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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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Trusting China in Inviting Another Pandemic
By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, May 01 2024
It's one thing to die from natural causes. Worse, to die from a disease leaked by Chinese scientists in a lab and allowed to wipe out millions. That is now almost certainly the explanation for the origins of COVID-19.  And even worse? U.S. taxpayers paid for it. The U.S. government hasn't learned a thing. Disease watchers are tracking the spread of H5N1 – bird or avian flu – across the globe as it invades mammals for the first time, leaving South American beaches littered with dead sea lions. In the U.S., 34 dairy cattle herds in nine states are infected.…
 
The 'Biden Bump' That Didn't Last Long
"The election is clearly changing now, moving towards Biden," the influential Democratic strategist…
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Joe Biden Says There Are Very Fine People on Both Sides of the Oct. 7 Debate
"I condemn the antisemitic protests ..." President Joe Biden told reporters after days of anti-Jewish…
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Drug Shortages Reach Record High Following Biden’s Price Controls
Want to find a rare point of intellectual consensus amid our stubborn ideological divisions?  …
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Stop the 'Emergency Spending' Charade Already
This week, Congress moved closer to passing four separate bills with $95 billion in funding for Ukraine…
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Why Small Businesses Hate Bidenomics
If the economy is so good, why do small business leaders feel so bad? The latest Small Business Optimism…
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There's No Right to Sleep Outdoors
In a Supreme Court showdown Monday over whether the homeless have a "right" to camp in public…
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Groupthink Chorus Emerges at Trump Trial
Covering former President Donald Trump's trial on television is a difficult job. There are no cameras…
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CFIF Applauds Tennessee General Assembly for Passing Significant Certificate of Need (CON) Reform Legislation
CFIF stands ready and willing to work with lawmakers and stakeholders to address remaining CON regulations…
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The World Is Paying a Deadly Price for Barack Obama's Foreign Policy Legacy
If a belligerent state launched 185 explosive drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles…
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Unrestrained AI Threatens Americans’ News Access
Amid its other accumulating dysfunctions, artificial intelligence (AI) poses a new extinction-level threat…
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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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