The Democrats' recent attacks on DOGE and Elon Musk have been both silly and desperate.
There's "Elon Musk is unelected" or the "he has access to data" fear-mongering.
So, what? You can say the same thing about most of the other federal employees, and Democrats don't object to them. Those unelected employees have access to data. Democrats have no problem with random employees, but they have a problem with a guy who has top security clearances and is working for us for free at the direction of duly-elected President Donald Trump. Trump ran on having Elon do this.
It's a coup. It's illegal. It's a "constitutional crisis."
How is a federal employee, acting at the direction of the duly-elected president, a "coup" or any of the rest of that? It's the Democrats trying to save the "unelected bureaucracy," and all the nefarious actions that are the real "coup" effort, who are trying to impede the power of the president.
Elon is somehow stealing our money.
That would be a neat trick, when his team only has "read only" access to data.
These are all such dumb arguments, designed to stoke fear in people. But people aren't falling for this. Indeed, I think this tactic is only antagonizing the American people all the more. If you want to cut off DOGE from reviewing the books, what are you trying to hide?
But with all the dumb things the Dems have already said, we can count on Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) to offer up something even dumber.
Why won’t Elon show us the savings from DOGE? What’s he hiding?
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) February 19, 2025
"Why won't Elon show us the savings from DOGE? What's he hiding?" Swalwell said.
What gall. So, it's cool that actual, unaccountable bureaucrats misused our money in all kinds of ways. This Democrat doesn't care about that and, instead, attacks the guy heading the team uncovering it. But it's Elon hiding things, according to him.
Think about how ridiculous that is. Elon Musk may be even more transparent to Trump. He's always posting about what they're finding on his X account. There's also a website where they list the actual savings -- line item by line item. They provide a "wall of receipts." Right now, the website is saying $55 billion has been saved so far from a "combination of fraud detection/deletion, contract/lease cancellations, contract/lease renegotiations, asset sales, grant cancellations, workforce reductions, programmatic changes, and regulatory savings."
Yup
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 19, 2025
If Swalwell can't even do five seconds of research to figure it out, how is he a member of Congress? How can anyone have any confidence that he can even do his job, if he can't do something so simple?
Musk himself knocked these attacks down during his joint interview with Trump and Fox's Sean Hannity.
Musk said what we were really seeing with all these objections were the "thrashing [about]" of the bureaucracy...as it is being taken down.
NEW: Elon Musk delivers the PERFECT comeback to people complaining, “Nobody voted for Elon.”
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) February 19, 2025
“Speaking of unelected, there’s a vast federal bureaucracy that is implacably opposed to the president and the cabinet.
“And you look at D.C. voting, it’s 92% Kamala. Okay, so we’re 92%… pic.twitter.com/pPijGauijH
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