If there’s been one bit of news out of the nascent Trump 47 administration that’s being greeted with excitement — and equal amounts of concern — among conservatives, it’s the new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
The excitement comes from the fact that President-elect Donald Trump sees efficiency and the curbing of big government as a priority in his second term. Equal excitement is the dual heads of it: two CEOs with some knowledge of the political sphere, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
But DOGE doesn’t exactly have a mandate to carry out its own suggestions; it’s a proposed presidential advisory commission, whose advice could just be filed away deep in a locked cabinet in the unlit, disused basement lavatory of a government building with a sign saying “Beware of the Leopard” on the door. (Geek points for those of you who get that reference.)