mr. bishop: i don't. the president said he is not going to because that is what he has consistently planned so i don't think it is an issue. sen. slotkin: but if you look behind the numbers, you guys are looking for $6 trillion, doge is looking for that. $6 trillion to succumb from $1 million here and $1 million here. it comes in cutting big programs and what you're saying is despite what everyone says here, you are working for and proudly support this idea that you can move money even though it has been appropriated for a certain reason. i don't think any american, red, blue, purple, the whole thing, should trust that these programs they worked their entire life for our sake if you believe anything that you want. mr. bishop: there are distinctions to be made. you suggested hypocrisy about serving in congress and taking this position. harry truman exercised impoundment power to cancel a squadron of farmers that he had vetoed. these things that happened across history by presidents. sen. slotkin: i would j

mr. bishop: i do not. the folks were advising the president, the president have made points and unbelieving that the federal employee workforce is not the right size and needs to be the right size. >> so when we are seeing the national nuclear security administration, hundreds fired, later to be reinstated, vented not seem like that was indiscriminate initially and then they realized look, probably the nuclear functions of the united states is important? 11 language this is happening, you think that was an appropriate move to initially fire then? mr. bishop: i think the president has spoken directly to that of people speaking for the president have in the course of making changes, you may find that you need to then move in the other direction and to make an adjustment acting is made first change. in my view, senator, that doesn't make it indiscriminate. sen. johnson: mr. edgar, i guess i like to get a sense, what with the reasoning for the firing of one hundred 30 employees at the cybersecurity and infrast

mr. bishop? >> sir i'm not certain the process that omb will permit and i think you have provided it in an expedited way and we will work to that end within the department according to the process. >> and if it can be done you'll describe i can be done. >> i will commit to following the processes of blondie omb to that effect. >> i appreciate that. >> i will follow, the processes and to obtain a transparent relationship of this committee. i'm now hearing from several agencies that this administration has instructed its staff to not communicate with members of congress and our staff. my question for each of you are either of you aware of this directive coming from the trump administration did not talk to members of congress? congressman bishop that should be outrageous to you. >> senator i'm unaware of that. i did encounter such instruction by prior to when i was a member of congress but i can't speak to it. i'm serving as a senior adviser and haven't been involved in that. >> would you push back

all the things that are sort of so i'm doing this, that's not by giving me a motion for you, mr. bishop. and gabriel. i would also like you both of the differences of lucas le to, to share too, if not, say that so. so maybe a slightly shells, nice to know, since we shouldn't have pulled up the schools. and also this was the original, an total postal of or for the spiritual warriors of finding those you've been destroying. don't buses, peaceful towns for almost 9 years, burying neither prison is women. your children will shooting at the corner store in the gates and we wouldn't even want to anybody else on the road to star from anybody else for the leg and fall of love is love. a woman who will come to the front. they've come to the battalion, commanded by a scout with the co sign nikolai, which you guys throw really soon. so who want you to know belong to know well, most or then? well i just, i left now i'm was from also full was actually you know, i don't let me on my cellphone when you're slow when you do relation. so stuff. but i do see the us so yeah, so i've got a deep hole right w

mr. bishop, designating saturday, february 8, as scouting -- scouts of america day, to honor the tireless service of scouts volunteers and participants in our communities. the scouts have a slogan. do a good turn daily. i hope everyone sees the value in helping those around them and continues to pursue kindness. mr. speaker, i want to thank the scouts, leaders, volunteers and families who have helped keep this movement strong. their dedication ensures that scouting will continue to inspire and guide future generations. with that, mr. speaker, thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes the resident commissioner from puerto rico, resident commissioner hernandez rivera, for five minutes. mr. rivera: thank you, mr. speaker. this will be your year. you might final he will get -- finally get that row motion. you might graduate. you -- promotion. you might graduate. you might finally lose those extra pounds and all of a sudden the power goes out. you are used to it. it's maybe the first time it happens that day. it probably isn't the firs

mr. green, and to the students of bishop, thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it.all. all right. well, we've had a taste of spring over the past few days here in the bay area. it feels more like a bay area summer for all those who are in arizona to see the giants and a's at spring training camp. >> which begins. >> later today. >> it's all happening near phoenix, where it's been sunshine and temperatures in the 80s, a welcome break for people from states that have had extremely cold winter weather. phoenix, by the way, is usually in the low 70s right now. just had its first 90 degree day since october 28th. >> it was 15 degrees below zero when i left oshkosh. a little bit warmer here. yep. >> probably about 20 right now. and i'd rather be here today. >> beautiful. a lot better in weather we left back home. >> i might never go home. >> check back in july. as steve paulson says, giants fans are keeping their eye on pitcher justin verlander and former stanford right hander tristan beck. spring training for the giants continues till march 25th. a's training runs throug

mr. vance, vice president vance picked the fight originally with the u.s. bishops and cardinals, where he ridiculously accused them of somehow profiting off of the charitable work that they do with migrants. cardinal dolan, a big fan of trump's, the president trump's cardinal dolan, gave the invocation at his inaugural. he has called he says, mr. president, trump has been particularly sensitive to the feelings of the religious community. okay. a pro-trump cardinal said that vance's comments were not true, scurrilous and nasty. and i've got to say, as a faithful catholic, jd has been a catholic for about five years. we're glad to have him. okay, but he's already picking a fight with the holy father. there's a latin phrase for that. we have in the catholic church chutzpah. yeah, like shut up, jd, do your job as vice president. don't tell the holy father how to run our church. well. >> i mean, but remember, we did we did see some of this back and forth. and, look, conservative catholics think that this pope is too liberal, too much of a bleeding heart. uh, you know, s

mr. president. in the name of our god, i ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. >> a so-called bishoping an inaugural prayer service. she goes on a far left woke tirade in front of donald trump and j.d. vance. >> they were forced to listen to the rantings of a lunatic. >> the so-called bishop who spoke at the national prayer service on tuesday morning was a radical left hardline trump hater. she brought her church into the world of politics in a very ungracious way. she was nasty in tone. the president went on to call the service, quote, "boring and uninspiring." >> seth: all right, first of all, you're complaining that it was boring? it's church. you want -- [ laughter ] -- the bishop to dance to "ave maria" with a katana in her hand? [ laughter ] second, if you think a member of the clergy asking the most powerful person on earth to have mercy on marginalized people is woke or radical left that might be a good sign that you're a sociopat this is like holding up a rorschach test and the patient immediately says, "oh, i know this one. it's a guy violently strangling another guy and th