Dems say they want to work with DOGE, but Musk and company are making it hard
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Democrats have expressed interest in helping Musk and DOGE to reduce waste and fraud. However, Musk is coming off too hard, especially after going after the federal workers. Now, they are torn between showing people that they support what is right and offending federal workers whose votes they need after 4 years. Democrats lost both the White House and Houses of Congress in November. As expected, every opposition wants to show the mistakes that the government of the day is making. However, their movement of protest against Trump himself isn’t very loud. The best person to target is Musk. Are Democrats for or against Musk? They started by praising him. Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from Silicon Valley, compared Musk to the men hired by Franklin D. Roosevelt to assist the country in preparing for war. Next, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) likened him to a Marvel superhero. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has also said Musk could “count her in” on the DOGE’s plans to cut waste at the Pentagon. Now, they are not very sure whether they can assist Musk. They have painted him as an unelected dictator who is carelessly upsetting long-standing government agencies. They have even taken him to court for the same. Now, it looks like they are choosing certain agendas – anything that can paint them as against the American citizens, they don’t want to get involved with. On the other hand, anything that can paint them as people who support progress, they are all in. Jason Bresler, a Democratic strategist, said, “Once you start touching things like entitlement programs, it’d be political suicide for a Democrat to touch that.” What agendas are Democrats not willing to assist Musk on? Sen. Elizabeth Warren said, “If Musk wants to cut spending, I’ve sent him a list of…
Filed under: News - @ February 20, 2025 2:26 pm