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.
