DOGE is a harbinger of necessary change

By U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx
R-North Carolina

Washington, D.C. – Since the day the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was constituted, so-called liberal “pundits” within the mainstream media have whipped themselves into a self-induced, apoplectic frenzy. 

They sprang to their bully pulpits and preached of a forthcoming apocalypse — as if to suggest that an injection of accountability and transparency within the federal government is a poisonous cocktail that the nation was being forced to ingest. 

Their reactions and commentary then, as well as now, are entirely risible. With the copious amounts of haranguing against DOGE that have flooded the news cycle for months, Americans were undeniably subjected to misinformation hour after hour. That haranguing continues to this day, and one begins to wonder why there are so many who are adamantly averse to a bright light being shined upon the federal government’s own corners of fiscal irresponsibility.

Since the beginning of the year, DOGE’s efforts have amounted to an ongoing holistic cleanse of Washington. We all understand that government must always remain accountable to the people. Every public servant, regardless of what political banner he or she chooses to carry, should support this very simple aim. 

However, what I have seen and heard from my Democrat colleagues in Washington in response to DOGE is entirely bewildering. Rather than supporting the right sizing of the federal government — and taking a scalpel to waste, fraud, and abuse — they are taking to social media, television, and to the House floor to peddle misinformation and falsehoods that are intended to scare Americans.

Here’s the stone-cold truth that you will not hear from Democrats in Washington: DOGE is a long-awaited antiserum that will work to pare back the federal government in the right ways and for the right reasons. The act of restoring accountability and transparency is an endeavor that is always worthy of bipartisan consensus and support — I certainly believe that to be true. Without an honest, surgically precise audit of the federal government’s own actions, how can Americans truly know where their hard-earned tax dollars are really going, and what they’re being used for? This is a pertinent question that is worthy of an answer.

While efforts to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse continue at the federal level, I would be sorely remiss if I did not recognize the North Carolina General Assembly for its work in emulating DOGE’s mission and work. State-level undertakings to make government closest to the people more accountable and transparent are positive and worthy of commendation. 

President Trump’s abiding investment in DOGE has inspired states to pause and examine their own actions under a microscope — with the intention of finding opportunities for savings, uprooting inefficient programs and services, and finding proactive ways to serve the people in a far more efficient capacity. 

Despite what the media will want you to believe, this is an exercise in upholding and fostering good governance. 

DOGE is a harbinger for necessary change, and we ought to welcome it.