https://townhall.com/columnists/setonmotley/2025/02/25/doge-is-constitutional-what-its-exposing-is-unconstitutional-n2652721
The Deep State Swamp and its denizens and creatures are up in arms about what President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing with their Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
What these tens of millions of career thieves really are? Is embarrassed – and very, very worried. DC has been the biggest and longest-running con in world history. These stewards of the scam have spent these many decades pocketing trillions of our dollars. While pretending to be looking out for US.
Then Trump and Musk parachute in with their DOGE. FINALLY someone is examining what DC has for decades been doing to US. And the usual suspects – who should be convicts – are screeching.
My favorite of their defenses of the indefensible? “DOGE is unconstitutional!!!” Even a former Ronald Reagan Administration associate White House counsel – Alan Charles Raul – makes the assertion:
“What is not debatable, however, is that Congress has not authorized this radical overhaul, and the protocols of the Constitution do not permit statutorily mandated agencies and programs to be transformed — or reorganized out of existence — without congressional authorization.
“The Constitution is well known to interpose meaningful checks and balances and a separation of powers among the responsibilities of the executive, legislative and judicial branches. It is also well understood that the respective branch’s powers and duties will intersect and overlap. Fundamentally, however, all legislative power belongs to Congress, and executive power to the president.”
And right there – where we emboldened – Raul proves himself wrong and Trump-Musk-DOGE right. Trump is the chief executive of the Executive Branch. He can run his branch of the government however he wishes.