86-year-old Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been melting down over Elon Musk’s DOGE finding waste, fraud, and abuse to cut from the budget.
Waters recently led an unhinged protest at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
And a video of Maxine Waters throwing a DOGE temper tantrum has everyone rolling on the floor in laughter.
Democrats are learning the hard way that no federal agency is safe from Elon Musk and his team of DOGE auditors.
Donald Trump tasked Musk to lead the DOGE efforts to find at least $1 trillion in waste, fraud, and abuse to cut from the federal bureaucracy.
And HUD Secretary Scott Turner enthusiastically invited Elon Musk and the DOGE team to “identify and eliminate any waste, fraud, and abuse” within the housing department.
I’m happy to announce the @DOGE Task Force at HUD.
We will identify and eliminate any waste, fraud, and abuse.
Under President Trump’s leadership business as usual is over. pic.twitter.com/4zAWTWETO9
— Scott Turner (@SecretaryTurner) February 13, 2025
And it didn’t take DOGE long to uncover at least $1.9 billion in wasteful spending at HUD that had been supposedly misplaced.
“$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process,” DOGE wrote on X.
“These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services but were no longer needed,” DOGE continued.
“@SecretaryTurner and @DOGE worked together to fix the issue and de-obligated the funds, which are now available for other use by the Treasury.”
$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process. These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed. @SecretaryTurner and @DOGE worked together to fix the… pic.twitter.com/NDZPr8sjFC
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 14, 2025
DOGE also found $4 million in DEI contracts within HUD that were immediately canceled.
“Today, HUD Secretary Scott Turner cancelled $4 million in contracts promoting ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI),” A HUD release read. “This savings for the American taxpayer was found by the HUD DOGE Task Force.”
This should be good news to any politician who cares about the taxpayers.
Mad Max(ine)
But DOGE bringing accountability to HUD sent Maxine Waters into a fit of rage.
She first fired off a letter demanding a hearing with Turner “so that the Committee can fully understand the impact of these actions on our nation’s worsening affordable housing and homelessness crisis.”
She said Turner has “partnered with unelected billionaire Elon Musk and the DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] to terminate thousands of HUD employees who carry out the work of the agency – with further plans to substantially cut staffing levels in D.C. and local field offices.”
Then, Waters led a protest at HUD where she and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) attempted to storm the building and deliver a letter to Secretary Turner.
But she was met at the door by HUD Chief of Staff Andrew Hughes.
Hughes offered to take the letter to Turner since he was in a meeting, but Waters rejected the offer and left the building.
Just witnessed Maxine Waters try to demand her way into hand delivering an anti-DOGE letter to HUD’s @SecretaryTurner while he was in a meeting
The HUD chief of staff was quite nice and offered to have her watch a video of Trump’s accomplishments in the lobby@BreitbartNews pic.twitter.com/4uuB0hLDTy
— Olivia Rondeau 🇺🇸 (@rondeaulivia) March 4, 2025
In a video posted to X after the staged protest, an unhinged Maxine Waters ranted that Trump was a “deplorable, despicable, dishonorable human being.”
“He’s full of lies and deceit, and he’s aligned with Putin and Russia,” she ranted.
She then called for him to be “tried for treason.”
“He’s been bought and paid for by Elon Musk, and the two of them together want to be dictators,” she added.
Rep. Maxine Waters says President Trump is, “Aligned with Putin and Russia. As a matter of fact, he should be tried for treason.”
Also, “He’s been bought and paid for by Elon Musk, and the two of them together want to be dictators.”
Mad Max won’t attend Trump’s speech tonight. pic.twitter.com/j2zpMljIHD
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) March 4, 2025
A spokesperson for HUD Secretary Turner punched back at Waters in a statement that she will hate.
“The Department appreciates the Congresswoman taking the time to travel to the agency, rather than attending to legislative business, when the House is in session,” the statement read. “While she has questions for the Department about how it is effectively and efficiently using taxpayer dollars, the department also has questions for her, including: Is it true that members of her family profited from her position as an elected official?” the statement continued.
The statement then pointed out that Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics named her as the “most corrupt” member of Congress on four different occasions.
“Does she think she deserves to win the award four times?” the statement asked of Waters. “Would she be open to leading by example and allowing DOGE to ensure that she is using taxpayer dollars’ responsibility to serve Californians? If not, what does she have to hide?”
