WASHINGTON — It’s not what DOGE is doing; it’s how DOGE is doing it. That’s been the Beltway take on the dream child of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, the Department of Government Efficiency. Or, “the so-called Department of…
President Donald Trump in his first address to Congress highlighted some of the wasteful spending targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE under Elon Musk is tasked with eliminating waste, ending fraud, identifying harmful regulations, and holding the bureaucracy…
Large crowds of veterans gathered on Capitol Hill Friday afternoon to protest President Trump’s proposed budget cuts. BREAKING: MASSIVE large crowds have gathered for the Veterans March to Stop Trump’s Cuts in Washington D.C. this afternoon. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/Ozzg4nSMIp — Lucas…
On Tuesday, by a 217-213 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution for the federal budget through September. (READ MORE: Five Quick Things: Welcome to the Briar Patch, Chuck Schumer) In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa…
I’m writing this installment of the 5QT on a Thursday afternoon, one day before we’re supposed to see a showdown in the U.S. Senate over a 99-page continuing resolution covering federal spending between now and September. Nobody on the Right…
WASHINGTON — I don’t like the way President Donald Trump abruptly fired swaths of federal workers during his first weeks back in office. But I know why he did it this way. Trump campaigned on a promise to cut the…
It was hardly necessary to consult the Delphic Oracle to learn that the Department of Government Efficiency was destined to be extremely unpopular with federal bureaucrats. Nor was it difficult to predict that their collective response would be clueless and…
President Trump is about to unleash DOGE on the only government agency that has never passed an audit: the Pentagon. With an annual budget rapidly approaching a trillion dollars per year, no other pot of discretionary spending comes close. Moreover,…
New York City federal judge Paul Engelmayer temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s DOGE from looking into government systems, claiming that Musk has no legal power to access the systems employed by the U.S. Department of Treasury. In this episode of The Spectacle Podcast, hosts Melissa…
