Pushback surges after cost-cutting makes inroads into federal waste and fraud
By Bob Unruh
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Democrats at the national level have been in a panic even since before President Donald Trump was elected a second time and took office. Why else would there be nonstop claims that he’s, more or less, an Adolf Hitler who would “destroy” democracy?
He’s, in fact, living out democracy now by doing a cleanup job at the federal government level that is just exactly what he promised voters who chose him.
But now that panic is hitting Democrats at the state level as Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, run by billionaire Elon Musk, uncovers what has been going on.
Now, officials are insisting on a halt to further investigations, calls for accountability, and more.
“Democratic state attorneys general seem to want to shut down any further review of waste, fraud, and abuse,” explained a report from the Washington Examiner,
The publication cited a recent lawsuit from 14 of those state officials in which they claimed Trump gave Musk “unchecked authority” without approval from Congress.
Trump named Musk a special government employee and has approved his actions within the power of the executive branch of government.
After seeing what the report described as “sensible cuts coming from DOGE,” the problem now is that “people are calling for accountability at the state level.”
That has resulted in “fierce” pushback from Democrats, the report said.
For example, the report cited last week’s revelation that a $2 billion grant had been given by the federal government to Power Forward Communities in April 2024.
“Power Forward Communities is a nonprofit organization that was founded mere months before the massive grant was bestowed upon them. The organization, which is associated with the failed Georgia Democrat nominee for governor, Stacey Abrams, had reported just $100 in revenue before the windfall grant,” the report said.
That is, according to Lee Zeldin, “extremely concerning that an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”
Further, the report cited the fact that there was a $20 million grant from the Michigan legislature in 2022 for Global Link International, founded 11 days after lawmakers approved the gift by Fay Beydoun, one of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s business development appointees.
Beydoun, in fact, resigned after revelations she was spending grant money on a $4,500 coffee maker, an $11,000 first-class plane ticket to Budapest, more than $40,000 on furniture, and $408,000 in salary for two people for three months’ work.
She was collecting a $550,000 annual paycheck, the report said.
And, the report said, when former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu wondered about the $59 million the Federal Emergency Management Agency gave for housing illegal aliens in luxury hotels in New York City, Anderson Cooper, on CCN, attacked him.
The report suggested that waste needs to be addressed, whether it’s at the federal or state levels.
In fact, the report called for, “What Trump and Musk are doing at the federal level should serve as a model to develop DOGE-like agencies at the state level.”









