Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Saturday that the reason emotions and rhetoric are at a fever pitch on Capitol Hill lately is that “there is a lot to be won or lost right now” in the Department of Government Efficiency fight.

Since Elon Musk and his DOGE team have begun uncovering what they call “fraud” and “abuse” in the billions from the federal government, some in the Democratic Party have raised the rhetoric in protest. On Monday, Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., called for a “street fight” and called DOGE “the department of government evil.”

Sessions told “Saturday Report” that Democrats have tried to use “lawfare” to “put not just [President] Donald Trump, but people like me in jail.”

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