Nevada Senator Tries Spooking the Masses

Nevada’s own Catherine Cortez Masto has gone and hollered “fire” in a theater again, only this time, the theater’s got plenty of empty seats. The esteemed Senator took to the electrified town square of X to bemoan the alleged wholesale dismissal of General Services Administration (GSA) employees in Nevada—courtesy, she claimed, of none other than Donald Trump.

Now, the trouble with this alarming pronouncement is that it is what scholars of the English language call “a fib.” In her breathless dispatch, the Senator lamented the supposed loss of GSA workers who keep federal buildings in working order, insisting that Trump was personally dismantling security systems and throwing courthouse janitors into the street like a Dickensian villain.

In reality, the firings came at the hands of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an agency so committed to belt-tightening that it practically runs on a diet of saltine crackers and good intentions. Rather than troubling herself with these particulars, the Senator opted for the well-worn political strategy of flinging words into the void and hoping some of them stuck.

To hear her tell it–Nevada’s courthouses are now in peril, U.S. Marshals are wandering the desert like Moses, and Army Corps engineers are fashioning tools out of cactus spines. That’s quite the spectacle, though the truth–if ever it mattered, is that DOGE’s move had about as much to do with Trump as the moon’s orbit does with a Nevada slot machine.

But such is the way of modern politics—why let a fact stand in the way of a good scare? The Senator’s tale is as sturdy as a Nevada tumbleweed, rolling along wherever the political winds may take it.