DOGE Quickly Making Trump One of America’s Most Consequential Presidents
Years ago, I had lunch with a friend, who asked an interesting question.
Official 2025 Inaugural Portrait of Donald Trump by Daniel Torok (Public Domain)
Who did I think was the most consequential president of my lifetime? Without hesitation, I answered: Lyndon Johnson. In fact, Johnson’s War on Poverty, Great Society, and immigration policies have echoed through the years, and not a good way.
On the other hand, what President Trump is doing with Elon Musk and DOGE could save America in the long run.
For generations, Congress has spent money we don’t have.
The National Debt is now more than $36 trillion. That’s unsustainable.
The odd thing is how Democrats focus on climate change, which is naturally occurring, and have no problem with spending the country into oblivion. Trump is stepping on the brakes, and that may be his legacy.
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If you think DOGE isn’t consequential, take a look at the headlines.
These stories are all from an aggregation website on the date of this writing, February 15, 2025. These are the days’ top stories. They’re all about Trump, and Musk, and DOGE and how the two sides are squaring off:
- House GOP Set to Impeach Judges Who Block Musk’s DOGE Agenda
- Federal Judge Blocks CFPB From Firing Employees
- DOGE Could Save Billions by Cutting In These Key Areas: Expert
- Interior Department Fires 2,300 After OPM Directive
- GOP Targets Recovery of Over $100B In COVID-Era Pandemic Fraud
- DoD Is Rare Agency Cooperating With DOGE; 8% Budget Cut Targeted
- DOGE Subcommittee Uncovers Massive $2.7 TRILLION In Improper Payments
You don’t even need to read these stories to get the gist. Donald Trump, with Musk’s help and the backing of most congressional Republicans are trying to stop the fiscal bleeding. Note that the GOP House is set to go after judges that are blocking the agenda. But on the other side, spend-crazed Democrats seem unwilling to cut back by a thin dime. They’ve lined up a federal judge to stop any layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – an agency that we didn’t have just a few years ago. And maybe it does good work, but we have no money to fund it.
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This seemingly is the hill that Democrats have chosen to die on.
It’s a fact that the Democrat Party is flailing in the wilderness. But why pick this issue to fight Trump? They might have better luck opposing him on immigration or the War in Ukraine. But to go after him for trying to get the nation’s fiscal house in order is insane. Democrats are insane.
Video: President Donald Trump signs Executive Order implementing DOGE workforce optimization initiative
To the Democrats, climate change is the world’s big existential threat. They’ve been harping on that for decades, but summer is still hot and winter is still cold, and Florida has not fallen into the sea. The most salient result of the climate change movement is how it transformed Al Gore into a multi-millionaire. Not much that the Left has predicted on climate change has actually come true.
Video: Members of the American Federation of Government Employees were joined by Congressional Democrats to protest Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.
Now, take a look at irrational government spending.
The COVID Pandemic gave them the perfect excuse to spend spend spend. And Biden did. The spending started with Trump as “stimulus,” but then the voters tossed him out, thinking that Biden would be a great unifier and would be essentially harmless. That turned out not to be true. From the American Rescue Act to the Inflation Reduction Act, to whatever Biden was able to get from his Build Back Better plan, he rejected any notion that spending copious amounts of money might have negative consequences.
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And now, look at the price of eggs. Look at the price of everything. Nothing’s affordable. Eating out is becoming a luxury. Groceries, gasoline, and especially buying a house are all out of sight. Biden’s massive spending is laden with fraud and waste, and that includes his open borders policy that has caused so much misery, death, and expense. Trump hired Tom Homan to put an end to that. New York will no longer be putting up illegal aliens in luxury hotels while Americans can’t afford to eat breakfast.
Waste. Fraud. Earmarks. It has to stop.
Congressman Carter’s roundup of pork projects touts Fiscal Year 2025 (Scan by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily)
Republicans love earmarks. We write in this space about Central Texas Congressman John Carter who loves to bring home the bacon to the tune of millions of dollars, and then brags about it in a taxpayer-funded newsletter mailed with franking privileges. Carter’s type must go.
But Democrats! That’s another whole thing. They want bigger, ever-expanding government. Blank checks to Ukraine. More climate change abatement to virtue signal, even if it makes no difference at all. Meanwhile, our interest payment on $36,000,000,000,000 of debt is more than we spend on the military. That’s money we get no ROI for.
Congress and past presidents have gotten the United States into a mess. The clean-up has started.
If Trump succeeds, it will be beyond consequential. It could save the country and the world. Earth does not need a debt-ridden America. But Trump will have to dig deeper. While Elon Musk is auditing agencies and rooting out fraud, abuse, and entrenched bureaucrats, someone will have to take a look at Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and other entitlements. That’s where the biggest spending is, and it’s where the biggest part of the National Debt lies.
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Trump knows that. He will have to find ways to administer those programs without bankrupting the country. And he might. A leaner, more efficient U.S. government is vital to the survival of our Great Experiment in self-government. If we get there, we will have to accomplish it without the help of Democrats.
Ask yourself this. Let’s say Democrats succeeded in accomplishing their number one goal of stopping climate change. At that point, many trillions upon trillions of dollars would be spent and redistributed to developing nations. Winter would still be cold and summer would still be hot. Your house payment would still be high and a dollar bill would be worth less and less.
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If Trump succeeds, and this will take more than one administration so be careful who you vote for in four years, America will be able to pay its bills and maybe even pay down the National Debt. That would free up billions of dollars to go toward something other than interest. Inflation would dwindle to what it was before Biden. Your dollars would retain their value more than they are now. Your kids might be able to buy a house and move out of yours.
The bottom line is this.
If the Democrats get what they want to fix the climate, it will not make anything better. The cost will make it worse. If Trump and Musk and efforts to get the country in a good place financially succeed – even partially – inflation abates, costs go down, gasoline and eggs will become more affordable, and the American Dream of owning your own house will once again be a reality.
And Donald Trump will supplant Lyndon Baines Johnson as the most consequential president of your lifetime.
Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter. Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us. Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley.
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You know, after further review, “Stitches in Time” could be a very consequential book. You’ll love what it says about one-world government. But you have to order it to find out.
