Early in Donald Trump’s second term, reforming the bureaucratic state has become job number one. That’s not surprising given the weaponization of government that personally targeted the president for years on end, doing everything it could to prevent him from ever returning to the White House. As the administration’s gutting of USAID has shown, though, it’s not just the Department of Justice and FBI that need cleaning up.
Billions of dollars in grants were shoveled to left-wing causes over the last several decades, from transgender activism to DEI programs. There was even a gravy train of federal money flowing to “news” outlets like Politico, the Associated Press, and The New York Times. Enter Elon Musk, whose Department of Government Efficiency has been hard at work uncovering the waste and abuse of taxpayer funds.
Unsurprisingly, that has sent…
