Elon Musk, DOGE, Obama and Democrats have one thing in common – MAGA

President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, are doing exactly what the Obama Democratic administration, including politicians Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, sought to do, cut government expenditure. So why are liberals against DOGE now?

About two weeks ago, on The Joe Rogan Experience , Musk talked about the “entitlement fraud” and wasteful government spending, and more directly on the benefits extended to undocumented US immigrants.

“The main reason is that entitlement fraud, including Social Security, disability, Medicaid, for illegal aliens, is what is serving as a gigantic magnetic force to pull people in from all around the world and keep them here,” Musk said. “And they stop coming, and the ones that are here, many of them will simply leave.”

The billionaire/White House advisor specifically pointed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), accusing the agency of using funds meant for aiding Americans affected by natural disasters to pay for illegal immigrants to stay in luxury hotels in New York.

“When we stopped that payment, we stopped all that money because that’s obviously an insane way to spend taxpayer money,” he claimed. “New York sued the federal government to get the money. They were sending that money even after President Trump signed an executive order saying it needs to stop. They still pressed send on $80 million to luxury hotels in New York.”

Obama, Biden, and Democrats also once pushed for spending cuts

The fight from liberals against Trump and Musk’s cost-cutting efforts looks quite hypocritical now, given how past Democratic administrations advocated for those very same measures. During his presidency, Barack Obama repeatedly called for the government to eliminate wasteful spending.

A video of Obama in 2011, now circulating on social platforms, shows that he also acknowledged how cutting the deficit would require difficult decisions, including reductions in programs valued by many Americans. 

He said eliminating “pointless waste and stupid spending” should be a common-sense, bipartisan priority, which sounds really familiar to what President Trump is saying now.

“No amount of waste is acceptable. Not when it’s your money. Not at a time when so many Americans are already cutting back. Just as families are living within their means, the government should too,” Obama explained.

Whom did the 44th US President appoint? Then-Vice President Joe Biden who agreed to track down misspent tax dollars across federal agencies. “We need to go after every dime. We need to make the government work for you,” Obama declared.

According to records from the Manhattan Institute, the Obama administration, which served between 2009 and 2019, cumulative budget deficits reached $8.93 trillion, $4.6 trillion higher than initially projected. The former President had a plan, but he didn’t do much to execute it effectively.

Some legislative measures, including the Affordable Care Act, were introduced to offset spending through tax increases and Medicare cuts. But once Republicans gained control of the House and Senate in his second term, they enacted $889 billion in net spending cuts.

Schumer and Pelosi should be supporting DOGE

In 2010, then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer acknowledged that Medicare inefficiencies needed to be addressed. “If we’re going to eliminate the waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare, it does mean we’re going to cut some of that out,” Schumer said. “One-third of Medicare doesn’t go to patient care.”

At the very same time period, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is now a House Representative for California, insisted the US government should watch how they spend taxpayer dollars and avoid waste.

“Nobody, any of us who have been supportive of initiatives that help people like Medicare and Medicaid, are the most critical that every dollar is spent in the most effective way and that no taxpayer dollar is wasted,” Pelosi reckoned.

Now, members of the Biden administration and congressional Democrats are criticizing DOGE’s audits and federal downsizing. But White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt isn’t having any of it; she believes the purported “fight” that liberals are putting up is just a facade.

“If you just watched that video, but shut your eyes and listened to the words from those Democrat politicians, you would think you are listening to President Trump, Elon Musk, and our entire administration,” Leavitt said on Fox Business’s Hannity in mid-February. 

“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.”

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