The newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) won’t include two prominent Democrat activists whose request to join the government cost cutting efforts was soundly rejected by the incoming administration.
With President-elect Donald J. Trump set to officially take office on Monday, the business of eliminating bureaucratic waste is set to begin and DOGE has been looking to hire people dedicated to what Trump described as potentially the “Manhattan Project of our time,” but the two leftist trolls won’t be included.
On Thursday, lawfare specialist and former Obama official Norm Eisen and Virginia Canter a former attorney for Obama and Bill Clinton, sent a letter to DOGE heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy offering their services, or more likely, angling for an opportunity to burrow in as moles and saboteurs.
“We write to request our appointment as members of the ‘Department of Government Efficiency,’” the pair wrote in the letter which was reported by the New York Times.
“If appointed to the efficiency project, Mr. Eisen and Ms. Canter said they would be able to be in-house watchdogs, guarding its work against conflicts of interest. Both Mr. Musk, the world’s richest man, and Mr. Ramaswamy, a billionaire, own businesses that could benefit financially from shifts in federal policy,” according to the paper.
The Trump transition team’s response? Thanks, but no thanks.
“President Trump’s Truth made clear we have no room in our administration for Democrats,” transition spokesperson Katie Miller said in an email to the New York Times.
The paper suggested that she was referring to a recent Trump post to Truth Social in which he listed people who would not be hired by his administration.
“As of today, the incoming Trump Administration has hired over 1,000 people for The United States Government. They are outstanding in every way, and you will see the fruits of their labor over the coming years. We will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and it will happen very quickly!” Trump wrote on Wednesday.
“In order to save time, money, and effort, it would be helpful if you would not send, or recommend to us, people who worked with, or are endorsed by, Americans for No Prosperity (headed by Charles Koch), “Dumb as a Rock” John Bolton, “Birdbrain” Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, disloyal Warmongers Dick Cheney, and his Psycho daughter, Liz, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, General(?) Mark Milley, James Mattis, Mark Yesper, or any of the other people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, more commonly known as TDS,” he added.
While Trump didn’t specifically name Democrats as being disqualified, Eisen and Canter would both seem to fit under the ban of those afflicted with TDS.
“The two activists also said they could help insulate the efficiency department from allegations that it was violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act — a 1972 law that requires committees of nongovernment employees be ‘fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented,'” according to the New York Times.
Eisen and Canter have launched a new nonprofit dubbed State Democracy Defenders Fund which also features the ubiquitous neocon Bill Kristol as a board member.
A key cog in the Democrat machine, Eisen has also recently teamed with now-former Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin for the fledgling online publication The Contrarian, the latest addition to the anti-Trump propaganda galaxy.
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