The Federal Agency Sunset Commission introduced Thursday would "make sure that the federal government is turning a good ROI" for U.S. taxpayers, Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, said Friday on Newsmax.
"It's something we've been trying to get done actually for a few terms here," Cloud told Newsmax TV's "Newsline."
"Texas has a Sunset Commission … and the idea is … you try to get a straight answer on how many agencies exist, and it's hard to even get a straight answer on agency — how many agencies and programs the federal government has — much less are they being effective. Are they accomplishing what they were purposed to do?"
"There's a list of over 1,000 programs that are not authorized to even exist that we continue to fund through the federal government. And so, I'm sure that there's a number of people in our federal government who are kind of sitting quiet in their corner and not doing what they should for the American people. There's some good work being done, but we've got to make sure that the federal government is turning a good ROI for the taxpayers. And that's what this is about," Cloud added.
On the TikTok ban and President-elect Donald Trump's vow to "review" the Supreme Court's decision to uphold a law requiring the app's China-based parent company to divest or face a ban starting Sunday, Cloud told Newsmax: "Well, I supported the divestiture of TikTok from China. I think that's extremely important. Not only is it a national security issue, but what they were doing to really manipulate the minds of our young people."
"The algorithms of … the messages they would send to their people back home were far different than what they would message here. You know, in China, stay in school, do good stuff. Here, it was more not the best behavior that they were kind of promoting through algorithms here."
Cloud said, "It's important; I'm glad to see that the Supreme Court upheld. And really, the decision to me was about the Supreme Court understanding that Congress is the lawmaking body. And I think it was important for them to uphold it just to recognize that Congress has the ability to make laws and that it's their role to do so."
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