GOP Senator Tells Fox News Trump Gutting USAID Is Just the Beginning: ‘Department of Education Tomorrow’

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) joined Fox News’s Sean Hannity on Monday night to discuss Elon Musk’s efforts to shutter USAID, the decades-old humanitarian aid organization.

“Let me say first, Sean, that it’s it’s kind of cool having a president again. Let me try to put all this in context for you. I like omelets. I mean, I really like omelets. I could eat an omelet at every meal. I like omelets better than sex. No, not not really. But you get the point, I like omelets,” began the always colorful Louisiana Republican, adding:

You can’t make it without breaking some eggs. Now, President [Donald] Trump running for office saying I’m going to review every single penny in the federal budget. Now, how are you going to review the spending in the federal budget without reviewing the spending?

And that’s what Mr. Musk is doing. Now, many of my Democratic colleagues and some of the tofu eating ‘wokearati’ at the USAID are screaming like they’re part of a prison riot because they don’t want us reviewing the spending.

But that’s all Mr. Musk is doing and he’s finding some pretty interesting stuff to my friends who are upset. I would say with respect, you know, call somebody who cares. You better get used to this. It’s USAID today. It’s going to be Department of Education tomorrow. And really, here’s what’s going on. For four years under President Biden.

The people in charge ask one simple question Who needs to pay more in taxes? Who needs to pay more in taxes? Well, that’s not the question that the Republicans and President Trump are going to ask. Our question is, what the hell happened to the money? And that’s all that’s going on.

Hannity replied by repeating some of the claims made by Musk about USAID’s spending, arguing that the agency spent “520 million for consultant-driven ESG investments in Africa, 45 million to DEI scholarships in Burma. Why are Democratic colleagues seemingly more freaked out about cutting U.S. aid? This is our money.”

“Do you know how much $1 million is? 520! I mean, we’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars over the years on this madness. What are they thinking? We have 40 trillion in debt,” Hannity continued.

Notably, the White House made similar claims last week regarding foreign aid spending that were quickly debunked. The White House repeated a claim, sourced from Musk, that the U.S. was going to spend $50 million on condoms to send to Gaza, which Trump again repeated on Monday, but doubled to $100 million while employing the creative phrase, “condoms to Hamas.”

Kennedy responded to Hannity, “If you notice, my Democratic colleagues and the USAID officials, they’re not defending the spending. All they’re talking about is process. It’s an insurrection. And Elon Musk doesn’t have the authority.”

“Well, sure, he has the authority the president gave it to him. And all he’s doing is looking at the spending. Just what the president said he was going to appoint Musk to do,” Kennedy continued, ignoring claims from USAID officials that Musk accessed classified materials and told the workforce to stop coming to the office.

“Here’s what I hope [Marco] Rubio and Musk do. I would put together all this absurd spending into a book. I’d call a press conference. And in front of God and country and the corporate media and the USAID folks and my Democratic colleagues, I’d go over item by item by item, every bit of it, the DEI comic books, the transgender operas, the funding of gain of function research. I’d go over every bit of it and say, now, do you want to defend this? And they won’t. They can’t,” Kennedy concluded.

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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