However all of that may be a lie.
DOGE has struggled mightily to seek out fraud or abuse—simply applications that Republicans are ideologically against.
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What’s extra, DOGE has overstated by billions of {dollars} the quantity of financial savings it’s supposedly discovered, making quite a few errors on its public web site that purports to put out the cuts it has made. After these errors have been discovered, DOGE made it close to unimaginable for the general public to verify their math.
And the cuts it’s making or plans to make—to issues like Social Safety, veterans’ well being care, training, most cancers analysis, meals help, and public well being—will not be in style.
Even worse is that DOGE doesn’t look like saving the federal government cash but. Moderately, it is just breaking in style authorities applications and making life worse for thousands and thousands of Individuals who depend on these applications.
The NRSC memo comes as assist is cratering for Musk, DOGE, and their chaotic and harmful cuts to the federal authorities and workforce.
A Quinnipiac College ballot printed on March 13 discovered related outcomes, with 54% of voters saying that “Elon Musk and DOGE are hurting the country.”
That sentiment is effervescent up throughout the nation as offended Individuals present up at Republican city halls to demand that GOP lawmakers stand as much as Trump and Musk’s cuts. The anger has led Republicans to enter hiding and refuse to carry city halls in any respect.
Individuals are additionally protesting at Tesla dealerships—a method of displaying their discontent with Musk as he owns the flailing automobile firm.
Individuals protesting Elon Musk’s actions within the Trump administration maintain indicators outdoors a Tesla showroom in Seattle on Feb. 13, 2025.
The Trump administration is making authoritarian threats in opposition to these demonstrating at Tesla dealerships, labeling protesters as home terrorists, and even telling Democratic lawmakers to “tread very carefully” as they encourage the protests.
In the meantime, as nationwide Republicans ask their members to embrace Musk and DOGE, Democrats are pushing the correct message that DOGE is making cuts that may damage Individuals.
“Let’s be clear: there’s nothing ‘efficient’ about freezing lifesaving cancer and Alzheimer’s research,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, mentioned in a publish on X. “What Musk and Trump are doing at [the National Institutes of Health] and other vital agencies is putting American lives at risk.”
And Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, mentioned Monday in a publish on X mentioned that Trump and Musk’s cuts are hurting susceptible communities.
“Unmitigated chaos and a heavy dash of cruelty: Trump’s administration is firing thousands, introducing chaotic tariffs, and jeopardizing the whole economy,” Warner mentioned. “And now they’re cutting support for food banks that support 1 in 6 American families.”
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