Democrats criticize DOGE, while ignoring Democrat initiatives to cut federal waste
The Democrats didn’t appear to have problems with the Clinton and Obama administrations announced initiatives to cut government waste. It also appears that a lot of the legal and bureaucratic infrastructure used by DOGE was put in place during the Obama years. White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, appeared on Hannity’s show on Monday to counter media propaganda related to DOGE’s actions.
From Fox News:
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.
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.
Additional Reading:
Fox News Staff. (2025, February 18). Karoline Leavitt: Trump, Elon Musk’s DOGE team are doing what Democrats promised ‘for decades’. Fox News. Link.
Category: DOGE, Donald Trump, Government Incompetence, Society
Dem politician. I intend to fight fraud and waste, as long as it doesn’t interfere with my kickbacks… Nothing changes…
Trump I AM finding and eliminating fraud and waste…
Dems, No you are eliminating my kickbacks!!!! This must stop!
We all know the Democrats weren’t actually trying to fix things, they were just running for reelection. Trump OTOH, is done with elections and he isn’t running for a thing, he was just reelected.
Those generous political contributions in gratitude for all the lavish support must continue– nooooo! /sarc
Exhibit A: Hakeem Jeffries was reportedly only had a net worth of $26K when he first ran for Congress, now his net worth is $21.9 million. Go figure.
I saw this post last week. Its 40 minutes of Democrat Royalty cutting waste, balancing the budget, trimming the “bloated federal workforce”, ect..
It didn’t include any Dems protesting. I wonder why? Duh, we know. They could eliminate childhood cancer under Trump and Dems would scream its unfair to Big Pharma, Hospitals & Oncologists.
I’m waiting for the Dems I know to forgo their DOGE Refund that Trump/Elon are proposing. Let those fucks put their money where their mouths are send the money back.
https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1890539598306332754
I don’t want any refund check. I want the money DOGE saved to pay off the national debt. So my great grandchildren are not tax for the wasted money being spent on frivolous shit today.
This. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
I second this motion and fuq the liberal media for dangling that out there. They are like crackheads that were sent to rehab involuntarily.
So how much of that money was going to BLM and antifa, I wonder as well as kickbacks to the pols who were complicit? Gee whiz, SO MANY of them became multimillionaires while only drawing a $175K salary. Happenstance? Coincidence?
I’m all giddy as a school girl over DOGE finding and eliminating all of the fraud and waste, but what I want to see is, arrests, perp walks, trials, convictions, along with swift, sure, and severe punishment for the ones that are guilty. Mofos are mad about the uncovering of their grift.
They can’t do all that stuff until they build a trustworthy Federal Law Enforcement agency.
Yeah, and I’m not holding my breath for that to happen either. Sadly, as many of us have pointed out, you and I included, it is not just the demonrats that are fighting this. The republicunts are just as bad…the Uniparty is alive and well. Kicking the can down the road until mid March when it will be time to pass a real budget or do the CR thing.
TL Davis has a very interesting take on all of this. Well worth the two (2) minute read.
Prepare…
https://tldavis.substack.com/p/normal-will-be-destroyed
AMEN!!
They knew that Clinton and Obama didn’t really mean it, they were just playing Kabuki theater to appease the masses.
I’m sure that GW Bush was part of that circus too.
I wonder how long before Social Security will run out of money when we quit paying dead people benefits. And I want that money paid back from who ever has been collecting it. With interest.
I want the $500 a month that crackhead alcoholic burnouts get from SS when the prison systems help get them declared disabled and they have not worked a day in their life. My brothers kids got SS up until they were 21 because their crackhead mom went on SS in her mid 40’s because she scammed the system. My brother makes a good $125,000 a fear with full benefits and the kids lived with him. makes my blood boil.
Hopefully they check out All-Points Logistics.
Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) does not approve of this action.
But Lori Benton does. More easily earned cash for her efforts to proclaim Phildo’s innocence!
I can also imagine Phildo will be dodging DOGE.
Phildo likes to be done doggy style.
I am on Social Security as my only source of income. I’m not worried about losing that income. In fact, I’m looking forward to the strong possibility of my monthly checks getting LARGER, and my benefits NOT BEING TAXED.
So, y’all democreeps out there can just shut your filthy sewers and go home.
Once the 4,000,000 + SS recipients that are over 100 years old get tossed off the rolls there will be a lot more money. For reference there are about 650,000 people over 100 in the ENTIRE world.