Democrats love to preach about “fiscal responsibility” — but only when it involves raising taxes. The moment someone suggests cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, they panic like a cornered animal. That’s exactly what’s happening now with the Department of Government Efficiency.

This new initiative aims to do something any rational person should support: eliminate wasteful spending and root out fraud in Washington. Yet, Democrats treat it like a personal attack. Why? Because waste isn’t a flaw in their system — it’s the foundation of their political machine.

Now that the DOGE is daring to ask, 'Should we maybe stop setting money on fire?' Democrats are in full meltdown mode.

For decades, the left has built its empire on a bloated, unaccountable government that burns through taxpayer dollars with no regard for efficiency, effectiveness, or common sense. Every redundant program, every duplicate agency, and every absurd study — like researching shrimp on treadmills or “equitable tree planting” — isn’t just a mistake. It’s a jobs program for the Democrats' allies and a slush fund for their agenda. They don’t want a lean, effective government. They want an ever-expanding bureaucracy that secures their power.

The numbers don’t lie. Every year, Washington wastes hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars on blatant fraud and inefficiency. This isn’t about minor accounting errors — it’s about reckless spending. Examples include $2.1 million for a climate change video game, $6 million to boost Egyptian tourism, and $28 million for forest camouflage uniforms for Afghan soldiers — in a country that is 99% desert.

These aren’t isolated incidents. This is standard operating procedure in Washington. Now that the DOGE is daring to ask, “Should we maybe stop setting money on fire?” Democrats are in full meltdown mode.

Protect the bloat, launder money

This is the part where Democrats insist that cutting waste means slashing “essential programs” for the poor. It’s the same lie they use every time someone suggests fiscal responsibility. They’ve played this game for years — protect the bloat, fund their allies, then cry poverty when called out.

The truth is, government waste isn’t helping struggling Americans. It’s lining the pockets of left-wing nonprofits, corrupt contractors, and activist organizations that exist solely to keep Democrats in power.

Look at the grift. Teachers’ unions, “climate justice” groups, and woke diversity consultants rake in massive taxpayer-funded grants and contracts. Then, miraculously, they donate millions right back into Democrat campaign coffers. This isn’t governance — it’s money laundering. The system is designed to take your money, hand it to Democratic donors, and have those donors funnel a cut back to the politicians who keep the racket alive.

That’s why the same politicians who claim to fight for the working class will prioritize a taxpayer-funded gender studies program in Pakistan over helping American workers. These programs don’t exist to help people. They exist to expand the federal government, create more Democrat voters, and funnel more money to the ruling class. The moment you try to stop it, you become their enemy.

That’s exactly what’s happening with the DOGE. The moment the Department of Government Efficiency started investigating wasteful spending, bureaucrats and Democratic politicians began working behind the scenes to undermine it.

A program designed to stop fraud and waste should have bipartisan support. Instead, Democrats are sabotaging it at every turn.

Democrats accuse DOGE of being “politically motivated,” which is laughable coming from the same people who weaponized the FBI, Justice Department, and nearly every federal agency against their political enemies. They claim it will “harm essential programs” — a tacit admission that these so-called essential programs are riddled with fraud and waste. They whine that the DOGE is a “power grab,” when in reality, it’s the first serious effort in decades to cut off the ruling class from its unlimited taxpayer-funded piggy bank.

Bureaucracy on defense

It’s not just politicians who are panicking. The unelected bureaucrats who run Washington like their personal kingdom are scrambling to stop the DOGE from doing its job. The permanent D.C. establishment isn’t just packed with Democrats — it’s a revolving door of career operatives cycling between government jobs, left-wing nonprofits, academia, and the media. These people depend on government bloat to maintain their influence. Cut the waste, and you cut their power. That’s why they’re mobilizing to block the DOGE from delivering the accountability Americans expect.

What’s truly infuriating is that Democrats have the audacity to claim cutting waste is “anti-government.” No, what’s anti-government is creating a system so dysfunctional, corrupt, and wasteful that Americans lose faith in it entirely. That’s exactly what the left has done to Washington. Leftists turned the federal government into a money pit that funds everyone except the people it’s supposed to serve. Now that someone is finally trying to fix it, they’re throwing a tantrum.

Meanwhile, they’re funneling hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to Ukraine with no oversight. They’re ignoring billions in welfare fraud while hiring 87,000 new IRS agents to shake down small business owners and working Americans. At the same time, Medicaid fraud alone drains over $100 billion a year from taxpayers. Where is their concern for fiscal responsibility when it comes to their own spending?

Nowhere — because this was never about responsible government. It’s about power, control, and keeping their political machine well-funded.

The same people who demand “fairness” and “transparency” in government never want to discuss where the money goes. They don’t want you asking why Soros-backed nonprofits keep receiving federal grants. They don’t want you questioning why the Clinton Health Access Initiative has received millions from USAID. They don’t want you to notice how taxpayer money is laundered through activist groups and handed out like candy to political allies. Because once you do, their entire narrative collapses.

The American people are fed up with seeing their hard-earned money wasted on corruption, fraud, and leftist activism disguised as government programs. The DOGE is finally doing what no one in Washington has dared to do — demand accountability. That’s why the left is panicking. Once Americans see how much of their money has been stolen, wasted, and funneled into the Democratic machine, the backlash will be relentless.

Democrats aren’t worried that the DOGE will cut “essential programs.” They’re terrified it will expose how much of their political power depends on fraud. They know that once Americans see the truth, they won’t just demand cuts to wasteful spending — they’ll demand the removal of every corrupt politician who enabled it.

And that reckoning is long overdue.