Elon Musk and DOGE are doing what amounts to a comprehensive audit of the federal government, and it is driving the Democrats nuts.
This is, of course, because the federal budget is their piggy bank that funds both the leftists themselves and all their evil plans.
But for many bureaucrats, the resistance to Musk’s “intrusion” into what they consider their business has a simpler source: they just see themselves as doing their jobs, and in their view, nobody has a right to watch over them as they spend the taxpayers’ money. The average bureaucrat cares less about what the money is spent on than that the managers above them don’t bother them.
It’s not until you get to the top levels of the bureaucracy that you hit the Deep State and the political appointees.
None of these people think you have a right to know how they spend the money and are genuinely…
