White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Democrats attempting to push back on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Monday on Fox News, saying they are “completely out of touch” with what voters want.
Democrats have ramped up their pushback against DOGE and Elon Musk, protesting throughout the week of Feb. 3 against the agency’s cleanup of Musk’s involvement in Trump’s administration and what it says is government waste. On “Hannity,” Fox’s Sean Hannity asked the press secretary if she would be willing to respond to Democrats like California Rep. Maxine Waters and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s meltdowns over Musk, stating how the voters understood DOGE would be used during his second term.
“I would love to, Sean. Clearly the Democrats learned nothing from their devastating defeat on November 5 because this is exactly what the American people voted for. President Trump campaigned alongside Elon Musk, and President Trump promised voters on the campaign that he was going to make our government more efficient,” Leavitt said.
“He came up with the idea of DOGE, and he told everybody in the world he would be appointing Elon Musk to cut through the waste, fraud and abuse that has plagued our federal government for far too long and has ripped off hard-working taxpayers,” Leavitt added. “I think it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody that that’s what Elon is doing at the direction of President Trump. The only surprise here is the vast amount of waste, fraud and abuse that we have uncovered, and we are just getting started.”
During an X space discussion, Musk said to users that he and President Donald Trump had agreed to upend the U.S. Agency for International Development, placing it under the leadership of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Reports said that billions of taxpayer dollars were being wasted by the agency on international programs, some of which engaged in left-wing social engineering abroad.
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While Democrats said that the move was illegal, some took to protesting outside the Department of Treasury building on Feb. 3, with Democratic New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver seen claiming that the Senate should be “shut down” and that they are “at war.”
“The Democrats are so incredibly out of touch. If you look at the public polling, 56% of the public supports President Trump’s freeze on foreign aid. The most recent CBS poll shows that the vast majority of Americans support what President Trump is doing,” Leavitt said.
“So while the Democrats continue to hoot and holler in the streets, acting completely deranged, President Trump and Elon Musk and our entire administration are going to continue to go line by line and treat this federal government like a business,” Leavitt said. “What do we actually need to spend money on to advance America’s interests? That is our goal here. That’s all that’s happening. Anything else is fear mongering by the left because they don’t have a real message, and they’re deranged. There’s no other way to put it.”
CBS News released a new poll Sunday revealing Trump not only had his highest approval rating yet at 53%, but 70% of Americans believe he’s sticking to his campaign vows. Additionally 49% of respondents said the president was doing more than they had expected, 41% said it was as much as they had expected and only 9% thought it was less than they had expected just in his first few weeks in office.
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