DOGE Isn’t Dead, but It Must Start Cutting Now If

By Cliff Maloney

If you’re an America First voter, you most likely felt a intestine punch earlier this week when seemingly everybody on social media, as effectively as most everybody in conventional media, announced that DOGE was formally lifeless.

Speaking from firsthand expertise, I felt that specific intestine punch deep in my soul.

The downside for those who initially unfold that message, and the great news for America First voters, is that it was all a lie. 

The official Department of Government Efficiency X account responded to these claims, saying:

As normal, this is pretend news from @GWN. President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to modernize the federal authorities and scale back waste, fraud and abuse. Just last week, DOGE terminated 78 wasteful contracts and saved taxpayers $335M.  We’ll be back in a few days with our recurrently scheduled Friday update.

As normal, this is pretend news from @GWN. President Trump was given a mandate by the American people to modernize the federal authorities and scale back waste, fraud and abuse. Just last week, DOGE terminated 78 wasteful contracts and saved taxpayers $335M. We’ll be back in a few… https://t.co/S1pSmx26s0

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) November 24, 2025

On November twenty third, Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor initially told the media that DOGE basically “doesn’t exist.” Critics smirked about “few measurable savings,” but we all know the rating: Congressional and Senate Republicans talked a big sport on draining the swamp, then yanked the plug when lobbyists whimpered about “midterm optics.” Early hits like $175 billion in cuts, canceled wasteful contracts, and uncovered rot? Poof — gone, thanks to RINO spinelessness.

It’s an assault from within from our own aspect yet again: marketing campaign bravado, zero follow-through. Trump swung the sledgehammer, and some within the GOP dropped it.

While DOGE is way from lifeless, this D.C. debacle still stings like hell, but it is a flare gun illuminating the real battlefield: the states.

If we wish to win in these vital elections main up to the midterms, then win the midterms, and finally, the next presidential election, we need to continue pushing the DOGE mandate that voters requested for. We need to stop enjoying good. We need to stop the half measures. And we need to stop coddling the lobbyists who encourage that conduct.

When we comply with through on making the numerous cuts that DOGE promised and voters demand, we are going to show them that we’re critical and that they will trust us with their votes.

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The deeper actuality is that DOGE wasn’t a Capitol Hill vainness project; it was a blueprint for patriots all over the place to demand accountability at every stage. Red states aren’t twiddling thumbs because precise reformers have been seizing the mandate Trump handed us in November 2024, and no one’s swinging tougher than Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis, whose state-level DOGE is not just a copycat; it is the revolutionary model every liberty-loving governor must steal, replicate, and unleash.

DeSantis will get it: States are nearer to the people, with tighter suggestions loops and no federal swamp to slog through. Crash a city corridor, grill a commissioner, main problem a hack — no ready for D.C. drones. Florida’s DOGE coordinates audits in over 75 counties and cities that volunteered for the DOGE-ing — a no-BS review of budgets, hires, and tasks to torch waste, fraud, and abuse. We’re not nibbling; we’re chainsawing: redundant jobs axed, shady vendor contracts with political insiders trashed, funds rerouted from DEI fever desires and “Green New Deal” vainness tasks to real infrastructure. Broward County? Taxes spiked 45 % since 2020 on a measly 5 % population bump — blame bloat, not increase.

Early wins in Sarasota and Bay counties took out redundant positions, scrapped pork, and beefed up core companies. DeSantis turned Florida’s 2020 COVID revolt into a national lockdown-killer; now DOGE’s reshaping the spending debate. Prove it really works in the Sunshine State, and Texas, Ohio, Arizona scramble to copy — or get primaried.

Contrast that fire with North Dakota’s red-state fizzle — a deep-red fortress where you’d anticipate DOGE fever to rage. As Citizens Alliance of North Dakota Executive Director Brandon Pritchard scorched in TheBlaze, “Too many Republicans fear cutting waste more than they fear betraying voters.” Their state DOGE — House Bill 1442’s $20.3 billion finances cut — launched with promise, but the July 30 assembly uncovered a rigged farce: stacked with spendaholics Democrats and nation membership GOP yes-men.

DOGE calls for a cultural gut-check: Citizens anticipate effectivity; politicians worry waste; authorities defaults to lean and clear. Florida’s main — Texas, Arizona, comply with or fall. But it begins with you. Tired of taxes crushing households? Run for workplace — no pedigree needed, just guts. Crash city halls. Grill commissioners. Share waste tales at soccer video games or church. America did not construct itself on autopilot — it took participation, precept, perseverance.

DeSantis’ DOGE blueprint is gold. States like Florida show we are able to reclaim authorities for the people. Let’s make every state a DOGE machine, because the lights could also be off in Washington, but the state homes that instantly have an effect on our very communities still need accountability.

And that’s precisely what we need if we wish to win the local elections, midterms, and ultimately, the next presidential election. 

In order to create the passion we need to get Republicans to vote in ample numbers to win, we need to ship on what they need, what they anticipate — hell, what we promised, then we need to take significant motion and ship real outcomes. We need that to win over the undecided voters as effectively, because from their perspective, all we’re doing proper now is saying one factor and doing another. 

But if we ship on our guarantees, we are going to energize the Republican base and, more importantly, the undecided voters. In doing so, we’ll show everybody why our insurance policies are better for everybody.

The future of our nation is at stake, and we need to be all in on this if we anticipate to reserve it.

Cliff Maloney is CEO of Citizens Alliance and founder of The PA Chase. He may be discovered @Maloney on X.

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