In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, Democrats and their allies in the media repeatedly tried to make the case that President Joe Biden and then-Vice President Kamala Harris had to stay in power for the sake of “protecting Democracy.” Lawn signs in blue cities and suburbs across the country said things like, “Vote Like Democracy Depends on It! (because it does)." Warnings were issued by leftist political pundits that Trump would “end Democracy” in America if he won a second term.
“The defense of democracy, which is at stake, is more important than any title,” Biden said during an Oval Office address just days after dropping out of the 2024 race.
But it turns out that Democrats and the left weren’t warning about an end to democracy. They were panicking over an end to bureaucracy, which is a federal system that allows them to launder taxpayer funding for leftist pet projects in the United States and abroad.
“In the last 48 hours, the Department of Education terminated 70 DEI training grants totaling $373M. One trained teachers to “engage in ongoing learning and self-reflection to confront their own biases and racism, and develop asset-based anti-racist mindsets,” DOGE posted on X, one of many examples.
“In partnership with @DOGE, I just CANCELLED 9 more wasteful @EPA DEI and Environmental Justice contracts, saving American taxpayers another ~$60 MILLION. I’m just warming up! I have ZERO tolerance for even a penny of your hard-earned tax dollars to be wasted or abused,” EPA administrator Lee Zeldin added.
But a deeper dive into the contracts reveals the true intention behind the funding.
“DOGE discovered $2 billion in taxpayer funds set aside for a fledgling nonprofit linked to perennial Georgia Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams,” the Washington Free Beacon reports. “The Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration awarded Power Forward Communities the grant in April 2024 as part of the agency's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund program. Power Forward Communities received the green energy grant despite the fact that it was founded months earlier in late 2023 and never managed anywhere near the grant's dollar figure—it reported just $100 in total revenue during its first three months in operation, according to its latest tax filings.”
The rabid response to Elon Musk and his DOGE team isn’t about protecting important government programs to help people. Instead, it’s about protecting the political infrastructure subsidized by the American taxpayer under the force of the federal government.
“It tells me that people are worried that they're part of the waste, fraud and abuse,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said during an interview with Fox News about the unhinged backlash. "We all think there's waste. There is abuse. I think there may be some real fraud here.”
Meanwhile, the courts are on Trump’s side regarding controlling employment and programs inside the executive branch, but that hasn’t stopped the usual suspects from protesting in the middle of the workday.
“We'll fight against DOGE, we'll fight Elon Musk,” a dozen former federal bureaucrats sang out of tune in protest of the Department of Government Efficiency in D.C. last week. “We’ll fight from dawn till dusk.”
“Trump's coming for our unions, he wants us all to fail, he wants us all to bow to him, but we want him in jail.”
The federal government is bloated and has been for far too long. Like President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, President Trump and Musk are working to streamline a system that works for all Americans, rather than serving leftist special interests and political power.