'But That's Not All, Secretary...': Jason Smith Grills Janet Yellen On Biden's $6.8 Trillion Budget
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- At Friday's House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) questioned Treasury Sec. Janet Yellen.
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Do NOT give Yellen a DIME!!!
I AS A TAX PAYING AMERICAN WANT ACCOUNTABILITY!!!
Yvette hodge, we all want accountability but unfortunately they will get away with it! The WH needs to be burn down to the ground!!
Sure, you do. Good luck with that.
The IRS agents owe taxes. Lol. We need border agents not IRS agents. Look at the invasion on the border now.
I do NOT want them on the payroll .........our money our choice
FIRE HER!
Jason Smith, thanks for helping Americans and revealing these evil ppl
She won’t even commit to letting her employees know about the whistleblower hotline???!!! FIRE HER!!!!!!
This committee should have judging powers....
They won't, she is an asset
I'm getting really tired of people not giving a straight answer to committees of congress. They can't give it because they know they are criminals.
Yeah... and how about those who refuse to show up, even when served with a supena!?
lets not forget the ones who walked out and had the gall to send a group selfie on a private jet headed to their favorite vacation resort..americas memory is short so i doubt anyone does recollect that little fiasco
funny how its all 'democrats' allowed to lie
There needs to be a thorough audit and investigation of IRS first before providing them anymore taxpayer money and a full account of the money they've received so far.
They should’ve been arrested and disbanded after they went after the Tea party!!
If the IRS is audited, so does the Fed. Reserve. Probably more so than the IRS. Biden and the dems were attempting to ram this through.
Ways and means wants explanations for why they should give you the money. If you can't detail what that money is going to be spent on, it will be gutted from the budget. This whole omnibus bill could come apart at the seams as the Biden admin is run by a bunch of incompetent people. Biden himself included.
I've never seen a more destructive president in my lifetime. Bush was bad enough. Probably the worst Republican president in my lifetime.
But Biden will go down in history as: "America's worst mistake, the President who (nearly) destroyed the country". Still boggles the mind Trump actually lost to this guy.
@@time.worn-soul8243 ok, I almost get all that, just not the part that Trump actually lost, if ya know where I'm going
@@newrivertroll1553 I'm confused.
@@heidiblake7957 if you're confused by all that word salid for answers, it'll make more sense when you realize it doesnt...
The struggle sessions of these hearings are unbelievable...he asked yellan 10 different ways if she would make her employees aware of the hot-line for wrong doing, and she tried her best to answer in a way she could lie without perjuring herself 🙄
Exactly right
She does all her answers in circle .
she is a Jew,
@@soylentgreen9492 time to throw these money changing bastards out of the Temple long overdue
Yeap
Thank you , Jason Smith for fighting for the American people.
How about NO money for the IRS/Treasury Secretary???!!! This is RIDICULOUS. I can’t BELIEVE what is happening to our country. If you sent a poll to every American about whether WTP want more IRS agents, what do you think the answer would be????
EVERYONE in the federal government is SUPPOSED to be working on OUR behalf. This is absolutely disgusting.
These people are out-of their bloody minds.
Wish i had a money tree
@@anyms2 hey they have printing presses
@@colleenposadas8415 careful now, someone died using counterfeit money a few years ago
Secretary Yellen is a fine example of what incompetent looks like.
I have yet to hear a sound bit that sounds like she knows anything.
The whole Biden administration is incompetent and corrupt!!
It's not that she is incompetent, it is that she is very competent at destroying Americans' bank accounts with her authoritarian tactics.
Corrupt
She knows exactly what she does 💯
Everytime I listen to this woman, my hair catches fire. The non answers and flat out lies are unbelievable.
Calling that old bat "madam secretary " sends shivers down the spines of thinking people.
Janet Yellon avoids each question with evasiveness every time. She is a dishonest person.
Dishonest person is the exact definition of modern time politicians.
Dishonest President, Dishonest Administration. November3rd, 2020...the day the freedom died.
She’ll get that important info to them in a couple of weeks…yeah right, forget about it. This is the best Dem line of deceit
Very dishonest
Jail time for her and Biden
Shut her down!
This is ludicrous!
Stop taking our money and giving it away to every country but ours! 😡😡😡😡
YES AT LEAST SPLIT IT
Recalling Yellen saying NOT IN HER LIFETIME. She’s still here and we’re seeing it
Shes the master of answering without answering.
This women is apart of Obama's team..
This guy is great glad he’s on our side 🤣
Agreed 👍
When they don't account for the money already given the process should stopped until we can see what it is being spent on. They want more money to get more of our money yet we blindly allow them to disperse it where ever? This is insanity!
We the people cannot afford this administration. They need to be removed from office and sent to prison.
What a waste of money we need a flat tax get rid of the IRS and her
I don't think there will be a flat tax without all kinds of F'ed up social justice exemptions and there's the rub.
That's what im talking about. Simple obvious solutions. Period.
It’s way to simple to do a flat tax! They love having a over powered 3rd party IRS
@@douglackie3777 A Republican in my red state took groceries off the sales tax. No state income tax here ever.
This is ridiculous! They should not get one penny without 100% oversight and knowledge of where every dollar is going with records and receipts for it all. I don't understand why this hasn't already been implemented.
She can talk for hours...without saying anything.
Well, you know, we think that race is important, and I'll certainly get back to you once I know the answer, and my diapers need changing, and I've had this job too long and I'm gettin' a little tired of always being clueless and getting tired. When we have appropriations and the ideas of how much of your money we are using for our own political interests, then we'll appropriate the delusion of confusion, and time our stock buying and personal portfolios to what's good for us, and then we can appropriate and delegate more research on where we want to go with all these questions you are bringing forth in our congressional discretion enabling a few ramifications of demographic policy reform.
Clear enough?
Like all of them.
I don’t think Yellen has a clue. Spending and raising taxes seem to be the answer to everything. It is all political. The average family is just hanging on. These people don’t live in the real world.
Grandpa Munster Yellen again 😂
@@optimusprinceps3526
I am soooo glad I am not the only person who sees it
The government see' s the public as drones.
She has no control over Biden’s woke mob. But does not say so.
They gotta fund all those new voters coming ... they want us gone.
NO MORE MONEY TO IRS! DEFUND THEM
85k armed IRS agents are not needed. Armed border agents and security personnel in schools are needed. Get her out of office.
I agree strongly
We don’t have to fund criminals if we don’t want to…. We gotta NOT pay em and see what they do after that lol
@@kimcissell1905 Get her out ...get her out ...get her out ...
They are theives and everything they are doing with our money is UNCONSTITUTIONAL ❗❗❗❗❗❗❗
Proud to be a Missourian with Jason in the House and Josh Hawley in the Senate.
Yellen could not run a cool-aid stand yet she is in charge of the treasury department. How scary is that. Fire her already . She has no clue what she is doing or her department. The country is being destroyed for within by this gov.
Wake up people!! This destruction of our country is by design and not incompetence. Our current administration is a continuing process started with Obama. No. It was started before Obama, but he was the ley!
Education is a prime example of how pouring more and more money into something does not lead to better outcomes.
Look at Ca...exactly
@@cristinakarlin5589 Heck, look at other countries.
It's a war for control and change of the economic system - Supply Side Capitalism vs Centralised Government ( Corporatocracy ) Control
Defend department of Education.
Geez MO( Where y’all been hiding this guy !!!! It’s so refreshing to hear a Republican sleek with intelligence and no political bias !
"Customer Service" !?! We aren't customers! We are victims of a criminal cabal!
This is a perfect reason to have a flat tax with a 3x5 card as the only paperwork needed.
Ted Cruz tried to do that and the Cartel wouldn't do it. He tried to get Republicans to end ObamaCare and they refused. He's submitted bills to grandfather in Term Limits. The mafia just laughs. He would make a great President, but voters are too butthurt that he went to Cancun, he hurt the Trump Cult's feelings by not kissing the ring and Cocaine Mitch set up a PAC specifically to defeat him and anyone else that isn't a progressive POS.
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A 3% consumer tax would be better no income tax and under the consumer tax no one is exempt eliminate all income tax and all IRS agents.......
@@DavidKing-lr9hu youre right. They wouldnt need nearly as much staff if taxes were extremely simple and if it was all standardized
I'm so sick of all this corruption. The last time I want to hear about anything like this is when they all get locked up. That's it !
Thank you Jason Smith for letting us know the facts.
Yellen is an example of term limits!
But who elected her? Anyone at all or was she given the position because of dei.
Lol, she is not elected Jack. Her position is an appointment by a president.
With all due respect the woman is incompident
And, you don't know how to spell? So?
Learn to spell
@@engletinaknickerbocker5380
She is evil.
Did I spell it right?
She is a BIG part of the deliberately destructive admin. Whistle 🥳 blower?
@@engletinaknickerbocker5380 How nice of you to point that out.
The IRS does not need nor does it deserve ANY increases!!! There should be a complete STOP on funding of ridiculous and unnecessary spending of our taxs.
Thanks Jason! God bless you! 😇🙏
Is it legal for the Secretary of Treasury of the United States to funnel our tax payer money to a foreign country without the tax payer consent? (Ukraine)
I asked the same question... no one answered.
Yes, as long as no one is willing to do anything about, everything is legal. Which is why they dance around in front of these cameras for us, so we think someone is doing something.
Ukraine diplomats are running off with hundreds of millions in retirement funds. For self.
I really CANNOT believe what I am seeing!! This is nothing short of horrifying incompetence!!
I recently visited with a guy who grew up in Moldova. He immigrated here 7 years ago. His view on Ukraine is that the whole country has long been a money laundering economy. He is very against USA perpetuating the war. It was an interesting conversation.
Seriously.... Has Joe Brib'em appointed even one cabinet member that is competent, and understands high school level economics?
We already have some in office without GED
Each one is as villainous as the next.
None are "here to help" as Heels Up likes to giggle at the camera
@@victoriawright7395 He was at the top of his class, NOT!!! Brandon is a joke
NO
Nope. Very beautiful diverse cabinet. I can't say another opinion about it without getting banned, but we know identity politics is so important. Don't I sound so nice mainstream media?
Shut It Down !!
She said she promises. I feel better.
She sounds so convincing I almost believe her! HAHAHAHA! 🤡🤡🤡
We had a Senile neighbor that went around telling everyone he had a million dollars in the bank, he just needed a Ride to the Bank!! This is Insanity, why are Old over 80 years old Seniles Running our Country???
Ruining is more like it
It isn't their age that's bringing down the country.
These evil people know exactly what they're doing
and are almost done
The boomers got everything they ever wanted, now in their old age they just want the last laugh.
@@Initial_Gopnik
In America you had the freedom to work for what you wanted.
What the left nwo is doing to this country is nothing to laugh at
Because they have to keep hiding their fraud....the most corrupt greedy generation
Yellen is funneling 😂
Doing books in. Ukraine on our tax payers dollar that just was taken down .Russia China Saudi and Iran North Korea all in together as committee: bricks
@@kimberlyhoward369 What does the Federal Reserve have to do with some tyrannical government fighting another tyrannical nation in EUROPE !!???? This wreaks of bait and switch. Corruption is everywhere ! Let's Go Brandon! and take Yellen with you to jail.
We want accountability!
The whole administration is a joke
If this administration is a joke, the last administration was a nightmare! We're still suffering from the effects of his treachery.
It is so funny how libtards always want to refer to the last administration when talking about the pathetic, truly America killing job this Dem administration has done. I watched someone on the Republican party ask a Democrat what exactly did the last administration do that was so bad for the American people as all of you state. Not made up things. Actual, proven things did the last administration do that was so bad and then asked what this administration has done to change what the last administration did that actually made things better for the American people. So, per usual, that Democrat had nothing right away but the typical idiotic talking points. But when they finally tried to pull something out of thin air, what this dem had to say was proved right there on the spot to be incorrect or was a version being spread by this administrations party that was half truth, half what libtards have added to make things sound worse than what really was done. I don't think there has ever been a perfect president and party but there is no way anyone can't see that this president, administration and democratic party as a hole has done anything good for the American people. Everyone is by far worse than the last administration. This administration actually goes out of there way to make things worse. Taxes, gas, electric, food, guns, the border, unnecessary spending, jobs, homeless, schools, racist progression and propaganda, on and on and on.
@@p.j.m.d.1948 you are delusional
@@p.j.m.d.1948 😢 still gonna cry? Trumps been gone 3 years buddy. Can't blame this mess on him
@erickanter4090 a lot was carried over from former president
Her language tells you all you need to know.
"We will certainly look at legislative language and give you our feedback"
This woman is ridiculous... you work for us. Not the other way around. You are in there, not by choice, but because it's illegal for you to not show up.
He asked you for something very specific, and you are telling him "I don't have to give it to you" without telling him that flat out.
...then she, and all of them should sit there until she does..give yes or no, or a direct answer not a speech to question posed. She has time don't think she has work she just brushed it off to the next gov office. Bs what it is
@@leanorau990 unfortunately all that would accomplish is him running his time up, and his voter base getting annoyed.
Every republican would have to approach with the same tactic, and they would have to be disciplined enough not to bawk at the dems when they poke fun at them for being adamant about a yes and no on one question.
It's better if it's legislated, but no one in DC wants to make a law that might come back to bite them.
Some of the comments from the Dems, that would be condensed into soundbite and rammed into the faces of their mindless voter base would include;
"Well... Looks like my friends on the other side of the aisle don't really feel like getting much done, even though this was their idea."
Then they would ask softball questions to make her look good.
We will get no peace until we get fed up, and just evict the Democratic party from the halls of Congress, and tell their states, "your representatives are trash, start over and try again, we will not accept any elections done by your state though, and they must be conducted by the federal government instead."
That's what we all want... %99 of us would be happy with that regardless of what pollin says.
Because it's really the %1 that is causing the most problems with their never ending firehose of money into activist projects. Activist projects that convince anyone in DC who's on the fence that there is a 50/50 split among the public.
The reality is.... It's more like 99/1 and the 1 just cheats literally everything to get thier way. It's that one child you had to go to school with who never learned boundaries.
You tell them, "you can have two pieces of candy"
Then when you see them with 4, you ask why, and they say, "you didn't say someone couldn't give me their candy."
So the next day, you tell them "you can have 2 pieces of candy, and you can't have anyone else's."
All the while, you know this kid is stealing form the candy jar in your locker, but can't prove it.
You see them with 4 again, and they tell you, "you don't say how many times I could have two pieces, so I had two pieces twice."
It's at this point... The child knows what they are doing, and needs their ass whooped until they see God. That's what we need to do with the dem party... They spent way too long getting a pass.... Everyone just throwing their hands up and going "well, yeah, you are right that's a loophole, congratulations."... NO
As you put it, everyone can sit there until she answers. In my humble opinion, that man should be able to take everyone's time away, and they can sit there for 9 hours until she wants to give a yes or a no.
I'm really running out of patience for poorly raised humans from the cities.
Can I apply for that position Yellen holds ? SERIOUSLY, are you kidding me ??? WHAT A Joke!
Abolish the IRS
They have hired 5,000 customer service representatives?!?!?!?! Seriously??? What in the world is happening? Customer service representatives is the covert name for IRS agents!!! I'm so disgusted with how stupid our government thinks we are!!
I thought Mr. Smith was badgering Sec Yellen, until it became painfully clear that she was trying to evade his question. That's awkward...
Jason is a numbers/costs guru.
Is there no-one in the regime that can answer a straight yes/no question? The word salad that comes out of the pie holes of these "people"(using that term very loosely) is maddening at best.
She went to the same high school I went to Fort Hamilton in Bay Ridge Brooklyn and wasn't a bright light ten either. God Help Us and FJB!!
Trust me....she hasn't even scanned the staffer's "greenbook".
Can't you at least have Yellen learn her script.
When Sec Yellen was Fed Chief, did she have the opinion that the current budget deficits were unsustainable?
Grandpa Munster ?
Transitory remember
Would someone, anyone, please explain to me how the hell Janet Yellen managed to escape the Salem Witch Trials in Colonial Massachusetts, only to inexplicably wind up as Secretary of the Treasury in the 21st Century? 🧙♀️🤷🏼♂️
Such productive questions.
Like she doesn’t know the plan. They put her there to sound like this, same with Majorkas.
Boy did she avoid the question of providing the whistle blower phone number to her IRS agents.
This is insanity.
Do away with the IRS..do away with federal taxes..
#ENDTHEFED
#ENDTHEIRS
#ENDTHEIMF
#ENDTHEWORLDBANK
#ENDTHEBIS
#ENDALLCENTRALBANKS
And that's just for a beginning.
If you are familiar with F.A.S.A.B. Standard 56 (UNANIMOUSLY "passed" in both Houses in October 2019) ALL of them are in on it. Smith, Yellen, any Representatives and Senators that were "serving" in 2019 (Smith has been "serving" since 2013) know about F.A.S.A.B. Standard 56. UndervF.A.S.A.B. Standard 56 the entirety of the U.S. Federal Government (that includes ALL Federal Agencies) DO NOT HAVE TO REPORT ANY ACCOUNTING OF HOW MONEY IS TO BE OR ALREADY HAS BEEN SPENT. Any-thing they may disclose, they may chose to "cook the books" before disclosure. AND it's all done under the number one (fabricated) reasoning we always hear coming out of D.C. - NATIONAL SECURITY.
If you are at all familiar with the work of Dr. Mark Skidmore and Catherine Austin Fitts you will know how and why F.A.S.A.B. Standard 56 came in to being.
Do not give them no more money. All lies. And we the people have to pay. Less money for us and more money for them.😡😖😡
Defund and audit IRS first before they audit tax payers. Janet Yellen top on list
This guy should be the permanent head of the FED period,no lies just the facts, he is just a numbers machine
This woman needs to be fired!!!! Along with the rest of these crooks!!!!
Take their blank check book away enough
I have a blank check book I want that shit back in my hands now
She doesn’t want to say Yes, wow so obvious
Flat tax and eliminate IRS
Hell no Janet! You gave that to Zelenski!
Get on it. Good job, government is coming out better than ever.
Why is grandma still here. She belongs in a care home
Retirement without benefits... These people think we are stupid
6.8 trillion. Is that minus Joe's 10% or is that Joe's 10%..?😂
Great comment!
You mean "the big guy"?
@@loisgilchrist2037 Rats, you beat me to it . The Big Guy 😂😂😂
America should be embarrassed to have these types of people in charge of so many billions….sad
Does Janet Yelken even know what day it is ? So bloody slow !
I would say in light of the rash of bank failures in the last 72 hours, what is needed are bank regulators, not IRS agents.
Lol...did you hear who stripped away those bank regulations because he deemed them too severe?? The same person that deregulated the railways...yep you guessed it...DONALD J TRUMP
@@p.j.m.d.1948 First off the regulations changes under Trump had nothing to do with the Train derailment. Even the lying Liberal news media had to admit that. Secondly Benedict Xiden reversed almost everything Trump did I. His first 72 hours in office, including destroying American Energy Independence. Why didn't he reverse the regulator change? Hm?
Not a Yank. Emphatic yes, Bank regulators be good.
Major bank regulations were rolled back during the Trump administration, along with many other regulations that keep Americans safe, You all want to get rid of government regulations until the train derails spilling hazardous chemicals, then blame the Dems! lol
@@brendaeuliss7251 except that once again the regulations that were rolled back on trains did not apply to trains carrying hazardous materials. Benedict Xiden rolled back almost everything that Trump accomplished in his first 72 hours in office. If he left it, that means that he approved of it. Laughing at others misfortune is a sign of low character.
I really have struggled to watch and listen to Yellen.
What she deems "appropriate" is NOT what IS appropriate. She should be COMPELLED to use the whistleblower phone #.
A SMALL and LIMITED government is ESSENTIAL!!!
She like most isn't just seemingly incompetent, though granted many are. Most are obfuscating and dissembling, which are nice ways of saying they are purposefully lying!
Thank you for your work on this.
Spending money we don’t have on things we don’t need. The federal government has, by all measures, an addiction to spending on credit. It’s unsustainable.
When they can not answer questions they need to go to jail until they answer the question.
Enough enough enough
She plays a hell of a game of dodge ball
Yeah... like Trump plead the 5th more than 400 times in the Jean Carol deposition. Talk about pathetic.
I’d like to see her play an actual game of dodgeball.
We want to know NOW!
Not often that a US treasury secretary travels abroad to give a $100mm check to an unfunny comedian.
Hey Congress, here is some wrong doing; I call BS on IRS improving their customer service this year. My family has been working on getting a refund, providing every thing the IRS has asked. They have sent us 3 extension notices. It will be one year since filing my 2022 taxes. We are on a fixed income and could use this money they owe us.
She a lier
This is the biggest RORT ever seen!!!
Good luck America.
Unfortunately, the great depression coming will effect us all.
Sorry We are trying.
She reminds me of those action/horror movies where the little old lady is actually a super wicked demon in disguise... I keep waiting for her to rip someone's heart out and then escape by crawling across the ceiling
Asking the IRS for help is definitely the wrong way to go. Use an accountant.
JASON Smith is another senator who I discovered last year. He is is not afraid to go afters these demons!
Janet yellow is mayorkas-2.0
Why did we send the Treasury Secretary to a war zone? Has that ever happened before? Just what does she know about Combat?
It is weird. Did she take him cash? Why are all of these Government people going over to visit a war zone one at a time in private planes?
These darn criminals cant answer a damn question!!!
Get em!