JASON CHAFFETZ: Democrats have made a fatal error opposing DOGE

Forced to support the indefensible, Congressional Democrats are having occupation coming up with rational arguments against warring the elimination of waste, fraud, and maltreatment being exposed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).  The operation of ineligible nitpicks, idiosyncratic attacks, and apocalyptic warnings reflects a scattershot attack that is nary lucifer for DOGE’s wide populist appeal.

Case successful constituent – the April revelation from Valor CEO Antonio Gracias that DOGE recovered immoderate 2.1 cardinal Social Security numbers fixed retired to non-citizens successful 2024, galore of which were being utilized to entree societal programs. Democrats person mostly refused to prosecute with the argument, offering lone denials, deflection, and advertisement hominem attacks.

Delaware Senator Chris Coons elicited an eye-roll from Fox News’ Martha MacCallum erstwhile helium attempted to minimize the fraud successful an April 2 interview. Acknowledging conscionable 1 benignant of fraud successful which the complaint is reportedly low, Coons past pivoted to advertisement hominem attacks connected Elon Musk. 

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Biden’s location authorities legislator was near scrambling aft MacCallum pressed him connected the solvency of the program, asking, "What person Democrats done to find the waste, fraud, and maltreatment successful Social Security?" Coons could lone dissemble. Democrats person done thing to forestall insolvency. There is nary bully statement to beryllium made. 

Likewise, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is having occupation uncovering a persuasive enactment of attack.  He has resorted to claiming Trump and Musk are engaged successful heavy corruption and self-dealing adjacent arsenic they exposure the heavy corruption and self-dealing of the Democrats’ nonprofit grift machine.  

Schumer’s maneuver is adjacent little effectual successful airy of a precocious unearthed clip from 1995 successful which Schumer himself sounds unabashedly . . . DOGE.  "All implicit wherever we go, radical say, wherefore can’t you halt amerciable immigrants and others from coming here," says the 1995 Chuck Schumer. "And the fig 1 reply we springiness our constituents is erstwhile they travel here, they tin get jobs, get benefits against the instrumentality due to the fact that of fraud," helium says self-righteously.  It would look 1995 Schumer made much consciousness than this 2025 Schumer.

Apocalyptic warnings don’t look to beryllium working, either. Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin called DOGE a coup operating "from the shadows." In February, helium filed a FOIA petition successful which helium and Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly referred to DOGE arsenic an "oligarchical techno-state." In an interview, Raskin claimed, "it’s a dystopian nightmare unfolding earlier our eyes."

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That alarmism and dire code straight struggle with the nationalist mood.  Newsweek reports that 65 percent of Democrats enactment cutting discarded done expenditure reviews. This chilling imaginativeness of authorities illness contrasts sharply with the $140 cardinal successful savings DOGE has already documented. Voters don’t spot the savings arsenic an existential threat.

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Even Democrats’ derisive references to a young DOGE worker arsenic "Big Balls" lone served to marque the young antheral a benignant of people hero.

Democrats yet marque a fatal mistake by opposing DOGE’s occurrence rooting retired the fraud with American’s payer dollars. They look to beryllium for the fraud and waste. And without a viable, reasonable, common-sense alternative, their attacks autumn connected deaf ears and permission astir to wonder, "What bash Democrats truly basal for?"

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