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“Without evidence” has become a favorite rhetorical jab from the Leftmedia for almost everything Donald Trump says. With that haughty insult, however, Leftmedia reporters are often simply confessing that they haven’t bothered to find any evidence for what Trump says.
Variations of that theme are at play again as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues its ruthlessly efficient work to cut waste from government. The New York Times headlined, “At Oval Office, Musk Makes Broad Claims of Federal Fraud Without Proof.” Likewise, a White House reporter challenged Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, “We’re just wondering if there’s some proof, evidence. Is the White House willing to share evidence of those fraud claims?”
To paraphrase Colonel Jessep in “A Few Good Men,” You want the proof? You can’t handle the proof!
First, Leavitt was ready for the question, eviscerating the Left’s premise of no transparency before proceeding to literally hold up and name specific wasteful contracts — “the receipts,” as she called them. “This is a $3.4 million contract,” she said. “A council for inclusive innovation at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Department of Commerce. Another DEI contract that DOGE identified.” She continued, “I love this one: $57,000 for climate change in Sri Lanka. What is this doing to continue the interests of the American people? Absolutely nothing.”
🚨 WOW. Reporter presses Karoline Leavitt for “proof” of these ridiculous contracts DOGE is terminating… and she literally pulls out the pieces of paper and rattles off each one.
LEAVITT: This is a real fallacy that there is a ‘lack of transparency’ in DOGE. Musk and Trump… pic.twitter.com/XKWC23XfFk
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 12, 2025
On Wednesday, National Review’s Jim Geraghty lauded the work done by Elon Musk and DOGE so far, but also said of the rash of X posts from DOGE, “It would be preferable if DOGE had a website where everyone could see what it had found, what it had recommended the president cut, and what cuts had actually been enacted.”
Ask and ye shall receive.
On Thursday, DOGE announced that its new website is live. It already contains information on government waste that has been recommended for cutting, and much more is coming — today, for Valentine’s Day, as the site promises this morning as I write this. It also presents data on the federal workforce and the various regulations imposed by those workers.
Did you know, for example, that the Code of Federal Regulations has 98.68 million words, an increase of 20 million words since 2010? Legacy media reporters demanding “proof” didn’t tell you that. DOGE told you that.
By the way, the spending isn’t just a few thousand dollars here, or even a few million dollars there. It’s running into the billions and trillions.
Political analyst Matt Margolis reports, “On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) held her DOGE subcommittee hearing and announced it has discovered that over the past 20 years, the U.S. government has squandered $2.7 trillion on improper payments. Just last year alone, the government handed out $170 billion to individuals who were deceased, criminals, or otherwise ineligible for government programs. Even more alarming, the government made $44 billion in payments with no clear record of where the money actually went — officials simply don’t know.”
It’s no surprise that the biggest programs are the most wasteful. Medicare and Medicaid are routinely bilked and lost $764 billion just during the Biden administration.
Go ahead, Democrats, defend all of that. Justify spending $2.3 million studying the effects of cocaine on beagles. Tell us why we can’t afford eggs while we’re blowing nine million tax dollars on Department of Agriculture contracts for “Central American gender assessment consultant services,” “Brazil forest and gender consultant services,” and the “women in forest carbon initiative mentorship program.”
I’ll wait.
Of course, rather than defend any of this grotesque waste of our hard-earned money, leftists have been pretending there’s no proof or evidence. That charade is one part. The other is suing in every friendly court they can find to block DOGE’s access to records because — get this — the party that wants the IRS rifling through your Venmo account is concerned with privacy.
Meanwhile, several (blue) states are suing Trump’s administration because so much of their annual budget is funded by federal tax dollars. Washington state says a third of its budget comes from Washington, DC. In Pennsylvania’s case, it’s 40%. For New Mexico’s state workforce assistance fund, an astounding 89% comes from the feds. Fourteen states have banded together to sue DOGE specifically because Elon Musk is a “designated agent of chaos.”
The defendant probably agrees he’s guilty as charged on that one.
Are Democrats winning this argument with their deflections and angry bluster? Not if the polls are accurate. According to Rasmussen, 55% of Americans approve of Musk and DOGE. CBS News says 70% of Americans acknowledge Trump is doing what he promised, and 53% approve. There are other similar polls, but you get the point.
More Americans than not are satisfied that accountability and responsibility have come to The Swamp.
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