If you haven’t watched the Bret Baier interviews on Fox News with Elon Musk and the other executives who have given their time and expertise to exposing the rampant fraud and inefficiency of our federal government, I urge you to do so.
It will infuriate you- and that’s what we need right now.
These Department of Government Efficiency volunteers are on a patriotic mission to repair our ship of state. They are hunting down the rats and scoundrels who have played us (we the taxpayers) for fools for so many years. It’s the greatest robbery- more than $1 trillion of fraud and corruption- in world history.
Yet, too many Democrats are reacting as though Musk himself is the scoundrel.
The “Musk-ateers” have marked nearly 10 million Social Security recipients over the age of 120 as deceased. (How many monthly checks were sent out?) How about $10 billion in rent for empty office buildings? Hundreds of millions of dollars for foreign aid programs that went to “nongovernmental government organizations” and then disappeared down a rabbit hole? Billions of dollars in fraudulent Medicaid spending? A federal workforce that has been MIA for three years?
In the wake of this epic failure of governance, nearly every leading Democrat in Washington has protested: “Elon Musk is going too far.”
They say that they are against waste too. But former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama never lifted a finger to stop it. Washington hid behind a curtain of plausible deniability, even though we had scores of auditors and inspector general reports spotlighting the continuing raid on our federal fisc.
Ripping off taxpayers is one of the biggest businesses in America. It’s so routine that it isn’t seen as a criminal action anymore but rather the cost of doing business inside the Beltway. Like paying off the mob.
Why are Sens. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not sharing in our collective outrage? Is it because they knew it was happening all along and feel guilty that they did nothing to stop it?
Or maybe the real answer is that THEY ARE IN ON THE SWINDLE. This could explain how so many politicians spent their careers in Congress and retired as multimillionaires.
In other words, what is most revealing about the Washington slime that we are waking up to in real time, thanks to DOGE, is that waste and fraud are the currency of Washington. It pays the bills, and everyone in the swamp gets their cut. Remember: One-third of $7 trillion is the stuff of fortunes.
How else does one explain the $2.7 million that Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse allegedly directed/laundered to his wife via a nonprofit environmental group she worked for? This would clearly be graft, but it has gone unpunished.
We are living through the harrowing last scene in a Hollywood murder mystery in which you discover that the chief of police was in on it all along.
When confronted with the ocean of evidence of massive fraud in Washington, politicians reflexively change the subject to the rich “not paying their fair share of taxes.” Their solution to the culture of waste is to feed the beast with more money.
In reality, perhaps the greatest public service of the Musk-ateers is that they have taught voters that Washington should never get another penny of our tax dollars until the sewer is completely drained and the tens of thousands of fraudsters inside and outside of government are put out of business and hopefully behind bars.
Stephen Moore is a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He is also an economic advisor to the Trump campaign. His new book, coauthored with Arthur Laffer, is “The Trump Economic Miracle.”
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Any politician who hates Elon Musk’s work, defines themselves as corrupt & on the take. Because, instead of cooperating & thanking Musk for his patriotic work they demonize him. Why? Because he is uncovering and exposing their corruption? Never vote for any of them again.
Amen!! The Swamp is slimy and evil!! Keep “beating the carpet” of corruption in our government. Thank you DOGE!!♥️
Just watched the Bret Baier interview with Musk & Co. Wow. I’d heard bits and pieces of what DOGE is doing, but getting a “full dose” of the depth of fraud and waste in the gov’t was eye opening and infuriating.
Thank you for urging folks to pay attention to this issue. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to fix our gov’t.
I agree with Steve Moore’s column. Whoever said that DOGE stands for Democrats officially getting exposed is absolutely right. Count me among the camp that believes that the reason why democrats hates DOGE is because they’re in on the scam that is government, the democrats never once met a program they din’t like wasting money on.
Washington is corrupt, has been for a long time. Only corrupt survive, law of the jungle. Not one of them ever had to lower the thermostat, tighten the belt, travel less do with less or expect less. Only good little taxpayers giving onto Caesar what’s his. We’ve created this monster with our votes There sill are some who believe in Santa Claus.
dems love their secret benefits ‘packages” and anything that will destroy the USA – i sill do not fully understand that yet – though i know it is true! i GREW UP IN THE SAME NATION AS THEM.
Of course the politicians hate Elon Musk. He is a threat to their piggy bank. If anything Elon should step up his game and dig as far as he can until he hits China (pun intended). Seriously though, I hope people are finally waking up to what is really going on.
Democrats hate what DOGE is doing for one simply reason. It’s exposing and cutting off their money supply.
Waste helps obscure the dishonesty.
To me, all the lawfare, impeachments, indictments, etc. over the course of about eight years, attempting to prevent Trump from ever getting back into the white house was their absolute fear of what they knew was ultimately coming, DOGE! The fraud, waste and graft has been well known by the left for many years and their biggest fear has always been exposure!
The Democratic Party has been exposed.
They are worried that there involvement will be exposed.
Trillions of tax payers dollars waisted of WEIRD PROJECTS.
GO TRUMP GO!
GO ELON GO!
MAGA!
The US Democratic Party is and has always been USA’s worst enemy.
Imo
DOGE is Toto pulling back the current on the Wizard (Dems) and exposing their waste, fraud, and abuse!
Thank God
I CANNOT EVER REMEMBER A REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION , LOOTING , BURNING , FIRE BOMBING , PROTESTING TO THE POINT OF INTIMIDATION TACTIC’S EVERY TIME THEY DIDN’T GET THEIR WAY . HAVE YOU ? YET , FROM BURNING CROSSES ON PEOPLE’S LAWNS TO TRASHING CITIES .. THERE THEY GO …. HOW ANYONE COULD EVER WANT THESE IMMATURE A HOLES IN POWER IS BEYOND ME . I AM SO ANGRY AT WHAT THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING TO OUR COUNTRY , OUR PATRIOTS , OUR FREE SPEECH & RELIGION … DONALD j TRUMP & ELON MUSK ARE GIVING UP SO MUCH TO FIGHT FOR US … LETS VOTE , VOTE , VOTE … AND NEVER LET THEM GAIN AN INCH EVER AGAIN.
Amazing – you are like a group of lemmings in a mass hysteria, following trump to dismantling the US of A!! Thelaughing stock of the entire world because of Trump and Musk!!
This administration is destroying the US for their own benefit and dissolving democracy from within!! Neither Trump or Musk has ANY sympathy with the common citizen, young or old – they are only there for the excitement of having power and will eventually turn US into a banana republic – they despise you yet, you adore them!! How dumb can you get? Wake up before the seize power over the judicial system and military – then it’ll be too late, and US will became an authoritarian, fascist state, with NO liberty or freedom for the common manor woman!!!
Not sure where Elon gets his data, but it ain’t accurate. A 2023 GAO study found 18.9 million people born before 1920 who did not have death information on record, making them more than 100 years old. Of these, Social Security paid 44,000 account holders. There’s an easy way for DOGE to get $1 trillion in savings. Go after high-income “rats and scoundrels” who owe, but haven’t paid, over $600 billion in taxes every year (Treasury Department estimate).