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Join the fight before the clock hits zero. Go to dailywire.com. Use code DW100 to join right now. Well, We have been hearing for a very long time that Doge, that would of course be the Department of Governmental Efficiency under the tutelage of Elon Musk, has been a giant fail.
We've been hearing this from the legacy media who have been saying that all the cuts are basically fake, that nothing is happening, that it's chaos, that it's wrecking the country. No one social security check has been stopped. The Medicaid checks are still going out. The Medicare checks are still going out. The government, unfortunately to my mind, is still running much as before.
However, much spending has in fact really been stopped. There's been an open question as to how much spending will be permanently stopped. How much can be temporarily frozen versus actually just cut? Will firing these employees actually stick? But Democrats are caterwauling because as it turns out, Doge actually has been quite effective in stopping an enormous amount of spending.
Is it trillions of dollars? No. Is it hundreds of billions of dollars? The answer apparently is yes. According to Reuters, President Trump's administration has so far withheld at least $436.87 billion of congressionally approved funding, the top Democrats on the U.S. Congress's Appropriation Committee said on Tuesday.
The frozen allotment spanned the federal government, according to the first estimate of potential impoundments in the project, led by Senator Patty Murray of Washington and Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut. You'll remember Rosa DeLauro, she of the purple hair. Almost $42 billion was frozen or canceled for the State Department.
Of course, that includes the freeze on support for USAID, along with another $62 billion plus in competitive grant funding for the Transportation Department, according to the estimate. Democrats also are detailing $943 million frozen for the Head Start early education program. By the way, Head Start is one of the great fails in federal history. Head Start, the idea that you're
radically increasing the chances for young children if they go to a federally funded, federally run preschool program. The data on Head Start has been pretty solid for a long time, showing effectively no difference between kids who go to Head Start and kids who do not. There's also been some $10 billion frozen and canceled for the National Resources Conservation Service as well.
Democrats, of course, are very angry about all of this. Listen, all of the spending is going to have to be then... put permanently into the no-spend category by Congress. They can do so with a simple 50-vote majority in the Senate. That is the path presumably Congress is going to have to take.
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