Source: The Dispatch
by Ryan Bourne & Alex Nowrasteh
“President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of a ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE) caught many conservatives off guard. On paper, a parastatal entity determined to ‘dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies’ should be catnip to small-government types. And yet, many Reaganites rolled their eyes. Oddly enough, a scattering of leftist lawmakers, including Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna, have shown more enthusiasm — or at least an openness to hijacking DOGE’s brief — to streamline defense spending. Several budget hawks on the right, by contrast, have largely dismissed DOGE as a sideshow to Congress. We understand the skepticism. … Yet this reflexive cynicism seems self-defeating and might even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.” (12/30/24)
https://thedispatch.com/article/small-government-conservatives-should-give-doge-a-chance/