Krystal Ball argues that the actions taken by DOGE represent a blatant consolidation of power and an ideological agenda rather than a genuine effort to reduce the national debt.

“this is clearly not about cutting debt cutting deficit cutting the fat it's about consolidation of power in an ideological agenda”

The DOGE initiative is currently ignoring the largest source of government waste, which is the Pentagon.

“Doge has just been fiddling around the edges working with these other departments that get little itsy bitsy slices of the of the federal budget and they've pretty much been ignoring the biggest spender and the biggest waster and the most corrupt Department in the federal government which is the Pen”