The Democrats’ reaction to the Trump administration’s efforts to rein in waste, fraud and abuse across all federal agencies through DOGE is very strange. They are marching in the streets, singing and chanting like anti-war protesters in the late ’60s.
Elon Musk and his cadre of young whiz kid engineers are peeling back the layers of government spending, revealing massive amounts of money spent on DEI programs, transgender ideology, payments to illegal immigrants directly and through NGOs, Social Security fraud and unnecessary environmental programs around the world. DOGE has already uncovered tens of billions of wasted taxpayer dollars. By the time they finish, the total could exceed $1 trillion.
Why would the Democrats object to eliminating wasteful spending, unless they are benefiting in some way? I believe that Attorney General Pam Bondi should form a task force of impartial Department of Justice prosecutors to investigate the potential corruption through kickbacks to government officials and politicians regardless of party affiliation. Anyone who may have financially benefited from this spending should be prosecuted and suffer asset forfeiture.
This audit of government agencies’ spending is long overdue and hopefully will result in a much more efficient government.
Ed Davis
Greensburg