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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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One Month After Campaign's Final Convulsion, A Moment of Peace
By Byron York
Sunday, December 01 2024
It seems like years, but it was just one month ago that the media effort to stop Donald Trump reached its final, most desperate phase in the closing days of the 2024 presidential campaign. The Atlantic published an article quoting two unnamed sources who said they heard Trump say, sometime during his first term in office, that "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had." That led the virulently anti-Trump publication to speculate about what it called Trump's "evident desire to wield military power, and power over the military, in the manner of Hitler and other dictators."…
 
Trump Nails It with FCC Chairman Nominee Brendan Carr
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rarely draws widespread public focus amid our ongoing political…
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Schumer to GOP: Please Don't Do What We Were Going to Do to You
When the Democratic convention took place in August, with new nominee Kamala Harris rising in the polls…
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Kamala's Defeat Ushers in New, Law-and-Order Future for Cities
A construction worker, a fisherman and a woman walking by the United Nations were knifed to death in…
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Trump’s Musk, Ramaswamy Appointments Aim to Drain the Swamp
Among the myriad indignities and hardships inflicted upon the American people and economy throughout…
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Climate Change Was the Big Election Loser
A few days before last week's election, Bernie Sanders issued a dire warning to voters: "If Donald…
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The Case for Mass Deportations of Criminals and National Security Threats
President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to "launch the largest deportation of criminals in American…
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CFIF Web Video Urges Congress to Pass PERA and the Prevail Act to Strengthen America’s Patent System
New web video features legal and policy experts explaining how a series of U.S. court decisions and lopsided…
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Good News: Americans Are No Longer Listening to Mass Media
If the 2024 presidential contest proved anything, it's that the mass media no longer drive the national…
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President Trump, Hit the Policy Ground Running
Incoming presidential administrations tend to enter the White House treading modestly, and understandably…
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TB – The Silent Killer Crossing Our Border
Open borders allow deadly narcotics and criminal gangs to invade our country. But there's a silent killer…
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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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