GOP Senator Murkowski Reveals Where Her Loyalties Are: The Federal Bureaucracy

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski says the Senate should not cede its legislative power to the President. In her view, the administration's effort to root out waste, fraud, and abuse has been indiscriminate and unfair to federal employees.

"The executive basically blows by Congress, or rolls right over Congress, and we allow that," Murkowski told Nobles in a video posted Tuesday morning on X. "We're ceding our responsibility.

Murkowski says she supports Trump's policies 100% but argues there is a better way to downsize the federal workforce. She told the reporter, "there is a 'right way and a wrong way' to deal with layoffs of federal employees... and that they 'have been treated with a level of disregard to their service and to their tenure.'"

Senator Murkowski never explained what her plan was to "properly" downsize the federal government.

During a town hall last week with constituents, Murkowski said Alaska is one of the states most dependent on federal funding. She discussed government employees being let go by the Trump administration.

"These are our friends, these are our neighbors. These are people that are doing good work for us," Murkowski said. "Determinations appear to be, for the most part, indiscriminate, some on probationary [status] but we're seeing more that there are beginning to be, just across the board cuts. … This is not how we treat any of our workforce. It's not how we treat our federal employees. They deserve better."

The Big Takeaway

A common retort to Trump is that he demands loyalty. But, by the way Senator Murkowski publicly defends the federal bureaucracy, it's clear where her loyalties are - the managerial class of Washington, D.C.