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Image of the Day: The Vast Federal Bloat That DOGE Targets

In this week's Liberty Update, we highlight how the Trump Administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is finally confronting the bloated federal workforce, which includes malfeasant officials like former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent Lois Lerner.  In that vein, our friends at Unleash Prosperity offer a visual today on just how vast and bloated that federal workforce has become:

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="541"] What DOGE Confronts[/caption]

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March 06, 2025 • 10:13 AM

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Biden, the Senate and the Border Fiasco
By Byron York
Thursday, February 08 2024
Joe Biden is supposed to know something about legislating. After all, he spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate. He must have learned something in those decades. And yet Biden is the driving force behind one of the biggest Capitol Hill fiascos in years: the rapidly imploding "deal" on the U.S.-Mexico border, plus aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. It was Biden who insisted that those disparate subjects be linked – he threatened to veto any part that was passed alone – which turned out to be a fatal mistake given the impossibility of a majority in Congress agreeing…
 
Dems Roll Out Welcome Mat for World's Criminals
Maria Manaura, who's been arrested at least eight times in the six months since she arrived in New York…
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Biden's War Against the Internet
It's a miracle of private sector innovation and the magic of the free enterprise system that technologies…
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Joe Biden Keeps Rewarding the Terrorists
Peace is for suckers. Even as Israelis were rooting out the barbaric child murderers and rapists of…
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Convicted Trump Tax Leaker Represents Broader Threat to Americans
This week, convicted former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor Charles Littlejohn received the…
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Why Keep Worrying About Debt? Speculation Versus Reality
Over the years, I've offered many explanations about why the trajectory of the national debt is deeply…
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Finally, Biden Admits: There's a Crisis at the Border
What do you call it when somewhere between 6 and 8 million people enter the United States illegally in…
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Yes, America Is Being Invaded
Across the globe, hostile nations like Russia are using migration as a weapon of war. War is being waged…
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The Gambling Industry Wants to Make Fantasy Sports Leagues Illegal
Here's a sad and textbook case of how companies all too often use the strong-arm of government to destroy…
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CFIF Releases New Data Showing Tennessee GOP Voters Support Repealing State’s Certificate of Need (CON) Laws
Repeal of Tennessee’s Remaining CON Laws Will Increase Access to Affordable, High-Quality Care…
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You Can't Defend 'Democracy' and the Administrative State
The government shows up at your business and demands you pay the salaries of the regulators who lord…
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Notable Quote   
 
"While the legacy media often reports that the world is rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels to renewable energy, a new report from J.P. Morgan shows that narrative is simply not correct. Since 2010, $9 trillion has been spent globally on wind, solar, electric vehicles energy storage, electrification and power grids, but despite this expensive effort -- mostly at taxpayer expense -- the share…[more]
 
 
— Kevin Killough, Just the News
 
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