Thomas Massie: Repealing the Year 1913
The New American recently interviewed Republican U.S. Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, who has garnered a reputation as the most constitutionalist member of Congress. Since first being sworn in on November 13, 2012, Massie has consistently championed constitutional principles, garnering a near-perfect 99-percent lifetime score in The New American’s Freedom Index, which measures congressional votes for their alignment with the Constitution.
A frequent guest for video interviews with The New American, this is Massie’s first interview with us during the 119th Congress. He discusses the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE); his bills to audit the Federal Reserve, abolish the Fed, abolish the Department of Education, and eliminate taxes on Social Security payments to seniors; and his thoughts about replacing the income tax with tariffs to fund the federal government. The following is a transcript of a video interview originally recorded for Unrestricted, one of the shows available at TheNewAmerican.com/video, where this full interview is available. The transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.
The New American: On December 11, 2024, you tweeted on X, “DOGE is like the U.S. Constitution. It’ll be great… if we can get my fellow lawmakers to follow it.” Now that we’ve seen what DOGE has uncovered at [the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)] and at the Treasury Department, how optimistic are you about what Elon Musk and President Donald Trump could accomplish in this term?
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