As the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) seeks to uncover waste, fraud and abuse in government spending, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Newsmax that President Donald Trump is approaching the "monster" federal agencies like "the business person he is."
"Every one of these agencies have become a monster," Marshall said Wednesday on "National Report." "They have fingers growing out in every different direction. I think President Trump is approaching this exactly like the business person he is, that there's opportunity to bring these together, to make them coexist. So many government agencies repeating the same problem. If you really think about where all these rules and regulations are coming from, it's coming from government bureaucrats trying to justify their job.
"I think, more than anything else, rolling back these rules and regulations is going to help the economy grow as well, setting people free, so to speak. My farmers feel it every day. Small businessmen and women feel it every day. Our community banks are just dying under all these Dodd-Frank rules. ... We can condense, bring these agencies together, condense the rules, and set this American economy free."
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fired four Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees for sending $59 million to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants. The terminated employees include FEMA's Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist, a DHS spokesperson said in a statement to Newsmax.
"You think about New York City, they spent $7 billion, and now we have to remove all these illegal criminals that are here as well," he said. "And that's going to probably cost $100, maybe $200 billion over the next three to four years to remove them. So, this is another huge expense that [former President] Joe Biden left for all of us, and somewhere in that, when you're spending billions of dollars like this on illegal migrants to start with, there's going to be fraud and corruption going on as well. I think we need to set an example here of these particular people that work for the federal government."
Marshall also commented on courts blocking Trump's ability to advance his agenda.
"Look, we have three equal branches of government," Marshall said. "The courts are going to slow things down, that's their job, but, at the end of the day, President Trump is doing exactly what he said he was going to do."
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