It’s entertaining to hear them all occasionally pause and say something like,” Everyone wants to end useless spending, but…” as Democrats and the press continue to hold their groins in horror over Elon Musk and his DOGE team’s assessment of the federal government.
That’s the most obvious sign that someone has no intention of cutting even one penny out of our nearly$ 7 trillion budget.
There are of course areas we can reduce, but …
There are ways to improve productivity, but …
Nobody likes seeing scams and spare, but …
What follows the “but” is generally some justification for why a presented cut isn’t useful, a state that the cut will cause “literally millions of deaths,” or, as my personal favorite, an claim that the budget’s target is “only” some infinitesimal small fraction of the budget ( in which case I say it should immediately obtain cut ).
One of these was made by CNN’s Dana Bash on Friday regarding Musk’s recent plans to significantly reduce the Democrats ‘ favorite slush fund, also known as” USAID.”
She continued,” I don’t think even the biggest supporters of USAID would argue that it’s not worth looking into,” and made sure that if there is money being spent improperly or on deceptive programs, it’s worthwhile looking into and taking away, but …”
The editorial board of The Washington Post declared,” Of course, a compelling case can be made for significant changes to the federal government,” on Thursday, making a particularly humorous version of this pattern. The paper did not specifically recommend any cuts to federal spending, but rather suggested accelerating the hiring process for even more government employees.
I’m not joking. A major problem right now with government efficiency, according to the Post, is that” the hiring process is arcane and inefficient”. Maybe the editors aren’t entirely sure what the purpose of DOGE is, I get the impression that.
All of this is to say that I’m not sure how much of a federal budget Musk and DOGE will be able to reduce even one penny, but their strategy so far, which includes auditing the Treasury‘s payment systems and aggressively pushing to eliminate large numbers of government employees, is the only realistic attempt.
Democrats and their media friends claim that the procedure violated privacy laws and that it violated the law, and that a court has intervened to check whether all of this is true. ( Why wouldn’t the president of the United States be able to deputize anyone he wants to have full access to organizations that fall under the executive branch? ) Whatever the case may be, eliminating the hundreds and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal budget is only possible by implementing Musk’s strategy.
Everyone in Washington, even Republicans, says they’re dead-set on reducing the bloat. Then, perhaps after a performative government” shutdown”, during which government workers get a paid vacation, a budget is passed that either sustains or, more likely, increases the previous one. However, this week, the public will receive a fresh, in-depth examination of the outrageous and despicable expenditures our elected leaders are allowing, including billions of dollars going toward DEI initiatives abroad and funding useless projects here.
Democrats and the media naturally react with horror at being exposed and insisting that removing even the most of it would have no impact on the budget, so DOGE should look elsewhere.
Nah, we’ve gotta start somewhere, and there’s no better place.
