If federal agencies were held to the same standards as U.S. corporations, heads would be rolling by now. And if those agencies were subjected to the same legal contortions that New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg used to indict and convict President Donald Trump, some government employees would likely now be behind bars. This is especially true of the Department of Government Efficiency‘s bombshell that $4.7 trillion in Treasury Department payments lacked proper tracking codes, rendering them nearly impossible to trace.
In their worst nightmares, Democrats surely could not have imagined the speed and scope of Trump’s first month of activity. However, the Trump administration’s relentless audit of the deep state — Democratic lawmakers and the vast network of unelected government bureaucrats who do their bidding — shows no signs of slowing.
Just one month into its work, Elon Musk’s DOGE team has already uncovered a startling degree of waste, fraud, and abuse within federal agencies. From DOGE’s initial revelation that the U.S. Agency for International Development operated as a global slush fund for progressive causes to its jaw-dropping discovery that 25 million individuals over age 100 remain in the Social Security database — despite there being fewer than 100,000 centenarians alive in the U.S. today — taxpayers have been alarmed by what DOGE has found.
This rapid-fire exposure of corruption and grift has left Democrats in an unenviable — and unfamiliar — position: scrambling to conceal their innumerable abuses of power from the public. During a joint interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity this week, Trump and Musk discussed the full-court press by Democratic lawmakers, the legacy media, and leftist federal judges to stop them. Trump said he once wrongly assumed that, as president, his executive orders would be carried out. However, he soon realized that, in many cases, bureaucrats opposed to his policies simply refused to act.
His eyes have been opened since then. Now, he fully understands that nothing is more critical than having the right people in place to execute his agenda. He needs federal employees who will implement his policies, even if they personally disagree with them. Musk echoed Trump’s frustration with the resistance he has faced from entrenched bureaucrats, noting, “One of the biggest functions of the DOGE team is just making sure that the presidential executive orders are actually carried out.”
He elaborated: “If the will of the president is not implemented, and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented, that means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy. “I think what we’re seeing here is the thrashing of the bureaucracy as we try to restore democracy and the will of the people.”
Bingo.
Democrats, fully aware that the shocking reports of corruption and waste are both accurate and well-documented, are scrambling to halt DOGE’s audit. They are in a collective state of panic, and it’s making them sloppy. Unlike their previous, more coordinated attacks on Trump — such as the Russian collusion hoax, two impeachments, and the politically motivated indictments by federal and state prosecutors — Democrats are now lashing out haphazardly, using lawfare and fearmongering to stem the bleeding.
Their efforts to use select federal judges to prevent Musk’s team from accessing government records have yielded mixed results. While some lesser-known judges have happily complied, higher-profile figures such as U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan (who presided over Trump’s criminal election interference case in Washington, D.C.) have, at least initially, been reluctant to make purely political rulings.
Though Chutkan may change her mind if presented with “evidence” of irreparable harm in the future, she rejected a request from 14 state attorneys general on Tuesday to block DOGE from firing employees or accessing sensitive government records. In her ruling, she cited the states’ failure to demonstrate immediate, irreparable harm, emphasizing that the court cannot act based solely on media reports.
The idea that the judiciary should control the executive branch is utterly absurd — particularly when so many federal employees routinely access sensitive information in the normal course of their work. This hypocrisy is even more glaring when one recalls the Biden administration’s 2021 proposal to force banks to report all consumer transactions over $600 to the IRS, an egregious intrusion into Americans’ financial privacy.
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After witnessing the Democrats’ “whatever it takes” tactics over the past decade, the majority of Americans are cheering the DOGE audit. They are deeply invested in knowing where their tax dollars are going. The minority who oppose the audit? Those who stand to lose from the widespread abuses it is exposing.
Musk nailed it. We are indeed seeing the “thrashing” of a bureaucracy that has shattered every norm. These government agencies have been willing participants in a massive fraud against U.S. taxpayers.
However, now, the unthinkable has materialized. And they are powerless to stop it.