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CNN and MSNBC used the phrase �constitutional crisis� more than 200 times
since Feb. 3, when Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) chairman Elon Musk announced that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was shutting down, the Daily Caller News Foundation learned in a keyword search of footage archived by Grabien News.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the decision to shutter the agency during a Feb. 3 press conference in El Salvador, saying that his concerns
about its oversight began when he was in Congress. He said the agency is �completely unresponsive� and �not functioning� as intended after DOGE representatives appeared at USAID headquarters Jan. 31 and gained access
after a standoff with agency employees, ABC News reported. During a Feb. 4
Fox News interview, Rubio accused USAID of �rank insubordination� (RELATED: Alan Dershowitz Says Many �Improper� Injunctions Against Trump Executive
Orders Will Get Tossed)

MSNBC used the phrase �constitutional crisis� 141 times from 12:01 a.m.
Eastern Standard Time on Feb. 3 to 12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time Tuesday, either from a host or a guest, according to the DCNF review. While CNN used
the term only 69 times in that timeframe, 57 of those occurrences took place Monday and Tuesday, a pace similar to MSNBC�s 68 uses in that same time
period, a count that includes re-airings of primetime shows late at night and in the early morning hours.

The increased usage of the phrase came after Vice President JD Vance
criticized United States District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Barack Obama. Engelmayer issued an injunction at 1 a.m. Saturday barring DOGE and political appointees in the Trump administration from accessing the Treasury Department�s central payment system.

�If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,� Vance posted Sunday on X. �If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that�s also illegal. Judges aren�t allowed to control the executive�s legitimate power.�

�Morning Joe� used the phrase �constitutional crisis� 22 times starting Feb.
3, with 13 coming since Vance�s post on X according to the DCNF�s review and another six times on Friday. �Deadline: White House� used the phrase 23 times since Feb. 3, and 10 of those instances occurred Monday. Six uses of the phrase came in just under two minutes in an exchange between guest host Ali Velshi and New York University law professor Melissa Murray.

�So in my view, Ali, all of this is a constitutional crisis. We�re watching this unfold over time, and I don�t mean to be hyperbolic about this or to be
on 11 all of the time, but the idea that the president can step in and appropriate congressional powers over how money is disbursed and to whom it
is disbursed, is a usurpation of the lawmaking authority,� Murray told Velshi after being asked a question that used the phrase three times. �That is a genuine constitutional violation, and the fact that it hasn�t been corrected, or that it�s only been limitedly corrected, and it continues to go on among this executive is a constitutional crisis. The fact that the vice president
of the United States, who is a law school graduate, a graduate of the same
law school that I attended and from which I graduated, and who should know better, is talking about open defiance of the courts, that is a genuine constitutional crisis.�

�The Supreme Court is not like the president. It doesn�t wield the power of
the sword,� Murray said. �It�s not like Congress. It doesn�t wield the power
of the purse. All it has for us to understand its work and to abide by its
work is some sense that it�s legitimate, and what JD Vance is doing is
stoking the idea that when the courts weigh in and rebuke this president and his DOGE bro minions, it is somehow illegitimate and that is a dangerous, dangerous place to be.�

The phrase was also used nine times on �The Source with Kaitlan Collins� Monday, with Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut using it three times in a seven-and-a-half minute interview with host and former Daily Caller
White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins.

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The New York Times and their so-called experts are blaming DOGE cuts at the National Weather Service and Climate Change on the disastrous flooding in
Texas that led to scores dead and dozens missing.

: In statements to NY Times, the former head of National Weather Service
: Louis Uccellini blamed climate change and staffing shortages for the
: Texas flooding.
:
: Holy moly ?? we're down bad. pic.twitter.com/Ey4RehHrnN
:
: � Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) July 6, 2025

Except none of this is true at all. The AP destroyed the idea that this was because of �staffing�:

: The National Weather Service office in New Braunfels, which delivers
: forecasts for Austin, San Antonio and the surrounding areas, had extra
: staff on duty during the storms, Runyen said.
:
: Where the office would typically have two forecasters on duty during
: clear weather, they had up to five on staff.
:
: �There were extra people in here that night, and that�s typical in every
: weather service office � you staff up for an event and bring people in on
: overtime and hold people over,� Runyen said.

Furthermore, the NWS did its job with warnings at least 12 hours before the devastating floods, according to Meteorologist Chris Martz on X:

: Okay. Let�s talk some facts.
:
: The Camp Mystic flood disaster in Texas is very unfortunate, and I hope
: that all of the missing girls are found.
:
: The usual suspects are exploiting this tragedy to score political brownie
: points. Some left-wing activists are blaming this flood on �climate
: change,� others are blaming the deaths and missing persons on inadequate
: warning caused by low staffing at the National Weather Service (NWS)
: caused by Trump administration federal RIFs. ??
:
: First of all, staffing cuts played no part in this tragedy. ?????
:
: The NWS issued a flood watch for Kerr County more than 12 hours ahead of
: the flood. They also issued a flash flood warning for Hunt and Ingraham
: THREE HOURS before the Guadalupe River began to climb. There was plenty of
: lead time with respect to the forecast and issuance of warnings.
:
: The flood was caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry becoming
: embedded into a broad mid-level trough over central Texas. These remnant
: lows are typically slow-moving and drop heavy rain over a large
: geographical area where the troposphere destabilizes. ???
:
: This particular one stayed quasi- (fairly) stationary, and caused massive
: flooding along the Guadalupe River, something that has happened many times
: before. In 1987, a flash flood on the same river killed 10 teenage campers
: from the Pot O Gold Christian Camp, with another 33 swept away who
: survived. ???
:
: https://newspapers.com/image/979014003/
:
: Camp Mystic is built on a floodplain. It is on sediment that has been
: deposited by hundreds, if not thousands of floods over the last millennium.
:
: The event has nothing to do with climate change.
:
: And, the tragedy had nothing to do with DOGE cuts.
:
: If you are someone who has exploited this catastrophe because you just
: don�t like Trump, you need to take a serious look in the mirror.


:Okay. Let�s talk some facts.
:
:The Camp Mystic flood disaster in Texas is very unfortunate, and I hope that :all of the missing girls are found.
:
:The usual suspects are exploiting this tragedy to score political brownie :points. Some left-wing activists are blaming this flood on� :pic.twitter.com/ODX5Rmpm7G
:
:� Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) July 5, 2025


There you go. Once again the despicable �Paper of Record� exploits a tragedy because they hate Trump.

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