(The Center Square) – Southeast Wisconsin’s Libertarians are on board with DOGE.
The Libertarian Party of Southeast Wisconsin recently announced it supports the effort in the Trump Administration to “weed out waste in the federal government.”
“Clearly, with federal budgets measured in trillions of dollars, there must be waste, fraud and abuse. To assume by default that cannot be the case is simply fantasy. Even the average American’s meager, in comparison, home expenses can have some things wisely whittled away,” the party said in a statement.
President Trump, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency have spent weeks looking through federal agencies for wasteful spending or wasteful projects.
The New York Times last week reported that Musk now believes he’ll cut $150 billion from the federal government. That’s far less than the $1 trillion he previously set as his DOGE goal.
Still, Southeast Wisconsin’s Libertarians say the effort is more than worth it.
“It is hard to imagine this as a partisan issue. Why would any citizen toiling away with large percentages of their incomes siphoned off by governments not want efficient use of those funds? It is a no brainer,” the Party added Monday. “The Libertarian Party of Southeast Wisconsin absolutely supports the DOGE in its efforts to once again make our federal government accountable to the very citizens from which all of its power comes from.”
DOGE last week told the Times that it has saved $318,310,328.30, so far. There have also been thousands and thousands of DOGE-inspired layoffs. Though the final number of people who have lost their job is tough to pin down.
Some of the DOGE layoffs have been frozen by federal judges, while other layoffs are still pending.
The Libertarians in Wisconsin said in order to make the United States a government of the people, there needs to be an effort to shrink the power of Washington, D.C.
“So, it is not crazy to make the federal government accountable to its citizens once more!” the party said in its statement.
