Dems Are Still Freaking Out About the DOGE, but Karoline Leavitt Just Isn't Having It

President Trump isn't staffing his administration with any shrinking violets. He's building a team of people who are ready, willing, and able to kick some and take some, and none less so than the new White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt. On Monday, she went on Fox News's "Hannity" and called out Democrats for their hypocrisy in opposing the new Department of Government Efficiency - the DOGE - after years of pious pronouncements by those same Democrats about the need to cut wasteful spending.

Democrats, mind you, consider any spending on defense or law enforcement to be "wasteful," so there's that. And it's not like they mean anything they say about cutting any spending, wasteful or otherwise - they don't. But Karoline Leavitt is calling them out on it, and she can swing a verbal cudgel with the best of them.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Democrats' hypocritical position ahead of DOGE's Social Security audit. Leavitt defended President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's objectives on "Hannity" Monday, pointing out that former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton championed rooting out waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars.
KAROLINE LEAVITT: If you just watched that video, but shut your eyes and listen to the words from those Democrat politicians, you would think you are listening to President Trump, Elon Musk and our entire administration, who are saying the exact same things that Democrat politicians promised the American people they would do for decades. President Trump is just the first president in our lifetimes to actually do it. And now you see the Democrat Party and the mainstream media spiraling out of control about a very simple promise: rooting out waste, fraud and abuse from our federal bureaucracy. This is a promise President Trump campaigned on. He is now delivering on it.

The eruption of whining from the left, in this case, was triggered by the DOGE's digging into Social Security, in which they have uncovered an amazing number of super-centenarians in the files. She continues:

I've been fighting fake news reporters all day long here in the Washington, D.C. swamp who are trying to fearmonger the American people into believing that this administration is going after their hard-earned tax dollars and their hard-earned Social Security checks. So I want to set the record straight on your show tonight, Sean, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to do so. President Trump has directed Elon Musk and the Doge team to identify fraud at the Social Security Administration. They haven't dug into the books yet, but they suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people who are receiving fraudulent Social Security payments and so their goal in going into the Social Security Administration is to identify three things: Number one, to identify duplicate payments and to end them, Number two, to identify payments that are going to deceased people who are no longer living and should no longer be receiving that money and number three, to protect the integrity of the system for hardworking Americans who have been paying into it their entire lives.

Democrats, of course, have been promising reforms in the bureaucracy and efforts to cut wasteful spending for decades; remember Bill Clinton's pious pronouncement that the "era of big government is over?" They didn't mean it, of course.

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What's more, Karoline Leavitt has evidence that they said these things - and didn't mean them:

To all of the Democrats who are planning to protest this week, here’s an explanation on DOGE, from your party’s own beloved leaders! https://t.co/D2rPvR2ijl
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 16, 2025

Once again the difference between Biden and Trump administrations couldn't be more stark. Not only were Joe Biden's press secretaries in the unenviable position of defending the indefensible, they just weren't any good at it. Karoline Leavitt is their opposite in every way: Sharp-witted, intelligent, informed, and determined. She's much like her boss in that respect, and, in fact, most of the Trump administration meets those standards.

And, while Democrats have in the past made long-winded pronouncements on the need to cut wasteful spending, here is what all of their efforts amounted to: Doodley-squat. The Trump administration announced this effort during the campaign, talked about it again and again throughout the election and the transition period, and now they're getting it done.

Let those dominos continue to fall, folks. It's fun to watch.