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From Fox News: If Democratic lawmakers won’t listen to President Trump on cutting waste, maybe they’ll listen to President Barack Obama.
In a recently resurfaced video from 2011, then-President Obama called on the federal government to cut wasteful government spending and programs, even the ones that “a lot of people care about.”
“Everyone knows that getting rid of the deficit will require some tough decisions, and that includes cutting back on billions of dollars in programs that a lot of people care about,” the former president said in the nearly 14-year-old clip.
As a reminder to Democratic figures demanding an end to the Trump administration’s agenda of cutting wasteful government spending, conservative users on X shared the old video of Obama lobbying for similar things.
In the video, Obama rightly notes that much of the wasteful spending needs to be cut, even if the U.S. didn’t have a deficit… including the “pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn’t benefit anybody.”
He also mentioned thousands of empty buildings the government needs to just sell off, and said, “Just as families are living within their means, government should too.”
And the real kicker… Obama said he was putting then-Vice President Joe Biden in charge to “hunt down misspent tax dollars in every agency and department of this government.”
Prominent X user MAZE posted the old video and wrote, “OMG this is not AI, it’s real. It’s a must watch. 2011. Obama announces a DOGE department and puts Joe Biden in charge of it! z’Nobody messes with Joe.”
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OMG this is not AI, it’s real. It’s a must watch.
2011. Obama announces a DOGE department and puts Joe Biden in charge of it!
“Nobody messes with Joe.”
pic.twitter.com/obGsYHzmMr
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 14, 2025
Elon Musk pounced on the video, and wrote, “Obama sounds exactly like @DOGE!!”
Obama sounds exactly like @DOGE!! https://t.co/k92s04pJdY
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 14, 2025
There’s more…. here’s Chuck Schumer in 2010, calling to cut the waste, fraud and abuse out of Medicare.
Hey Elon, do you have room for one more at DOGE?
Chuck Schumer might want to join the team. pic.twitter.com/CowJduZ5C7
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 11, 2025
Schumer acknowledged that “about a third of all the spending in Medicare and Medicaid doesn’t go to healthcare but to other things.” He notes that one-third is all waste, fraud and abuse that must be cut out.
WATCH:
Chuck Schumer just posted that Elon is a liar for claiming that Social Security and Medicare have lots of waste, fraud, and abuse.
Chuck also says that any cuts in these programs by DOGE will reduce benefits.
Have a listen to Chuck Schumer back in 2010. pic.twitter.com/pgYhogYFFI
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 11, 2025
At the same meeting in 2010, Nancy Pelosi says, ““We cannot keep our promises on Medicare we simply must cut the waste, fraud and abuse.”
Found another potential DOGE team member.
2010. Nancy Pelosi: We cannot keep our promises on Medicare unless we cut out the waste, fraud, and abuse. pic.twitter.com/bdy3HsLMrg
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 11, 2025
And here’s Nancy Pelosi saying every dollar spent should be subject to the most intense scrutiny, so that no taxpayer dollar is wasted.
Another one. Team DOGE. pic.twitter.com/N9CsrEjlk2
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 12, 2025
Below is Bernie Sanders in 2011… saying exactly what Elon Musk has ben saying today.
“I will not deny for one second that there is waste and fraud and bureaucracy in almost every government program out there. I believe we’ve got to take a hard look at them all…. if we did all or some of these things, we could easily reduce the deficit by well over $4 trillion over the next decade, if not much more.”
WATCH THIS:
2011. Bernie Sanders does an entire presentation on cutting waste and bureaucracy from the government.
Now Mr. “We Only Have 10 Years Left Because of Climate Change” is attacking the EV guy for trying to cut waste and bureaucracy from the government.
Bernie the Fraud. pic.twitter.com/5eOOChEfCg
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 12, 2025
Bernie Sanders was saying the same thing about waste and fraud in government in 2008.
And shocker… he admits that while it’s right to condemn the Congress for the waste, “it’s also important to note that we have an administration… and the function of the administration is to administer, so that when there is waste and fraud, the administration should also be on top of the situation.”
What an incredible ad for DOGE. Thank’s Bernie!
2008. Bernie Sanders acknowledges there is an incredible amount of waste and fraud in the government and then claims it’s the responsibility of the President’s administration to do something about it. pic.twitter.com/e4C1MJpdTx
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 11, 2025
Below is a compilation of Schumer, Pelosi and Sanders, in one video:
TEAM DOGE! pic.twitter.com/yoll5djw4P
— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 12, 2025
Podcaster Megyn Kelly mocked the Obama video, writing, “This is totally different because… it’s different ppl and it’s different and it’s …”
This is totally different because… it’s different ppl and it’s different and it’s … https://t.co/Ubke1YbOhg
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) March 14, 2025
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