It's a great thing to finally have a team in office that wants to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. 

I think most people are cheering the efforts of the DOGE team. But the Democrats and their acolytes in the media have taken the bad position of attacking that. Part of that is that they always seem to be in anti-Trump mode. If Trump cured cancer and announced it, they'd say it was bad because he did it. 

Since it's a ridiculous position to attack cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, now they're trying to say/suggest, "Well, how you are doing it is bad." 

Listen as NBC's Peter Alexander went there. But White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wasn't letting him get away with it. 

Alexander claimed that they were hearing from constituents from "traditionally red districts" who were complaining about the "chainsaw" effect and that things were being done sloppily. 

Leavitt explained that the overwhelming response has been positive. She pointed to a recent poll that said 70 percent thought Trump was fulfilling the promises he had made. She said he ran on it, and "there should be no secret" that he was going to do it. Americans elected him for it, and he's keeping his promise. Democrats vowed to deal with it, she noted, but did not deliver on it. 

Then Alexander asked her to list what fraud they had found. She termed that a "clever" question. But she said she thought it was a "fraud" when the American taxpayers were being ripped off. She then also referred to the $71.8 billion in Social Security fraud that an IG found and even MSNBC had reported on, proving there was a problem. I don't think Alexander expected her to have an answer without a briefing book there. But she's not former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre; Leavitt actually knows the answer and will provide it. 

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Alexander's answer to that was to say that the $71 billion was over several years -- a bizarre downplaying of the problem. 

That's when Leavitt just let him have it, 

"So are you defending $71 billion in fraud, Peter? That's a lot of money! Far too much, and that's why this administration -- why is the media so against cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from the government? I don't get it. We will not be deterred from people like you who are clearly adamantly opposed to cutting waste, fraud, and abuse." She said taxpayers dealing with inflation don't want their money spent this way. 

"That's a problem that needs to be fixed, and President Trump is going to fix it," Leavitt declared. 

Alexander stammered, trying to get into another question. She cut him off, saying that was his fifth question, and moved to someone else. 

Now that's how it should be done. They will keep pressing to paint the narrative, and she just nuked all of it. Imagine thinking that fraud is somehow less of a problem because it's over a few years as opposed to over one year? To most of the rest of us, yes, $71 billion is huge over any time frame, and it proves the systemic problem that DOGE is looking into. And they're truly only just started.