When the world’s richest man decided to get deeply involved in the dirty world of American politics by endorsing President Donald Trump in the 2024 campaign, he did it to save the country. As a legal immigrant from South Africa, Elon Musk felt a duty to the place that has given him endless opportunities to succeed.
“President Trump must win to preserve the Constitution. He must win to preserve democracy in America,” Musk said in October 2024, just one month before polls closed on Election Day. “This is a must-win situation.”
But it wasn’t until Trump entered office on January 20, 2025, that Musk discovered how bad things really were and that it wasn’t just wasteful spending ailing the country.
“If the bureaucracy’s in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have?” Musk said from the Oval Office in February, just two weeks after Trump was sworn in. “[Bureaucracy is an] unelected, fourth, unconstitutional branch of government, which has, in a lot of ways, currently, more power than any elected representative...It does not match the will of the people.”
“USAID is really corrupt. I'll tell you it's corrupt it's incompetent and it's really corrupt,” Musk added as one example.
Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, mostly made up of young tech-savvy patriots, found endless contracts and abuse: $2 billion to failed Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams for “climate change” activism, millions in pet projects in places like Burma, funding of terrorism and much more.
“Over the last 3 days, agencies terminated 160 wasteful contracts with a ceiling value of $283M and savings of $145M, including a $67k Dept. of Treasury 'Executive Coaching' consulting contract for 'executive high potential managers,'” DOGE released just this week. “After 11 weeks, Social Security has finished this major cleanup initiative: ~12.3M individuals aged 120+ have now been marked as deceased. Some complex cases remain, such as individuals with 2+ different birth dates on file. These will be investigated in a follow-up effort.”
Each federal agency has been tasked with auditing its own books, with DOGE’s help, and the findings have been astonishing.
“What we've found is that the Defense Department has become very much over-reliant on management consultants and contractors. We found that we likely have more contractors than we have civilian employees and many of them, those contractors, are making more money than our career senior executive employees,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says, adding the savings are more than $10 billion in "real savings" at the Department of Defense. “We’re just getting started.”
Musk’s revelations were applauded by the majority of the country and exposed Democrats as they defended waste, fraud, abuse, and sending social security checks to dead people. The numbers from a Harvard poll prove it: “67% of voters say the current level of U.S. federal government debt is unsustainable, 83% of voters favor reducing government expenditures over increasing taxes, and 77% say a full examination of all government expenditures is necessary. 70% of voters say government expenditures are filled with waste, fraud, and inefficiency (Democrats: 58%; Republicans: 78%; Independents: 75%), and 69% support the goal of cutting $1 trillion of government expenditures and 60% of voters think DOGE is helping make major cuts in government expenditures.”
Musk got too close to the gravy trains that run Washington, D.C.’s, grift — that’s why the Democrats and their big government minority are so furious — and he’s paying for it.
Tesla dealerships have been torched, Musk's businesses have suffered, he’s personally under constant threat of death, Democrats vow to investigate him for “crimes” if they ever return to power on Capitol Hill, and much more. The left’s allies in the media have proclaimed his departure as “an embarrassment,” falsely saying he was “kicked out of town” and that he’s “left a trail of destruction.”
None of this is true. In fact, Musk helped save America by revealing the abuse of those who make the country run: hardworking American taxpayers.
“Elon's really not leaving. He's gonna be back,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday, marking Musk's last day as a special government employee. "It’s not 'goodbye.' Instead, it’s "See you soon.”
Now, it’s time for Congress to get to work and codify DOGE findings and destroy the bureaucracy. What an opportunity they’ll squander if they don’t get the job done.
