The Democratic resistance is in full post-election swing, deriding President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet post choices and vowing to fight his policies tooth and nail once he’s sworn in — if not before.
The target of much derision has been the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to be run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The “two people to run one department” snark has been flying among liberal pundits.
It’s telling that an office designed to combat government waste and inefficiency is the subject of ridicule, and not the waste and inefficiency itself.
There’s plenty of it.
The Congressional Budget Office issued a report in July, finding that Congress provided $516 billion in appropriations this fiscal year to programs that had expired under federal law.