Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Wednesday that it’s time for Congress to follow up on the Department of Government Efficiency’s discovery of widespread corruption in federal spending.

Sessions, who serves as the co-chair of the House DOGE caucus, told “Wake Up America” that “the money that comes in and goes out is one of the most important things … that has contributed to the demise of our future.”

“The debt of this country has been discovered,” Sessions said.” “We wondered how all this money accumulated and then the decision was made. We will look at the payment system. That is not something that just members of Congress were after. That’s something that [DOGE Chair] Elon Musk knew he had to get his best computer people in to go find. The Treasury Department was stunned that they were so easily discovered in this process. It is the last vestige of what [former President Joe] Biden’s administration and people had counted on to continue doing, even the first year that [President] Donald Trump was in office. They got caught.”

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