Trump is cutting spending through DOGE. Here’s how to make those cuts permanent

The promise to cut spending and restore accountability in the federal government is usually dismissed as an unreachable political platitude. But the early returns on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency are promising, and they should call on Congress to make the cuts permanent.

DOGE is poised to disrupt a complacent government of bureaucrats and finally cultivate accountability, transparency, and efficiency for taxpayers. After decades of rampant spending on ridiculous pet projects, it is well past time an agency was created to look inward and audit federal spending.