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Rep. Ro Khanna, currently serving in the U.S. Congress representing California’s 17th district, has recently shared a series of tweets addressing concerns over federal workforce reductions, national debt and deficits, and defense spending. These posts highlight his perspectives on current fiscal policies and their implications.

On March 11, 2025, Rep. Khanna expressed his concerns regarding potential impacts of mass firings within the federal workforce. He stated that "Social Security checks, Medicare and Medicaid payments, veterans' benefits and more are all dependent on a functioning federal workforce." He warned that such actions could devastate the lives of many civil servants.

Later that day, he posted about the nation's financial situation with a focus on debt and deficit figures. In his tweet at 14:43 UTC, he provided a chart illustrating these facts: "We have a $36 trillion debt...the Trump/Vance Republican budget adds $28.5 trillion to it." This addition would exceed current deficit spending by $4.6 trillion over ten years.

In another tweet at 15:08 UTC directed at Elon Musk, Rep. Khanna criticized recent budgetary decisions involving defense spending and tax breaks: ".@elonmusk, DOGE firings are saving 0.004% of the federal budget while the tax breaks exploding the deficit are 455 times that — and you're not reducing the 13% of defense spending." He invited Musk to discuss these numbers further in Congress or on Jon Stewart's platform.