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Forced to defend the indefence of unprotectability, Congressional Democrats struggle to come up with reasonable arguments against fighting the elimination of waste, fraud and abuse exposed by Elon Musk's Government Efficiency (DOGE). The combination of legal knit picks, personal attacks and apocalyptic warnings reflects a scatterplot approach that can't rival Doge's distinct populist appeal.
A proper case – The April revelation from Valor CEO Antonio Gracias, who discovered the approximately 2.1 million social security numbers given to non-citizens in 2024, many of which were used to access social programs. Democrats have largely refused to engage in the debate, offering only rejection, bias and advertising attacks.
Delaware Sen. Chris Koons pulled out an eyeroll from Fox News' Martha McCollum while trying to minimize fraud in an April 2 interview. All of the pivoted against AD Hominem attacks against Elon Musk, admitting only one type of fraud reportedly having a low rate.
Americans will score Doge and Elon Musk's efforts within the first 100 days of the Trump administration
Biden's hometown senator remained scrambled after McCollum forced the program's solvency on him and asked, “What did Democrats do to find waste, fraud and abuse in Social Security?” “These were all we could do was dismantle them all. The Democrats have done nothing to prevent bankruptcy. There is no good argument.
Similarly, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer struggles to find a compelling offensive line. He relied on claiming that Trump and Musk were engaged in deep corruption and self-dealing, even if they exposed the deep corruption and self-dealing of the Democrat nonprofit glyft machine.
Schumer's tactics are even less effective in light of recently unearthed clips from 1995 that Schumer himself hears incredibly incredibly. . . Doge. “The whole place we go, people say why can't stop illegal immigrants and others from coming here,” says Chuck Schumer in 1995. “And the number one answer we give to our members is when they come here, they can get jobs for fraud and benefit the law,” he says self-righteously. Schumer in 1995 seems to make more sense than this 2025 Schumer.
The apocalyptic warnings don't seem to work either. Maryland Rep. Jamie Ruskin called the coup, run by “from Shadows” a doge. In February, he submitted a FOIA request. He and Virginia Rep. Jerry Connolly called Doge “an oligarchical techno state.” In an interview, Ruskin claimed, “It's a dystopian nightmare that unfolds right in front of our eyes.”
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Its alarm and tragic tone are directly at odds with the public mood. Newsweek reports that 65% of Democrats support waste reduction through spending reviews. This calm vision of government collapse contrasts sharply with what Doge has already documented in savings of $140 billion. Voters do not view savings as an existential threat.
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Even the Democrat's derivative reference to young Doge's employees as “big balls” helped make the young man a kind of folk hero.
Democrats ultimately make a fatal mistake by opposing the success of Doge, which takes the fraud into root in American taxpayer dollars. They seem to be for fraud and waste. And without a viable, reasonable, common sense alternative, their attacks fall into deaf ears, saying, “What does Democrats really mean?”
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