From the right: Musk Works for Trump
“Nobody elected Elon Musk” has become Democrats’ “new rallying cry,” snarks National Review’s Jim Geraghty, as if DOGE is “some sort of long-hidden trap sprung on the American people.”
Yet Dems know voters “don’t vote for the guys around the president;” they elect “a president, who selects his team” to carry out his agenda.
“Donald Trump gave America plenty of advance notice that he intended to put Musk in a role looking for ways to cut federal spending.”
That said, DOGE needs more than just Musk posting on X, like “a website where everyone could see what it had found, what it had recommended the president cut, and what cuts had actually been enacted.”
And: “It would probably be good to see Trump reject at least one of Musk’s proposed cuts, just to demonstrate he’s not a rubber stamp.”
Legal beat: Dems’ Lawfare Rages On
New York Attorney General Letitia James’ prior “lawfare” against President Trump “had no merit,” seethes the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
Yet it did damage, so she’s trying again: James and 18 other Democratic AGs sued Trump and the Treasury to stop “unauthorized disclosure” of private info.
They offered scant evidence of any such disclosure, and the judge who then issued a restraining order did so without even hearing from Trump officials.
On his say alone, “the representatives of political control of the executive branch will be locked out” of the Treasury’s payment system.
Trump 2.0 now faces more than 40 lawsuits as Dems, who used lawfare “vainly” to defeat Trump, now hope it will constrain him as president. “Maybe it will work. Maybe it won’t.”
Washington watch: Stop the NED Bloodbath
“What’s happening at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a very big deal, and has not been previously reported,” observes The Free Press’ Eli Lake.
NED is “a key U.S. instrument for supporting grassroots freedom movements around the world,” but an “order from DOGE to the U.S. Treasury that blocked disbursement of NED funds has crippled the organization.”
Yes, NED’s guilty of deep-state shenanigans, like a grant to media-blacklister the Global Disinformation Index.
But NED mainly aids “local citizens opposed to the authoritarian systems” in Iran, China, Venezuela, Cuba and elsewhere.
So President Trump should back “tighter controls and audits of NED, to assure it remains strictly dedicated to supporting democracy activists,” but end the “bloodbath.”
Conservative: Mad Migration Lawlessness
“Democrats who insist on flaunting federal immigration laws are . . . completely ignoring the message voters sent in November,” scoffs USAToday’s Ingrid Jacques.
Attorney General Pam Bondi “is playing hardball on illegal immigration” and “threatening to cut off Justice Department funding” to sanctuary jurisdictions that are “blatantly flaunting the law, and saying they’ll refuse to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on deportations.”
“This show of lawlessness by Democrats is counterintuitive,” since Democratic mayors “raised the alarm that their cities were close to a breaking point” thanks to the migrant surge, and “illegal immigration was one of the top reasons the country ditched the Democrats and gave Trump a second term.”
“Americans will thank” Trump for “following through on his promises to secure our border.”
Eye on Albany: NY’s Medicaid Coverup
To learn “why New York’s Medicaid enrollment has grown to be millions larger than its population living in poverty,” explains the Empire Center’s Bill Hammond, the center filed a Freedom of Information Law request for a breakdown of enrollment by eligibility status.
“After 10 months’ delay and a lawsuit,” the state Department of Health released records showing the eligibility status of “6.4 million recipients” last March, “which was 970,000 short of the total” enrollment posted on its website.
And DOH’s “limited interpretation” of the FOIL request avoided releasing the enrollment breakdown.
Having received “incomplete records” despite DOH’s agreement to fulfill the request, the center may file yet another suit “to obtain the missing data.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board