President Donald Trump is recruiting some of the brightest innovators in the private sector to tackle challenges facing our bloated federal government. A large part of that effort, the development of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, led by Elon Musk, is already making a significant impact on the stale administrative state.
There should be nothing offensive about transparency in public administration, fiscal responsibility, and accountability to the taxpayer. But now that private-sector scrutiny is being applied to the federal bureaucracy, both the federal workforce and the liberal puppeteers that champion them are panicking. In their latest bout of hysteria and fearmongering, the Left is attacking the work of DOGE by insisting it’s a “shadow government.” Instead of being outraged by the tremendous waste identified by DOGE so far, critics are instead furious…
