True to the old adage “The Guilty Pig Always Squeals,” Congressional Democrats are howling like banshees with every discovery by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. This same cabal that couldn’t care less how many private sector jobs were lost due to their Green New Deal scams, their Electric Vehicle mandates, and willy-nilly closing America’s coal mines right and left suddenly can’t bear to see even one federal government worker being eliminated. (It is probably just a coincidence that every public employees union, including the American Federation of Teachers, the American Postal Workers Union, the National Federation of Federal Employees, and dozens more, reflexively endorse Democrats for President and most Senate and House seats.)
Real Americans—who swept Donald J. Trump back into the Presidency last November—are cheering Musk’s revelations of waste and abuse, as is our 47th President himself. On the FOX News program SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES with Maria Bartoromo, President Trump gave full-throated support to Musk: “What Elon has done is unbelievable. He's found hundreds of billions worth of fake contracts... the whole thing's a scam. And you'll find that a lot of the money they sent comes back to the people that made those deals.” Common sense. Period. End.
.@POTUS: What @elonmusk has done is unbelievable. He's found hundreds of billions worth of fake contracts... the whole thing's a scam. And you'll find that a lot of the money they sent comes back to the people that made those deals. pic.twitter.com/YqXVmPv1xh
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 9, 2025
But to many legions of featherbedding federal government workers—and their patrons on Capitol Hill— Musk is some kind of nightmare Visigoth who oversees an “army of twenty-year-olds who know nothing about government.” CODE: we don’t want our gravy train to end, so we’ll fight him and Donald Trump (whom they derisively refer to as “Musk’s co-President”) to the bitter end.
The Democrats’ lapdogs in the media are quick to pounce on any real or perceived error of the DOGE team and to highlight every negative Musk-related angle they can—screaming headlines about “angry constituents” swarming GOP House members at district meet-and-greet sessions top TV newscasts. The once sane Drudge Report now ballyhoos negative stories 24/7 about “anger at Musk” turning violent with Molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla car lots. Or giving publicity to has-been Hollywood personalities like horror film TV host Elvira selling her Tesla and donating the money to National Public Radio. This is what passes for “journalism” in 2025.
In the end, whatever cost-cutting or job downsizing DOGE recommends will require congressional action and President Trump's signature. I’m fully confident about our President… but not so much about Congress.
On the Salem news program THIS WEEK ON CAPITOL HILL with Tony Perkins
(Full disclosure: I serve as Executive Producer of TWOCH) U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has spoken out about DOGE from Day One. However, with his single-vote majority in the Republican-controlled House, Johnson has also been focused on a laser beam week after week on crafting a Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government and avoid a politically costly shutdown.
This weekend, Johnson and Republicans on the Hill revealed a revised CR that would trim spending from the 2024 fiscal year by $13 billion in non-defense spending. It would also increase veteran health care and defense funding to attract hardline Defense Department supporters. But as with every single vote since the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, it is anybody’s guess if House Republicans can set aside their individual budget agendas and prove they can actually govern before the March 14th deadline to avoid a shutdown.
Meanwhile, members of the U.S. Senate—whether Democrats or Republicans—often function as preening popinjays, mugging for the TV cameras and appearing on Sunday morning news shows as tough guys who treat the House as a lesser body of government. But it’s crunch time this week, and both Senate and House Republicans need to get serious, join hands, and pass the just-revised CR.
Waiting in the wings if they don’t will be the hapless “leader” of House Democrats Hakeem Jeffries (who pledged at a news conference this week that Democrats “will not give a single vote” to a GOP CR and he’d rather “see the government shut down” than compromise.) Or cane-waving madman Congressman Al Green (D-TX), who had to be thrown out of President Trump’s magnificent speech this week to a joint session of Congress because he literally would not shut his pie hole. Or Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), whose obscenity-laden comments on DOGE and the CR cannot be printed on a family-friendly website like TOWNHALL.
Sidebar: Can anyone please explain how Texas—one of the most reliably red states in Presidential elections every four years—keeps sending hollow heads like Al Green and Jasmine Crockett to Washington? But I digress.
Republicans on Capitol Hill—some fiscal hawks, some social media warriors, and others who tremble like most politicians at the slightest sign of a negative poll or a single postcard from an unhappy constituent—need to answer a simple question for themselves: Are they mice or are they, men?
If they choose wisely, Donald Trump’s new golden era of America will roll on, expand, and deliver even greater successes to the American people over the next four years. But if things devolve into bickering, back-biting, and even a government shutdown (which jackals in the Legacy Media are already licking their chops over), I promise we will take names and remind voters of every Congressman and Senator who cut and ran on passing the new CR rather than making America Great Again.