On the latest edition of NBC’s Meet the Depressed, Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin shut down host Kristen Welker’s pressure over the reduction of the federal workforce. Thus continues the media’s campaign to advocate for fired government workers in a way they’ve never done for any other workers.
Watch as Welker tries to make Mullin squirm on job cuts, only to get fed a mouthful of DOGE:
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: What Oklahomans want is to make sure that we riddle –
KRISTEN WELKER: But –
MULLIN: …or we get rid of the waste and fraud inside the federal government. And that’s –
WELKER: But Senator –
MULLIN: …exactly what the president’s done. They’ve already identified billions, billions of dollars of waste and fraud for the taxpayers.
WELKER: But Senator, first of all, there hasn’t – they haven’t provided proof of fraud. But talk to the people in Oklahoma who’ve…
