It absolutely staggers me that anyone can still say this with a straight face. I will ask this, though: as part of the DOGE fight against corruption and wasteful spending how many of Elon Musk's government contracts and subsidies have been cut?
The Moving Goal Posts in Musk’s DOGE Cuts: Why Elon Musk and his team have struggled to make the spending cuts they promised - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/elon-musk-dog... | https://archive.today/GPDNY - April 14th, 2025
Elon Musk dramatically lowers his DOGE spending cut targets (again) - https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/elon-mus... - April 11th, 2025
See How Government Spending Is Up Even as Musk Touts Savings: Musk team’s $150 billion in savings barely dents $6.8 trillion in spending largely on autopilot, WSJ analysis finds - https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doge-government-sp... | https://archive.today/DGGhX - April 11th, 2025
"A system’s function or purpose is not necessarily spoken, written, or expressed explicitly, except through the operation of the system. The best way to deduce the system’s purpose is to watch for a while to see how the system behaves. Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.” —- Donella Meadows
The purpose of a system is what it does.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
Take DOGE cutting funding to the Mitr Gender Conversion Clinic in Hyderabad, India as an example. The haven't taken control of the clinic, they're not telling them what to do or not to do, they're simply not funding it anymore. If the clinic closes it's because nobody except the previous administration wanted it. There is no reason we should be forcing gender change clinics on people in India; if they want to support it, they should purchase the service themselves.
DOGE has been about fighting corruption and reducing wasteful spending, and that's what America voted for. "Taking control" would be using government funding to support pro-abortion political groups, undoing this control would be fighting corruption.