According to Andrea Widburg at the Amercian Thinker Trump's attack on the Deep State is spectacular and almost certainly legal. Trump is using the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as his personal agent to pry out the huge amount of wasteful, often immoral spending in which our government has been engaged. Certainly, a majority of Americans would not spend their own money on these things, which means neither should our government.
In the last few days, Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) has effectively put an end to USAID, gelded the General Services Administration (GSA) tech division, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Treasury, and fired corrupt people in the FBI—and that’s just the short list. With the war on USAID, GSA, OPM, and the Treasury alone, DOGE is saving taxpayers at a rate of one billion per day. All of this has driven the Democrats into a frenzy as they insist that an elected president managing the government is a coup. Unfortunately for them (but not for us), they don’t have a legal leg to stand on.
Widburg is a lawyer and has a lawyer's understanding of the intricacies of the law. She lays out a case for why, despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the Democrats, what DOGE is doing is legal. Please read her case. On another note, however, certain people have doxed members of DOGE and even written of committing violence against these people. If Elon Musk or members of DOGE do commit crimes, they can be dealt with through the law. The idea that violence by private citizens should be taken suggests that Musk is correct, and these wasteful payments are indeed wrong. I would also point out that the fact that past presidents signed these things into law without calling out the wasteful spending doesn't speak well for our leaders.
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