balance of power, trafficked half a million children across the border, allowed criminals to freely terrorize our citizens, and raided the treasury to fund a political army of marxist radicals in a bid for permanent control over US institutions.”
Who does Lisa represent other then herself and her donors?
She looks terrible, time to retire Lisa. Join Liz Cheney, and live a quiet and simple life.
Who is surprised that this democrat does not want DOGE to stop the funding of her fellow democrats? She is a self serving RINO and baby killer! She would have been gone if it was not for the funding by Mitch Chinas Bytch McConnel and the RINOs. She is mad likely because her part in this will likely surface and she fears that. She should resign and go to Florida with her grifting dad. Take your Carbon Capture UN scamming Brother with you! You could have a TV show called Grift kings.
While I have heard that she indeed, has a residents in Florida, her parents reside between Fairbanks and Wrangell.
She’s part of the swamp.