The whole purpose for the Doge stuff was to try to uncover a lot of this stuff. And they found fucking tons of it, hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud.

You know, I said that before Doge came out and said 93% of fraud that they found is Democrat.

What I know from my contacts in the admin, I was told by multiple people at multiple different agencies that Doge was a complete game changer because whereas agencies were previously ruled by careers, I was talking about this, for example, with the FBI. We have four political appointees at the FBI. There's 38,000 FBI employees. So it's four versus 38,000. The great equalizer in the first couple of months of the admin was that Doge were in the building and they directly had the deputized power of the Office of Management and Budget effectively to just cut the budgets of anybody in the career class, shut down any department, freeze the funding. If you were a career and you were trying to be insubordinate against the politicals, Doge could come in and make the careers have to respect the politicals because if they didn't do what they were told in the chain of command, you'd get doged. That was a game changer.

What I know from my contacts in the admin, I was told by multiple people at multiple different agencies that Doge was a complete game changer because whereas agencies were previously ruled by careers, I was talking about this, for example, with the FBI. We have four political appointees at the FBI. There's 38,000 FBI employees. So it's four versus 38,000. The great equalizer in the first couple of months of the admin was that Doge were in the building and they directly had the deputized power of the Office of Management and Budget effectively to just cut the budgets of anybody in the career class, shut down any department, freeze the funding. If you were a career and you were trying to be insubordinate against the politicals, Doge could come in and make the careers have to respect the politicals because if they didn't do what they were told in the chain of command, you'd get doged. That was a game changer.

My contacts at state and DHS and in the early USAID were all telling me, oh my God, the agency for the first time seems to be working how it's supposed to be working because the careers are doing what the political appointees told them to do. Not because they fear the political appointees, they fear Doge.

Like when he kicked Elon Musk out, and then Doge has now completely fallen apart. They now admit Doge is defunct.

And Doge is still happening, by the way. The Doge is still underway. There's still waste and fraud being cut by the Doge team. So it hasn't stopped. It's less publicized. It's less publicized.

Naturally, lawsuits were filed about him having access to these records, and a judge ruled that Doge could have read-only access to treasury files, and that they were limited to having a two-member team.