All posts tagged "Pete Sessions"

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) confounded CNN host John Berman over his justification for passing President Donald Trump's spending bill after claiming he was against adding to the national debt.

"You just talked about your opposition to deficit spending," Berman said. "The CBO — Congressional Budget Office — just put out figures that this will add $2.4 trillion to the national debt."

Sessions said that the struggle over the "one big beautiful bill" isn't "a perfect battle" for Republicans, but it has to be passed. ...

Democrats are calling out Republican lawmakers for shutting down constituent town halls that have gotten too hot for them to handle.

GOP lawmakers who have met with angry constituents recently include reps. Pete Sessions (R-TX), Rich McCormick (R-GA), Keith Self (R-TX) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS). Many of the lawmakers have struggled to answer pointed constituent questions about President Donald Trump and his lieutenant Elon Musk, leading to boos and jeers from the crowd.

Trump himself has discounted the complaints as coming from "paid troublemakers," and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) agreed: "There are people who do this as a profession, they're professional protesters," he said....

Republican lawmaker Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), who is the co-chair of the bipartisan Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) congressional caucus, is speaking out against Elon Musk's claims of "transparency" and his methods of informing government workers about major changes to their agencies.

In the Oval Office next to President Donald Trump Tuesday, Musk claimed, "All of our actions are fully public... transparency is what builds trust." By "fully public," Musk meant information posted on the DOGE account of his social media platform, X.

CNN anchor John Berman asked Sessions on Wednesday, "You told CNN that you were going to be meeting with federal workers, and your message to them would be, quote, 'I might have done it differently when it comes to what Elon Musk and his teams have been doing.' What would you do differently?" ...