‘I Can’t Get a Word In!’ Fox’s Martha MacCallum and Democratic Senator Brawl Over Elon Musk
Fox News’ Martha MacCallum and Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) brawled over Elon Musk and DOGE’s involvement at the Social Security Administration on Wednesday.
The eye-roll and interruption laden exchange began with MacCallum playing a clip from a recent Fox interview with Musk and other DOGE staffers in which they alleged widespread waste, fraud, and abuse at the federal agency, and asking Coons if he was “shocked” by the allegations.
“So, Martha, not only do I not believe some of what was just shared there, but the Trump administration’s acting administrator of Social Security has said that less than one-tenth of one percent of the payments put out by the Social Security administration are fraudulent or in error,” replied Coons, who said he was “alarmed” by Musk’s involvement at the agency because “he thinks Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme.”
“So you sound like you’re pretty okay with with all the agencies and how they function. So you say all those millions of people depend on Social Security, so you don’t care about the ones that are going to never get it because it’s going to be insolvent in 10 years. What have democrats done, what did Joe Biden’s administration do to find the waste, fraud, and abuse in Social Security to try to shore up this important agency. What did they do? Can you tell me?” asked MacCallum after Coons finished.
“Martha, you are presuming widespread waste, fraud, and abuse in Social Security,” answered Coons. “You haven’t offered any credible evidence to support that. I don’t believe what DOGE says about virtually any federal agency, but I will believe what the GAO says ,or the inspector general or the administrator of Social Security-”
“Why? Can I ask you why? Can I ask you why?” interjected MacCallum.
“Because I’ve had senior folks from DOGE lie to my face about other federal agencies where they claim they have widespread waste, fraud, and abuse where previous audits did not find that waste, fraud, and abuse,” replied Coons.
The explosive segment only got more heated from there, as the pair continued to speak over one another, eventually causing Coons to assert he wasn’t sure what the anchor was referring to because she was “yelling so much.”
“Because I can’t get a word in edgewise. I’m trying to ask you a question — that’s my job” fired back MacCallum.
Watch the full conversation above via Fox News.
