FREEDOM LINE BLOG: 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…
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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:

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March 06, 2025 • 10:13 AM
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DOGE Can Root Out the Lois Lerners Populating Government
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 27 2025
Consider the following inverse relationship, and its obvious implications.   As the federal workforce has grown and government power has expanded over recent decades, public trust in government has plummeted to record lows.   While most government employees are conscientious, well-intentioned, hardworking people, too many are the sorts of mendacious, malevolent activists whom the Founding Fathers listed in the Declaration of Independence as bases for casting off British rule.   Now, with the Trump administration’s formation of the Department of Government…
 
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"Senate Democrats say privately that they will not allow the government to shut down on Saturday, despite growing pressure from activists and liberal lawmakers who want them to kill a GOP-crafted six-month stopgap spending bill.Senate Democratic sources say Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is giving plenty of room to centrists in his caucus to vote for the House-passed continuing resolution (…[more]
  
 
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