Musk is Leading Republicans to a Midterm Election Slaughter
The American people are starting to feel the impact of his cuts
Notice how we’ve pretty much stopped hearing about Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency? The majority of the recent headlines are related to DOGE being on the losing side of a plethora of lawsuits. After a rollout full of bold predictions and assurances of “at least $2 trillion” in cuts, which was later walked back to $2 trillion is the upper end, walked back again to $1 trillion is more realistic, then to hundreds of billions, then to, well, losing more money than it saves!
We’re going to walk through all of that, but importantly, along the way in this failed DOGE experiment, real people are suffering the consequences of Musk’s cruel experiment. The American people are not just a number or bits of data. Perhaps the most glaring example already showing the impact on American lives is Musk’s damage to Social Security, the so-called “third rail of American politics.” We’ll get to that.
After Trump was elected, he was appointed co-head of the so-called DOGE. He had promised on the campaign trail to cut “at least $2 trillion” from U.S. government spending by eradicating “waste.”
In the weeks after Trump took office, Musk and Trump had already been walking those grand ambitions back. In a Fox News interview before the Super Bowl, Trump promised:
“We’re going to find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse.”
Weeks later, DOGE launched a website, the purported “wall of receipts,” with their supposed cuts. Problem was, it was riddled with errors. The kind that would get any of the rest of us fired. Here’s how that went:
DOGE says it’s saved $55 billion, documenting some of it with a “wall of receipts” on its website.
On Tuesday, its website showed $16.5 billion in savings, consisting largely of canceled contracts.
By Thursday, mainly after one big error, it had lowered the contract amount saved to $7.2 billion.
Some journalists, like those at the Wall Street Journal, went even lower in their analysis — something closer to $2.6 billion. You say trillions, I say billions, let’s call the whole thing off.
But it only gets worse from there.