You don't understand how government works.

Ten million dollars to a terrorist organization for food? Maybe the government is broken.

The two arguments I hate the most coming from the left these days are:

• Elon Musk was not elected

• Doge doesn't understand how the government works

The first is pretty simple. The country voted Donald Trump as President fully understanding that he was going to be creating oversight and going over Government spending with a fine-tooth comb. Trump wants to break the government, the voters agreed, and Musk is that sledgehammer.

But more importantly, nobody elected the people running these agencies either. Certainly, nobody elected the leaders of USAID to send ten million dollars to a known terrorist organization for "food", fund sex change operations in Central America or fund transgender clinics in India. We didn't elect anyone to fund charities engaged in harboring illegal aliens, fund Politico-pro subscriptions, or spend millions to educate foreign journalists on how to be more woke. Given the choice of eliminating unelected people who are auditing government spending and eliminating those unelected people who insist they have the right to spend without oversight, I would eliminate the latter every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Oh, and while we are at it. Let's look at the math here. They are allotted 40 billion dollars a year to grant money to terrorist groups, people who need politico-pro, and these types of things. They argue that some of this money is already tied up in previous grants that are ongoing. If even grant was worth a million dollars (probably a small amount here) then we are looking at about 4000 grants they are overseeing. Why do they need 10,000 employees? That is the equivalent of two and half employees overseeing each grant, and they are still not able to figure out that ten million dollars of food for a terrorist organization is probably not being spent on food.

The second argument is even more puzzling. It is condescending to suggest that working for a government agency is so complicated that genius level IQ people cannot understand what they do. But basically, that is what is being argued. One person suggested that he has worked in the government for decades and that the DOGE people came in and wanted to understand it in an hour meeting. I think that misses the point. I doubt Musk or anyone of his people give a bigger rat's ass how these people believe the government works. Their job isn't to figure out how it works, but where the spending is going. If the justification for sending ten million dollars to a known terror organization for food is "this is how the government works" then this little portion of the government is broken beyond saving. Doge has no obligation to find out why USAID employees believe they are sending the ten million dollars; they just need to point out that they are doing so. At that point who is going to defend it? It is quite literally indefensible.

More to the point, let's go back to the previous issue with the 10,000 employees. I don't believe that most Americans would understand why it takes 10,000 employees to run this agency this poorly. The argument that "this is how the government works" is exactly the problem that people want to fix. They do not want it to work that way.

But of course, herein lies the problem. I read a sixty-paragraph story about this in Politico, and they refused to even acknowledge any of the spending issues found by DOGE. Sixty paragraphs about how horrible things are for USAID and how terrible DOGE has been treating them. As long as the left side of the media refuses to report on what is being uncovered, then there will be ill-informed people with strong (but wrong) opinions on what is happening. This is just part of the problem here, but it is largely what is dividing us today.