The billionaires who control the left decided to make Elon Musk the boogeyman at the start of the Trump Administration. Anything that went wrong anywhere was the fault of Cousin Elon and DOGE. Low-information voters think Elon is stealing their health care, social security and personal information because that's what Democrats lied about, knowing the media would swear by it. Nevertheless, he persisted because he felt the work DOGE was doing was important. His reward for taking on all the attacks and working twenty-hour days?

Republicans not doing anything to codify DOGE cuts into law, and then passing a big, beautiful bill that increased the deficit.

Welcome to the Tea Party circa 2010, Elon. We coined a phrase for this. "Failure Theater."

I was, like, disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it and undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing. I think a bill can be big or it can be beautiful, but I don't know if it can be both. My personal opinion.

Cousin Elon also lamented that "DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything" and that "Something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it."

Let's be honest: some of this is on Trump, who doesn't care what is in the big, beautiful bill as much as he cares about getting credit for passing a big, beautiful bill. He also isn't someone who was never known as a spending or deficit hawk. He was always more of an "own the libs" hawk.

Here's the danger for the GOP and the right as a whole. DOGE's spending cuts aren't popular within the DC/NYC media bubble, but they ARE popular with the coalition that came together to elect Donald Trump and put the GOP back in control of Congress.

• CNN Is shocked - SHOCKED - over the massive support Americans have for DOGE
• “This is mind-blowing": Elon Musk drops disturbing data on the massive social security fraud committed by non-citizens (and how)
• 'Big Balls' leads infurinating DOGE roundtable about uncovered fraud... including at a heavily armed "Institute For Peace"
• CNN’s Abby Phillip repeats lie after lie about Elon Musk, but her GOP guest refuses to let her get away with ANY of them
• WH Press Secretary explains to a DOGE critical press there's only one number that matters to Trump: 77%

The very first thing for that GOP-led congress to do would be to codify the cuts DOGE identified into law, and on that very first opportunity... they are failing miserably.

There is concern about whether the GOP can maintain this coalition after Trump. Losing Cousin Elon after you let him take all the arrows meant for you, and then not having the balls to do the jobs that coalition elected you for, doesn't bode well for the future. The only saving grace is that Democrats seem inistsent in proving to the American people they suck worse.

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