The best part of the incoming Trump Administration was DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency.
Here, finally, was the program promised by every Republican since Dr. Larry Hunter drafted the Contract with America for Newt Gingrich in 1994. After thirty years of talk about eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, President Trump was finally going to do something about it. DOGE came in like the wrecking ball we needed.
And for a glorious moment, it worked. DOGE obliterated and exposed fraud at USAID, billions funneled to transgender operas in Colombia, DEI musicals in Ireland, and phantom programs that enriched bureaucrats while betraying American taxpayers. It ruffled all the right feathers. The Deep State trembled. For a brief, shining moment, we were winning.
Then the infighting began.
