Tag Archives: budget cuts

What Does DOGE Do? What We Need to Know

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON | APR 2, 2025

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) says it has saved American taxpayers $130 billion, or $807 per taxpayer, since it started rummaging through Federal agencies for “waste, fraud, and abuse” two months ago.

I heard those numbers and much more during an interview with Elon Musk and his seven-member cabinet on Bret Baier’s Fox News program on March 27th. The DOGE cabinet is a group of experienced former senior executives with expertise in business, technology, and general entrepreneurship. This was the first time—at least for me—to hear Musk and his senior people explain what they are doing and what they expect to accomplish.

It was long overdue.

Baier didn’t conduct the kind of interview that most journalists and Musk antagonists would be happy with. There were no ‘gotcha’ questions or tense exchanges. Baier let his subjects speak their mind for nearly an hour. Continue reading →

How To Go $16.5 Trillion in Debt

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

A recent poll by the Pew organization showed that while those of us in our Nation’s Capital and the 2,375 people who watch cable chat shows are consumed by the looming sequester, the other 75% of Americans are just shrugging, sighing, and smiling knowingly that the world will go on after Friday.

The underlying issue about the size of the deficit (about $1 trillion for FY 2013) and the national debt (a touch under $16.6 trillion) is the way the government spends our money.

Not its money. Our money. Continue reading →

Boys Acting Badly

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

In one of those stories that, in the end, has all the policy implications of a White Sale at Macy’s, it seems that conservative radio talk show host Alex Jones appeared on the television talk show of British transplant Piers Morgan on Monday night.

The topic was Jones’ leading the petition to have Morgan deported because of Morgan’s heavy hand on the topic of gun control. Continue reading →